For Doulas

Birth Trauma Coaching & Processing Workshops 
For Doulas, Aspiring Midwives, Midwives, and Birth Workers.                                                                                                 Group or Individual Sessions

Birth trauma coaching and processing workshops or individual sessions offer support for participants navigating challenging birth experiences.

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These workshops provide a supportive space to  review medical events, management, and chronology of events from a highly experienced nurse-midwife of over 20 years across home, hospital, and hospital-birth center settings.  Participants are invited to bring questions or cases that may have left them carrying emotional weight after supporting clients through complex or difficult births.

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Before becoming a Certified Nurse Midwife, I worked as a doula. Throughout my midwifery career, doulas have frequently reached out to discuss births that felt troubling, confusing, or emotionally unresolved. Those conversations—about specific cases, difficult moments, and lingering questions—became the foundation for this workshop.

The goal is to help doulas and emerging midwives better understand and learn from upsetting experiences and integrate new perspectives into future births to not repeat the same outcomes..

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Using guided discussion and a midwifery-informed lens, participants explore how medical events, clinical decision-making, and emotional responses unfold during labor and birth—and how trauma can affect both clients and care providers. The work supports developing the ability to distinguish one’s own emotional experience from that of the client while maintaining thoughtful, grounded presence in practice. Workshops are practical and reflective, offering language, perspective, and tools that support resilience, professional growth, and confidence at future births.

This Workshop May Be Helpful If You:

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• Carry recurring emotional responses after certain births

• Want to process cases that did not unfold as anticipated

• Find yourself replaying births or asking “what if?” afterward

• Seek a deeper understanding of how medical events and emotions intersect during labor

• Want guidance from a midwifery-informed perspective

• Are considering midwifery or are early in midwifery training

• Wish to strengthen clarity, confidence, and professional boundaries in birth work

Format & Scheduling

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Workshops are offered for individuals or small groups and are tailored to participants’ experience and interests. Sessions are offered regularly and will include a sliding scale for those coordinating a workshop with their colleagues.

To inquire, please email with:

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• Preferred dates

• Number of participants

• Contact information​​

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Workshops are practical, offering language, perspective, and tools that support resilience, professional growth, and confidence across all stages of birth work.

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Workshops are educational and reflective in nature and are not a substitute for mental health treatment.

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