Online Courses for Professionals
THERE ARE NOW A RANGE COURSES THAT ARE AIMED AT HCP, BIRTH PROFESSIONALS AND PRE & POST NATAL SPECIALISTS, LIKE YOU, WHO WISH TO DO MORE TO ADEQUATELY SUPPORT THE EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF PARENTS.
Perhaps you work with women in the postnatal period who have suffered a traumatic birth or are experiencing high levels of anxiety or are even depressed.
Or maybe you are an antenatal teacher who struggles to help mums and dads recover from previous traumatic birth experiences to be able to prepare calmly for their next birth.
Perhaps you are a HCP who has witnessed a traumatic birth or who wishes to feel more resilient emotionally.
Do you frequently hear distressing birth stories but feel impotent to help or support?
Traumatic Birth Recovery offers a range of online courses for birth professionals that are only available currently as online study.
On successful completion of the TBR 3 Step Rewind course and its assessments students can become recognised TBR practitioners and work with parents who wish to be free of trauma symptoms.
This recognised Practitioner status means that these professionals can be listed on the Find a Practitioner page, access 1-2-1 supervision and refer to themselves as TBR Practitioners.
Students who complete all of the online courses can convert their qualification to a TBR Certificate in Perinatal Emotional Health & Wellbeing and can refer to themselves as Perinatal Emotional Health & Wellbeing Practitioners.
This commitment of study is over 140 hours, with monthly small group tutorials, in person study days, continued assessment and monthly supervision.
Practitioners with this level of training are able to support a range of issues from depression, anxiety, loss and birth injury, as well as trauma which often informs these issues.
All courses are CPD listed and recognised.
TBR 3 Step Rewind
Who is this course for: HCP and birth professionals who work with parents who are experiencing trauma symptoms.
Aims & Objectives: To learn a clear and simple 3 step process that when applied can lift trauma symptoms. To gain a thorough understanding of what trauma symptoms from a neurological and experiential perspective. To know how to work safely with traumatised parents.
How long is the online course? 16 hours, however 3 assessments and participation in supervision is also required.
TBR 3 Step Rewind Online courses enrols twice a year in March and September – Register your interest by clicking the button at the bottom of this box and filling out your details, to receive alerts and early bird price
Cost? £997 including supported assessment process, supervision, closed community of students and practitioners. Payment plans available.
Click here for in person training dates
What is covered:
- A look at the size of the birth trauma problem
- Understanding the wider problem of other perinatal traumas such a miscarriage, lengthy IVF journeys, baby loss and childhood trauma
- A clear understanding of the long term effects of untreated trauma symptoms on a person’s mental health
- The everyday impact of living with trauma symptoms
- Being Solution Focused to bring promote natural healing
- How the 3 Steps lifts the heavy emotion linked to the traumatic memory
- The importance of relaxation and guided visualisation
- Practice of the 3 steps, step by step, in pairs
- Working safely and understanding the phenomena of abreaction
- Includes a 3 stage assessment process that includes case study
Bring Relief with your Debrief
Who is this course for? HCPs and birth professionals who regularly hear difficult or traumatic birth stories and wish to make that a more gentle and satisfying experience with the potential to promote self healing.
Aims and objectives: To provide knowledge on how to avoid re-traumatising, re-triggering and gaslighting during listening services. To gain skill and knowledge on how to establish an effective and satisfying listening service.
How long is the online course? 6 hours
Cost? £297
Bring Relief With Your Debrief enrols twice a year in May and November – Register your interest by clicking the button at the bottom of this box and filling out your details, to receive alerts and early bird price
What is covered:
- The common problems with how we currently receive birth stories
- How to avoid re-traumatising parents who are sharing their story
- Understanding the neurobiology of trauma
- What is gaslighting? Why does it occur and the impact it can have on parents
- Setting an agenda and structure for a listening service that brings satisfaction
- Focusing on how a person felt rather than what happened
- Understand feelings now
- Being solution focused to ignite a person’s natural healing response
Understanding Perinatal Anxiety - How Build Emotional Resilience in Ourselves and Others
Who is this course for: HCP and birth professionals who work with parents who are experiencing anxiety.
Aims & Objectives: To understand the nuances of PNA and how they differ from anxiety at other life stages. To provide the knowledge and skill to identify Perinatal anxiety and to work with parents to share practices that can neutralise anxiety and enable balance and calm.
