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Dr. Juli Fraga
Psy.D
Dr. Juli Fraga is a psychologist in San Francisco specializing in women's health concerns, parenting, and perinatal mood disorders. She is also the co-author of the new book "Parents Have Feelings, Too." Dr. Fraga is on faculty at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she supervises psychiatry residents and teaches classes for expectant parents.
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