AASECT Supervision & Continuing Education
Build Your Skills & Advance Your Career
Online & In-Person Education, Collaboration, & Guidance
- Earn CE/CME as a Nurse or Medical Provider
- Receive AASECT Supervision & Guidance
- Expand Your Practice as a Professional Doula
- Amplify Your Work with Expert Guidance
My Core Areas of Expertise Focus on the Interpersonal Neurobiology of the Brain, Including:
Infant Mental Health
Sexuality
Attachment
Nurse-Patient Relationships
Trauma Influences
Fathers & Early Fathering
Doula Support
AASECT Supervision & Program Development
Dr. Amy Gilliland works with both individual and small group participants to achieve AASECT Sexuality Educator Certification. In addition, her ten-meeting course, “Transformational Sexuality Education,” prepares new and certified educators to create their own programs or courses, influence group dynamics, and develop wisdom as sexuality educators who change people’s lives.
Mentoring for Doula Trainers
Build your career as a professional doula, join the Doulaing The Doula trainer network, and support birthing parents in your community with science-based, trauma-informed, culturally-adaptable curriculum designed to improve the labor experience. Build your career and have even greater impact through our Faculty Mentoring Program.
Consulting & Academic Committee Participation
As a foremost expert in doula research, doula support, and sexuality, Dr. Amy Gilliland is uniquely positioned to help organizations, businesses, and healthcare groups identify challenges and solutions to improve care models, enhance research, and offer new education courses.
Build Your Skills Online
Courses & Workshops Available On Demand
Build your skills from the comfort of your office or home through trauma-informed, science-based curriculum uniquely designed for:
Medical Providers
Medical Students
Aspiring Doulas
Nurses
Professional Doulas
Earn 2 Nursing CEs!
This informative session covers the normal and altered neurological function of the attachment and defense systems in the laboring person’s brain.
Earn 5 Nursing or AASECT CEs!
This engaging series covers postpartum sexuality and intimacy, medicalization of the body, grief, body image, partner’s experiences, fathering, and over a dozen tools on how to best support parents.
This workshop is designed to increase the skill and accuracy of perinatal professionals in recognizing infant cues and temperament to 85% agreement.
This session is designed to increase participant’s confidence initiating professional prenatal relationships with clients that create value, empowerment and positive change in their own and their client’s lives.
In-Person Skill Building:
Connect with Dr. Amy Gilliland and her team firsthand during these live remote and in-person skill building courses and workshops, designed for:
Medical Providers
Medical Students
Aspiring Doulas
Nurses
Professional Doulas
Earn 4 Nursing CEs
In this fun and interactive four-to-five-hour workshop, nurses learn the most effective and helpful emotional and physical support strategies for laboring people.
Earn 4 Nursing CEs
This session focuses on understanding people’s needs and interests more deeply, enhancing communication between caregiver and client, and utilizing advocacy skills.
Speaking & Engagement Opportunities:
Enhance your work and amplify your project with tailored speaking sessions covering a wide array of topics, uniquely designed for:
Medical Organizations
Sexuality Education
Workshops
Podcasts & Interviews
Healthcare Systems
Conferences
Roundtables
Guest Appearances
Earn 1 CME or CE!
This session covers the social, emotional, behavioral, neurological, and hormonal processes that intertwine to create the attachment experience of human labor and birth, and how our current practices influence whether birth “succeeds” and how people relate to themselves and one another afterwards.
Earn 2 Nursing CEs!
Taking a biopsychosocial approach to understanding male behavior and needs during labor, Dr. Gilliland utilizes gender theory, highly regarded studies, and her own original research to increase the effectiveness of perinatal professionals.
Earn 2 Nursing CEs!
This session helps birth and postpartum doulas, as well as medical providers, support parents as they navigate through sexual adjustments during the postpartum period.
This session helps professional doulas foster healthy environments for new parents to help processes the anger, fear, sadness, and acceptance of the new self and new circumstances that corresponding with new parenthood.
In this session, Gilliland utilizes her training as a perinatal professional and women’s advocate to speak compassionately and supportively about the issue of relationship violence.
Birth professionals often find themselves giving parents information about the intact penis and circumcision while having personal feelings regarding the procedure. In this webinar, Dr. Gilliland explores the dilemma faced by professionals and solutions for tailoring information for different audiences with clashing values.
Doulaing The Doula
Founded by Dr. Amy Gilliland, Doulaing The Doula offers modern, culturally adaptable doula courses that are accessible to all people, from the casual learner to career doulas and medical professionals.
Our unique doula training programs:
- Were developed with research on what makes doulas both successful and satisfied
- Strengthen the neurological caregiving system of the brain
- Offer a certification process that is grounded in the natural development of the new doula
- Include multiple post-training support and education opportunities to build your practice
- Provide an evidence-based curriculum that satisfies the needs of today’s perinatal workforce
- Champions a workable code of ethics and standards of practice
