Birth Doula Certification
Experience a holistic, values-based approach to doula care! Provide the best evidence-based support for birthing mothers by understanding how emotion and anatomy impact labor and birth experiences.
A Spiritual Approach
Mothers already know how to birth, we teach you to faciliate that uncovering
Ongoing Mentorship
100% support through your entire training and certification process
Evidence-Based
Best practices for supporting families from academic science
Are you seeking a Birth Doula Program
that resonates and connects deeply with you?
Understand how to best work with energetic and physiological effects of the birthing process. Keeping her oxytocin flowing helps mothers feel safe.
Our Birth Doula Certification is straightforward, comprehensive and flexible.
Birth Doula Certification that is straightforward, comprehensive, and flexible
- Online home study deepens your skills and confidence
- Your Personal Mentor supports you from start to finish
- Interactive Live Training Workshop can be virtual or in person
- Timeline of your choice – work quickly or take up to 18 months (for more time – an extension assures your work counts as you continue)
- In addition to essential birth doula expertise, learn cultural sensitivity and humility to expand your capability for embodied compassionate care that honors diversity and ensures equity, inclusion, and belonging for all.
- Join an organization and be part of a movement that believes in women’s innate abilities to birth and parent!
BirthWorks Birth Doula Training Process is Easy!
Start with your workshop or your online education.
Register & meet your Mentor
Find a birth doula training workshop
Complete online learning, at home at your own pace
Start your journey to support families in their birth choices.
"During the BirthWorks workshop, I found myself nodding my head and agreeing with so much of what Cathy Daub shared with us. I feel more authentic as a doula thanks to my BirthWorks training and experience. The importance of the doula as a passenger, not the driver of the birth, really resonated with me. The only expert in a birth is the woman birthing. As doulas, we are there to serve our clients on their unique birth journeys, without judgement or assumption, walking alongside them as they move through the phases, challenges, and emotions of their birth experience."
- Amara Minnis
"The depth of evidence-based support for BirthWorks approach, in addition to the deep personal work, which asked me to consider my knowledge, motivation and strengths and then taught me to humbly step back and trust - the power of birth, of my clients and of life — was so useful."
- Cristin Tighe
“No other organization offered the spiritual/philosophical training methodology with its unique human-values approach comparable to what I found in BirthWorks, so this was the pivotal reason for my decision to become a BirthWorks Doula.”
- MD
“I loved the pelvic bodywork; being able to experience the room and space of the pelvic outlet. This wasn’t a picture or pelvic model; it was my body.”
- WA
“Personally, I walked away with peace and confidence in my ability to help women through their birth journey. Thank you BirthWorks!”
- TX
We believe mothers know what is best for their bodies, babies and family.
We encourage families in the choices they make regarding where and how
to birth, whether that is at home, a birth center or a hospital.
Our Doula Certification Program teaches you...
Our Doula Certification Program teaches you...
- Optimal Pelvic Positioning and Pelvic Bodywork’ relation to labor progression
- How to decrease stimulation of the neocortex during labor
- The deep significance of the microbiome, birth physiology, and Primal Health
- The power of positive energy around a birthing woman
- Non-pharmacological and other comfort measures for labor and birth
- Trust in birth as an instinctive process
- Understanding of the physical, emotional and spiritual aspects of giving birth
- Our unique Human-Values approach to supporting labor and life
- The impacts of mother·daughter relationships in birth
- How to discover your best self in this role and grow your birth doula business
Already a Certified Doula?
BirthWorks offers many other ways to build your birth doula career, including advanced doula training, advanced breastfeeding support, cross-certifying (if you are already certified in another program), and re-certification with us.
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Are you a birth or medical professional
looking to enhance your skills?
We offer continuing education for Midwives, Labor and Delivery Nurses, OB/GYNs …
Birth professionals often join our workshops to enhance their skills. We also offer cross-certification.