PRENATAL AND PERINATAL SOMATICS
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Pilot Program is Offered September 6, 2025, with the Wellness Toolkit Offerings to Follow on a Monthly Basis, the First Saturday of the Month. 

Prenatal and Perinatal Wellness Interventions
A Toolkit for Practitioners and Their Patients/Clients

An Advanced 12 Module Program for Clinicians
 This online learning program combines:
  • Adverse Baby Experiences with Veronique Mead, MD, SEP, Chronic Illness Studies
  • ​Behavioral Health Education with Cheryl Azlin, PhD, Antioch University
  • Early Dynamics and Roots of Health from the Prenatal and Perinatal period with Kate White, MA, BCBMT, RCST, CEIM, SEP, PPNE, PLC, Founder of the PPSI
  • Fetal Brain Research: Gwenaëlle Thomas, PhD
  •  Multicultural Wellness and Health Disparities: Shatia Owsley, MA, PPNE, CEIM, 200-CYT and guest lecturers 
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This certificate program is designed to introduce health providers and behavioral health consultants to recent scientific and evidence-based information that can be shared in Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care Behavioral Health settings with the goal of improving client access to perinatal health promotion and wellness practices.  Behavioral Health provides the context and tradition of providing healthcare that assures increased access to care in primary care and in Behavioral Health settings and a focus on pragmatic interventions that improve day to day functioning. This information will be inspiring and we will include behavioral health applications-- instruction and interventions that can be taught and implemented in short behavioral health sessions by Behavioral Health Consultants during preconception, prenatal, and post delivery, and neonatal/pediatric heath care office visits.

These are powerful, simple, activities that the perinatal client and family can use to create foundational attitudes and behaviors that will work toward health promotion and prevention of perinatal biological, emotional, psychological, and birth trauma.  It provides a supportive matrix of healthy habits and activities that will help to create a positive healthy pregnancy, birth, and post-natal experience for the prenate and the mother and family. It is a proactive, positive, encouraging, health promoting program of activities that we hope will contribute to improved satisfaction with perinatal health care, improved maternal and family preparation for pregnancy and birth, improved emotional and psychological adjustment to pregnancy and birth, less fear and painful birth experiences, and overall better perinatal outcomes.

Each Module will have Behavioral Health Applications, Handouts for Professionals for themselves and for application with patients.
List of Twelve Modules
Who Is This Training For?
This certificate program reflects and integrates multidisciplinary healthcare research and specialties and is designed to be utilized by interprofessional groups and teams providing health services. These will include: Behavioral Health Consultants in IBH and Primary Care Behavioral Health settings, including nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, physicians, psychologists, social workers, counselors, and medical care coordinators and assistants; Health service providers working in obstetric, post-partum, neonatal, and pediatric settings; somatic therapists, physical therapists, craniosacral therapists, childbirth education instructors, prenatal and perinatal health educators will also find this information relevant, informative, and helpful.
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Adverse Babyhood Experiences
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Behavioral Health Education
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Early Dynamics and the Roots of Health
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Fetal Brain Research
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Multicultural Wellness

Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics

Find your professional pathway of education that includes preconception, conception, the prenatal period, birth and after birth. We embrace the full spectrum of all the participants in and around birth, including the parents, the baby, and the Professional. ​
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Behavioral Health Clinical Certificate

The professional certificate program invites you to a deep dive into prenatal and perinatal experiences for the prevention and treatment of earliest trauma, plus understanding of wellness model from behavioral health.
​Come. Study. Learn. Heal.
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The Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute is an official training organization within the USABP. 
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  • Home
    • About PPSI
    • History and Legacy
    • Educator, Practitioner, Assistant, Faculty Tracks
    • Stories from the Field
  • PPN Wellness Toolkit
    • List of Twelve Modules
    • Your Instructors
  • IPPD
    • Indigenous Midwife Training Project
    • New York CIty IPPD Training
    • Australian Training >
      • Australian Logistics
    • Foundations >
      • Arizona Foundations for Indigenous Midwives
      • Virginia Foundations >
        • Virginia Foundation, IPPD Training and Logistics
    • IPPD Training >
      • IPPD Level One
      • IPPD Level Two
      • IPPD Level Three
    • Practitioners
  • Pediatric Bodywork
    • Pediatric Bodywork Level One
    • Pediatric Bodywork Level Two
    • Pediatric Bodywork Level Three
    • Practitioners
  • Early Family Somatics
    • Assessment and Evaluation
    • Practitioners
  • Advanced Bodywork
    • Advanced Bodywork in PPS Level One
    • Advanced Bodywork for PPS Level Two
    • Advanced Bodywork for PPS Level Three