Advanced Doula Training

Continuing Education For Doulas and Childbirth Educators

Celebrating 25 years of teaching and service................Get 25% off with coupon code Happy25Years.................

Celebrating 25 years of teaching and service................Get 25% off with coupon code Happy25Years.................

Advanced doula training and certificates coming soon!

  • Applied polyvagal theory childbirth

  • Mindful Doula Certificate

  • Trauma-informed Doula certificate

  • Perinatal Mental Health certificate

After over 25 years of teaching Erica is now offering specialized advanced training for doulas and childbirth educators. These advanced perspectives offer doulas and educators an integrative, mind-body, and evidence-based approach to their practice and teaching.

CEUs forthcoming

Applied Polyvagal Theory in Pregnancy, Childbirth, & Postpartum Recovery

Have you ever wondered about the WHY behind coping strategies like rhythmic movement, low vocal tones, or position change? Intuitively, we’ve known for a long time what helps people give birth, but Polyvagal theory gives us evidence based insight into why these strategies work and opens new possibilities for providing support.

Learn about the role of the nervous system in childbirth and how to harness that understanding to guide your students and clients to a better birth experience regardless of the outcome.

What you Will Learn:

  • The foundations of Polyvagal Theory and how it has changed our understanding of the nervous system’s role in thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.

  • The impact of trauma, anxiety, and depression on the nervous system

  • Understand the physiological mechanisms underlying the need for safety for normal labor progress

  • Childbirth and the autonomic nervous system

  • Birth as a Psycho, Social, Physiological event

  • Internal and external influences on the birth process

  • Effectively and professionally navigate birth environments and support team from a polyvagal lens

  • Tools for supporting nervous system regulation through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery for your students/clients

  • Recognize nervous system regulation in yourself and others

  • Effective responses to nervous system dysregulation in yourself, your client, and support people

  • Birth preparation strategies through a polyvagal lens

  • Effective co-regulation strategies

  • Understand the evidence for polyvagal theory

Registration available soon!

Mindful Doula Certificate

Mindfulness is an effective strategy for being with the challenges and discomforts of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. In fact, it compliments all other strategies for coping.

Learn about mindfulness as a daily tool for regulation, as a formal practice, and as a strategy for moving through the process of birth.

  • The principles and practices of mindfulness

  • Learn how to start your own practice

  • Support and teach mindfulness tools

  • Support and teach mindfulness practices for labor and birth

  • Support and teach mindfulness as a coping strategy

  • Describe mindfulness as a top-down strategy for nervous system regulation

  • Understand the evidence supporting mindfulness for pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum recovery

  • Use mindfulness practices to improve your capacity to support your clients

What you Will Learn:

Registration available soon!

At least 70% of the population has experienced trauma and we have no way of knowing who they are or how they are impacted. Being trauma-informed greatly reduces your risk of re-traumatizing someone with your words, actions, or suggestions as you support your clients; and provides you with tools for supporting clients who are experiencing trauma triggers.

Trauma-Informed Certificate

  • The principles of trauma-informed care/support

  • Define Trauma and it’s mind-body impact

  • Learn and understand trauma-informed language

  • Understand the concepts of privilege, weathering, allostatic load, and the impacts of trauma

  • Learn specific word weaving strategies for labor support

  • Understand trauma in the context of reproductive justice and maternal health

  • Describe how polyvagal theory supports the need for trauma informed care

What you Will Learn:

Registration available soon!

Perinatal Mental Health Certificate

Understanding the basics of perinatal mental health will help you better understand how to support your clients and when to refer.

  • Define Perinatal Mental Health

  • Differentiate between perinatal anxiety, depression, baby blues, OCD, and postpartum psychosis

  • Understand the social, cultural, personal and relationship concerns surrounding perinatal mental health

  • Differentiate between myths and realities

  • Understand the importance of supporting realistic expectations

  • Basic support strategies for clients who may have a diagnosis

  • Talking with clients about referrals

  • Understand the decision making surrounding medications and breastfeeding

What you Will Learn:

Registration available soon!

Cancellation Policy

Asynchronous Online Training:

No refund once you have accessed the training.

In person trainings:

Full refunds are available up to one month before the training.

  • Up to three weeks before the training a 75% refund is available

  • Up to two weeks before the training a 50% refund is available.

  • No refunds are available after two weeks before the training.

  • **If we cancel due to low enrollment or other circumstances you will receive a full refund.

    All refunds are subject to processing fees

Contact Erica.

Erica Kroll, LPC

nonabirth@gmail.com

Columbia, Mo.