02/16/2026
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 Spring 2026 accelerated workshops meet daily on Zoom from 9am-6:30pm Pacific Time. Choose Mar 18-23, or Apr 23-28. Need to break up your training between the two workshops? We've got you covered. How about March 18-21 and April 27-28? Approved for DONA certification and up to 51 California Board of Registered Nursing (CA BRN) continuing education contact hours.