Transformational Perinatal Coaching Subscription Program

Birth Coach Method is an approved continuing education provider offering online training for birth professionals. We focus on an often-overlooked but crucial aspect of childbirth support: verbal leadership strategies and coaching skills.

Our signature program, Transformational Perinatal Coaching Certificate, is designed to enrich the practice of all birth support professionals—including doulas, childbirth educators, prenatal yoga instructors, labor and delivery nurses, and others who support expectant parents with coaching strategies and exercises uniquely designed for birth support. This course equips you with coaching tools and communication strategies adapted from the broader coaching world—techniques proven to help clients perform at their best in high-stakes, transformative experiences.

As a Transformational Perinatal Coach (TPC), your primary role is to help your clients connect with their inner truth—their values, beliefs, wishes, and intuition—so they can develop a sense of autonomy and agency, and navigate the journey of pregnancy and birth with confidence and clarity. While we value evidence-based information, we believe that true empowerment comes when individuals learn to use their truth as a compass amidst a sea of data and opinions.

By integrating coaching strategies into your birth support practice, you will not only see improved outcomes—such as increased rates of desired births and higher client satisfaction—but also amplify your impact in the field. Perinatal coaching supports patient-centered care, informed consent, autonomy, accountability, and better physiological birth outcomes, including an increase in vaginal births.

This course utilizes The Art of Coaching for Childbirth as its core textbook. Each module includes videos, articles, a curated resource list, and practical homework assignments. Weekly live Zoom sessions offer an opportunity to deepen your learning through discussion and reflection.

OBJECTIVES

  • Help expectant individuals overcome fears and internal resistance related to the perinatal process, enabling them to achieve their desired experiences.

  • Shifts the mindset of pregnant individuals and new parents from fearful to confident.

  • Increase rates of physiological vaginal births and improve patient satisfaction with the birthing experience.

  • Embrace coaching relationships as a pathway to patient-centered support for childbirth and maternal care.

  • Gain tools to promote informed consent, autonomy, confidence, and satisfaction among birth clients.

  • Help expectant parents identify their limiting beliefs and success blockers, and resolve them.

  • Reduce birth workers’ hours of physical support and burnout, and increase their success rates and satisfaction when seeing their clients achieve their desired experiences.

  • Enable effective virtual care and remote perinatal support.

FOUNDATIONS (Month 1)

2 onboarding meetings + 3 online modules

  1. Childbirth Support in Review
    Integrating coaching principles and strategies into birth support.

  2. Introduction to Coaching
    Origins, philosophy, professional ethics, and foundational terminology.

  3.  Structure and Basic Strategies of Perinatal Coaching Conversations 
    Establishing rapport, pacing and leading, representational systems, and the GROW coaching model.

MASTERY (Month 2 and onward)

Weekly live sessions + 4 online modules

  1. Prenatal Coaching
    Clarifying clients’ goals and helping them close the gap between their current state and what they want with coaching strategies

  2. Coaching Through Labor and Pain
    Coaching clients to overcome the fear and internal resistance of being  with labor pain

  3. Coaching Amidst Medical Conditions and Complications
    Coaching strategies to help clients develop a sense of agency and autonomy so they can confidently advocate for themselves and their kids.

  4. Coaching for Closure
    Coaching clients post-delivery to form a cohesive and clear birth story, practice acceptance when needed, and throughout postpartum challenges and depression.

CERTIFICATION PATHWAY – (Month 6 and onward)

Weekly live sessions + 1 online module

  1. Establishing Your Coaching Practice
    Launching your work as a Transformational Birth Support Coach

Certification Pathway 

  • Complete all online lessons (self-paced).

  • Attend at least 65% of live Zoom sessions.

  • Submit a 20-Day Action Plan.

  • Pass the final exam (score of 70% or higher).

  • Have at least one year of experience in birth support (doula, educator, yoga instructor, nurse, midwife, etc.)
    OR complete a list of prerequisite courses if new to the field.

  • Sign the Birth Coach Method Code of Ethics and Scope of Practice Agreement.

  • Submit your application and a $150 certification processing fee, along with a directory listing.

Your Coaching Journey Starts Now!

If you’re ready to elevate your impact, deepen your presence, and lead expectant parents with skill and compassion, this is your next step.

Ready… Set… Coach!