Birth Coach | Perinatal Coaching Training
Your Next Level of Impact Starts Here
Transformational perinatal coaching training for greater impact and a rewarding, sustainable birth support practice.
RegistrationAdvance Your Practice Through Coaching.
Become a Perinatal Coach.
The Future of Birth Support
What Is Transformational Perinatal Coaching?
Transformational Perinatal Coaching brings professional coaching tools into birth work. We’ve developed coaching exercises specifically for the challenges and decisions people face during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
The approach teaches birth professionals how to lead meaningful coaching conversations tailored to each client’s circumstances, experiences, and challenges. Rather than simply providing information or telling clients what to do, coaches help clients clarify what matters to them, explore their options, overcome internal and external obstacles, and move forward with greater confidence and ownership.
The goal is to help clients move from fear to confidence, uncertainty to clarity, and passive participation to active, empowered engagement in their perinatal experience.
If you want to become a perinatal coach, this training is designed for doulas, childbirth educators, prenatal care nurses, midwives, and other perinatal professionals who want to deepen their conversations with clients throughout the childbearing journey.
Beyond Information
Turning Information Into Confidence and Action
Today’s clients have Dr. Google, Dr. Facebook, and Dr. YouTube on speed dial. They have access to more information than ever, but they need more than information. They need empowerment strategies that help them develop the confidence and agency to make choices that feel right for them.
Information alone does not always lead to informed action. Fear, overwhelm, and limiting beliefs can make it difficult for clients to advocate for themselves and make confident decisions.
Add Coaching to the Support You Already Provide
Expand Your Toolbox. Deepen Your Impact.
Doula support and coaching are complementary, not competing approaches. You can continue to provide physical, emotional, informational, and practical support to some or all of your clients.
Transformational Perinatal Coaching gives you practical coaching skills you can integrate into your existing birth work to change how you support clients and how you practice. You’ll learn to foster more effective communication with medical teams, support patient-centered care, and empower clients to take a more active role in their perinatal experience.
As clients become more confident and capable, you can reduce the need for prolonged hands-on support, lower burnout risk, and create capacity to serve more clients. You’ll also discover ways to diversify your services and income, building a more sustainable and rewarding practice.
Perinatal Coaching adds intentional prenatal and postpartum conversations that help clients navigate challenging moments with greater confidence and agency—moments they would otherwise face with self-doubt. For your clients, perinatal coaching conversations are empowering. For you, coaching opens the door to greater freedom, new service opportunities, and a more sustainable practice.
You’re not replacing what you already do. You’re expanding your toolbox and deepening your impact.
Earn Continuing Education Credits
The Transformational Perinatal Coaching Program is approved for continuing education units (CEUs) by the California Board of Registered Nursing and recognized for continuing education by doula certifying organizations, including DONA International, Lamaze International, and ICEA.
Transformational Birth Work
Your Innovative Perinatal Coaching Toolbox
The Transformational Perinatal Coaching training develops practical coaching skills you can integrate into your existing birth work. You’ll learn how to:
Lead meaningful coaching conversations
Use coaching models, frameworks, and exercises to turn routine prenatal and postpartum visits into purposeful conversations that help clients move from insight to action.
Work with values, beliefs, and fears
Help clients explore what matters to them, recognize limiting beliefs, and work through fear and self-doubt that may affect their choices and experiences.
Support client autonomy and accountability
Help clients clarify what they want, identify challenges and resources, make informed decisions, and take action with greater confidence and agency.
Create ongoing coaching relationships
Integrate coaching skills into prenatal sessions and postpartum care to provide continuity of care, build lasting client relationships, and create a more sustainable practice.
Develop your structured coaching series
Design a signature prenatal and postpartum coaching series that reflects your expertise, serves your clients’ needs, and aligns with your professional goals.
Communicate across the birth team
Strengthen communication and collaboration with clients, partners, healthcare providers, and birth teams while keeping the client’s goals and autonomy at the center.
Expand your services and grow your practice
Explore new opportunities to offer prenatal and postpartum coaching, attract clients, and build a more rewarding and sustainable birth support practice.
Why Learn the Birth Coach Method
Coaching Designed Specifically for Birth Professionals
A general transformational coaching program teaches you how to coach people. Birth Coach Method teaches you how to integrate coaching into your work throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
Our frameworks, examples, and coaching conversations are designed specifically for birth professionals. Our coaching exercises address the common challenges expectant individuals and new parents face, helping them navigate this life-changing journey with greater confidence, clarity, and agency.
Student Experiences
What Graduates Say
Birth professionals from different backgrounds and locations share how coaching has changed the way they see their role, communicate with clients, and support clients in making decisions that feel right for them.
“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.”
Frequently Asked Questions
How is Birth Coach Method different from general coaching training?
Birth Coach Method specializes in applying coaching skills to the realities of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Rather than teaching general coaching techniques alone, the program provides frameworks, exercises, and practical examples designed around the common challenges expectant individuals and new parents face.
Do I need to be a certified coach or doula to enroll?
No. You do not need to be a certified coach to participate. The program also welcomes newcomers who are not yet certified doulas or childbirth educators, as long as they meet the prerequisites to enter the field.
Can I enroll at any time, or do I need to wait for the next live cohort?
You can enroll at any time and begin your online self-study right away. Live sessions are offered twice a year, giving you the opportunity to participate in guided learning and coaching practice with a cohort.
How does the certification process work?
The program includes online coursework, live Zoom sessions, coaching practice, and a pathway to certification. The full certification process begins after 12 weeks of live sessions and includes submitting your certification paper and passing a final exam. Certification requires completion of the program requirements; enrollment alone does not confer certification.
Are continuing education credits available?
The Transformational Perinatal Coaching program offers continuing education opportunities for eligible birth professionals and nurses. Birth Coach Method is an approved BRN continuing education provider, and most educational organizations, such as Lamaze, DONA, and ICEA, recognize our programs as CEUs.
Transformational Perinatal Coaching
Take the Next Step
The Transformational Perinatal Coaching program offers a pathway to become a perinatal coach, giving birth professionals the training and practice they need to integrate coaching into their work and work toward certification.
The certification process begins after 12 weeks of live sessions and includes required coursework, coaching practice, and a final assessment.
Live sessions are offered twice a year, but you can enroll at any time and begin your online self-study right away.