Myrna Martin,
MN, RCC, RCST ®

Prenatal/ Birth/
Attachment Therapy
and Professional Trainings


Pre and Perinatal Professional Training

Providing professional education for issues from preconception to early childhood, including the prenatal, birth and attachment periods.

The Professional Training prepares students to work with babies, children and their families in the resolution of early trauma, thereby supporting secure attachment. It also prepares students to work with adults wanting to do their own healing from early family experiences.

Trainees come from a wide range of professional backgrounds and skills. They include craniosacral therapists, chiropractors, osteopaths, acupuncturists, nurses, medical doctors, doulas, midwives, childbirth educators lactation consultants, regular and special education teachers, occupational therapists, child/youth and adult counselors, preschool teachers and child care providers.

This training is also suitable for people who want to do their own personal work in a safe, secure container that continues for two years.

This training model was originally developed by Dr. Ray Castellino. Myrna completed the Castellino Training, and assisted it twice. She has also studied extensively with Dr. William Emerson and other leaders in the field. She has years of experience as a therapist in trauma resolution with individuals, with families and with groups.

Myrna brings this depth of experience to the training process and with it a wealth of up to date scientific information and evidence based research. She is a dynamic teacher, well organized, and graceful with the group process. The training time over the eight modules is divided approximately into one half experiential and one half cognitive learning.

Depending on the trainee's background, this training is a beginning preparation that will require supervised practice and participation as a trainee in the Strengthening Families program or similar program to practice independently.

If the student is already an experienced child/youth or adult therapist this training will develop the necessary expertise to provide attachment therapy for all ages of children and their families and /or adults.

This training is very useful to all professionals who work with families during pregnancy and the early years of children's life, and it will add depth and breadth to any current practice, including those that involve only adults. Myrna will outline the clinical opportunities through the Strengthening Families program in the Training.

The Professional Training will teach or enhance your skills in:

creating therapeutic presence
tracking somatic, energetic and fluid tide rhythms to assess and facilitate resolving prenatal and birth stress and trauma
identification of your own prenatal and birth issues so you can use your own activations effectively and compassionately in the facilitator role
relating the client's present experience, behavior and emotional states to prenatal and birth imprinting in function and structure
recognizing prenatal and birth imprinting in the body language, body structure, movement, personality and character structure in babies, children, and adults
developing the client's internal resources so they may effectively explore and resolve early traumatic imprinting
recognizing the way prenatal and birth imprinting affects family dynamics
facilitating infants, children and their parents in family sessions
establishing and maintaining clear and effective therapeutic boundaries in the context of prenatal/birth/attachment therapy
using therapeutic verbal, energetic and touch skills in the context of prenatal/ birth/attachment therapy
using sandplay and art therapy in the context of prenatal/ birth/attachment therapy
making contact with others from your own experience, and identifying and working with your own prenatal and birth patterns
facilitating adults/parents in small group Birthing Your Self Process Workshops

NOTE: This model does not involve ANY coercive verbal or holding interventions.


Two current trainings are underway.
The next training will be in Nelson beginning in Spring, 2009.
Please contact Myrna for details at myrna@myrnamartin.net


More information about the training modules.


"Myrna's Professional Training has been a huge blessing to me both personally and professionally. It has really 'connected the dots' for me in so many ways in my Craniosacral Therapy practice, especially in my work with pregnant women and small children. Myrna is a gifted and generous teacher, and her many years of experience in the Perinatal field really show in the depth and breadth of her training program. "

(more testimonials...)



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