Medical Providers, Nurses, & Students
Earn CE/CME & Amplify Your Capacity for Labor Support
Build your knowledge, improve outcomes for your patients, enhance your patient experience, and work more effectively with other labor support professionals from a foremost leader in the interpersonal neurobiology of the brain in labor.
Why Engage Dr. Amy Gilliland, PhD for Continuing Education:
- Renown Research Fellow
- AASECT Certified Sexuality Education Supervisor
- Birth Doula Trainer & Mentor
- 30+ Years Experience as a Doula
- 3,000 Hours Teaching Adults
- Published in 6 Peer-Reviewed Journals
- Approved Continuing Education Provider
Dr. Gilliland’s courses are uniquely structured, designed specifically for medical professionals to diversify and elevate their support skills and practice evidence-based medicine. Any in-person or online course taught by Amy L. Gilliland offers 28 nursing CE’s. In addition, Dr. Gilliland offers a special weeklong retreat style training for Providers worth 32 CME’s.
How is Doula Training Relevant to Medical Providers?
While doctors and nurses are trained to focus on the processes of birth, doulas are trained to focus on the person birthing. The most effective practitioners embrace both perspectives, which is challenging to do in the real world. The nurturing skills, culturally attuned curriculum, and evidence-based course work available from Dr. Amy Gilliland can be a powerful tool to help transform your OB/GYN or labor support practice.
Meet New & Emerging Needs of Birthing Patients
As the culture around birth shifts, and more birthing parents seek the support of doulas and midwives during pregnancy, it’s likely are going to be working alongside doulas, administering a program, or promoting doula support as a solution to racial inequities in your area. Training with Doulaing The Doula can give you the tools you need to be successful in these relationships, during these pregnancies, labor, and postpartum.
Build Your Knowledge
- Engage with curriculum that includes over 500 references
- Learn more about the interpersonal neurobiology of the brain in labor
- Explore birth from multiple perspectives
- Cover common obstetrical practices that affect sexual function
- Discover new methods of ethical decision making
Improve Patient & Clinic Outcomes
- Lower your cesarean birth rate
- Provide evidence-based care
- Reduce racial inequities in your clinical setting
- Achieve best possible outcomes through a multidisciplinary perspective
Enhance Patient Experiences
- Provide trauma-informed care
- Prevent professional burnout
- Build stronger, more trusting connections with patients
- Practice in alignment with your values
- Preserve patients’ sexual function
Develop Successful Programs
- Improve in-office labor support
- Work more effectively with local doulas
- Establish & maintain successful doula programs
July 28 – August 2, 2025
Baker’s Sunset Bay Resort
Wisconsin Dells, WI
November 3 – November 7
Private Estate in Southeast
Las Vegas, NV
February 23 – February 27
Residence Inn Fort Myers Sanibel
Fort Myers, FL
How is Doula Training Relevant to Medical & Nursing Students?
Nurses and physicians will attend more births than a doula ever can – they have the possibility of influencing the lives of thousands of families and babies. Through our training programs, you will:
- Get labor & delivery experience before completing school
- Build doula skills to enhance your CV
- Amplify your medical school or nursing school applications
- Learn the skills of caring for others that are left out of most health care curriculums
- Develop processes to better provide emotional support for all patients
- Practice trauma-informed care
- Address racial inequities and implicit bias
Programs & Courses to Transform Your Perinatal Care Practices
Birth Doula Training & Certification – This informative session covers the normal and altered neurological function of the attachment and defense systems in the laboring person’s brain. Learn More 
Postpartum Doula Training – This engaging series covers postpartum sexuality and intimacy, medicalization of the body, grief, body image, partner’s experiences, fathering, and over a dozen tools on how to best support parents. Learn More
CE & CME Training Courses – This multi-day provider training empowers medical providers to implement new birth doula skills, communicate using trauma-informed principles, use patient-defined and culturally congruent behaviors, refine their neurological caregiving system, and relate the multidisciplinary perspectives of neurology, endocrinology, and anthropology to medicalized birth. Learn More
Recognizing the Previously Traumatized Person in Labor – This informative session covers the normal and altered neurological function of the attachment and defense systems in the laboring person’s brain. Learn More
Newborn Communication Skills – This workshop is designed to increase the skill and accuracy of perinatal professionals in recognizing infant cues and temperament to 85% agreement. Learn More
The Postpartum Course – This course is a comprehensive examination of the first year after a pregnancy ends. This course is uniquely developed to help a wide range of people through the postpartum period, focusing largely on parents, educators, birth workers, nurses, family visitors, sexuality educators, and therapists. Learn More
Your Social Brain – during this course, Dr. Amy Gilliland addresses how our social brains work and how to meet those needs – even in a virtual environment allowing you to increase your social effectiveness by understanding your brain. Learn More
Check Your Schedule
Doulaing The Doula offers a wide range of courses and workshops throughout the year. Check out our course calendar to see what educational opportunities are waiting for you.
