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SUMMARY:6 Month Perinatal Mental Health Consultation Group
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nOpen to mental health therapists in Washington state. You’re still able to register for months April-August even though the group has already started. \nJoin this engaging 6-month professional consultation group dedicated to deepening your understanding and expertise in perinatal mental health. This closed group is designed for mental health professionals seeking to enhance their clinical skills and create a supportive\, collaborative learning environment. Open to licensed mental health counselors\, therapists specializing in perinatal care\, and clinical professionals working with new and expecting parents. \nTrainer:  Michelle Anderson\, LMHC\, PMH-C \nDates and times:  2nd Tuesday of the month beginning March 11th @9am-10am PST\nMarch 11th\, April 8th\, May 13th\, June 10th\, July 8th\, August 12th\, 2025 \nLocation: Zoom \nCost: $375 (Cost for attending April-August) \nTopics Include: \n\nAdjustment to Parenthood\nPerinatal Depression & Anxiety\nObsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)\nBipolar & Perinatal Psychosis\nPregnancy and Perinatal Loss\nTraumatic Birth Experiences and NICU stay\nImpacts of Sexual Abuse in the Perinatal Period\nFertility Journey Challenges  – Perinatal Impacts\nMobile Mama Strategies for the Perinatal Period\n\nConsultation Group structure will include:\n\n\nOne hour per month for 6 months\nFirst ten minutes of each group focused on PMH topic overview\nFifty minutes for perinatal case consultations\nOpportunity for supportive reflection and learning\n\n\nLearning Objectives: \n\nProvide a safe\, confidential space for professional consultation\nFoster collaborative learning and peer support\nDevelop advanced clinical skills in perinatal mental health\nExplore complex clinical scenarios and interventions\nCreate a supportive network of specialized providers\n\nRegister HERE \nThis training does not provide Continuing Education Units (CEUs). This is a live training and a recording will not be sent out.  \nQuestions regarding the training\, please email: training@perinatalsupport.org \nAbout the trainer: \nMichelle Anderson: Michelle Anderson is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and is Perinatal Mental Health Certified. She is the owner of Mobile Mama Therapy\, Whatcom County’s Perinatal Mental Health Specialists\, located in Bellingham\, WA. Michelle provides counseling to women through their winding journey of motherhood as well as supervision\, consultation and training related to perinatal mental health throughout the Pacific Northwest.
URL:https://perinatalsupport.org/event/6-month-consult-jan2025/
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SUMMARY:Creating a Nest of Care: Perinatal Loss Training for Birthworkers - Monthly Loss Consult
DESCRIPTION:This training is open to birth workers in King County\, WA. \nThis birth worker training centers on the loss of life when intertwined with the womb and birthing.  Join 40 local birth workers in a year-long commitment to growing the web of care necessary to support someone through this loss.  \nCreating a Nest Cohort is a 9-month project provided for free in partnership with Sacred Passing\, Imani’s Light\, and Perinatal Support WA for birthworkers serving families in King County. \nMonthly ongoing learning session on the third Wednesday of the month from 10:00am -1:30 pm. Doors open at 10:00am with brunch provided. Content will begin promptly at 10:30am. \nDates and times: \nWednesday\, 4/16; 10-1:30pm  \nWednesday\, 5/21; 10-1:30pm \nWednesday\, 6/18; 10-1:30pm \nWednesday\, 7/16; 10-1:30pm \nWednesday\, 8/20; 10-1:30pm \nWednesday\, 9/17; 10-1:30pm \nWednesday\, 10/15; 10-1:30pm  \nWednesday\, 11/19; 10-1:30pm \nLocation: In-Person; due to the nature of the content and curriculum\, the sessions necessitate in-person attendance. The experiential learning and community building fostered in this space are not replicable in a virtual format (for months 1\, 6\, and 7 hybrid options will be a permissible accommodation for health reasons only\, not convenience)  \nBurien Community Center\n14700 6th Ave SW\, Burien\, WA 98166 \nPlease see the list below and register for as many sessions as you will attend. Space is limited and meals will be provided\, so please register accurately for your availability. \nConsultation Group structure: \nMonth 1: 4/16 Ambiguous/Disenfranchised Grief Support: \n\n Strategies for supporting families through the intersections of ambiguous/disenfranchised grief support (families with experience with incarceration/ICE\, child removal\, loss due to overdose\, unhoused)  Hybrid accommodation available.