Learning for Practitioners
A Paradigm Shift in Maternal Mental Health
Get Mothercentered
Mothercentered
Foundational Training
Discover a revolutionary framework for maternal mental health that honors the whole mother. Mothercentered uniquely integrates Internal Family Systems (IFS) into a reframe of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders not as maternal deficits, but as natural responses to the profound journey of matrescence in a society that pathologizes and dismisses mothers' experiences. (PMADS = Patriarchy during Matrescence and the resulting Disease of Shame)
Nonpathologizing, holistic, anti-patriarchal = yes
12 hour training occurs every September
Continued Learning for Certified Therapists
Mothercentered Continuum
Consultation Group
The Mothercentered Continuum is a vibrant community of dedicated practitioners committed to transforming maternal mental healthcare. Exclusively for graduates of the Mothercentered foundational training, our Continuum provides a space for ongoing exploration of IFS, Mom Parts, case consultations and collaborative community, supporting personal and professional growth. Through monthly Zoom meetings and invitation-only learning events, members refine their skills, share insights, and collectively advance our revolutionary approach to supporting mothers' emotional wellbeing.
Become Mothercentered Certified
Mothercentered Certification
Are you ready to access your own clarity, calm and confidence in working with your mom-clients?
The Mothercentered certification process provides a way of establishing consistency in knowledge and skills across practitioners in implementing the Mom Parts Method. Certification implies the satisfaction of educational and practicum standards, to anchor and inspire your contributions in maternal mental health. Practitioners have power to support intergenerational healing by helping moms unblend and unburden in a curious, compassionate and nonpathologizing way.
Certified Mothercentered practitioners are invited to host events within the Mom Parts Community and are featured in the Mothercentered Practitioner Directory.
Advanced Training For Practitioners
The Good Mom/Bad Mom Loop
The Good Mom/Bad Mom Loop describes a parts-driven cycle established early in motherhood, when moms’ inner systems naturally divide into polarized teams of protector parts that unwittingly perpetuate ongoing mental health challenges.
Advanced Training For Practitioners
Intimacy with Grief & Shame
The Inescapable Vulnerabilities of Motherhood
Shame and grief are at the heart of maternal suffering. In this workshop, participants will explore their own relationship with grief and shame using an IFS/Mom Parts framework, helping cultivate more capacity to companion our clients into tender, wounded territory.
Advanced Training For Practitioners
Working Skillfully with the
Mom Parts Method
Explore the 5-step framework that moves mothers from shame to self-compassion through Mothercentered principles that normalize maternal struggles. This advanced training demonstrates the method's structure, builds fluency in specialized parts language, and shows exactly how Mothercentered principles create transformation by befriending rather than diagnosing mom parts.
Why Become Mothercentered?
Moms are the greatest influencers of humanity.
20% of new moms get diagnosed with a Perinatal Mood or Anxiety Disorder.
Suicide is a leading cause of maternal mortality, which has more than doubled in the last few decades.
Moms are in distress.
Medicine can help. But moms need more than medicine. They need practitioners who get it - who don't just pathologize and prescribe.
Speaking the language of Mom Parts and having a deep appreciation for the developmental phase of matrescence brings hope to moms, and expands the maternal mental health paradigm toward one of true healing, not just symptom reduction.
Current Offerings
2025 Mothercentered training dates
12 hour training will take place September 3: 4-6pm PST
September 5: 9:30-2:30pm PST
September10: 4-6pm PST
September12: 9:30-2:30pm PST
Mothercentered Continuums form in the Fall and meet once a month for 6 months.