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 Internal Family Systems-informed, holistic vision for understanding maternal mental health and treating Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs) — not as a disorder in mothers — but rather as the consequence of parts and patriarchy during matrescence and the accompanying "disorder" of shame mothers get burdened with. This is not a course about diagnosing PMADs. It's a deeply experiential 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.
Paradigm Shift
Life changing, experiential curriculum that shifts the way we conceptualize, treat, and support women who are conceiving, birthing, and raising children.
In this highly experiential curriculum, you won't just learn about parts — you'll meet your own. Through guided meditations, small group work, and structured reflection, participants move through all five steps of the Mom Parts Method over three days, providing an embodied understanding of how to integrate IFS into your work with mothers.
Mothercentered empowers therapists and mothers alike to approach maternal mental health with greater insight, compassion, and confidence.
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, 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?
Join a supportive community of Internal Family Systems informed maternal mental health professionals.
Identifies predictable Mom Parts - Learn about common parts that emerge in motherhood to support deep exploration and healing of intergenerational wounds.
Reframes matrescence as transformation, not disorder - Understand motherhood as a developmental experience with unique healing potential.
Addresses impact of patriarchal culture - Understand how patriarchy propagates shame and how shame is a primary driver in maternal suffering.
Provides the Mom Parts Method as structure - walk away with a solid set of IFS-informed tools to support unblending and befriending
Builds confidence working with grief and shame - Provides tools and deepens confidence in working meaningfully with motherhoods' vulnerabilities.
Choose to attend Day One in-person OR online
Bay Area - Half Moon Bay (in-person):
April 3, 2026
9:30am - 5:30pm PST
Online
April 6, 2026
9:30am - 5:30pm PST
Los Angeles - Studio City (in-person):
April 10, 2026
9:30am - 5:30pm PST
Morning
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Arriving, introductions and connections
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The Mothercentered paradigm shift
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Experiential #1: Getting to Know Your Mom Parts
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Matrescence
Afternoon
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The Three Matrescent Phenomena
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Contending with Patriarchy
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Experiential #2: Speaking the Truth for Your Part
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The Mom Parts Method
A Preview of Mothercentered
April 2026
Hybrid Schedule
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Registration Information
Hybrid Training
April 2026 Days/Times
Day 1 Options
April 3, 2026 - Bay Area (in-person)
April 6, 2026 - online
April 10, 2026 - Los Angeles (in-person)
9:30am - 5:30pm PST
Day 2: online
April 16, 2026
9:00am - 3:00pm PST
Day 3: online
April 17, 2026
9:00am - 2:30pm PST
Includes a free copy of Jessica's new book
"When Good Moms Feel Bad" for participants located in the US
Investment: $650
(2month payment plan available)
16 CE's will be provided at an additional charge of $65.
See FAQs for more information.