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Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Postpartum Stress Center, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.\n\nThis course is approved to meet Advanced Criteria for the Postpartum Support International PMH-C certification.","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Postpartum Stress Center","sameAs":"https://www.postpartumstress.com"}},"position":1},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@type":"Course","url":"https://www.postpartumstress.com/service-page/workshop-perinatal-ocd-level-ii-6","name":"Workshop: Perinatal OCD LEVEL II","description":"*NOW 2.5 HOURS*\n\nThe treatment of OCD in the perinatal population has nuances that can often be challenging and stressful for clinicians.\n\nWhat happens if a client’s feared outcome comes true?\nHow do we distinguish between OCD and psychosis and feel comfortable making that distinction?\nWhat can we do to account for the impact of social media and technology on OCD symptoms?\nHow do we navigate challenges with family systems of clients experiencing OCD symptoms and address enablement and resentment?\nHow do we manage situations in which clients have valid concern for their children’s well-being?\n\nPresenter: Noah Suzuki, LPC, Perinatal Mental Health Counselor, The Postpartum Stress Center, will introduce the symptom profile obsessive-compulsive distress associated with the perinatal period and explore case examples and treatment approaches that can be applied to individual cases.\n\nDescription:\nThis training aims to build upon the fundamentals of OCD treatment and address these questions and many more. Participants will be invited to share complex cases, ask questions related to treatment, and develop skills for planning and executing evidence-based treatments.\n\nWe aim for this to be a collaborative space for clinicians to gain comfort in the subtleties and complexities inherent in working with this population.\n\n*Please note: In order to maintain a safe, interactive space, honoring participant privacy and real-time connection, our trainings are not recorded.\n\n\nLearning Objectives:\n1. Participants will be introduced to special issues related to Perinatal OCD and what we typically observe with this issues\n\n2. Participants will discuss empirically-supported treatments for these issues that can be applied to the perinatal population and have the opportunity to craft treatment plans related to this\n\n3. Participants will be invited to discuss relevant cases and receive in-depth consultation.\n\n4. Participants will be able to discuss the challenges inherent in this work, the concerns they have about it and the opportunity to process this discomfort.\n\n2.5 CE hrs\n\nThe Postpartum Stress Center, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7461. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Postpartum Stress Center, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Postpartum Stress Center","sameAs":"https://www.postpartumstress.com"}},"position":2},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@type":"Course","url":"https://www.postpartumstress.com/service-page/the-holding-approach-to-birth-trauma-1","name":"The Holding Approach to Birth Trauma","description":"This 2.5-hour clinical training explores birth trauma through contemporary trauma-informed, attachment-based, and experiential frameworks, including Karen Kleiman’s The Art of Holding model. Participants will deepen their understanding of birth trauma as extending beyond adverse obstetric events to the mother’s subjective experience - moments of perceived threat, loss of agency, dismissal, or emotional isolation, even in medically “routine” births. \n\nThe course reviews key risk factors for postpartum PTSD (PP-PTSD) and equips clinicians to identify common post-birth trauma presentations, including PTSD symptoms, subthreshold trauma responses, and their overlap with postpartum mood and anxiety disorders. Clinicians are then offered a practical framework for supporting mothers through safety, attunement, expertise, and emotional containment, while helping them mindfully revisit and integrate traumatic birth experiences without retraumatization. \n\nThe training also examines how unresolved birth trauma can shape maternal self-representation, early mother–infant relationships, and caregiving confidence - underscoring the importance of early identification and intervention, with particular attention to experiences of medical neglect, unexpected interventions, stillbirth, and loss. Designed for maternal mental health professionals, this course integrates theory, research, and clinical application to support trauma-informed, compassionate care.\n\n*Please note: In order to maintain a safe, interactive space, honoring participant privacy and real-time connection, our trainings are not recorded. \n\n2.5 CE hrs\n\nThe Postpartum Stress Center, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7461. