Advanced Doula Training



Mentorship Program Outline

Cost:$500

This is a 6 month mentorship with the potential to continue work with Elizabeth as an on call doula.

  • During this mentorship, protege will have the opportunity to work with Midwives at, Two Leaves Midwifery in Orem Utah or a local birthing center in your area. They will get the opportunity to get at least two births under their belt to complete their Basic Doula certification.

  • Doula trainee may also have the option to work one on one with Elizabeth and her personal clients that permit, as a backup doula. These are volunteer hrs that can be accounted for toward Basic Doula certification.

  • Elizabeth will provide Doula trainee with exposure to doula business. She will help with marketing, networking and building their doula business. This includes 1-2 doula clients of their own (within a year of signing contract).

  • Work on building a professional doula practice

  • Collaborative Team Care  

  • Structure of prenatal and postpartum visits

  • Learn how to create a birth plan and what their client’s options are (outline is provided).

  • Pain Coping Techniques, Comfort Massage (applied skills) Rebozo use, to help baby get into optimal positioning for birth and alleviate discomfort.

  • Learn the Daddy (partner) Birth Coach class, Doula trainee can sit in on an in person class as an observer and can help assist the class.

      *This class is designed for the dad or birth partner. This is usually a 1hr-2hr class for expecting couples. It can be taught as a private or group class. There is a lots of hands on work with couple.

This is what the DBC class consists of:

• How to create a birth plan, and clients options

  • Educate clients on how to know when mama is going into labor

  • Movements and techniques to help progress labor using yoga poses and other

  • Teach birth partner massage techniques for pain management and relaxation

  • Meditations to work on together and create a sense of calm and union in the birth space

  • Birthing poses and more (Clients and Doula trainee will receive the manual with everything that we will go over in class.)

  • Prenatal safe yoga poses to alleviate common prenatal pain

  • Postnatal safe yoga and care (this is not a prenatal/postnatal yoga certification, but can be used with clients that book with us).

  • Advocating for your client/Interacting with hospital staff

  • Supporting induction, epidural and hi-risk birth

  • Supporting Unexpected Outcomes: traumatic birth, prematurity, stillbirth

  • Supporting Optimal Fetal Positioning

  • Breastfeeding Counseling

  • Birth Recovery

  • Business Skills Workshop, creating a contract, payment plans, invoices, etc.

I accept payment plans and am currently working on crowdfunding to create a scholarship program for anyone that can not afford full cost. I will be selecting 2 proteges per year for the scholarship program. If you are in need of a scholarship please ask for an application.