The Coaching Edge for

Birth Workers

Burnout-Free Birth Work

Transformative coaching techniques for birth workers ready to transform lives, avoid burnout, gain lasting impact and satisfaction, and thrive while leading the change in maternal care.

Less hands-on, more impact: creating a sustainable
birth support practice and leading the best perinatal experiences

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The new emerging practice of Transformational Perinatal Coaching


You wake up knowing your calendar is filled with clients you love working with—deeply committed, fully invested, and ready to grow.
Your business runs on your terms, your schedule, and your energy.
You’re no longer dependent on an employer or burned out—you’ve created a thriving practice that allows you to contribute to expectant individuals, birth givers, and new parents from anywhere.
You’ve got location freedom, time freedom, and freedom from being on-call. (Unless you're like me and want to preserve some of the excitement of attending births 😉 )
I’ve seen it happen again and again with Birth Coach Method students.
When I learned these coaching tools, my clients finally showed up confident, autonomous, and with agency, and achieved their desired perinatal experiences.
Now, you can become a transformational perinatal coach and facilitate immediate transformation in your practice and in the lives of those undergoing the perinatal journey. You'll be amazed at the results of your coaching.
That feeling when you witness your clients own their expert position and take the lead is unlike anything you've experienced in your practice till now.

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3 signs that it's time You learn transformational coaching strategies

  • Your clients' childbearing experiences do not match their desired ones; what they hired you for...
  • You've been informing your clients and trying to help them make informed decisions, but you realize high fear levels, rather than a lack of knowledge, lead to their submissive behavior and sabotage their success.
  • You've engaged in many hours of hands-on physical support and feel unsuccessful, underpaid, or burned out.

THE BIRTH COACH METHOD®
- COMPREHENSIVE PERINATAL COACHING PROGRAM -

Certified Perinatal Coach 

With a top-rated, expert-endorsed perinatal coaching certification program!

Gain instant access to expert tools and resources designed to help you launch and grow your perinatal coaching practice confidently, even if you're starting from scratch!

The Perinatal Coaching business is blooming! 

Everyone’s talking about changing maternal care— increasing vaginal birth rates and offering patient-centered care. But who’s actually showing you how to make it happen?
Hardly anyone is saying this, so I will:
Hands-on birth support alone won’t make you impactful, successful, or a catalyst for real change in maternal care.
The truth is...
Yes—physical support matters. It helps clients feel comforted and cared for. But it’s not how they achieve their desired birth and postpartum experiences.
And for birth workers? It often leaves us burned out and unfulfilled.

What moves the needle?


☑️If your perinatal support actually shifts their mindset from fearful to confident.
☑️If you identify and resolve their limiting beliefs
☑️If you help them step into their agency and autonomy, so they avoid submissive behavior
☑️If you stand out and attract high-paying clients, you can thrive and not burn out !
☑️If you stand in power with your clients — amplifying their voices and choices, not fighting anything.

That’s precisely what we’re doing inside The Coaching Edge for Birth Workers. We're mastering conversational coaching skills and exercises explicitly designed to renovate birth support, taking your practice to the next level- the coaching edge. We go beyond the hands-on model.

It's Your time to thrive!

If you’ve been feeling burned out or unsatisfied with the outcomes you’re facilitating, it's time to join us and take your practice to the next level.
We believe in you!

With your passion and our game-changing perinatal coaching framework, you can do it! We can thrive as birth workers and change maternal care. Let's reinvent birth support—together.

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What truly sets up Birth Workers for lasting success?

To create sustainable success as a birth support figure, mentor, community leader, coach, or trainer, you need...

  • Proven strategies, exercises, structures, and plans that match your vision to thrive in your birth support practice, whether you’re just starting or already have clients and you want to grow while making a difference in their lives. So cut through the challenges of being on call and hours of hands-on physical support and rest into a framework that genuinely FREES and EMPOWERS you and your clients.
  • Weekly accountability, coaching, practicing, and a community of like-minded colleagues building alongside you. Nobody should do this alone!
  • Learn, practice, and upscale the coaching skills to find clients confidently, build relationships with medical caregivers, and achieve financial sustainability while maintaining the integrity of your practice and charging what your support and coaching are worth. 

This is precisely what we do at Birth Coach Method with our membership programs

Program Track

Sign up, Start Now, and Go at Your Own Pace!

Our Transformational Perinatal Coaching program is a subscription-based program open for enrollment at any time, providing immediate access to the online modules. We welcome you to our community with intimate onboarding meetings, helping you ramp up and integrate into our fantastic virtual and worldwide community.