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Postpartum Stress Center, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Postpartum Stress Center","sameAs":"https://www.postpartumstress.com"}},"position":3},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@type":"Course","url":"https://www.postpartumstress.com/service-page/the-unchecked-mind","name":"The Unchecked Mind","description":"The treatment of perinatal OCD can be challenging and uncomfortable, not just for patients, but for clinicians, as well. Are there pieces of the process that continue to make you uncomfortable? What are some common mistakes and traps that clinicians fall into when providing this treatment? How do we maintain a holding environment for new parents while also encouraging them to confront their fears?\n\nIntrusive thoughts about harming, contaminating, or losing an infant are far more common than most clinicians realize. They are also far more treatable than most patients believe. The challenge lies not only in knowing the evidence base, but in developing the clinical steadiness to stay regulated when the content is disturbing, the stakes feel high, and the patient is asking for certainty we cannot provide.\n\nThis training offers clinicians a comprehensive framework for understanding, assessing, and treating perinatal OCD. Participants will explore perinatal intrusive thoughts across five content domains and examine the five most common clinical errors that can lead us astray. The training will allow clinicians to process the complex fusion of holding principles and exposure based treatment. Case vignettes and clinical scenarios are used throughout to apply these concepts to complex presentations involving religious and cultural overlays, sleep deprivation, trauma, mandatory reporting, and ambivalent motivation.\n\nIt will provide insight into the phenomenology, differential dx considerations and treatment planning with particular attention to the clinician's own anxiety.\n\n4 CE hrs\n\nThe Postpartum Stress Center, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7461. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. 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Participants will examine the varied and often nuanced presentation of perinatal suffering, including experiences that are frequently misunderstood, minimized, or inadequately captured within traditional diagnostic frameworks.\n\nGrounded in The Art of Holding clinical framework, the course emphasizes the development of therapeutic presence, attunement, and emotional containment in response to perinatal distress.  Participants will learn how to remain engaged with both expressed and unexpressed distress, fostering safety and trust while resisting premature reassurance, problem-solving, or symptom-driven intervention.\n\nThe course also attends to the therapist’s internal experience, including vulnerability, emotional reactivity, and countertransference, as integral to effective and ethical perinatal work. Participants will strengthen skills in co-regulation, emotional steadiness, and reflective awareness.\n\nParticipants will learn how to:\n\n- Distinguish perinatal distress from general mood disorders by recognizing unique features like ego-dystonic intrusive thoughts and postpartum identity shifts.\n- Apply the principles of The Art of Holding to build attunement, containment, and therapeutic trust with distressed perinatal clients.\n- Utilize Holding Points as a clinical framework for navigating PMADs.\n- Attune to hidden or unspoken suffering without defaulting to reassurance or solutions.\n- Deepen self-awareness of therapist vulnerability and countertransference to stay emotionally present and effective.\n- Integrate psychoeducation and normalizing language to reduce shame and support symptom–self separation.\n- Practice co-regulation through intentional presence and emotional steadiness to help clients feel safe, seen, and empowered.\n\nThe Postpartum Stress Center, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7461. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Postpartum Stress Center, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.\n\nThis program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886561965-9043) for 6 continuing education contact hours\n\nThis course is approved to meet Advanced Criteria for the Postpartum Support International PMH-C certification","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Postpartum Stress Center","sameAs":"https://www.postpartumstress.com"}},"position":5},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@type":"Course","url":"https://www.postpartumstress.com/service-page/rewired-motherhood-the-changing-brain-3","name":"REWIRED: Motherhood & The Changing Brain","description":"This workshop explores the neuroscience of motherhood, focusing on how memory, mental load, and brain changes during pregnancy and postpartum impact maternal mental health.\n\nParticipants will learn about the neurological and hormonal shifts that influence attention, emotional regulation, and vulnerability to perinatal mental illnesses such as depression, anxiety, and trauma. Drawing on both cutting-edge research and compassionate clinical insight, the session will also feature a conversation with renowned perinatal mental health expert Karen Kleiman, with a focus on the concept of \"holding\"—the emotional and psychological support essential to maternal care.