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 training informed by Internal Family Systems.
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 support practitioners in helping mothers identify and build relationships with their parts.
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.
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, their needs are acknowledged, and their transformation is honored.
Paradigm Shift
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 maternal mental health 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 "disorder" of shame new mothers get burdened with. This is not a course about diagnosing PMADs - it's a course about understanding and working respectfully with matrescent women’s parts, without making mothers into identified patients on behalf of a patriarchal society that exiles their needs and dismisses their experience.
Redefining PMADs
Mothercentered reframes maternal mental health by recognizing the natural emergence of distinct "Mom Parts" that become prominent during matrescence and persist through motherhood. This transformation is biologically designed to redirect resources away from mom and toward her baby, exposing mothers to an internal imbalance. When this massive shift occurs within a patriarchal, individualistic or racist context, mothers experience heightened anxiety, shame, self-doubt and self-criticism. What society labels as "disorders" are often protective responses to navigating the physiological and emotional demands of motherhood in the absence of adequate care and support. Without addressing the context motherhood exists within, we will continue to regift intergenerational cycles of trauma and maternal struggle.
Understanding the internal maternal system is composed of parts that polarize between the interests of moms and the interests of their babies and children helps us deconstruct painful internal dynamics. Speaking the language of Mom Parts gives practitioners a destigmatizing way of working with “disorder” that helps mothers find balance and self-trust. Mothercentered empowers therapists and mothers to approach their mental health with greater insight, compassion and confidence.
Moms have lots of different parts.
All your parts make sense. All your parts need care.
The Benefits
Why be Mothercentered?
Internal Family Systems informed maternal mental health training.
Views matrescence as a wild developmental phase with unique healing potential (not a disorder).
Provides tools and deepens confidence in working meaningfully with grief and shame.
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.
Day 1:
September 3, 2025
4pm-6pm PST
4pm: Introductions & Overview
5pm: Internal Family Systems introduction/review
A Preview of the Training
September 2025
2- Week Training Schedule
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Registration Information
Virtual Training
2025 Days/Times
Sept.03, 4:00pm - 6:00pm PST
Sept.05, 9:30am - 2:00pm PST
Sept.10, 4:00pm - 6:00pm PST
Sept.12, 9:30am - 2:00pm PST
Investment: $550
(2month payment plan available)
12 CE's will be provided at an additional charge of $45.
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