Somatic Maternal Healing Part 2
(Approved for the Psychotherapy/Mental Health Track Advanced Training as well as CE for maintaining PMH-C)
$250
Clock Hours: 3
Recorded Asynchronous Webinar
Target Audience: behavioral health and social workers who serve in the role of counseling/therapy.
Content Description:
This Advanced level program will dive deeper into utilizing therapeutic skills, identifying common barriers to treatment, and identify goal setting.
Learning Objectives:
1. Integrate the 4 foundational aspects of sensory awareness within diverse psychotherapy frameworks for perinatal clients to formulate strategies for clinical synthesis.
2. Practice at least 2 advanced nervous system tracking interventions to facilitate coregulation and therapeutic safety and to evaluate their adaptability to the unique needs of perinatal clients.
3. Identify and critically evaluate at least 2 common provider bias reactions that compromise trauma-responsive care to inform clinical strategies to restore therapeutic safety in perinatal settings.
4. Formulate and apply 3 principles of integrative goal-setting that align perinatal trauma treatment plans with biopsychosocial and somatic principles of care.
Presented by: HELENA VISSING, MS, PSYD, PMH-C
Helena Vissing is a Licensed Psychologist certified in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C). In addition to being a trainer at Nurturing Mamas Network, she is in private practice in California. She practices psychodynamic and trauma-informed somatic psychotherapy as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner. Dr. Vissing is experienced as Adjunct faculty at several graduate institutions, including Reiss-Davis Graduate School, Antioch University, and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She also has experience offering consultations and trainings for perinatal providers. She has published book chapters and articles on the topic of the psychology of motherhood. Dr. Vissing has written a book on her somatic and psychodynamic model for treatment of trauma in the Perinatal Period titled Somatic Maternal Healing: Psychodynamic and Somatic Trauma Treatment for Perinatal Mental Health (Routledge). She has done psychodynamic training at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and the Saturday Center for Psychotherapy. She is also host on the New Books in Psychoanalysis podcast and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Body Psychotherapy.
In this recorded asynchronous distance course, attendees will watch a recorded video from a webinar held on 04/06/2026. **Please Note: To meet continuing education requirements, full participation is required. the platform monitors viewing time, and skipping or fast-forwarding through content will be recorded as incomplete, which will restrict access to subsequent modules. Please view all sections in full before moving forward.**
Course completion requirements: behavioral health and social workers must attend the entire course and complete a course evaluation to be eligible for ce credit. Behavioral Health and social workers must pass the posttest with 80% in 3 attempts to be eligible for ce credit. Certificates of completion will be emailed within 2 business days of course completion.
Nurturing Mamas Network has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7232. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Nurturing Mamas Network is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Nurturing Mamas Network, provider #2686, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Workers Board (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 11/14/2025- 11/14/2026. Social workers completing this course receive 3 clinical continuing education credits.
If a participant or potential participant would like to express a concern about his/her experience with Nurturing Mamas Network, he/she may call or e-mail Felicia Hurst at felicia@nurturingmamasnetwork.com. Although we do not guarantee a particular outcome, the individual can expect us to consider the complaint, make any necessary decisions and respond within 30 days
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00:00–00:30 Introduction & Learning Objectives – Overview of goals, outline of session Lecture
00:30–01:00 Core Content Part 1 – Presentation of foundational concepts Lecture + Case Example
01:00–01:20 Core Content Part 2 – Applied strategies and interventions Lecture + Group Discussion
01:20-01:30 Break
01:30–02:00 Experiential/Practice – Role-play, mindfulness, skill application Experiential Activity
02:00–02:30 Integration – Clinical implications, case applications Reflection + Discussion
02:30–03:00 Q&A / Closing – Wrap-up, open discussion Group Discussion
03:00–03:05 Evaluations Completed – Non-CE time Non-CE Activity
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Please note: Access to this course will terminate 30 days after purchasing through the above.