Professional Seminars

How can knowledge about the impacts of preconception, prenatal and early parenting experiences enhance the care, healing and educational opportunities you provide to your patients/clients?

A wealth of recent research in science and medicine demonstrates the relationship between human prenatal development and an individual’s growth, health and behavior over their life span. This research sheds light on the important healing and educational opportunities that exist in practitioner-patient interactions during the preconception, prenatal and early postnatal period that can benefit both patients and their children.

I offer professional seminars to therapists and medical practitioners interested in learning how a woman’s psychophysiological states during the preconception, prenatal and early parenting period—including those that occur in practitioner-patient treatment interactions—impact her, and potentially, her developing child.

These seminars help practitioners understand why it is so important to recognize women’s psychophysiological states during the preconception, prenatal and early parenting period; and how these states influence her internal environment and potentially impact her developing child. Women’s psychophysiological states also shape their behavior in early interactions with their children and the formation of their emerging attachment relationships.

These seminars also include specific information on the particular challenges faced by women and practitioners who have experienced past or recent trauma resulting in the development of traumatic stress symptoms.  They bring awareness to how practitioners can recognize fight, flight and freeze reactions in their patients (and themselves), and sensitively adjust the care they provide to their patients to better meet their patients’ unique needs at this crucial time.

SEMINARS FOR MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS

Seminar I

The Hidden Impacts of Patient-Practitioner Interactions During Reproductive Health Exams and Procedures

This seminar is designed to increase practitioners’ awareness of the impacts of their physical and interpersonal interactions with women during reproductive health exams, tests and procedures. 

Seminar II

Recognizing Traumatic Stress Symptoms and Their Impact on Patients During Treatment Interactions: Sensitive Approaches to Practice

This seminar is designed to help practitioners recognize the observable behavioral symptoms of stress and traumatic stress in patients during treatment interactions.

SEMINARS FOR Therapists