PHASE 1: FOUNDATIONS (Month 1)

2 onboarding meetings + 3 online modules

Module 01

Intro to Birth Support

  • The history of birth support from ancient times to the  present
  • Different agents in birth support throughout history
  • Views and approaches to pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period
  • Pain, fear, and the medicalization of birth
  • Traditional care, authoritative knowledge, and the birth giver as an expert in their life

Module 02

Intro to Transformational Coaching

  • The Origins of the coaching profession
  • The principles and basic terminology of the coaching practice
  • Core competencies of coaching
  • The coaching relationships – a client-centered partnership
  • The differences between coaching and therapy
  • The differences between coaching and teaching
  • The role of the perinatal coach

Module 03

Structure and Strategies of Transformational Coaching

  • The GROW coaching model
  • The Wheel of Bringing Life
  • The structure of the coaching process as a whole and each coaching session
  • The domains of perinatal coaching
  • Clarifying tangible and measurable goals.
  • Methods for establishing and maintaining rapport - mirroring and matching
  • Conducting the coaching conversation: pacing and leading

PHASE 2: PRACTICE & MASTERY (Month 2 and onward)

Weekly live sessions + 4 online modules

Module 04

Prenatal Coaching

  • Coaching throughout the challenges and dilemmas relating to the client’s pregnancy
  • Coaching for optimal birth experience
  • Identifying motivation, values, and desires
  • Identifying and resolving limiting beliefs
  • Writing the birth plan as as coaching conversation
  • Method for empowering self-advocacy
  • Facilitating alignment and ownership of the birth process

Module 05

Overcoming the fear of labor pain and other fears

  • Understanding the fear mechanism and collective awareness
  • The Fear-Tension-Pain syndrome leading to Failure-To-Progress
  • Coaching methods for reframing labor pain
  • The Context coaching exercise
  • From fear reaction to confident creation coaching exercise
  • Writing and reciting an affirmation
  • Coaching through the dilemma of taking an epidural
  • Practicing labor support techniques and comfort measures

Module 06

Coaching through Medical Conditions and Impositions

  • Standardization vs. individualization of care
  • Coaching when a medical condition or imposition occurs
  • The Authoritative Knowledge coaching pyramid
  • Using coaching strategies to improve the relationships with medical caregivers
  • Client-centered vs. Evidence-based advocacy
  • The PAL coaching exercise for flexibility and acceptance

Module 07

Postpartum Coaching

  • Coaching throughout common postpartum challenges
  • The Wheel of Life after Childbirth coaching exercise
  • Facilitating a coherent memory of the recent birth and acceptance if needed
  • Evaluating the parents' coping level
  • How to coach the birth giver who suffers from postpartum depression

PHASE 3: CERTIFICATION PATHWAY – (Post 6 Months)

Weekly live practice sessions + 1 online module

After completing six months of active subscription, you'll be eligible to receive 25 CEUs and earn your Certificate in Transformational Perinatal Coaching. This milestone marks your commitment to deep learning, practice, and professional growth — and sets you apart as a skilled and certified perinatal coach.

Module 08

Launching Your Perinatal Coaching Practice

  • Structuring the coaching session and coaching series
  • Tracking clients' progress
  • Following up on coaching sessions
  • Virtual platforms
  • Scheduling platforms
  • Marketing strategies and AI marketing
  • Contracts and chargrges

Certification Requirements:

  • Complete the self-study of all online lessons (self-paced).
  • Attend at least 6 months of live Zoom sessions.
  • Submit a 20-Day Action Plan.
  • Pass the final exam (score of 70% or higher).
  • Have at least one year of experience in birth support (doula, educator, yoga instructor, nurse, midwife, etc.) OR complete a list of prerequisite courses if new to the field.
  • Sign the Birth Coach Method Code of Ethics and Scope of Practice Agreement.
  • Submit your application and a $150 certification processing fee, along with a directory listing.

Prerequisites

New to the world of Birth Support?

No problem! Learn the following prerequisites for your certification (additional cost)

  • Physiology and anatomy of birth
  • Prenatal care and common complications in pregnancy
  • Stages and phases of labor
  • Common medical interventions in L&D
  • Labor support tools and comfort measures series
  • Physiological and emotional changes during the postpartum period
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I almost quit my doula practice

I've been a labor doula for 25 years, during which maternal care has come to rely heavily on diagnostic technologies, pain blockers, and medical interventions. Birth givers' fear levels have increased dramatically despite having Dr. Google, Dr. Facebook, and Dr. YouTube on speed dial, and fewer have achieved their desired birth experience. I was overworked, frustrated, disappointed with myself, underpaid, burned out, and ready to quit. I wasn't alone. Many birth workers shared the experience.

