Perinatal mental health, pregnancy loss and birth trauma
This CPD enhances your understanding of perinatal mental health, pregnancy loss, and birth trauma, providing the confidence to support clients facing these complex and sensitive issues.
Mental health during pregnancy and the postnatal period (known as perinatal mental health) is an emotive and complex topic, which is not limited to women. Antenatal anxiety and depression, and other complex mental health issues, can occur spontaneously or as part of previous mental health issues, and the ability to help women during pregnancy will benefit them postnatally and into the rest of their lives and their relationship with their baby.
Helping women with postnatal depression, OCD, pregnancy loss, birth trauma, and PTSD is hugely rewarding, whether it is relatively soon after the birth of their child or many years later. This CPD is delivered in conjunction with Jen’s Working with Women CPD or as a standalone CPD.
During this CPD, you will learn how birth trauma occurs and how pregnancy loss can be handled with care and respect. Providing support for partners is also essential, and during this CPD, we also look at non-birthing partners with postnatal depression and birth trauma PTSD and support them as hypnotherapists.
This CPD aims to enable you to adapt the IC by providing background information on perinatal mental health, guidance on how to support during sessions, and strategies for tailoring your marketing to women and their partners.
Course content
This CPD will cover:
- perinatal mental health
- baby brain – how the brain is affected during pregnancy and the postnatal period
- antenatal mental health
- postnatal depression
- pregnancy loss
- birth trauma and PTSD
- non-birthing partner postnatal depression
- birth trauma and PTSD for non-birthing partner
- how we can help as solution focused hypnotherapists
Presenter
Jennifer Higgins – BSc (Hons) DSFH HPD SF Sup (Hyp) DipHB MAfSFH MNCH (Reg) CNHC (Reg)
Jen worked as a midwife and a sexual health and contraceptive nurse in the NHS for 12 years. Later, she became a qualified hypnobirthing practitioner. This experience has given her extensive knowledge and a specific interest in women’s mental health. She received training as a Solution Focused Hypnotherapist at CPHT Liverpool and now works there as a Senior Lecturer and a SF Supervisor.
Jen operates a full-time clinic covering West Lancashire and Merseyside, where she helps many individuals with various issues, along with those who seek help related to their reproductive, sexual, and perinatal mental health.
Reviews
“I enjoyed the session thank you. Very informative.” LB
“Thank you for the information shared today, it was both interesting and very informative.” LR
“Jen is very knowledgeable and a great lecturer, providing lots of information which I can start to use straight away in my practice. A very thorough and interesting CPD which I recommend for anyone” LM
NB: This CPD event is for Solution Focused Hypnotherapists, graduates of CPHT.