Life changing, experiential training that shifts the way we conceptualize, treat, and support women who are conceiving, birthing, and raising children.
The Mothercentric™ Approach brings an Internal Family Systems-informed, holistic vision for understanding and treating Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADS) - not as disorder in mothers - but rather as the consequence of parts and patriarchy during matrescence and the accompanying disease of shame new mothers get saddled with. This is not a course about diagnosing PMADs - it's a course about working effectively with matrescent women (using IFS) without making mothers into identified patients on behalf of a patriarchal society that exiles their needs and dismisses their value.
Suicide is the leading cause of death in postpartum women. 20% of new mothers in America (17 million women) are “sick” with a Perinatal Mood or Anxiety Disorder.
WTF?
What is the Mothercentric™ Approach?
Baby-centrism is the norm in a culture that doesn't validate or prioritize the profound needs of the people who are the greatest influencers of the human species - MOTHERS. And compounding that neglect - a new mom’s own inner system is also baby-centric, as her physical body and psychological parts reconfigure and redirect her attention and resources away from herself and to her baby.
The solution?
Moms need support for listening to the quiet distant voice of self-interest again. They need time, space and permission to tune into and tend to their own experience. They need to be part of a community that normalizes their parts, their truths and their needs. The Mothercentric Approach is a rich and broad curriculum, created to educate and support practitioners in being able to hold unique supportive space for perinatal clients, inclusive of all their parts.
Until that happens, moms will continue to show up as “disordered.”
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Redefining PMADs
The Mothercentric™ Approach provides a new way of looking at PMADs and matrescence, focusing on an expectable set of Mom Parts that emerge in matrescence. The intensity and prominence of these parts create an imbalance or destabilization in internal leadership, designed to funnel and redirect resources to the new baby. When the context in which this massive shift takes place is imbued with patriarchy, mothers more often than not begin to be run by outer and inner critics, intense anxiety and shame. Moms exist in protection mode, a survival oriented state that feels like failure and looks like “disorder.” Society lives with the painful results - the regifting of trauma and the handing down of legacy burdens.
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Why Use The Mothercentric™ Approach?
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The only Internal Family Systems informed perinatal mental health training.
Views matrescence as a wild developmental phase with unique healing potential (not a disorder).
Identifies predictable Mom Parts to support deep exploration and healing of intergenerational wounds.
Names psychological patriarchy as a propagator of shame, and shame as a primary culprit in PMADs.
Gives practitioners confidence in working with all Mom Parts, even the scary ones.
A Preview of the two days
Redefining PMADs: the external context in which motherhood exists
9:00 am: Redefining PMADS
10:15 am: Integrating Internal Family Systems
10:50 am: Bio break
11:00 am: Experiential #1: Inner Critic Meditation
12:00 pm: Respecting Matrescence as a Developmental Phase
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm: Lunch off campus
1:45 pm: Three Matrescent Phenomena
2:45 pm: Contending with Patriarchy
3:45 pm: Bio break
3:50 pm: Experiential #2: Shame Circuitry
4:30 pm: Conclusion of day 1
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Meet Jessica Sorci & Rebecca Geshuri
We’re experts on motherhood and healing.
We created a revolutionary method for healing moms, using Internal Family Systems therapy, an evidence-based model that's transforming relationships and mental health in the world. We can't wait to share our work with you.
Welcome.
Participants will be offered a new paradigm for thinking about the mental health of new mothers - a more holistically informed perspective that considers the perinatal phase of life as a portal to healing humanity’s legacies of trauma and suffering. Participants will work with the material experientially, engaging their own inner systems through guided IFS meditations and opportunities to explore their own parts in community. In this course we present the Four Cornerstones of the Mothercentric™ Approach, which provide a foundation for conceptualizing cases and treating new mothers, as well as the Outside-Inside Method that supports the exploration of symptoms and the uncovering of ubiquitous shame that accompanies modern motherhood.
Registration Information
In Person Ticket*
$550
payment plans available
Registration for the In-Person Mothercentric™ Approach Training.
* Add-on CEU credits are $50 and include 12 credits for California therapists and for PMH-C renewal.
Virtual Ticket*
$500
payment plans available
Registration for the Virtual Mothercentric™ Approach Training.
* Add-on CEU credits are $50 and include 12 credits for California therapists and for PMH-C renewal.
Day Two only*
starting from $275
This option is ONLY available to those who have already completed basic Mothercentric training.
* Add-on CEU credits are $30 and include 6 credits for California therapists and for PMH-C renewal.
*This course is approved by PSI for continuing education, relevant to advanced training
for obtaining PMH-C's.
CEPA Provider: Family Tree Wellness, Inc (Provider #1000049) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LPCC’s and LEP’s. Family Tree Wellness, Inc maintains responsibility for the program & all of its content. Course meets the qualifications for 12 hours of continuing education credit for LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LPCC’s and LEP’s. Course completion certificates will be awarded at the end of the course in exchange for a completed evaluation form.