FAQs

 

What does this training cover?

This training explores the neuroscience of pregnancy and postpartum for both birthing and non-birthing parents, grounded in the latest research and science-based findings led by a leading parental brain neuroscientist. We examine how the brain changes, what drives vulnerability to perinatal mental illness, and how care, context, and intervention shape outcomes. 

Participants will learn to challenge harmful narratives like “mommy brain” with evidence, and understand risk, resilience, and recovery through a neurobiological lens, while integrating neuroscience into everyday clinical conversations and interventions.

 

What are the learning objectives?

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

1) Describe foundational neuroscience concepts relevant to brain structure, function, and plasticity during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

2) Critically evaluate the concept of “mommy brain” and mental load and understand how to work with clients struggling with these experiences.

3) Identify how hormones, caregiving experience, feeding mode, stress, mental load, and attachment relationships influence parental brain function.

4) Recognize neurobiological correlates of perinatal mental health conditions, including depression, anxiety, psychosis, trauma, and perinatal loss.

5) Apply neuroscience-informed knowledge to clinical assessment, psychoeducation, and brain-health focused intervention planning with perinatal clients.

6) Identify and apply neurobiological understanding and evidence-based strategies to protect and enhance perinatal brain health.

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Who should attend?

• This is an intensive training for health care providers, childcare advocates and policy makers from around the globe

• The course is open to a broad range of professionals, including social workers, psychotherapists, psychologists, midwives, nurses, OBs, psychiatrists, pediatricians, family doctors, and doulas.

• Anyone working with parents and children or anyone interested in the parental brain can attend.

• PMH-C practitioners can recieve 9 CECs here

• No prerequisite is required.  

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Are there CE Credits?

• 9 CEC (via CCPA-ACCP)

• For specific agency CE pre-approval, please contact me to begin the process

• PMH-Cs - The 9CECs can be used towards your PMH-C. 

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​What will I receive?

• Downloadable presentations files

• Tools of intervention for use in supporting perinatal brain health

• Unlimited access to online resources, research articles, and recordings tailored to the course syllabus

• 30% discount on the book Mommy Brain (Demeter Press).

• Certificate of Completion / Digital Certificate of Completion for the participants' website.

• Opportunity to join the Perinatal Neuroscience Journal Club — a quarterly space for alumni dedicated to thoughtful exploration of cutting-edge research, meaningful conversations, and shared curiosity.

 

​What are the Course Modules?

• Module 1: Introduction to the brain — understanding baseline neuroscientific concepts; re-examining the meaning and social use of “mommy brain.”

• Module 2: Brain changes in parents — how pregnancy and postpartum (for birthing and non-birthing parents) impact brain structure and function; effects of hormones, parenting experience, feeding mode, etc.

• Module 3: Attachment, stress, and mental load — how stressors, mental load, expectations, and parent-child interactions relate to brain changes and parental mental health. 

• Module 4: Perinatal mental health and the brain — examining how perinatal depression, anxiety, psychosis, trauma or loss affect the brain; introducing ways to integrate this knowledge into clinical support and interventions. 

• Module 5: Supporting perinatal brain health — strategies to protect and enhance brain health: sleep, exercise, nutrition, social support, psychotherapy, medications, possibly brain stimulation, and applying evidence-based approaches. 

• Module 6: Putting the parental brain into perspective — broader societal and systemic factors influencing parental brain health; integrating neurobiological knowledge for perinatal support, mental health risk mitigation, and care planning.

 

​What is the cost?

• The investment for the Perinatal Mental Health Training is €899, including tax.

• This includes the live 2-day training, course materials and resources, certificate of completion, access to the training recordings and additional resources, and ongoing access to the Perinatal Neuroscience Journal Club.

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🌍 Global Access Pricing

I believe that high-quality perinatal mental health education should be accessible to professionals around the world. At the same time, I recognise that €899 can represent a very different financial commitment depending on where you live and work.

 

To help make the training more accessible internationally, Global Access Pricing is available for professionals living and working where the standard course fee may be a significant financial barrier (ie. primarily for those in middle- to low-income countries). Global Access rate starts at €449.

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If the Global Access rate is still beyond what you can reasonably afford, contact me.

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Where can I find the payment link for Global Access Pricing?

• Contact me, and I'll send you a link.

 

Not sure whether Global Access Pricing applies to you?

• Please get in touch. I'm happy to discuss your circumstances.

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Group bookings

• If you are registering 3 or more people from the same organisation or team, a 20% group discount is available.

• Please get in touch to discuss group registration.

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A note about accessibility

• My goal is to make this training available to professionals who are passionate about improving perinatal mental health care, wherever they are in the world.

• If cost is a barrier to participating, please don't hesitate to contact me. I would rather have a conversation about what might be possible than have finances prevent someone from accessing the training.

 

​Who do I contact if I have more questions?

You can contact me directly at j.pawluski@gmail.com. 

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