Celeste John-larkin MD

Celeste St. John-Larkin, MD, a child, adolescent, and perinatal psychiatrist, Associate Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, and holds an endowed chair in Perinatal Mental Health at Children's Hospital Colorado. As the Project Director for Colorado PROSPER, she is able to support primary care providers statewide with access to perinatal psychiatry and resources to address maternal mental health and substance use disorders, after being awarded HRSA Funding in 2023.

Celeste is the medical director for the Healthy Expectations Perinatal Mental Health Program, which provides specialized group therapy during pregnancy and postpartum with a focus on the parent-infant relationship in the Colorado Center for Women's Behavioral Health and Wellness. She previously worked in integrated OB and Midwifery settings at the PROMISE and Young Mothers and Families Clinics.

Celeste's other area of expertise has been integrated mental health in primary care and consultation with community primary care providers through CoPPCAP, the pediatric psychiatry access program in Colorado, and has worked as an integrated psychiatrist with Project CLIMB in the Child Health Clinic for over 10 years. Celeste grew up in a small town in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. She studied history at Northwestern University and attended Michigan State University, College of Human Medicine in the rural physician program. She completed residency and child fellowship at the University of Colorado from 2002-2007.