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Class Descriptions

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Debriefing Birth Workshop for Doulas

Have you ever felt lost as to how to support your client after the birth in terms of debriefing how the birth went? Are you wondering what tricks and techniques would help a mom make sense of her birth? Are you curious as to why you are triggered into remembering your own past trauma when debriefing certain births with your clients? If so, this is a 3 hour workshop is for you!

In this workshop there is a focus on learning new skills to help your clients debrief their births. In this workshop you will learn how to validate, empathize and care for your client’s emotional health post birth. You will learn how and why we have a hard time supporting someone through emotional distress and how to help. We will talk about how to take care of your own emotional needs so that you can be there for your client’s. Please join us as we discover ways to help our client’s make sense of their birth experiences no matter what they are.

 

Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders for Doulas
(with Jennifer Hanslip)

This 2 hour course focuses on gaining a deeper understanding of postpartum mood disorders and looks at ways in which doulas can best support clients who are struggling with their mental health.

Topics to be covered include:

- the spectrum of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders
- treatment options, risk factors, when to contact a doctor
- examples/discussion of lived experience and recovery
- local and other resources
- discussion of how to best support clients

When Survivors Give Birth

This important client care workshop focuses on understanding and healing the effects of childhood sexual abuse on childbearing women.  Join maternity care, mental health and allied providers to focus on the issues of the least understood of pregnant clients.

  • Advance your understanding of an all too common issue for childbearing women and families.

  • Expand your care practices for women at risk of poor physical and psycho-social childbirth outcomes.

  • Improve your response to women who express emotional concerns about childbearing.

Anyone working with childbearing women will gain knowledge and skills in this one-of-a-kind workshop, which is the culmination of decades of collaboration between Penny Simkin, PT, CCE, CD(DONA), and Phyllis Klaus, MFT, LMSW. Together they also wrote the 2004 book of the same name, When Survivors Give Birth.