My passion for birth work led me to seek more effective strategies that would have a greater impact and be transformative for both my clients and me. I discovered transformational coaching and transitioned into transformative birth support.


Coaching clients with field-specific strategies to address the challenges faced by those who undergo the utmost transformation in human life - giving birth and becoming parents, will set you and them up for success and empower everyone!

Coach clients prenatally

  • Address clients' beliefs, perspectives, motivations, values, and desires relating to their childbearing process.
  • Lead your clients in a series of coaching conversations, engage them in coaching exercises, and in actions to achieve what they want.
  • Develop non-authoritative partnerships with clients to help them develop and practice their agency.
  • Focus on coaching practices to increase confidence and undo limiting beliefs and success blockers.
  • Lean into patient-centered advocacy to individualize your clients' experiences

Connect with the medical team

  • Practice rapport-building techniques such as mirroring and matching
  • Lead co-active conversations using coaching strategies in L&D
  • Practice patient-centered advocacy utilizing what you've learned about your clients prenatally
  • Team up with the staff and lead patient-centered care and patient engagement

Continue to coach during postpartum

  • Establish long-term client relationships to create stable income
  • Lead coaching conversations and provide continuity of care that is crucial to high-quality care
  • Coach your clients using the same strategies and exercises you used prenatally to resolve their postpartum challenges
  • Utilize all that you've learned about your clients prenatally to facilitate a smooth transition into parenting

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  • Get a proven formula to design a prenatal and postpartum coaching session series
  • Get coaching exercises designed for coaching clients undergoing the childbearing process
  • Practice scenario-based and peer coaching for immediate implementation
  • Address and optimize clients’ motivations
  • Rock your virtual support
  • Learn the principles and structures of the coaching process, using different models to lead coaching conversations
  • Elicit clients’ accountability and foster commitment so you can avoid professional burnout
  • Map clients’ challenges and strengths
  • Undo clients' limiting beliefs and success blockers
  • Clarify clients' perspectives, beliefs, and desired experiences
  • Learn strategies to GET PAYING CLIENTS and establish your thriving practice
  • Craft your childbearing coaching series
  • Facilitate alignment between clients' beliefs, wishes, goals, and actions
  • Learn rapport-building techniques with NLP to improve your communication and relationships with medical staff
  • Enjoy our birth support pros global community; nobody should do this sacred work alone!

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What our time together will look like

Weekly Sessions

That's right. Our Global Community meets weekly

Get the Textbook

A copy of The Art of Coaching for Childbirth

Coaching Exercises

Learn many coaching exercises we designed

Replays

You can always watch the replay if you missed us

8 recorded Modules

Each module includes videos and articles

PPT Slide Deck

Program's Workbook with PowerPoint Slide Deck

Certification Badge

Upload your certificate badge to your website

Peer Practice

Coach your peers and grow together

The Birth Coach Method community

is international! It's fascinating to have birth workers from around the globe come together on Zoom!
Read what our graduates say

What Our Graduates Say

"Neri's coaching method is the missing piece to birth support. I truly believe birth coaching is the way to empower birthers. Now I am able to help and encourage a mom to be the expert of her birth and body. I now have the skills to not overly invest in the outcomes of the birth I am supporting. This allows me to protect my own mental health and energy while continuing to do the work I know I'm called to do and that is to help make birth better."

- Kathleen Paige Adilapuram CD, India

"The transformational birth coach program was everything I had been longing for. There are so many different routes to take when it comes to birth support but little incorporate coaching and empowering the birth giver along their experience. Neri is amazing and I love how experienced and knowledgeable she is in the field. You can feel how much she truly loves what she does and it comes through in the course details as well as the live sessions."

- Tanai Holder, Certified Birth Coach, USA

Creating accountability - rather than be the doula rescuer when things don't go as planned. Letting clients find their own answers, take ownership, and advocate for themselves will set them on a path for life as people and parents while meeting them where they are. (Not to mention, it really helps with - preventing - doula burn-out.)

- Bertine Van Norden-Attia, Nederland

I believe the Birth Coach Method truly is the missing link in birth support and would recommend to everyone working with expectant and/or newborn mothers and parents.

- Dagný Erla Vilbergsdóttir, birth and PP doula, Iceland

I enjoyed all of Neri's sessions. As a childbirth educator and doula, Neri gave fresh perspectives and insights on how to shift the quality of maternal care through coaching.

- Nur Hafiza Kemat, Birth Doula and CBE, Qatar

I have learned to work with clients from a perspective that allows them to trust themselves, their ideas, their bodies, as well as them having a positive birth experience. Thank you Neri for all the strategies you have shared, and I cannot wait to kick off my Birth Coaching practice!

- Shereen Zarroug, CD, Dubai, UAE

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