Supporting excellence in pre and perinatal health and healing locally  . . . and beyond
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We are located in beautiful Charlottesville, VA, home of the University of Virginia,
​Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, and more.  
​Our office is located at 103 Caty Lane, Charlottesville, VA 22901

Courses in the Online Classroom

See Our Online Classroom: Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online

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The Adverse Childhood Experiences study revealed how a subset of experiences in our human lives could create an array of challenges, the greater the amount of these "adversities," the greater the chance that our learning, health and relationships would be disrupted. These challenges included events in categories such as abuse, neglect and household dysfunction in early childhood. Professionals in the field of fetal medicine, birth and prenatal and perinatal somatic psychology have identified another set of adverse experiences that occur prenatally, during or after birth. In this pioneering series, you will meet highly trained professionals and parents who want to share their passion with you around models of care, experiences, and wisdom around pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and more. You will hear stories of strength and humility, and a you will look through a lens into the world of families and babies like you have not seen before. Early adverse events create their own set of neurodevelopmental challenges. We can heal them, and we can also prevent them. Come, enjoy the passion and expertise from this talented panel. The transdisciplinary approach invites us to work together for positive change. Our panel includes:

• May 11: Gianluca Ursini, MD, PhD, The Seeds of Mental Health May Be Planted in Early Life, but Good Gardeners Will Make the Difference
• May 18: Darcia Narvaez, PhD, The Evolved Nest and Baby ACEs
• May 25: Marti Glenn, PhD, Ryzio Institute
• June 1: Veronique Meade, MD, MA, SEP, 5 Opportunities to Prevent, Reduce Risk and Heal Chronic Illness: Insights from Adverse Babyhood Experiences (ABEs)
• June 8: Sabrina Blau, Mother,
• June 15: Kate White, Towards Maternity Care that Includes the Baby's Experience: 5 First Steps
• June 22: Ending Panel with Question and Answer

Two professionals/parents will be respondents to help us with reflection during the ending panel talk:

• Lois Trezise, CNM
• Karen Strange, CPM

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If we had to distill all that we’ve learned from our work of the past 80 years—in dyadic psychotherapy, child and adult therapy, casework, or in any of the several fields allied to infant mental health—into the single thing that matters most, what would it be? In this lecture, Michael Trout proposes one idea so simple it scarcely seems worthy of great intellectual or clinical consideration, while simultaneously standing as the thing we cannot live without. Or, perhaps more to the point, it’s the one thing our patients and other service users cannot live without: “holding.”
Michael tracks its emergence in the work of others, from Winnicott to the present; gives it practical definition; and offers examples of it from our work with babies, young children and their parents, in the hope that little doubt will be left about its meaning.

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This seminar will examine the relationship between the body, constitutional type, temperament and behavior. This vision of constitutional type is grounded in the three germ layers of embryology, which essentially form all the tissues and structures of the physical body. 

• Ectoderm develops into skin, nervous system, outer layer of body.
• Mesoderm develops into muscles, blood vessels, connective tissue, middle layer of body.
  
• Endoderm develops into viscera, inner layer of body.
  

​We will also see how constitutional type organizes desire, action, and analysis as three styles of being in relationship to experience. 

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Episode 107: Repairing Pre and Perinatal Trauma and Listening to Babies with Kate White

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Podcast with Kate White

Impact of Pre and Perinatal Influences on Attachment

Part One

Part Two

Interviews with Kate:

• Zero To Three featured Kate in their Member Corner in May 2019. See the feature here.
• Listen to this Interview with Kate White on her work with mothers and babies! It was completed by Rebecca Thompson Hitt, Director and Founder of The Consciously Parenting Learning Center.
• Enjoy this podcast with Dr. Jay Warren about my work with families recovering from difficult births: Why Didn't Anyone Tell Me?
• Listen also to a talk about prenatal and perinatal patterns in The Body Awake, with Liam Fowler.
• Listen to a podcast on Prenatal Bonding with Kristy Rodriguez on purenature.com here
• Mindful Birth Podcast with Holly Lammer: Kate White, a craniosacral and massage therapist, prenatal and h childhood educator.
• Setting the P.A.C.E, Precognitive Adverse Childhood Experiences, an episode of Hanging on for Hope with  Andrea Fitmom: An Interview with Kate White

​6 Lectures you can purchase in our classroom:

• Answering the Call
• Preconception Dynamics
• Conception Dynamics
• Implantation, Discovery and 1st Trimester Dynamics
• 2nd & 3rd Trimester/Intrauterine Constraint
• Physiological Birth and the Baby’s Experience

Returning to the Womb to Heal, with Kate White

Healing Trauma Before Birth, Jennetta Billhimer with Kate White: Healing For Parents