You already know how to support people through hard things
As a peer recovery specialist, you bring valuable skills in listening, building trust, and supporting self-determination. Doula education helps you apply those strengths during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. At Doulaing The Doula, we have experience helping peer recovery specialists build the knowledge and confidence to support people in recovery through these important transitions.
Peer Recovery Specialists already understand many of the foundations of excellent doula care:
- Trauma-informed support
- Listening without judgment
- Supporting autonomy and self-determination
- Building trust
- Navigating complex systems
- Meeting people where they are
- Recognizing the importance of lived experience
Doulaing The Doula can teach you how to bring those skills into pregnancy, birth and postpartum care.
Explore The Possibilities!
What could this look like for you?
You can build on your peer recovery experience in a way that fits your goals. Doula education can help you:
- Expand your current work. Learn more about pregnancy, birth, and postpartum so you can offer informed, practical support within your role.
- Explore an interest. Begin with a childbirth or postpartum course to see how this knowledge could serve you and the people you support.
- Develop a doula practice. Pursue birth or postpartum doula training, with mentoring and certification available as you grow.
You can take a course without committing to certification. We can help you choose a starting point that fits.
Could doula education strengthen your program?
Your peer specialists already bring something valuable: trusted relationships. Doula education can add knowledge and practical skills for supporting pregnant and postpartum people in recovery.
We begin with your program’s goals, the people you serve, and the work your staff already do. Together, we can explore individual courses, a sponsored staff training cohort, or an ongoing training partnership.
Whether you want to strengthen perinatal support within existing services or explore adding birth or postpartum doulas, we would welcome a conversation about what would be useful for your organization.
Curious about your next step?
Whether you are a peer recovery specialist exploring a new interest or a program leader considering education for your team, we would love to hear from you.
Tell us a little about your work and whether you are interested in birth support, postpartum support, both, or simply exploring. We can help you identify a useful next step.
On our contact form, mention peer recovery and tell us whether you are asking for yourself or your organization.
