Welcome Birth Pros!
🌿 Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) for Doulas, Midwives, Birth Pros
In-Person Training | 5 CEUs
Birth workers witness and hold deep emotional experiences — joy, fear, grief, intensity, and transformation. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) offer a gentle, evidence-informed way to support emotional regulation and nervous system balance during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.
This in-person EFT training is designed specifically for birth and postpartum professionals. It focuses on ethical, trauma-aware, scope-appropriate use of EFT, with practical tools you can integrate into your work immediately.
✨ In this training, you’ll explore:
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How EFT supports emotional regulation and the stress response
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When and how birth pros can appropriately introduce EFT with clients
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Simple tapping sequences for common perinatal stressors
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Using EFT for your own grounding, boundaries, and sustainability in this work
No prior EFT experience is required.
📅 Training Details
📍 Format: In person - 172 Washington St, Warwick, RI
🗓️ Date: January 25 12 - 5pm
🎓 CEUs: 5 from DONA International
💵 Cost: $50
📄 Certificate of completion: Provided
This training is appropriate for new and experienced birth workers seeking practical, embodied tools that honor autonomy, consent, and trauma-aware care.
🌿 EFT Research Overview
Clinical research shows that Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) can significantly reduce stress, anxiety, and trauma-related symptoms, with measurable effects on the nervous system and stress hormones.
🔗 EFT research overview (PubMed)
🧡 EFT & Postpartum Mental Health
Recent research suggests that EFT may help reduce postpartum anxiety, stress, and depressive symptoms, offering a gentle, non-invasive support option during the perinatal period.
🔗 Postpartum stress & EFT research
📚 Learn More About the Science Behind EFT
EFT is supported by a growing body of peer-reviewed research, including work by researchers such as Dr. Peta Stapleton, examining its use for emotional regulation, trauma recovery, and stress reduction.