IPPD - PRENATAL AND PERINATAL SOMATICS

Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics™

A practitioner training program to prevent and treat birth trauma that integrates somatic trauma resolution, midwifery model of care and the baby's experience.
Come. Study. Learn. Heal

Foundations in Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics™

Our Entry Level Course
4 days

Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics™

Three Level, 9 module practitioner training program

IPPD Retreats

In-person, 3 day practice and nourishing retreats the feature the 5 practitioner skills, mini birth process and the advanced bodywork sequence.

Next 6 Module Trainings are: New York City in Spring, 2024, Phoenix, AZ in Spring 2024, Northern Beaches near Sydney, Australia November 2024. Virginia training starts in January 2025.

Meet Our Teaching Team

The training is co-taught by two instructors and supported by a team of teaching assistants

The Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics™ training is the fruit of the relationship between Kate White, MA, BCBMT, RCST©,SEP, CEIM, PPNE, PLC and Lois Trezise, CNM over 20 years of collaboration. Kate brings a wealth of somatic trauma resolutions skills, the study of prenatal and perinatal somatic psychology, and working with families with babies. Lois brings 40 years of midwifery, childbirth education and her own experience of prenatal and perinatal psychology. They each bring their own years of spiritual and physical practices for nervous system regulation and connection. The training is taught in 3 day modules over 12-16 months. We provide additional opportunities for trainees to learn. All of our work is recorded. You will have lifelong access to the materials. We are still growing as a community and as a teaching team, so we expect our materials to grow and season.

Instructors

Kate White, MA, BCBMT, RCST®, CEIM, SEP, PPNE, PLC

Kate White is an advanced bodyworker and somatic trauma resolution therapist who has been involved with pre- and perinatal health for over 30 years, starting with maternal and child health, family planning, and health education as an international professional, to a practitioner of the healing arts as a bodyworker working with pregnant mothers, families and babies. Her qualifications include: BA and MA in communications Certifications in prenatal massage, infant massage, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner Training and over 20 years of study and training in Prenatal and Perinatal Somatic Psychology with many leading pioneering practitioners. She is founder and former Director of Education for the Prenatal and Perinatal Educator Certificate course for the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health, 2013-2019. Founder and Executive Director of the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, Co-Creator of Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics and Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online, Creator of Baby Dynamics Clinical training, Leading Edge Somatic Skills Seminars, and the Whole Family Clinic You can see a complete list of her trainings and education here.

Lois Trezise, CNM

Lois Trezise is a nurse-midwife of 40 year’s experience with a Master’s Degree in Midwifery and certification in hypnosis from ASCH. She received her Certified Lactation Counseling from the Healthy Children Project in Boston.

Lois has attended births at home, out-of-hospital birth centers, and both large city and small community hospitals. Her experience has given her an in-depth overview of all the different ways in which labor can unfold and how to help prepare and support families. She developed her own childbirth course that integrates hypnoses into childbirth education, and a manual for parents to better understand the birth process.

She worked with Kate to co-teach Conscious Pregnancy courses that integrated childbirth education, prenatal and perinatal somatic psychology and the baby's experience. She currently lives in Brattleboro, VT, and presents several times a year at the Center.