IPPD Graduates
Graduates from the Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics (IPPD) program have completed an advanced certificate program that trains professionals to prevent and treat birth trauma using a somatic trauma resolution approach.
Our skills include presence, relationship, listening, recognition, and conversation, and they work to identify and transform nervous system states related to stress and threat responses from trauma experiences connected to conception, pregnancy, birth and after birth.
Our work is non-regressive and is present-time oriented.
Practitioners learn about parts of the baby’s experiences starting preconception based on prenatal and perinatal somatic psychology. These include:
Our skills include presence, relationship, listening, recognition, and conversation, and they work to identify and transform nervous system states related to stress and threat responses from trauma experiences connected to conception, pregnancy, birth and after birth.
Our work is non-regressive and is present-time oriented.
Practitioners learn about parts of the baby’s experiences starting preconception based on prenatal and perinatal somatic psychology. These include:
- Preconception and Ancestral/Parental patterns,
- Conception,
- The threshold moments of the embryo,
- The birth sequence and patterns in the body from birth,
- The impact of birth interventions, and
- Trauma for antenatal experiences
- Preconception and conception dynamics
- Uterine shapes, placenta dynamics, cord dynamics
- Physiologic birth dynamics
- Heart tones and what they mean during birth
- Many different birth patterns that can be overwhelming
- Induction dynamics
- Anesthesia and analgesia dynamics
- Birth interventions, including forceps, vacuum assist, and c-section dynamics
- After birth dynamics, including the baby’s experience of feeding, crying, and sleeping trauma
- Postpartum distress dynamics
- Attachment and bonding sequences starting preconception through the after birth and postpartum time
- Medicalized Birth Trauma
- The Shock of Witnessing
- Working with a Birthing Timeline (single episode) in relationship to the body
- Restoring Primitive Survival Responses to Overwhelming Situations
- Attack and Assault
- Near Death
- Injury and Recovery
- Repairing Relationship to Essential Self, Supportive Other, and World
- Help recognize, reach, and transform trauma responses and patterns related to birth and earliest experiences for families wanting to conceive, or who are already pregnant or have given birth.
- Welcome newborn families and connect the family members to themselves and each other so that the whole family thrives.
- Refer to bodyworkers, lactations consultants, medical providers and mental health specialists as needed.
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Heather Zivkovich LMT, BCTMB, IPPD
balancedbeingwellness.com b[email protected] Annapolis & Edgewater, Maryland 
Ahara Vatter, IPPD
liquidlightbodyworks.net [email protected] Denver, CO, Santa Fe, NM Austin, TX, Sedona, AZ |
Vanessa Worthington, SEP, IPPD
traumahealing.com.au [email protected] Wamberal, NSW, Australia Teaching Team for Australia 
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Lesha Nelson, IPPD
leshanelson.com [email protected] Salt Lake City, UT Teaching Team Member Salt Lake City |
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Shatia Owsley, MS, PPNE, CEIM, CYT
Indigowomb.com [email protected] Alexandria, VA Multicultural Wellness Director |
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Sarah Downer, LSCW, IPPD
sarah-downer.clientsecure.me [email protected] Seattle Area, Washington State |
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Marinah Farrell
indigenousbirth.com/ [email protected] Phoenix, AZ Teaching Team member Salt Lake City |
Nina Cikes Stegic, MD, IPPD
Centar za perinatalnu psihologiju i rano roditeljstvo [email protected] Rijeka, Croatia |