\n\nThe workshop reviews evidence-based treatments that support brain health and recovery, debunks common myths about \"mom brain,\" and emphasizes the role of support systems and policy in maternal wellbeing. Designed for professionals and caregivers, the workshop blends science, empathy, and practical tools to better understand and support mothers during the perinatal period.\n\n*Please note: In order to maintain a safe, interactive space, honoring participant privacy and real-time connection, our trainings are not recorded.\n\nAbout Jodi:\n\nDr. Jodi Pawluski is a neuroscientist, therapist, and author passionate about the science of motherhood and perinatal mental health. She is internationally recognized as a leading expert in the field of parental brain science. Her work centers around understanding how the brain changes during the transition to motherhood, how maternal mental health conditions affect a mother and her children, and how treatments like antidepressants and probiotics play a role in this journey. In addition to her research, Jodi provides counseling, mentoring, and consultation services focused on perinatal mental health.\n\nRead more about Jodi at www.jodipawluski.com\n\n2 CE hrs available\n\nThe Postpartum Stress Center, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7461.\nPrograms that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Postpartum Stress Center, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Postpartum Stress Center","sameAs":"https://www.postpartumstress.com"}},"position":6},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@type":"Course","url":"https://www.postpartumstress.com/service-page/12-hr-in-person-advanced-oct-2026","name":"12 Hr IN-PERSON Advanced - Oct 2026","description":"The Art of Holding Perinatal Women in Distress™: Assessment, Treatment, & Advanced Clinical Practice (12hr) is the first of its kind, training the maternal healthcare provider to consider both the nuanced nature of the perinatal client’s authentic suffering and synchronous impact on the provider’s experience. This intensive training, developed by Karen Kleiman, draws from Kleiman’s HOLDING model of intervention and 3 decades of experience, using lecture and experiential learning approaches to expand your clinical perspective.\n\n“There will be times when the very best way for us to inspire her while she stands on the edge of life is to sit there…to be with her. Without fear. Without judgment. Without words. Her pain is a compelling invitation to those who can sit in that space. We do so with tacit strength and reverence worthy of that moment” (The Art of Holding in Therapy, Kleiman.)\n\nThis session will be held IN-PERSON.\n\nThe Postpartum Stress Center, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7461. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Postpartum Stress Center, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.\n\nThis course is approved to meet Advanced Criteria for the Postpartum Support International PMH-C certification.","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Postpartum Stress Center","sameAs":"https://www.postpartumstress.com"}},"position":7},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@type":"Course","url":"https://www.postpartumstress.com/service-page/6hr-art-of-holding-training-dec-2026","name":"6hr Art of Holding Training - Dec 2026","description":"Taught by Rachel Brabec, MS, LIMHP\n\n12/11/2026, 9am-4pm EST (8am-3pm CST)\n\nThis core course introduces a relational, holding-informed approach to working with perinatal clients experiencing emotional distress. Participants will examine the varied and often nuanced presentation of perinatal suffering, including experiences that are frequently misunderstood, minimized, or inadequately captured within traditional diagnostic frameworks.\n\nGrounded in The Art of Holding clinical framework, the course emphasizes the development of therapeutic presence, attunement, and emotional containment in response to perinatal distress.  Participants will learn how to remain engaged with both expressed and unexpressed distress, fostering safety and trust while resisting premature reassurance, problem-solving, or symptom-driven intervention.\n\nThe course also attends to the therapist’s internal experience, including vulnerability, emotional reactivity, and countertransference, as integral to effective and ethical perinatal work. Participants will strengthen skills in co-regulation, emotional steadiness, and reflective awareness.\n\nParticipants will learn how to:\n\n- Distinguish perinatal distress from general mood disorders by recognizing unique features like ego-dystonic intrusive thoughts and postpartum identity shifts.\n- Apply the principles of The Art of Holding to build attunement, containment, and therapeutic trust with distressed perinatal clients.\n- Utilize Holding Points as a clinical framework for navigating PMADs.\n- Attune to hidden or unspoken suffering without defaulting to reassurance or solutions.