\n\nMonth 2: 5/21 Getting the News and Medical Advocacy  \n\nHow to deliver and receive life-changing news with sensitivity and support.  \nEmpowering families to understand and navigate medical information and decisions early in diagnosis or complications.\n\nContinuing support and advocacy for families post-loss\, including follow-up care and memorial planning\nGrief Therapy options\n\n\n\nMonth 3: 6/18 Perinatal and Infant Disposition Choices /Shrouding and Care After Death Empowering families to honor their children with a disposition choice that honors a family’s beliefs/wishes. \n\nTechniques for shrouding and caring for the deceased with dignity\, including cultural practices and hands-on training.\n\nMonth 4: 7/16 Self Care \n\nArt and community building at Asphodel House\n\nMonth 5: 8/13 Field Trip to Return Home Funeral Home: Bonus Session \n\nBest practices for bereavement photography\, training on creating meaningful memories through photographs\, handprints\, locks of hair\, and other keepsakes.\nPrivate tour for our cohort of the Return Home Funeral Home about green disposition options\, address & details in email to participants\n\nMonth 6: 9/17 Legal and Ethical Considerations in Perinatal Loss – First Legal Clinic  \n\nGuidance on navigating the legal and ethical aspects of working with perinatal loss\, including patient rights\, confidentiality\, and advocacy.  Hybrid accommodation available\n\nMonth 7: 10/15 Birth after Loss & Stories of Loss: Cultural Care Practices Hybrid accommodation available \n\nParents panel \n\nMonth 8: 11/19 Building a Community Network & Shifting Perinatal Deathcare  \n\nClosing of the series with reflection and pulling together strategies for building and sustaining a supportive network for ongoing community and professional support.\nWill take place at Asphodel House\, address will be in an email to participants\n\nPlease note this training is restricted to birth workers serving families in King County. \nPlease note this training is restricted to King County birth workers. \nIf you registered for the initial 3 day training\, ‘Creating a Nest” please REGISTER HERE. \nIf you did not attend the initial 3 day training\, “Creating a Nest” please REGISTER HERE. \nFacilitators:  \nLashanna is an intentional tender and has been such for going on just over 30 years.  A tender of people and spaces\, a recovering corporate employee\, and an avid learner.  A mistake maker\, community lover\, consensual hugger\, garden witch\, and mother; a midwest grown\, University of Michigan graduate\, artist\, facilitator\, and holder of heavy things. Creating space for belonging is at the core of their work\, from teaching medical professionals to working with youth and play\, from shrouding a community member to hand-grinding herbs for tea. Lashanna regularly lives and works in the intersections of death\, art\, education and love. Her end-of-life work is rooted in a community deathcare model.  Lashanna holds a solid\, grounded space for her clients\, regularly bringing great comfort to a time that can feel out of control.  Her knowledge\, skill\, and experience allow her to assist people and their families in their time of death.  Lashanna not only works with people imminently facing death or who have been given a terminal diagnosis; she also works with those living their life fully and wants a doula relationship in place for when death does come closer or an accident occurs. As the Executive Director of A Sacred Passing\, Lashanna joins in community collaboration\, creating engaging and productive death-and-dying educational materials and opportunities for the community and professionals to learn.  While instructing massage students or doulas\, she works to impress the importance of keeping one’s agenda and judgment out of the process while centering on listening\, trust\, and autonomy. “If energy is neither created or destroyed\, I am quite sure we’ve met sometime before” – thegoodwitchofcascadia \nMarquita is a Perinatal Grief & Trauma Therapist\, Death Doula\, and founder of Imani’s Light Grief & Wellness Center. Marquita has over 15 years of serving BIPOC families. She aims to inspire and empower people to show up authentically\, while fiercely advocating for those navigating spaces that are not traditionally occupied by people of color. She has also served registered and non-registered families through the different stages of the Organ Donation process.  In her spare time\, Marquita is also a digital storyteller\, birth & documentary photographer\, and content creator. Learn more at ImanisLightWellness.org or by following her on social media @ImanisLight.
