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The Touchstone Institute Empowering perinatal practitioners through holistic trainings and consultations.

10/16/2026

Have your own experiences shaped your path as a perinatal therapist? 💗

You’re not alone. Many of us - especially in the perinatal world - are drawn to this work through our own wounds. When engaged with care, those experiences can become powerful sources of connection, insight, and healing.

Join Emily Spencer on November 12 for her training, The Perinatal Therapist & Wounded Healer, to explore how our lived experiences shape our practices - and how to navigate them ethically and intentionally.

Learn more and enroll at https://www.touchstoneinstitute.org/trainings/the-perinatal-therapist-and-wounded-healer-nov-2026

10/15/2026

Grieving the death of a baby is widely understood to be as much or more intense than the loss of a loved one in any other stage of life.

Not only are parents completely disoriented as their journey shifts from joy to despair, but a loneliness like no other can creep in when few people understand what they are experiencing or know what to say.

Have a listen to a clip from Mara Tesler Stein's and Debbie Davis's course, Empty Cradle, Broken Heart, for more.

10/13/2026

Two questions come up over and over when therapists talk about maternal rage:

☝️ What causes it?
✌️ What do we do with it?

Nicole McNelis created her course, Maternal Rage: Implications & Interventions, to answer both these questions with clarity, clinical depth, and tools you can bring straight into your sessions.

📖 Maternal Rage: Implications & Interventions
🗓️ November 2
🔗 Learn more and register at https://bit.ly/rage-live

Join us October 13 for Overlooked & Overwhelmed: Supporting ADHD in the Perinatal Years, a clinician-focused training on...
10/09/2026

Join us October 13 for Overlooked & Overwhelmed: Supporting ADHD in the Perinatal Years, a clinician-focused training on recognition, risk assessment, and trauma-informed interventions.

You’ll learn to:
✅ Recognize ADHD presentations in pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenting
✅ Assess elevated PMAD risk when ADHD is present
✅ Use trauma-informed, culturally responsive, session-ready interventions
✅ Support regulation, executive function, and parent–child bonding
✅ Apply case-based assessment and treatment planning for neurodivergent birthing people

📖 Overlooked & Overwhelmed: Supporting ADHD in the Perinatal Years
🗓️ October 13, 2026
🔗 Register today at https://bit.ly/TI-ADHD-Live

Too many birthing people move through the postpartum period without ever being screened for emotional health - and witho...
10/08/2026

Too many birthing people move through the postpartum period without ever being screened for emotional health - and without the language to name what they’re feeling.

We're grateful to Dr. Julie Bindeman for sharing her Postpartum Tracking Chart in honor of National Depression Screening Day. This quick self-assessment tool offers a clear, supportive way to identify possible signs of postpartum anxiety, depression, or baby blues.

Share this post with clients and colleagues to help new parents identify postpartum emotional concerns.

10/07/2026

Maternal rage has always existed. But the pandemic made it harder to ignore.

Nicole McNelis shares how personal and professional worlds collided during that time - and what it revealed about emotional labor, rage, and mental health care.

📖 Maternal Rage: Implications & Interventions
🗓️ November 2
🔗 Learn more and register at https://bit.ly/rage-live

Meet Emily Spencer!Emily is a licensed counselor and owner of Lily of the Valley Wellness, specializing in maternal ment...
10/06/2026

Meet Emily Spencer!

Emily is a licensed counselor and owner of Lily of the Valley Wellness, specializing in maternal mental health, perinatal loss, and trauma. A NICU mom herself, her lived experience fuels her passion for supporting perinatal clients and mentoring professionals in the field.

Join Emily on November 12 for The Perinatal Therapist & Wounded Healer. If you’ve ever struggled with when to share your own story, felt emotionally activated by a client’s experience, or worried about the toll this work takes - this training is for you.

What you'll gain:
✅ A structured framework that takes the guesswork out of self-disclosure
✅ Guidance on recognizing and managing countertransference
✅ Tools for preventing burnout and compassion fatigue

📖 The Perinatal Therapist & Wounded Healer: How Lived Experiences Shape Our Practices
🗓️ November 16
🔗 Learn more and register at https://bit.ly/healer-26-live

Accessible learning, no matter where you're at!We believe that high-quality, trauma-informed care training should be wit...
10/05/2026

Accessible learning, no matter where you're at!

We believe that high-quality, trauma-informed care training should be within reach for ALL mental health professionals. That’s why we offer a flexible sliding scale payment model that includes tiered pricing, payment plans, agency discounts, and even scholarships for select courses.

Visit https://touchstoneinstitute.org/pricing for more details. We’re here to support your journey every step of the way. 💜

Last chance to save 15% on Touchstone trainings!Don't forget to use discount code NICU15 on any courses (excluding Found...
10/02/2026

Last chance to save 15% on Touchstone trainings!

Don't forget to use discount code NICU15 on any courses (excluding Foundational EMDR) by midnight tonight at https://bit.ly/touchstone-trainings

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