\n- Deepen self-awareness of therapist vulnerability and countertransference to stay emotionally present and effective.\n- Integrate psychoeducation and normalizing language to reduce shame and support symptom–self separation.\n- Practice co-regulation through intentional presence and emotional steadiness to help clients feel safe, seen, and empowered.\n\nThe Postpartum Stress Center, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7461. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Postpartum Stress Center, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.\n\nThis program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886561965-9043) for 6 continuing education contact hours\n\nThis course is approved to meet Advanced Criteria for the Postpartum Support International PMH-C certification","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Postpartum Stress Center","sameAs":"https://www.postpartumstress.com"}},"position":8},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@type":"Course","url":"https://www.postpartumstress.com/service-page/12-hr-virtual-advanced-march-2027","name":"12 Hr Virtual Advanced - March 2027","description":"The Art of Holding Perinatal Women in Distress™: Assessment, Treatment, & Advanced Clinical Practice (12hr) is the first of its kind, training the maternal healthcare provider to consider both the nuanced nature of the perinatal client’s authentic suffering and synchronous impact on the provider’s experience. This intensive training, developed by Karen Kleiman, draws from Kleiman’s HOLDING model of intervention and 3 decades of experience, using lecture and experiential learning approaches to expand your clinical perspective.\n\n“There will be times when the very best way for us to inspire her while she stands on the edge of life is to sit there…to be with her. Without fear. Without judgment. Without words. Her pain is a compelling invitation to those who can sit in that space. We do so with tacit strength and reverence worthy of that moment” (The Art of Holding in Therapy, Kleiman.)\n\nThis session will be VIRTUAL.\n\nThis program is Approved by the National Association of Social Workers (Approval # 886561965-4303) for 12 continuing education contact hours.\n\nThe Postpartum Stress Center, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7461. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Postpartum Stress Center, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.\n\nThis course is approved to meet Advanced Criteria for the Postpartum Support International PMH-C certification.","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Postpartum Stress Center","sameAs":"https://www.postpartumstress.com"}},"position":9},{"@type":"ListItem","item":{"@type":"Course","url":"https://www.postpartumstress.com/service-page/workshop-mom-rage-5","name":"Workshop: MOM RAGE","description":"MOM RAGE\nwith Tanya Cotler, PhD\n\nAnger is a common and unsettling feature in perinatal distress that is often overlooked and misunderstood. Understanding anger, and its link to the loss of agency and sense of helplessness for the postpartum woman is a critical part of perinatal treatment.\n\nPerinatal therapists need to be equipped to work compassionately with anger in order to help the mother to deescalate to prevent harm to self or child. Anger left untreated can exacerbate associated symptoms of perinatal distress such as anxiety and guilt.\n\nIt is incumbent that therapists meet their patients with compassion and anchor into the powerlessness at the heart of the experience of anger as well as the mismatch between\nexpectations and reality.  At the same time, therapists need to be equipped to help their perinatal clients minimize their anger outbursts, and repair in order to ensure safety and\npositive developmental outcomes.\n\nLearning Objectives:\n1. Participants will be introduced to the diagnostic profile of perinatal distress and the role of anger in the common symptom profile of those diagnoses with postpartum depression, anxiety or OCD as well as postpartum PTSD\n\n2. Participants will learn how to help clients identify their primary triggers to anger, and understand the connection between agency and anger as well as reawakened wounds around helplessness\n\n3. Participants will discuss empirically supported somatic and nervous system regulation techniques to be used before, during and after the rise and fall of an anger rage\n\n4. Participants will be invited to discuss relevant case material\n\nA virtual, live and interactive course via Zoom.\n\n*Please note: In order to maintain a safe, interactive space, honoring participant privacy and real-time connection, our trainings are not recorded. \n\n2.0 CE hrs\n\nThe Postpartum Stress Center, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7461. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Postpartum Stress Center, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.\n","provider":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Postpartum Stress Center","sameAs":"https://www.postpartumstress.com"}},"position":10}]}