URL:https://perinatalsupport.org/event/birth-workers-march2025/
CATEGORIES:ContinuingEducation,Provider Training
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SUMMARY:Best Practices in Prevention\, Identification & Treatment of Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders
DESCRIPTION:This training is open to Washington state professionals.  \nLearn how to effectively identify and screen parents experiencing perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. This training takes place over 4 days and is appropriate for a range of providers\, including OBs\, pediatricians\, midwives\, RNs\, social workers\, mental health therapists\, doulas\, public health employees\, home visitors\, IBCLCs\, and more. \nLocation: Zoom \nCost: FREE \nTrainers: Natashia Collins\, PhD\, LPC\, ACS\, NCC\, PMH-C and Erin Berzins\, PhD\, LPCC\, LMHC\, PMH-C \nDates & Time:\nMondays & Tuesdays\, June 9-10 & 16-17\, 2025\n9am-12:30pm PST \nPlease Note:\n \n\nThis training is similar to our Perinatal Mental Health for Home Visitors Training and our Promoting Parental Resilience Training. If you have attended either of these\, please don’t register for this training as they cover similar content.\nTo participate in this training you must attend live\, the training will not be recorded.\n\nThis free training is offered by Perinatal Support WA through a grant from Strengthening Families Washington at the Department of Children\, Youth\, and Families (DCYF). \nObjectives of this training: \n\nUnderstand the “real” transition to parenthood.\nKnow the spectrum of perinatal mental health disorders.\nKnow the risk factors for PMADs.\nKnow key prevention strategies.\nUnderstand high risk populations and health disparities.\nBecome knowledgeable about the impacts of perinatal mental health on families and communities.\nKnow the components of a treatment plan.\nBe able to effectively talk about\, and screen new/expectant parents for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.\nUnderstand the impact of birth experiences on postpartum emotional health.\nBecome knowledgeable about risk and symptoms for partners and fathers.\nBecome knowledgeable about psychiatric medications during pregnancy and breastfeeding.\nBecome knowledgeable about supporting families in the NICU\nBecome knowledgeable about feeding issues and perinatal mental health.\nUnderstand the impact on infant and children.\nUnderstand impacts on partners and relationships.\n\nREGISTER NOW\nContinuing Education Credit: \n\n12.5 CEUs approved for MSWs\, MAs\, MFTs.\nThis Program has been approved for 12.5 CEUs for Licensed Social Workers\, Mental Health Counselors and Marriage and Family Therapists by the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work.\n12.5 Contact hours approved for RNs: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing\, Provider Number 17084 for 12.5 contact hours.\nAt this time\, this training is not certified by Postpartum Support International (PSI) to meet the requirements of PMH-C. We are in process of updating our certification with PSI for this training so that the training can go towards PMH-C in the future.\n\nQuestions regarding the training\, please email: training@perinatalsupport.org \nThis is a live virtual training and a recording will not be sent out after the training\, please only register if you are able to attend the training in its entirety. \n 
URL:https://perinatalsupport.org/event/best-practices-june2025-2/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Reducing Harm & Centering Healing: Justice-Oriented\, Culturally Responsive Perinatal Support
DESCRIPTION:Priority registration for WA state professionals who serve families in Klickitat county and Columbia River Gorge area. A limited number of spots are available for WA state professionals serving other counties. \nThis training will provide an in-depth exploration of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) with a focus on the unique experiences of BIPOC parents. Participants will learn about the prevalence and diverse presentations of PMADs\, develop practical skills to support affected families\, and critically examine how structural racism and implicit bias impact perinatal care. The session will equip professionals to integrate culturally responsive practices and advocacy strategies that promote equity and healing in perinatal mental health through an understanding of anti-oppressive and anti-racist frameworks.\nDate: Wednesday\, June 11\, 2025 \nTime: 9am-1pm PST \nLocation: Zoom \nCost: FREE \nTrainer: Jasmine L. Garland McKinney\, PhD\, LCMHCA (NC)\, NCC \nRegistration Deadline: June 10th at 12pm. \nRegister Now\n\nLearning objectives:\n\n\nUnderstand the prevalence and presentation of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) in BIPOC clients.\nDescribe the spectrum of perinatal mental health experiences.\nDevelop skills to support families experiencing PMAD symptoms.\nInterrogate structural racism and implicit bias in perinatal care using critical theoretical frameworks.\nIntegrate anti-oppressive\, anti-racist approaches into perinatal mental health and advocacy work\n\n\n\nContinuing Education: \n\n3.5 CEUs pending for LICSW\, LMHC\, LMFT\n3.5 Contact Hours approved for RNs: Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing\, Provider Number 17084 for 3.5 contact hours.\n\nThis free training is offered by Perinatal Support WA through a grant from Strengthening Families Washington at the Department of Children\, Youth\, and Families (DCYF). \nThis is a live training and a recording will not be sent out. Questions regarding the training\, please email: training@perinatalsupport.org
URL:https://perinatalsupport.org/event/klickitat-gorge2025/
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