01/17/2026
As a birth and postpartum doula care specialist, you will have the knowledge and skills to help your clients thrive:
❤️ A holistic approach to physical and emotional support in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum
🧡 Awareness of how to improve birth outcomes & postpartum recovery
💛 Strategies for communication with care providers & your clients to build a stronger team together
💚 Support your client's delivery, postpartum, & lactation goals
💙 Provide compassionate, empathetic, & trauma-aware care
💜 Practical guidance for advocacy & client empowerment
🖐 Comfort measures and relaxation strategies
💫 Understand how to use positions & movement to create more space for baby & have more vaginal deliveries
💗 Support VBAC, elective and unexpected cesarean, NICU, & loss
💕 Support bonding & attachment
🤎 Understand disparities, social determinants of health, & barriers to care for your clients
📝 The business of being a doula, including how to enroll with insurances and employer benefit programs, & how to get certified with DONA International
After the course, follow-up with monthly student group chats (free to all students) and mentoring or take an advanced skills course. Teri Nava-Anderson has been training and mentoring doulas for almost two decades. Find out why students consistently rank this course as 5-stars and feel confident beginning or advancing their doula careers. This workshop strives to be welcoming, inclusive, and open to all experience levels.
The Winter/Spring 2026 accelerated workshops meet daily on Zoom from 9am-6:30pm Pacific Time. Choose Feb 4-9, Mar 18-23, or Apr 23-28. California Board of Registered Nursing (CA BRN) continuing education contact hours are also available.