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Kate White, Founder and Director
Hello, I am Kate White. I am the Founder and Director of the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, and the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute. I have developed educational and training programs in understanding the baby's experience, especially how to prevent and treat birth trauma, as co-creator of Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics, and Founding Director of the Education Department at APPPAH, creator of the Prenatal and Perinatal Educator Certificate Program. Currently, We offer an 18 day basic training program for professionals, and a 12 day advanced program. 

​I also love supporting others in my field of practice, prenatal and perinatal somatics, especially combining midwifery, somatic trauma resolution and the baby's experience so I started an online school, Prenatal and Perinatal Healing Online. I am part of a rising tide that supports recognizing, reaching, and healing our earliest experiences so that humans get the best start in life. Enjoy our programs!
Explore Our Groundbreaking 6 Module Training for Professionals

Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics Training

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What's New at the Center and the Online School


​New Offering: Multicultural Wellness Studio Series #1
​Sale Price $49
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Part Two of the Multicultural Wellness Studio presents two webinars celebrating the richness of our different cultures, while uniting in the shared goal of nurturing body, mind, and spirit as well as addressing the intersectionality of perinatal and prenatal somatics.

As part of the Multicultural Wellness Studio the Webinar series aims to fulfill the mission of providing inspirational programs that respect the diversity that makes our community vibrant.

Series 2 Presentations

May 7, 2025 - Jade F. Hillery, MPH, CD(DTI)
Doula and SRHJ Advocate- Jade, The Doula! LLC
(she/hers/ella)

EmBAWDYed Healing: Sensual and Erotic Movement after Reproductive Health Transitions

What do birth and erotic dancing have in common? They both alter a person’s life, their body, and their connection to, and idea of, self. 
More INformation
This session introduces participants to the transformative potential of sensual and erotic movement as a complementary modality for healing and reconnection– particularly when navigating reproductive health transitions and the new realities they create. By exploring the connection between transitional experiences, emotions, and the body, participants will gain understanding into how people use this intentional movement practice to: reclaim their relationship with their bodies, nurture joy and peer connection, create new stories and renewed harmony, and promote a sense of empowerment.

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June 4, 2025 - Angelica Knight, MS IBCLC, CD

Advocating for Every Drop: NICU Admissions and Lactation Challenges in Communities of Color

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) admissions disproportionately impact Black and Brown families, disrupting breastfeeding initiation and long-term milk production goals. Prematurity, pre-eclampsia, and birth complications are leading causes of NICU stays, often requiring medical interventions that separate parents from their infants during critical early lactation periods.

Despite evidence supporting human milk benefits, systemic barriers—including provider bias, lack of lactation-trained NICU staff, and dismissive attitudes toward non-white parents—undermine breastfeeding success that are historically rooted in the system. Myths surrounding Black and Brown parents' ability or desire to breastfeed, coupled with historical medical mistrust, further exacerbate disparities. Additionally, clinical spaces often fail to provide culturally competent lactation support, leaving families without guidance in navigating milk expression, supplementation, and re-establishing direct breastfeeding post-NICU.

This presentation explores these challenges, highlights the role of racism in maternal-infant health disparities, and calls for systemic change to ensure equitable breastfeeding support for all families.

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Sessions are Wednesdays, Noon-1:30 pm (EST) Starting January 8

Webinars will be recorded in case someone is unable to make one or more sessions
Welcome the Multicultural Wellness Studio
We’re excited to welcome you to a unique and inclusive journey toward holistic well-being! A place where together we will explore the world of birth through the lens of some of the strongest, but marginalized communities across the world. Our multicultural wellness program embraces the diverse traditions, practices, and perspectives of wellness from the BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Disabled and other underrepresented communities. Here, we celebrate the richness of our different cultures, while uniting in the shared goal of nurturing body, mind, and spirit as well as addressing the intersectionality of perinatal and prenatal somatics.
This program is a safe and welcoming space for all to explore wellness practices, educational resources, discussions, interviews and more; that resonate with your cultural background or discover new ones that inspire you. Together, we’ll learn, grow, and support each other in achieving healthier and more balanced lives, respecting the diversity that makes our community vibrant.
We are honored to have you join us, and we can’t wait to start this journey together!
Foundations Course Open for Australia online in November. The New York City training is now closed. The Virginia Training is still To Be Determined
This Foundations course in Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics™ offers the basic building blocks for working early overwhelming states that may occur starting preconception, including conception, pregnancy, birth and attachment. Often called early developmental trauma, recognition, reaching and healing ruptures or interruptions in development from this early time are increasingly seen as the cracks in the foundation of human health.  Come, study, learn, heal. ​

Current healing science now includes overwhelming childhood experiences and ancestral patterns; the prenatal and perinatal period is the missing piece. This introductory workshop will give you tools so you can normalize early difficulty and have a skill base to help families get the best possible start and individuals onto the healing path. The first step is working with your own internal states and is vital to the relationship you establish with your client base. Our course combines early trauma resolution with midwifery model of care.
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Learning Objectives. Participants will:
  • Develop skills of self and co-regulation, stabilization, and coherency in the body.
  • Demonstrate basic skills for trauma release, including resourcing, facilitated felt sense exercises, and directed energy techniques.
  • Create touch sequences to stabilize and facilitate energy in the body for trauma release.
  • Understand one aspect of the baby's experience of birth from the inside out, and the 5 point sequence as an imprint.
  • Differentiate and introductory sense of the blueprint and imprint in trauma prevention and resolution.
See also more information on our new website about our training programs at ppnsomatics.com,
The Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute:
Discover Your Professional Pathway.
A PPNCenter and CvilleBabyBodywork video:
Sleep and your Baby

Join us as Kate White and Dr. Hannah Marshall answer questions about sleep for infants, babies, children and families. With Heather Zivkovich. Recorded at the monthly CvilleBabyBodyWork free clinic held the second Friday of each month.
On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL_Pgyc-Yqo 
PPNCenter and CvilleBabyBodywork video:
Let's Talk about Car Seat Restraint

A 30-minute workshop: Learn tips to strategize helping baby feel secure and safe while being restrained and separated.
On YouTube: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gJZvwz50_0&t=1378s
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Podcasts and Presentations

Welcome to the Center

The Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs provides a place for parents, the public and professionals to get information, classes, therapy, and products that support health from preconception, pregnancy, birth and the first 18 months of life.  Practice and pedagogy weave together bodywork, trauma healing, neuroscience, epigenetics, attachment, and more.

We welcome you to the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, whether you are here for more specific information, to sign up for a class or workshop, or just to explore the readings, videos and other offerings you will find here.

​Special Feature: 10 Things to Know About Babies
We're putting together this fun Public Service messaging campaign - keep watching for all 10 things and finally what you can do about it!
​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
$69
Other Material and information
Listen to Kate on the Field Dynamics Podcast
Kate was a recent guest on the Field Dynamics Podcast where she gives us an overview of pre and perinatal care, her skillset in presence and reading the space between people, and the influence of pioneers in the field Ray Castellino and William Emerson. They discuss the body as memory, and the layers and imprints of pre-conception, pre-natal and birthing trauma. She shares the commonality of the "double bind" and a "stuck place" in life as a result of inherited or birth trauma. Listen to this an much more: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1958873/12407389
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Kate on the MagaMama Podcast

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

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

Attachment Theory Podcast with Kate White
Impact of Pre and Perinatal Influences on Attachment

Part One
Part Two
Episode 8: The Impact of Birth Trauma on Babies and Their Families
Returning to the Womb to Heal, with Kate White
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