Consultations for Birth Professionals

Professional consultations, webinars, and seminars allow you and your group to learn the information and the skills that you need based on your professional role and the clients you serve. Trauma informed knowledge and skills help you to be a more effective professional no matter how you interact with your clients.

Much has changed in how maternity services are delivered in the last several years. It requires increasing knowledge of technology and new medical treatments. Due to changes in community health, more clients have complex health needs. And due to the nature of how birth services are delivered, more clients are emerging with birth-related trauma. Unfortunately, as new technology and medical care has developed, there remains significant educational gaps in the "soft" skills of interpersonal communication, client-centred care, and trauma-informed skills. 

Whether you work as a nurse, midwife, physician, administrator, human resources coordinator, childbirth educator, doula, advocate, physiotherapist, counsellor, or anyone whose clients include pregnant, birthing, or postpartum families, an education in trauma-informed skills is critical to the needs of today's families and professionals.

An individual consultation works with you to better understand the traumas that clients carry and how best to support them in their recovery. Groups can benefit from webinars and seminars that address their concerns and goals. 

Individuals and groups have benefited from sessions that cover:

• identifying trauma-adaptive behaviours in clients
• identifying the client at high-risk for a traumatic experience
• developing a resilience-based approach with clients
• prevention and recovery from secondary and vicarious trauma
• prevention and recovery from professional burnout
• trauma-informed skills for the antenatal client
• trauma-informed skills for the birthing client
• trauma-informed skills specific to the doula
• healing strategies for overcoming trauma

Experience, education, and research is at the core of any consultation. You'll be better equipped to make a difference for your clients.