Doula and Obstetric Nurse Training - Birth Coach Method

TRAINING PROGRAM FOR ALL BIRTH SUPPORT PROS
(Approved CEP)

The Vision Behind Transformational Birth Support

Reinventing birth support by preparing doulas and birth professionals to create deeper impact while building sustainable careers

The Moment Everything Changed

I didn’t create Birth Coach Method because birth support was failing—I created it because I saw its incredible potential.After years of supporting families as a doula, I recognized a gap between the support I was providing and the deeper transformation families needed. I discovered that powerful coaching conversations could transform fear into confidence, uncertainty into clarity, and help families step into empowered decision-making.

These conversations became the foundation of my work—creating deeper impact for families, reducing burnout for birth professionals, and opening new possibilities for sustainable perinatal support practices.

Birth Coach Method Mission

Our mission is to transform birth support by empowering doulas and birth professionals with coaching skills, evidence-informed education, and innovative approaches that create deeper impact while building sustainable careers in birth work.

Birth Coach Method expands traditional birth support by integrating Transformational Perinatal Coaching—equipping birth professionals to guide intentional conversations that strengthen confidence, agency, and empowered decision-making throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

Our innovative approach also prepares birth professionals for the future of maternal healthcare, where structured prenatal and postpartum support and expanding reimbursement opportunities are reshaping the profession.

Preparing Birth Professionals for What's Next

Birth Coach Method prepares birth workers for this evolution by teaching:

Coaching-based birth support
Client-centered advocacy
Transformational perinatal conversations
Professional communication with healthcare teams
Sustainable birth work practices

Our mission is to empower birth professionals to create meaningful change—for themselves, their clients, and the future of maternity care.

coaching is an important skill for doulas and nurses to have

Transformational Coaching Belongs in Birth Work

Knowing about birth and going through birth are two very different experiences. The same is true for raising a chid. Education helps families understand their options, the physiology of birth, and what to expect. But birthing and parenting requires much more than knowledge—it requires confidence, adaptability, self-trust, decision-making, and the ability to access inner resources in the moment.

That is where coaching becomes transformative

Through Transformational Perinatal Coaching, birth professionals learn how to guide meaningful conversations that help clients move from fear to confidence, uncertainty to clarity, and passive participation to empowered engagement in decision-making.

Coaching does not replace education or doula support—it expands what birth professionals can offer. By integrating coaching skills into birth work, doulas and birth professionals can help families not only understand birth, but truly engage with and navigate their unique pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey.

And, as we've already explored, transformational perinatal coaching sessions are both impactful and efficient—allowing birth professionals to support families more deeply while creating meaningful, billable prenatal and postpartum visits that contribute to a sustainable practice.

The 5 C's of Transformational Birth Work

Clarity – Understanding values, beliefs, desires, and choices.
Confidence – Trusting their ability to navigate pregnancy, birth, and parenthood.
Conviction – Connecting with their motivations, resources, intentions, and desired experience.
Commitment – Taking aligned, empowered action toward their goals.
(In) Charge – Stepping into ownership, agency, and active participation in their perinatal journey.

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Advance Your Birth Support Practice

Birth Coach Method is dedicated to fostering perinatal support rooted in mutual respect, trust, and fulfillment of clients and their support figures, and promoting strong partnerships between clients and birth support professionals.

Meet the Team

Neri Life-Choma

M.A., Founder

Neri Life-Choma, MA, is a mother, veteran childbirth educator, birth doula, and doula trainer, and the founder of Birth Coach Method. For the last 25 years, she has worked with individuals and couples as they prepared for the transformation of giving birth and becoming parents. During these years Life-Choma directed and managed the programs of two birth resource centers with great results in the community reach out and creating change in maternal care.

Neri's 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 in her book The Art of Coaching for Childbirth, which has been sold on Amazon with raving reviews. Neri leads the Tarnsformtional Birth Support Coaching Course which keeps attracting birth professionals from all over the globe.

Neri Life-Choma, Founder of Birth Coach Method

"It gives me a great sense of fulfillment when recall all the couples I've educated and supported in my 20 years of practice. Teaching birth support professionals is an honor. Thank you for joining me on our mission to provide birth support that acknowledges our clients' truth and vulnerability, and then infuses them with our professional knowledge and evidence-based practice."

Olga Libova

Advisory Committee

Olga is a DNP, M.S, and California Board Certified Nurse- Midwife. She is a tenured nursing faculty in De Anza college nursing program and Childbirth Educator.

Olga practices and resides in the San Francisco Bay Area California. She is a mother of three children. These days Olga is practicing with Altos Oaks Medical Group in Mountain View California.

Olga contributes a wealth of information to our program when it comes to prenatal care and alterations, medical aspects of labor, and birth and labor and delivery medical procedures. She is always updated when it comes to obstetric regulations and recommendations of ACOG.

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