What it's all About
Life changing, experiential training that shifts the way we conceptualize, treat, and support women who are conceiving, birthing, and raising children.
Mothercentered brings an Internal Family Systems-informed, holistic vision for understanding and treating Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADS) - not as disorder in mothers - but rather as the consequence of parts and patriarchy during matrescence and the accompanying disease of shame new mothers get saddled with. This is not a course about diagnosing PMADs - it's a course about working effectively with matrescent women (using IFS) without making mothers into identified patients on behalf of a patriarchal society that exiles their needs and dismisses their value.
What is Mothercentered
training?
In a baby-centric world, mothers' profound needs often go unrecognized - both by society and within their own transforming bodies and psyches. Mothercentered challenges this paradigm by creating space for mothers to reconnect with their voices and needs.
By equipping practitioners to hold space for the full maternal experience, we move beyond labeling natural responses as "disorders." Instead, we create communities where mothers' experiences are validated and their transformation honored.
Redefining PMADs
Mothercentered reframes maternal mental health by recognizing the natural emergence of distinct "Mom Parts" during matrescence. This transformation, while biologically designed to redirect resources toward the baby, often creates an internal imbalance. When this profound shift occurs within a patriarchal context, mothers frequently experience heightened anxiety, shame, and self-criticism.
What society labels as "disorders" are often protective responses to navigating motherhood without adequate support and validation. Without addressing these deeper patterns, we risk perpetuating intergenerational cycles of trauma and maternal struggle.
This is a formative time for you, not just your child. You are allowed to be someone who is learning and developing.
There is no other way it can be.
The Benefits
Why be Mothercentered?
The only Internal Family Systems informed perinatal mental health training.
Views matrescence as a wild developmental phase with unique healing potential (not a disorder).
Identifies predictable Mom Parts to support deep exploration and healing of intergenerational wounds.
Names psychological patriarchy as a propagator of shame, and shame as a primary culprit in PMADs.
A Sneak Peek
Day One
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Redefining PMADs: the external context in which motherhood exists
9:00 am: Redefining PMADS
10:15 am: Integrating Internal Family Systems​
10:50 am: Bio break
11:00 am: Experiential #1: Inner Critic Meditation
12:00 pm: Respecting Matrescence as a Developmental Phase
1:45 pm: Three Matrescent Phenomena​
2:45 pm: Contending with Patriarchy
3:45 pm: Bio break
3:50 pm: Experiential #2: Shame Circuitry
4:30 pm: Conclusion of day 1
A Preview of the Two Days
Dates for 2025 coming soon!
Your Investment
Registration Information
Virtual Cohort
Investment: $550 (6-month payment plans available)
Day-Two Cohort Only
Investment: Starting from $275