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Pregnancy, miscarriage, perinatal loss, reproductive challenges, menstrual cycle & fertility problems are often hidden by women, both in their personal lives and in front of therapists and healthcare providers.

Many of these women are seeking care for the first time... With intense feelings of shame, grief, failure, and even suicidality, they need more than an experienced clinician. They're looking for a professional they can deeply trust.

Be the one that helps these women reconnect with their bodies, and overcome grief, PTSD, and other pain to reclaim their lives.

The first step is getting specialized experience and knowledge.

In this comprehensive course, you'll get expert guidance on how to treat women's most intimate issues. From post-partum depression and related disorders to hormone-related emotional dysregulation, you'll learn how to:

  • Distinguish the "baby blues" from serious mental health disorders
  • Help clients with co-occurring PTSD, OCD & other disorders
  • Integrate techniques from CBT, DBT, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Attachment-focused Therapy & more
  • Identify & help clients process intense anger, shame, perceived failure & more
  • Know when to refer clients to healthcare or mental health professionals
  • Address your own feelings as they come up so you can stay client-focused

PLUS, you'll get THREE BONUSES to explore telehealth, fertility & an amazing workbook!

Grow your client and patient base on these issues and get the skills that will keep women from suffering in silence — transform your practice and your relationship with vulnerable clients.

Treat Postpartum Depression, Perinatal Loss & Grief, PMDD & More


Usually £612.25
YOURS FOR JUST £149.99 (VAT Inclusive)
Get clinical solutions using cognitive behavioural therapy, dialectical behavioural therapy & more.
PLUS, free printable assessments, worksheets, and slide decks!

Earn up to 13.75 CPD (+2 Bonus CPD) Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for course objectives and outline
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Postpartum Depression & Related Disorders: Clinical Strategies to Identify and Treat Mothers Who Are Suffering in Silence
Hilary Waller, MS, LPC | Click here for information about Hilary Waller

Gain tools to intervene during one of the most critical and vulnerable times during a woman's life — postpartum. In this highly compelling section, you'll explore…

The Clinical Profile of PMADs (Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders)

  • What causes postpartum mental health disorders?
  • The "perinatal masquerade" and illusion of perfection
  • Treat co-occurring mood disorders
  • Break through guilt, shame, and silence
  • Research limitations & potential risks

PMAD Screening and Assessment

  • Are you asking the right questions?
  • Red flags: What to look/listen for
  • Evidence-based assessment tools
  • Differential diagnosis:
    • Depression, Anxiety, OCD, PTSD, psychosis
  • The Postpartum Stress Center PMAD Response Model
  • Respond to self-harm or suicidality
  • Where and how to refer

Clinical Interventions for Mothers Who are Symptomatic, Exhausted, and Preoccupied

  • Unique treatment factors
  • Create a safe "holding environment"
  • Treat co-occurring mood disorders
  • Navigate scary intrusive thoughts
  • Practical interventions for busy new moms
  • The perinatal family: Identify and engage necessary supports
  • Tools for healing the perinatal intimate partnership
  • Psychotropic medications: Safe for pregnant or nursing mothers?
  • Collaborative care with other providers
  • Videos: Beyond the Fear & Voices of Recovery
  • Exercises: Token assessment and case examples

The Nuanced Experience of the Perinatal Clinician

  • Managing countertransference
  • Ethical decision making: Breaking the rules and self-disclosure
  • Collaboration and collegial support

Special Considerations

  • Feeding issues: Breastfeeding and/or bottle
  • Infertility/Assisted reproductive technologies
  • Trauma, grief & loss
  • NICU
  • When PMADs are left untreated or present later in motherhood
  • Multicultural factors

Perinatal Loss: An Attachment-Informed Treatment Framework for Helping Clients Process and Heal from Pregnancy Loss
Sunita Osborn, PsyD, MA | Click here for information about Sunita Osborn

Learn the best interventions for treating grief after a loss and uncover the mistakes you may be making. Walk away with these career-enhancing skills in assessment, treatment planning, treatment interventions, and special considerations.

Perinatal Loss: Common Misconceptions

  • Misattunement to the loss
  • Far-reaching implications of reproductive trauma
  • Ongoing and chronic nature of the trauma

Assessment: Exploring Clients' Reproductive Story

  • Identify red flags: grief, guilt, shame, self-blame, and hopelessness
  • Explore all losses experienced
  • When things take a turn: anxiety, depression, OCD
  • Fully validate clients' experience
  • Sharing the Story
  • Utilize relevant assessment measures

Treatment Planning for Pregnancy and Infant Loss

  • Chronic trauma related to pregnancy loss
  • Adapt PTSD strategies for reproductive trauma
  • Address grief by utilizing the loss and restoration framework
  • Help clients balance complicated grief while still trying to conceive
Treatment Interventions: Helping Clients Move Forward, Not On

