PERINATAL PROFESSIONALS
Flourish with your clients
Rhona offers dynamic workshops, talks, and keynotes to perinatal professionals, and the national as well as local organizations to which you belong, such as DONA, CAPPA, NACEF, CDA, DASC, AOD. Inspired by a conversation she had with a seasoned doula more than a dozen years ago, in which Giuditta described challenges faced by birth professionals that are outside the scope of their training–for example, trying to support clients who are distraught about heightened relationship conflict in the postpartum period–Rhona developed helpful resources and tools for birth professionals. Since then, she has supported doulas, midwives, childbirth educators, lactation consultants, sleep consultants, parenting educators, perinatal mental health providers, and labor and delivery nurses looking for ways to enhance their own skillsets and self-care, and to assist the expecting parents and new parents with whom they work.
You are on the frontlines of perinatal challenges, often serving as expecting parents’ and new parents’ first line of support for parenthood in general, and for the impact of parenting on relationships. You sometimes witness and often hear about relationship struggles–such as contrasting parenting philosophies and styles, an increase in counterproductive communication habits and negative conflict, differing levels of sexual desire–and you experience understandable concern for the impact of these struggles on babies and their parents, too. Click here for an introduction to Rhona’s guidance for perinatal professionals, and to learn why so many refer their clients to her for relationship and parenting support. Check out Rhona and her colleague, Tina Stanley’s new book, Fight Right for Your Baby: The How-To Guide for Expecting and New Parents to Shift from Conflict to Connection (2023). In her workshops and keynote addresses for perinatal professionals, Rhona provides education and support in three primary areas so you can better tend to your clients:
Research and tools to help you better understand, assess, and assist with the increased conflict and relationship challenges faced by new parents, whether they’re welcoming their first child or subsequent kids.
Assistance in better managing and reducing your own high levels of stress, while also providing your clients with easy-to-use and effective skills to more capably navigate their sense of overwhelm.
Enhancements to your perinatal professional toolkit with access to Life Coaching skills designed to help you strengthen your expertise around communication, create and maintain appropriate professional boundaries, and refine your business growth.
Rhona tailors Prep for Parenting–a 7-week coaching program for expecting and new parents–to your clients’ vision of teamwork. They will learn:
- Tips to support their baby’s healthy development.
- Research on how their relationship impacts their baby’s wellbeing (and vice-versa).
- To craft their ideal parenting style(s) and effective coparenting strategies.
- Tools to avoid common postpartum fights.
- Repair strategies to ease conflict.
- Ways to foster (and rekindle) intimacy and connection.
Rhona is certified by the Coaches Training Institute and a graduate of the Center for Right Relationship’s program in Organization & Relationship Systems Coaching. With her colleague, Tina Stanley, LCSW, Rhona co-authored Fight Right for Your Baby: The How-Guide for Expecting and New Parents to Shift from Conflict to Connection (2023). Rhona is a Gottman Educator for Bringing Baby Home and a Gottman Workshop Leader for The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. She also completed Level 1 of the Couples Institute’s Developmental Model training. Rhona attended BeAbove Leadership’s Seven Levels of Human Relationship and Sue Johnson’s Hold Me Tight workshops. She also completed the ND Compass Training for Professionals, a program for couples therapists and relationship coaches who work with neurodiverse couples in which one or both partners are neurodistinct (a.k.a., neurodivergent). Rhona has been delivering continuing education workshops to perinatal professionals for a dozen years, with a focus on stress management, reducing parental conflict and enhancing relationship fulfillment. She is a credentialed Professional Certified Coach through the International Coaching Federation. She shares her unique journey to parenting in this spoken word birth story.
* Rhona provides online coaching as a virtual Relationship Coach and Parent Coach that delivers help to expecting parents and new parents with compassion and understanding. In addition to offering workshops and coaching to perinatal professionals, she has also been blessed by referrals from perinatal professionals for their clients needing relationship support, whether in anticipation of or after the birth of a baby. If you are a midwife, doula, lactation consultant, sleep consultant, childbirth educator or other perinatal professional seeking support or guidance for yourself, expecting parents or new parents, please contact Rhona to discuss ways in which she can best assist you or your clients.
There are no scheduled upcoming workshops, however, Rhona delivers keynotes and workshops to national and local organizations for birth professionals upon request. Her primary workshop topics are:
(1) Couples to Parents: Helping you help clients navigate relationship shifts in the transition to parenthood.
(2) Stress management tools for perinatal professionals and your clients.
(3) Life coaching skills for perinatal professionals.
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Tailor Prep for Parenting–a 7-week coaching program–to your vision of teamwork. You will learn:
- Tips to support your baby’s healthy development.
- Research on how your relationship impacts your baby’s wellbeing (and vice-versa).
- Craft your ideal parenting style(s) and effective coparenting strategies.
- Tools to avoid common postpartum fights.
- Repair strategies to ease conflict.
- Ways to foster (and rekindle) intimacy and connection.
