Description
Birth Coach Method Doula Training is endorsed by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN), DONA, ICEA, AND Lamaze.
The Birth Coach Method’s coaching approach is woven into every lesson. Our transformational hybrid doula training program consists of the following:
- 15 online lessons – about 40 hours of theoretical and practical knowledge combined with our special coaching approach.
- Six Live Zoom mentorship sessions, provided twice a year- in the Spring and Fall every year, for a total of 18 contact hours.
- Access to the audio-visual guide Practicing for an Active Birth presents great labor support coping tools with which you will practice as a doula.
- Two five-hour hands-on practice workshops (Faraway students can join virtually)
- Doula practice intake forms, contracts, handouts, and everything you need to run your business
- Heart-based marketing system training to launch your practice and get clients confidently
- Client-matching program to obtain your certificate
- Free no-cost CEUs
Many aspiring doulas worldwide are interested in practicing transformational birth support and appreciate the coaching approach that is woven into every lesson of this doula training.
Learn the basics of our transformational birth support coaching approach!
- Get birth clients and make them appreciate the value of working with a doula, regardless of their choices around taking pain medications or the type of birth they commit to.
- Inspire expectant individuals to demand patient-centered care that integrates their beliefs, values, and wishes in the treatment plan.
- Lead birth givers to hold strong convictions that will serve them in moments of potential deviation from their desired birth experience.
- Increase birth givers’ accountability for their process toward a healthy birth.
- Inspire birth givers to adopt better perspectives on childbirth, labor pain, the role of medical caregivers or procedures, and other topics relating to their process.
- Facilitate clarity about the birth givers’ desired birth experience
- Increase birth givers’ confidence in themselves, their bodies, and the healthy process.
- Facilitate higher levels of satisfaction
You will learn how to do all that in our Online Doula Training program because we don’t believe any doula training program is complete without it!
Meet Your Instructors
Neri Life Choma, MA
CD, CBE, CHT, Transformational Coach, NLP Practitioner, founder of the Birth Coach Method.
Neri Life-Choma is a veteran childbirth educator, birth doula, and doula trainer, and the founder of Birth Coach Method. For the last 24 years, she has worked with individuals and couples as they prepared for the utmost transformation of giving birth and becoming parents. During these years, Neri directed and managed programs of two birth resource centers. Her work with parents has been enriched by continuing her education and becoming a transformational life coach, hypnotherapist, and NLP practitioner. Neri has integrated principles and strategies of all these modalities of care into birth support. Neri is the author of The Art of Coaching for Childbirth and the creator of the audio-visual guide Practicing for an Active Birth.
Neri has mastered leading online trainings and has found a way to make it possible for her faraway students to join the hands-on workshops she leads in California virtually, allowing them to practice labor support tools and comfort measures. Click HERE to schedule your free 20-minute consultation with Neri.
Corrine Morse
Certified Doula, Body Ready Method® Pro and prenatal yoga instructor 
Corrine lead our Boston training. She is a highly respected birth doula and coach known for her calm presence, deep body awareness, and empowering approach to birth preparation. Through her work, she integrates education with intuitive, heart‑centered support—helping families feel confident, connected, and seen throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
A Body Ready Method® Pro and prenatal yoga instructor, Corrine guides clients in aligning body and mind for birth, while her coaching training supports emotional readiness and trust in the process. Beyond direct client work, she’s committed to community building—collaborating closely with local birth professionals and mentoring newer doulas who share her vision of holistic, inclusive care.
Clients describe Corrine as warm, grounded, and wise—someone who brings both professionalism and genuine care to every interaction, creating a space where families feel supported and empowered from bump to baby.
Click HERE to scehdule your consulation with Corrine.
Certification Requirements:
You have 1 year from registration to complete your certification requirements
- Complete the online study of the 15 online modules and submit all 15 completed study guides.
- Attend the Live Zoom sessions.
- Attend two births as a trainee while receiving guidance and supervision from your trainer.
- Submit two birth reports according to the guidelines we will share with you.
- Pass the final exam.
- Pay your certification fee and receive the printable certification and Birth Coach Method’s certification badge for your website.
When you register, we will email you a link to create your username and password on our online system. Please allow us 24 hours to approve you as a user and begin your learning experience. We grant you six months’ access to complete your study, with an additional one no-cost retention of 60 days. Beyond this extension, students can buy monthly access for $50 a month. We require our students to complete their certification process within a year of registration.
**Enrolling in the program using a payment plan of any type is a full commitment to submit all future payments. You will not be able to stop making the payments before you complete the full tuition.