  • Attachment-focused approach
  • Trauma-informed/PTSD adaptations
  • Build resiliency with interventions based on empathy, forgiveness, and compassion
  • Improve client's relationships with partner and family
  • Adapt clinical techniques for couples and group work
  • Support clients in subsequent pregnancies

Clinical Considerations

  • Culturally informed case conceptualizations
  • Relationship to the body after a loss
  • How to hold personal experience with pregnancy loss while helping clients
  • Limitations and risks

Treat Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder, Premenstrual Syndrome & Emotional-Dysregulation with DBT & CBT
Kristine Spano, PsyD | Click here for information about Kristine Spano

Get the skills to help women when traditional pharmaceutical interventions fall short in treating the emotional rollercoaster that comes from hormonal imbalances, pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder & PMS. You'll get the education to:

  • Help women emotionally regulate with CBT & DBT skills
  • Create a self-care toolbox for women
  • Help women succeed in the workplace on their worst days
  • Practice mindfulness exercises in your office
  • Improve interpersonal relationships with distress tolerance techniques
  • Understand the impact of biological changes on mental health

All with worksheets, graphs, and other information you can take with you.
Guide Women through Postpartum Depression, Pregnancy Loss & More

Usually £612.25
Just £149.99 (VAT Inclusive) Today — Incredible Savings!
Learn to work with women & their families, plus education on fertility & telehealth.

Earn up to 13.75 CPD (+2 Bonus CPD) Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for course objectives and outline
 
Three BONUSES! YOURS IMMEDIATELY WHEN YOU REGISTER NOW, USUALLY £183.27!

Telehealth Treatment for Postpartum Depression & Related Disorders

Gain the confidence needed to treat Postpartum Depression & related disorders effectively with evidenced-based, telehealth-friendly strategies. You'll get:

  • Pros and cons of telehealth during the perinatal period
  • Kleiman's simplified "holding" approach to perinatal therapy
  • Manage increased therapist vulnerability with "self-holding"
  • Make the right choices when faced with ethical dilemmas
  • Explore special considerations: escalation of care, pandemics & more
The Miscarriage Map Workbook: An Honest Guide to Navigating Pregnancy Loss, Working Through the Pain, and Moving Forward

In this workbook, Dr. Osborn offers a straightforward roadmap to help women move through the trauma and grief of pregnancy loss, allowing them to feel understood, better equipped to handle stressors, and empowered to move forward. With both her clinical expertise and personal experience in mind, this workbook is filled with practical, engaging, and meaningful tools.

  • Develop coping skills for intense emotions after pregnancy loss & miscarriage
  • Uncover clients' reproductive stories and process reproductive trauma
  • Cultivate greater acceptance, compassion, and empathy for themselves
  • Work through the sense of betrayal and shame they may feel toward their physical body
  • Navigate intimacy and the unique challenges in their relationships
  • Reconnect with their purpose and values as they move forward, not on, from their loss

PLUS, each chapter includes notes and tips that therapists, OBGYNs, midwives, and other helping professionals can use to tailor treatments for each individual patient.
TWO FREE Psychotherapy Networker articles!

Lori Gottlieb on Fertility Counseling: Finding Strength and Resilience

Detours on the Fertility Journey: Helping Clients Navigate Their Options by Janet Jaffee
Postpartum Depression, Perinatal Loss,
PMDD & More!


Usually £612.25
Yours for Just £149.99 (VAT Inclusive)
 

Frequently Asked Questions

Yes! While postpartum depression, perinatal loss, and other problems are extraordinarily common, it's no secret that most therapists lack the proper knowledge in working with these issues.

Providing therapy and care to vulnerable women experiencing grief, loss, and emotional dysregulation may be pivotal to your career. Become a specialist and gain incredible knowledge that helps women move their careers, relationships & lives forward.

It is pivotal for clinicians treating any form of disordered eating, eating disorders, trauma work, and/or body image disturbance. This evidence-based online course is broken up into easy-to-digest video modules with comprehensive handouts that include problem-solution strategies, innovative worksheets, and countless interventions.

With over 15 hours in this online course filled with insightful commentary, interventions, and examples, you will have compelling new clinical strategies that you can immediately start applying in your practice! We encourage you to take the time to fully absorb everything. Watch the videos. Read the materials. Get your CPD hours!

But, if you review all of the course materials and are still not satisfied, call us at 01235 847393. Your satisfaction is guaranteed.

Yes! Once you register for this self-paced course, you will have unlimited access to all the materials — including slides, handouts, worksheets, and more.
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Register for this intensive online course without risk. If you're not completely satisfied, call us at 01235 847393.

We’re that confident you'll find this learning experience to be all that's promised and more than you expected.
Guiding Women Through Postpartum Depression,
Perinatal Loss & Grief, PMDD & More

Usually £612.25
YOURS FOR JUST £149.99 (VAT Inclusive)
Earn up to 13.75 CPD (+2 Bonus CPD) Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for course objectives and outline

NOTE: No additional discounts or coupons may be applied to this course.
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