Training in Pre and Perinatal Therapy
Training in PPN therapy begins October 2027 in Scotland
Charisse and co-instructors are trained in the Castellino model of PPN therapy and bring to the training many other skills. Learn and remember how little ones perceive with the aide of experiential exercises. You will explore your own developmental history and early imprints. Discover how to attune to early life material of babies and clients to enhance therapeutic outcomes for adults and enhance bonding and attachment during the pre and perinatal period.
Training can be used by:
anyone being with babies, children and families
therapists and professionals working with adults interested in early trauma and birth
Training module details and schedule can be found on this page
Training in Pre and Perinatal Therapy
This training prepares participants to support clients with pre-verbal imprinting. We will teach how to support clients in developing the skills to self regulate and differentiate past trauma from present-time triggers. In this way, implicit memories hidden in the right brain become explicit helping to transform chronic patterns into healthier behaviours.
Learning is facilitated through experiential exercises which allows theory to be integrated. The group setting is designed to produce a safe and often fun space.
Lectures provide a sound framework of understanding, and footage of family sessions show examples of how to apply the material in your practice.
”Understanding how babies feel and remember from conception onwards is illuminating; learning how to recognise this in children and adults is life enhancing. Charisse and Mary are experts in this field and teach from their wealth of experience and passion”
- Kitty Hagenbach, perinatal psychotherapist
”Those who are lucky enough to participate in one of their training sessions will immediately realise that Mary and Charisse are transmitting precious first-hand information.”
- Michel Odent, MD, natural childbirth pioneer
Training objectives
To develop knowledge and skills:
Understand the pre and perinatal model and explore our own early history from conception through birth and early childhood.
Develop foundational skills for pre and perinatal work
Grounding, tracking autonomic cycling, modulating internal tempo to deepend attunement and distinguish between past trauma and the present situation
Supporting trainees to perceive personal boundaries of a newborn and the boundaries of adult clients while in a regressed state.
Explore how early imprinting can affect the way we are in relationship with self and others. "It is more than learning a skill set. It's a way of life."
Our own birth dynamics, vaginal birth, birth stages, birth movement patterns, cutting of the cord, breast feeding and supporting newborn secure attachment.
Supporting babies and adults to securely attach when bonding was interfered with.
Understanding how babies express/show the stories of their own in utero, birth and early life experiences.
Understand and explore the impacts of interventions such as chemical imprinting, forceps, vacuum extractor and Cesarean section.
Additional birth situations.
Twin dynamics and breech births
Miscarriage and unresolved grief
Adoption
Assisted reproductive technology
ICU-intensive care for the newborn
Assisted reproductive techniques
Support implementing these new skills in your own practice, current work and your family.
