Learn evidence-based approaches to support clients through pregnancy and childbirth when previous trauma experiences are present. In this training Michelle with cover creating personalized, trauma-informed birth plans that empower clients and increase feelings of safety and agency, developing skills in recognizing trauma activation patterns specific to the perinatal context and implementing effective real-time interventions, and practical "Trauma CPR" techniques to ground clients experiencing flashbacks, dissociation, or acute trauma responses during pregnancy, birth, or postpartum care. You'll gain insight into how previous reproductive trauma affects current pregnancy experiences and birth expectations, while also building your own resilience as a practitioner witnessing and supporting clients through potentially triggering experiences. Ideal for midwives, doulas, obstetricians, nurses, mental health professionals, social workers, and all practitioners supporting individuals through pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.

Michelle Flynn is an IACP accredited Psychotherapist and founder of An Croí Beag Psychotherapy. Michelle holds a Masters in Counselling and Psychotherapy as well as a Higher Diploma in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and a level 9 Certificate in Perinatal Mental Health. Michelle has additional training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy(CBT), Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy, and Parent-Infant mental health through the Anna Freud Centre in London and is currently training in Somatic Psychotherapy. She has a particular interest working with perinatal mental health, postnatal depression, traumatic births, perinatal loss, and anxiety. Michelle has extensive experience working with parents on all aspects of parenthood and relationships.