On-Demand Courses & Workshops
Science-Based, Trauma-Informed Online Education
Enhance your career and build your skills with online education modules uniquely designed for:
Medical Providers
Nurses
Medical Students
Professional Doulas
Why Take an Online Class with Dr. Amy Gilliland?
- Build Your Knowledge on Infant Mental Health, Sexuality, & Labor Support
- Elevate & Strengthen Patient/Client Relationships
- Reduce Racial Inequities & Bias
- Improve Mental & Physical Health Outcomes for Patients & Clients
- Amplify Your Trauma-Informed Care Practices
- Enhance Your Doula Practice
- Limit Burnout
- Build Stronger Relationships with Patients & Laboring People
Available
Courses
& Workshops
Recognizing the Previously Traumatized Patient In Labor
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; research on how pre-existing PTSD alters social behaviors and labor coping; and actions and interventions that can be taken by medical care providers and labor support team members to prevent further trauma of the vulnerable laboring person and positive labor progress.
DTD Postpartum Course
Earn 5 Nursing or AASECT CEs
This course was several years in the making with several hundred references. Designed to assist any perinatal professional to expertly support parents throughout the first year. Includes 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. 5 Nursing or AASECT CE’s
Newborn Communication Skills
Earn 5 Nursing CEs
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. Based on research with birth doulas, the information has been found to be relevant to any professional working with pregnant families. We will cover topics for prenatal visits, relationships with partners, and an exercise in reflection and cultivating wisdom. Different kinds of prenatal relationships will be covered, from the one hour visit in a volunteer program to a multi-year relationship in a community program.
Powerful Prenatal Relationships
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. Based on research with birth doulas, the information has been found to be relevant to any professional working with pregnant families. We will cover topics for prenatal visits, relationships with partners, and an exercise in reflection and cultivating wisdom. Different kinds of prenatal relationships will be covered, from the one hour visit in a volunteer program to a multi-year relationship in a community program.
Doulaing The Doula Training & Certification
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. Based on research with birth doulas, the information has been found to be relevant to any professional working with pregnant families. We will cover topics for prenatal visits, relationships with partners, and an exercise in reflection and cultivating wisdom. Different kinds of prenatal relationships will be covered, from the one hour visit in a volunteer program to a multi-year relationship in a community program.
