Mothercentered is holistic maternal mental health training informed by Internal Family Systems. Mothercentered acknowledges the impact of patriarchy on matrescent women, and teaches practitioners a new way of working with Mom Parts that is respectful, validating and empowering.
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 new concepts and language to help mothers identify and build relationships with their parts.
By equipping practitioners to hold space for the full maternal experience (all Mom Parts welcome), we move beyond labeling natural responses as "disorders." Instead, we create communities where mothers' experiences are validated and their transformation is honored.
Mothercentered
Mothercentered is a holistic maternal mental health curriculum informed by Internal Family Systems.
Mothercentered brings an IFS-informed approach to motherhood at every stage — from the perinatal experience through the long arc of identity shifts that mothering brings over a lifetime. Through the five-step Mom Parts Method, clinicians gain a structured, creative framework for working respectfully with matrescent women's parts. We focus on helping moms get out of the Good Mom/Bad Mom Loop and into unblending, self-compassion, and feeling more at home in their own inner world.
Paradigm Shift
The Mom Parts Method: a new framework for understanding and supporting women who are conceiving, birthing, and raising children.
You won't just learn about Mom Parts - you'll meet your own.
The Mom Parts Method is a structured, five-step process that guides practitioners in helping mothers unblend, gain insight, and increase self-compassion. We learn the Mom Parts Method by moving through it together. Participants come to know each step from the inside out - through direct experience first, then conversation, reflection, and clinical explanation.
Practitioners come to learn the Mom Parts Method — and leave with something precious: new self-compassion for their own Mom Parts.
Redefining PMADs
Mothercentered reframes maternal mental health by recognizing the natural emergence of distinct Mom Parts that become prominent during matrescence and persist through all stages of motherhood. When this profound transformation occurs within a patriarchal, individualistic, racist context - one that has contempt for vulnerability and insufficient care for mothers - women experience heightened anxiety, shame, self-doubt, and self-criticism. What society labels as "disorder" is often a protective response to the emotional and physiological demands of motherhood in the absence of adequate support. Without addressing the context motherhood exists within, we will continue to regift intergenerational cycles of trauma and maternal struggle.
Speaking the language of Mom Parts gives practitioners a destigmatizing, non-pathologizing way of working with what gets labeled as disorder — helping mothers find balance, self-trust, and compassion for the parts that have been working hardest to protect them.
Moms have lots of different parts.
All your parts make sense. All your parts need care.
The Benefits
Why become Mothercentered?
Join a supportive community of Internal Family Systems informed maternal mental health professionals.
Learn to identify predictable Mom Parts that emerge in motherhood, enabling you to support deep exploration and healing of intergenerational wounds.
Reframe and reclaim matrescence as transformation, not disorder - Understand motherhood as a developmental experience with unique healing potential.
Address the impact of patriarchal culture - Understand how cultures that have contempt for vulnerability propagate shame - and how shame is a primary driver in maternal suffering.
Lean on the Mom Parts Method for structure - walk away with a solid but flexible set of IFS-informed tools to support unblending and befriending
Build confidence in working with grief and shame - We provide tools and deepen confidence for working meaningfully with motherhoods' vulnerabilities.
Day 1
Morning
Arriving, introductions and connections
The Mothercentered paradigm shift
Matrescence
Afternoon
Experiential #1: Getting to Know Your Mom Parts
A Preview of Mothercentered
Online Session Schedule
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Registration Information
September 2026 Online Sessions
Day 1
Thursday, September 17, 2026
8:30am–1pm PST (4:30–9pm CET)
Day 2
Friday, September 18, 2026
8:30am–1pm PST (4:30–9pm CET)
Day 3
Thursday, September 24, 2026
8:30am–1pm PST (4:30–9pm CET)
Day 4
Friday, September 25, 2026
8:30am–1pm PST (4:30–9pm CET)
16 CE's will be provided at an additional charge of $65.
See FAQs for more information.
January 2027 Online Sessions
Australia-friendly times
Day 1:
Wednesday, January 20, 2027 2pm - 6:30pm PST
Australia: January 21, 2027 9am - 1:30pm AEDT
Day 2
Thursday, January 21, 2027 2pm - 6:30pm PST
Australia: January 22, 2027 9am - 1:30pm AEDT
Day 3
Wednesday, January 27, 2027 2pm - 6:30pm PST
Australia: January 28, 2027 9am - 1:30pm AEDT
Day 4
Thursday, January 28, 2027 2pm - 6:30pm PST
Australia: January 29, 2027 9am - 1:30pm AEDT
16 CE's will be provided at an additional charge of $65.
See FAQs for more information.