The Future of Doula Care Starts Here
Coaching-Based, Client-Centered Doula Training for Birth Workers Ready to Expand Their Impact and Thrive in an Evolving Profession
Our commitment is to help you build a meaningful, sustainable career in birth work.
At Birth Coach Method, we believe exceptional doulas do more than support—they empower people to navigate pregnancy, birth, and parenthood with confidence, agency, and informed decision-making.
Our coaching-based, client-centered doula training prepares aspiring doulas with the knowledge, practical skills, and professional mindset needed to build a meaningful and sustainable doula practice.
Our students learn to be strategic and intentional in their approach to birth work—combining evidence-informed support, coaching skills, and professional practices to create meaningful impact for families while building a thriving career.
Upon successful completion of the program, graduates receive a Doula Training Certificate recognizing their dedication, knowledge, and preparation to provide professional birth support. Combined with our comprehensive curriculum and professional standards, this training aligns with the requirements of recognized reimbursement pathways and supports graduates in expanding access to reimbursable doula and perinatal support services.
This comprehensive professional doula training includes 60+ hours of self-paced online learning, 28 live contact hours of mentorship through hands-on workshops and live virtual sessions, and an engaged learning community. After graduation, you'll continue receiving mentorship and support as you confidently launch and grow your doula practice.
What You'll Learn
Professional Leadership & Confidence
Develop the mindset, communication skills, and professionalism to confidently serve families and collaborate with healthcare teams.
Coaching-Based Perinatal Support
Learn how to guide meaningful perinatal conversations that help clients build confidence, clarify their preferences, strengthen their agency, and prepare emotionally, mentally, and physically for birth.
Client-Centered Advocacy
Develop trusting relationships that honor each client's values, autonomy, and informed decision-making while supporting patient-centered maternity care.
Evidence-based Birth & Postpartum Support
Master practical comfort measures, labor support techniques, positioning, advocacy, and clinical collaboration that help families navigate labor and the immediate postpartum period with confidence.
Building a Sustainable Doula Practice
Learn proven strategies to attract clients, establish professional relationships, grow your business with integrity, and create a sustainable birth work career. Our students learn how to expand beyond birth attendance by offering valuable prenatal and postpartum coaching visits, creating deeper client relationships, greater impact, and additional opportunities for sustainable income.
We are committed to helping you become more than a skilled doula. We prepare you to become a confident, coaching-based birth professional who creates lasting impact for families while building a fulfilling and sustainable career.
Start Anytime. Learn at Your Own Pace. Grow With Expert Support
Begin your journey with our flexible online doula training program and get immediate access to 15 comprehensive self-paced classes designed to help you build the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to become a professional doula.
Our Fall and Spring cohorts provide additional support through live Zoom mentorship, coaching, practice opportunities, and hands-on doula training workshops. These experiences help you deepen your birth support skills, apply what you learn, and prepare for real-world work with families.
Hands-on practice workshops are now offered in California and Boston, while students from anywhere can join our online doula training community and receive ongoing guidance as they launch and grow their doula practices.
We Teach Intentional, Strategic Birth Support
Great birth support is more than responding in the moment—it is about preparing families before labor through intentional, empowering conversations. You will learn how to lead a series of perinatal coaching conversations that help clients build confidence, clarify their preferences, strengthen agency, and navigate pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with greater empowerment.
We Are Known for Patient-Centered Advocacy and Collaborative Care
Our doula training program teaches a collaborative approach to advocacy—helping you build respectful, professional relationships with nurses, providers, and birth teams while ensuring each client’s voice, values, and choices remain at the center of care.
This is the future of birth support: doulas and birth workers who combine compassion, evidence-informed knowledge, coaching skills, and strong communication to create lasting change.
Neri delivers the right amount of information and all the examples she brings up kept me very interested. I felt like I was studying with a friend thanks to her warm voice, her encouragement, and the added tips and tricks that she shares from her extensive experience. Now I also came to realize how precious the coaching tools are.
Birth Coach Methods strives to lead pregnancy and birth support that is based on mutual respect, mutual trust, and partnership.
We invite you to join our growing community!
Meet Our Trainers
My commitment to the success and well-being of doulas and birth professionals is deeply connected to my commitment to birthing people and new parents. When we empower birth workers, families thrive.
Teaching birth support professionals is an honor—and a profound responsibility. Every birth worker we train will go on to support countless families, and the impact of that support reaches far beyond a single birth.
I am deeply grateful to work alongside some of the most experienced and dedicated birth professionals who are joining me in advancing the Birth Coach Method mission: to provide birth support that first honors each client’s unique truth, vulnerability, and lived experience—and then thoughtfully integrates professional expertise, evidence-informed practices, and transformational coaching skills.
Neri Life Choma
Neri holds an M.A degree in cognitive science. She is a certified birth doula and childbirth educator, a certified hypnotherapist, a transformational life Coach and NLP practitioner.
During her 25 years of practice, Neri founded a doula support program in a major hospital, and a birth resource center. She led hundreds of childbirth education classes and workshops and supported hundreds of individuals through their birth. (See Neri's CV here.)
After becoming a Transformational Coach, Neri launched the doula training programs and created professional development workshops with the goal of teaching douas, childbirth educators, and nurses to integrate coaching skills into their practice. She is the founder of Birth Coach Method, and have created all the workshops, online classes and products of the company.
In November 2012 Neri pubished her DVD Practicing for an Active Birth, The Most Comprehensive Audio-Visual Guide for an Active and Healthy birth which you can find in our store. In November 2016 she published her first book The Art of Coaching for Childbirth, Integrating the Principles of Coaching into Birth Support.
Supporting families through pregnancy and birth has shown me how powerful it can be when people feel informed, heard, and deeply supported in their choices. I feel incredibly honored to have walked alongside so many birthing families, and I bring that same care and responsibility into training the next generation of doulas.
Teaching birth support professionals is meaningful. Every doula I train will go on to hold space for families during some of their most vulnerable and transformative moments. My goal is to help doulas build practical skills, confidence, and the ability to listen to clients and trust them. I am proud to be part of Birth Coach Method’s mission of providing compassionate, client-centered support.
