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.
Self-ish
A 6-Session Experiential for Mothercentered Practitioners
A place for your Self to flourish
Are you ready to expand your embodied knowledge of Mom Parts*?
Maybe you have some grief that hasn’t had a safe place to land? Or shame you’ve been quietly pushing back for years? What about those parts of you that have been working 24/7 to take care of everyone else and have never quite had the time or space to be cared for themselves?
What about your Wanting? Your Sadness? The Anxious parts that have never received the kind of unhurried, witnessed attention they truly need? Yes. Those ones.
*Caretaker Parts if you’re not a mom.
Become more yourself. In community.
Your parts that want you to be a better therapist may be the ones who led you here. (Hi to those parts. And sorry.)
This group is not about improving you.
It’s more of a cozy circle of friends, nestling together in a majestic forest (or mountain or seaside - if forests aren’t your thing), making time and space to explore and connect more deeply with parts that have been waiting for your attention.
Let’s focus on you and what you need. Let’s direct the wealth of resources you have inside toward your own tired but inspired spirit. Let’s do for ourselves what we’re always doing for our clients and our kids: Listening, caring, holding, remembering, loving.
Self-ish is the new healthy
You know as well as I do that tending your parts helps reveal your resources and Remedies. Spending time basking in your own Curiosity, Compassion, Clarity, and Courage is what fills your tank and makes it possible to show up with presence in your role as practitioner and mom. And yet somehow, you, like the moms you serve, are so often last on your list.
Taking exquisite care of yourself is not indulgent — it’s the starting point for everything else.
Getting Self-ish is what we keep telling moms to do.
We are in this together
Self-ish is an experiential educational space designed to expand your knowledge of the Mom Parts Method, from the inside out. Each session we go deep into one of the 29 Mom Parts, or one Truth, or one Remedy. Not just as clinicians studying a framework, but as people living inside one.
Over the past year or two I’ve been exploring and learning about the psychedelic space, both as a therapist and as a client. What I’ve discovered is that the container we bring to psychedelic work is extraordinarily powerful — even when we’re not using medicine. The prep, journey, and integration arc creates conditions for accessing incredible inner resources and opening space for the parts of us we habitually push aside.
I’ve also noticed that Mothercentered spaces cultivate a different kind of connection, authenticity, and healing than most other practitioner communities. Self-ish draws on all of this — bringing together new ideas about set and setting, parts work, and connection in community. Each session we drop in together. Eyes closed. Music playing. Guided inward. We prepare. We journey. We come back together to integrate.
What You'll Receive
Each session includes:
Deep exploration and discovery around a Mom Part, a Truth, or a Remedy
An experiential arc: preparation, inner journey, and integration — including didactic learning, meditation and time journeying inside, accompanied by music and soundscape to support you
Peer consultation and sharing — we learn from each other’s internal discoveries and expand our capacities to be with clients’ parts and states
Warmth, realness, and a community of informed peers who speak your language
Self-ish is an experiential educational experience. It is not psychotherapy and no therapeutic relationship is established. Participation does not substitute for individual therapy or clinical supervision.
We are in this Together
Is Self-ish Right For You?
Everyone in this cohort has trained in the Mothercentered methodology. We speak the language of matrescence, patriarchy, and parts. We know what it means to hold space for the full spectrum of the maternal experience — and we’ve done enough of our own work to know how to bring curiosity to parts, including the wild, tender, and inconvenient ones. This is not a room full of strangers in professional mode. It’s a room full of people who share a vision, a language, and a genuine commitment to this paradigm shift.
The Finer Details
Self-ish is open to practitioners who have completed Mothercentered Foundational Training and who are currently enrolled in a Continuum or have already completed one.
Format: 6 sessions, meeting every two weeks, 90 minutes each.
Group size: Small and closed · maximum 10 participants
Investment: $600 USD total, paid in full to reserve your spot
Commitment: Full 6-session arc · no drop-ins once the group begins