This course is only currently available online.
How long is the online course? 12 hours
How much does it cost? £497
Understanding Perinatal Anxiety enrols twice a year in January and July – Register your interest by clicking the button at the bottom of this box and filling out your details, to receive alerts and early bird price
What is covered:
- Understanding what barriers there are to good emotional health in the perinatal context.
- Looking at the mind body connection and understanding the autonomic nervous system
- Understanding the cost to physical health that comes with PNA
- What are the nuances of Perinatal Anxiety that are different to other life stages
- How to support a person’s natural desire to feel differently
- Learning the therapeutic essential skills of basic of trust, rapport and unconditional regard
- Learning the cycle of belief, feeling, behaviour and breaking negative patterns
- Acquiring, practicing and sharing the anxiety tool kit: meditation, journaling, gratitudes, affirmations and relaxation
- Setting up and promoting a service to parents wishing to work on their anxiety
- Includes a 3 stage assessment process that includes case study
Supporting Baby Loss & Miscarriage
Who is this course for: HCP and birth professionals who work with parents who have experienced loss and are looking for therapeutic support to cope with grief and trauma symptoms.
Aims & Objectives: To understand the grieving process from the perspective of parents. To be able to support them more effectively at different stages of their grieving journey. Addressing some of the common issues that grieving parents suffer with such as; panic, anxiety, trauma symptoms, societies view of perinatal grief and coping with subsequent pregnancies. Providing strategies and exercises to help with these issues.
This course is only currently available online.
How long is the online course? 12 hours
Supporting Baby Loss & Miscarriage enrols next in October 2020 – Register your interest by clicking the button at the bottom of this box and filling out your details, to receive alerts and early bird price
What is covered:
- A look at the statistics behind miscarriage and baby loss.
- Understanding grief and loss from a parents point of view, the natural range of emotions and experience.
- Understanding cultural and societal expectations, biases and prejudices around perinatal loss and how these can contribute to and compound the aspects of trauma.
- Understanding the overlap between grief and trauma symptoms.
- Understanding different types of grief that are particular to perinatal loss.
- Looking at how different strategies for support could work at different times throughout a parent’s grief journey
- Demonstration of core listening, acknowledging and validation skills.
- Checking in with our own empathy, bias and experience.
- Audio and script versions of the exercises to experience the steps first hand.
Understanding Perinatal Depression
Who is this course for: HCP and birth professionals who work with parents who are experiencing low mood or symptoms of depression.
Aims & Objectives: To learn clear, simple techniques and therapeutic tools and process that when applied can support a person’s recovery from depression. To gain a thorough understanding of what drive symptoms of depression, looking at the causes rather than risk factors.
How long is the online course? 16 hours, however 3 assessments and participation in supervision is also required.
TBR Understanding & Supporting PND Online courses enrols once a year in July
Register your interest by clicking the button at the bottom of this box and filling out your details, to receive alerts and early bird price
Cost? £347 including supported assessment process, supervision, closed community of students and practitioners.
Click here for in person training dates
What is covered:
- Understanding the research and statistics around PND
- Distinguishing PND symptoms from the events, environment, thoughts and feelings that can cause symptoms.
- Understanding the different therapeutic interventions currently recommended
- Teaching mindfulness and self compassion as tools for mental health and wellness
- Applying a solution focused approach
- Understanding the role of perinatal trauma and PND
- Follow a real video case study that showcases each skill, tool and process
- Includes a 3 stage assessment process that includes case study
Launch enrolment July – £347
Supporting recovery from birth injury
Launch enrolment November – £497
Practical Skills in Hypnosis, Mindfulness & Meditation For The Perinatal Period
Launch enrolment January 2021 – £997 – including 2 days in person training
Supporting BIPOC parents through the perinatal stage
Launch enrolment March 2021 – £297
Supporting Survivors During Child Birth
Launch enrolment May 2021 – £297
All courses are recognised as CPD and accredited by CPDUK. I am currently also seeking accreditation with the RCM, however despite not having this I have worked with 8 NHS trusts so far.
50% discount for all student midwives – contact info@traumaticbirthrecovery.com for the code.
I am also available to provide bespoke training for groups, student midwives and HCP based on their particular need.
Please contact me directly at info@traumaticbirthrecovery.com with a proposal.
