Birth Coach | Become a Perinatal Coach
Become a Perinatal Coach
Burnout-free, high-impact birth work begins with learning how to coach.
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A Different Way to Support
What Is
Transformational
Perinatal Coaching?
Transformational Perinatal Coaching is a specialized approach that teaches birth professionals how to use verbal coaching skills to facilitate meaningful conversations with clients throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
Rather than simply providing information or telling clients what to do, coaching helps clients clarify what they want, identify what may be getting in the way, explore their options, make informed decisions, and take action.
The goal is to help clients move from fear to confidence, uncertainty to clarity, and passive participation to empowered engagement.
Every doula, childbirth educator, and birth worker is a birth coach. But not every birth worker has learned how to coach.
Beyond Information
Birth Support Is More Than Information.
Today’s clients already have access to an enormous amount of information. What they often need is help understanding what matters to them, working through fear and uncertainty, exploring their options, making decisions, and taking action.
Information alone does not always lead to informed action. Fear, overwhelm, and limiting beliefs can prevent clients from advocating for themselves and making decisions with confidence.
Birth Work Is Changing
Is Your Role Changing With It?
There are moments in birth work when knowledge and hands-on support do not feel like enough. Coaching offers another way to help clients engage with their own choices, challenges, and capacity.
You Wonder What Else You Could Have Done
A client’s experience did not match what they had hoped for, and you find yourself wondering whether there was another way you could have supported them.
Information Is Not Creating Action
You provide evidence-based information, but fear, overwhelm, or limiting beliefs still make it difficult for clients to advocate for themselves and make confident decisions.
The Work Is Becoming Unsustainable
Long hours of hands-on support can leave birth professionals feeling underpaid, unsuccessful, or burned out. Coaching can expand both the impact and the sustainability of your work.
Add Coaching to the Work You Already Do
Expand Your Toolbox, Not Replace It.
Your Support Remains Essential
Doula support and coaching are complementary, not competing. You continue to provide physical, emotional, informational, and practical support to your clients.
Coaching Adds Another Layer
Intentional prenatal and postpartum conversations help clients explore their beliefs, values, motivation, choices, and capacity for decision-making.
Think of it as expanding your toolbox, not replacing what’s already in it.
Who This Path Is For
Bring Coaching Into Perinatal Work.
This work is relevant to doulas, childbirth educators, prenatal care nurses, midwives, and other perinatal professionals who want to deepen the conversations they have with clients throughout the childbearing year.
You do not need to already be a certified coach. The program is also open to newcomers who are not yet certified doulas or childbirth educators, with an appropriate prerequisite for those entering the field.
Coaching skills can be used in prenatal coaching sessions, during childbirth, and in postpartum support.
What Coaching Adds
Build Skills You Can Use Throughout the Childbearing Year.
The Transformational Perinatal Coaching training develops practical coaching skills for conversations before, during, and after birth. On this pathway, you will learn to:
Create Coaching Conversations
Use coaching models and frameworks to guide meaningful prenatal and postpartum conversations.
Work With Values and Beliefs
Help clients explore values, beliefs, motivations, fear, and limiting beliefs that may affect their choices and experiences.
Support Autonomy and Accountability
Help clients clarify what they want, identify challenges and resources, make informed decisions, and take action.
Coach Virtually
Develop skills that can be used in virtual coaching sessions as well as in your existing birth-support work.
Develop Your Own Coaching Series
Build a signature prenatal and postpartum coaching series that reflects the work you want to offer.
Communicate Across the Birth Team
Strengthen communication with clients, providers, and birth teams while keeping the client’s goals and autonomy at the center.
Burnout-Free, High-Impact Birth Work
Create Deeper Impact and a More Sustainable Practice.
Transformational Perinatal Coaching is not only about adding another skill. It can expand the ways you work with clients, including billable prenatal coaching sessions, and support the development of a professional practice that is more sustainable over time.
The full program goes deeper into strategies for integrating coaching into your services and building a practice around the work.
Why Birth Coach Method
Coaching Built Specifically for Birth Professionals.
A general coaching certification teaches you how to coach people. Birth Coach Method teaches you how to use coaching within pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and perinatal work.
The frameworks, examples, exercises, and conversations are designed specifically for birth professionals and the families they serve.
Student Experiences
What Birth Professionals Say.
Birth professionals from different backgrounds and locations describe how coaching changed the way they understand their role, communicate with clients, and support client-led decision-making.
“I can hardly believe I’ve been a doula for as long as I have without using this method. There was a disconnect between what my clients were telling me they wanted and the choices they ultimately made in regard to their birth experience. This method has helped me better understand, connect with, and empower my clients to align what they believe with what they want and ultimately lead them to achieve those goals.”
Neri has been invaluable in the progress of my career as a Birth Coach. As a doula & childbirth educator, I have learned to look at working with clients from a different perspective that allows them to trust themselves, their ideas, and their bodies, as well as to have a positive birth experience. Thank you, Neri, for all the strategies you have shared, and I cannot wait to kick off my Birth Coaching practice! Best regards,
“The course itself is transformational. I feel changed deeply by what I have learned. The Zoom discussions were very engaging. The assignments and the interactions fostered tremendous growth for me. I highly recommend this course for any type of birth professional.”
“…Creating accountability – rather than being the doula-rescuer when things don’t go as planned. Letting clients find their own answers, take ownership, and advocate for themselves will set them upon a path for life, as people and parents, while meeting them where they are. (Not to mention, it really helps with preventing doula burnout.)”
“This course has been a turning point for me in so many ways. I am grateful that I listened to my instinct in seeking out this course because it has completely shifted how I view birth support and my role. I can’t even count all the times I wanted to support my clients but didn’t know how to ‘make them’ see their vision through. I now have all the tools I never was given to help their vision align with their actions. This is pure magic. Thank you for birthing this idea and this course.”
Transformational Perinatal Coaching
Take the Next Step.
The Transformational Perinatal Coaching program provides the training, practice, and certification pathway for birth professionals who want to integrate coaching into their work. The full certification process begins after six months of active membership and includes required coursework, practice of coaching skills, and a final assessment.
Transformational Perinatal Coaching Program is Approved CEUs
