015 Stephanie Dueger, PhD LPC: Strengthening your relationship with your partner and baby before birth for healthy attachment and bonding.
01/03/20 • 60 min
Bio: Dr. Stephanie Dueger, otherwise known as The Attachment Doctor, is a psychotherapist, parent coach, and educator, who works with expectant and new parents and their little ones. She helps individuals, couples, and families with young children heal relational challenges and resolve trauma using an attachment-based and somatically-informed background.
Stephanie received an MA from Naropa University in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Wilderness Therapy. After meeting her husband in the same program and falling in love with their first-born daughter in 2007, Stephanie turned her focus to early somatic attachment work, training and assisting with The Brook Institute. She then earned her PhD from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, with an emphasis in Somatic and Pre- and Perinatal Psychology in 2015, having a second, deeply-loved daughter along the way.
Stephanie is the Editor-in-Chief of the academic Journal of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health, as well as a writer. Her first book—the one she wishes she’d had for herself when first becoming a parent—is currently in the publishing process, and has a “due date” sometime in January, 2020. Tentatively titled Preparing for Parenthood: 55 Essential Conversations for Couples becoming Families, the book is filled with conversation-starters and helpful action items for couples to complete prior to becoming parents. These conversations and action items help couples transition into parenthood in ways that best align with their own beliefs and values, creating greater connection, understanding, and confidence for the new family.
A lover of wilderness, travel, and all creatures, Stephanie spends most of her free time with her family outdoors. She lives in Boulder, CO with her husband and two daughters.
Resources: www.drduegertherapy.com
Bio: Dr. Stephanie Dueger, otherwise known as The Attachment Doctor, is a psychotherapist, parent coach, and educator, who works with expectant and new parents and their little ones. She helps individuals, couples, and families with young children heal relational challenges and resolve trauma using an attachment-based and somatically-informed background.
Stephanie received an MA from Naropa University in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Wilderness Therapy. After meeting her husband in the same program and falling in love with their first-born daughter in 2007, Stephanie turned her focus to early somatic attachment work, training and assisting with The Brook Institute. She then earned her PhD from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, with an emphasis in Somatic and Pre- and Perinatal Psychology in 2015, having a second, deeply-loved daughter along the way.
Stephanie is the Editor-in-Chief of the academic Journal of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health, as well as a writer. Her first book—the one she wishes she’d had for herself when first becoming a parent—is currently in the publishing process, and has a “due date” sometime in January, 2020. Tentatively titled Preparing for Parenthood: 55 Essential Conversations for Couples becoming Families, the book is filled with conversation-starters and helpful action items for couples to complete prior to becoming parents. These conversations and action items help couples transition into parenthood in ways that best align with their own beliefs and values, creating greater connection, understanding, and confidence for the new family.
A lover of wilderness, travel, and all creatures, Stephanie spends most of her free time with her family outdoors. She lives in Boulder, CO with her husband and two daughters.
Resources: www.drduegertherapy.com
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014 Jenny West: Waterbirth From a Midwife’s Perspective
Jennifer West has has been a licensed midwife since 1989, specializing in water birth, relaxation through hypnosis and using CranioSacral therapy during birth and with newborns. In this episode, she tells the story of how she became a midwife after a career as a National Park Ranger and an EMT. She speaks about the benefits of waterbirth and how she facilitates empowering women to follow their own body’s signals during labor and birth and how this approach has led to positive birth experiences, decreased amount of traumatic birth and helps facilitate early bonding as a family.
BIO:
Jennifer L. West, LM,CPM,TBMP,CST,CH,IPE has been a practicing midwife since 1989, is the owner of Albuquerque Homebirth, a practice that specializes in waterbirth, hypnosis, Total Body Modification(TBM), CranioSacral (CST) care and various methods of complimentary & energy work. She also owns The Purple Thistle Tea Co., a local and mail-order business.
Prior to becoming a midwife, she worked for the National Park Service as a park ranger. Five years of law enforcement, emergency medicine, structural and wildland firefighting proved to have been a great background for becoming a midwife, which also involves working with and educating the public on a daily basis.
Jenny taught traditional childbirth classes at two local hospitals for five years, and continues to teach private childbirth preparation classes and infant CPR, has authored two books, and also presents birth/midwifery related topics at national workshops.
She is retired from being the Peer Review Coordinator for all New Mexico licensed midwives after 13 years, retired President and board member for the National College of Midwifery in Taos, as well as the NM State Midwifery Advisory Board. Currently a preceptor (teaching midwifery education programs for certification) for the next generations of midwives.
In her spare time, hobbies include reading, camping, sleeping, and going to the beach!
Resources:
Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering, a book authored by Sarah Buckley
Waterbirth International https://waterbirth.org/
Waterbirth in the 21st century, a video
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016 Stephanie Dueger, PhD LPC: Attachment and Bonding Begins Before Birth part 2
10 conversations to have before birth worksheetDownload
In this second part of a two part series, Dr. Dueger is back with us sharing practical tips and tools on how to prepare for parenting examining the following extremely important conversation topics: Values (do you as a couple hold the same values and beliefs? If not, how can you compromise?) History (how were you raised, what were your experiences in the first years of life - because this will affect your parenting style) Pregnancy (how can you use the pregnancy time period to build a support network with other parents) Birth (what are the expectations for the birth experience: what is important to you as a couple for the experience) Postpartum (identifying support networks, what to expect in the first few weeks, how to communicate needs during this time).
Bio:
Dr. Stephanie Dueger, otherwise known as The Attachment Doctor, is a psychotherapist, parent coach, and educator, who works with expectant and new parents and their little ones. She helps individuals, couples, and families with young children heal relational challenges and resolve trauma using an attachment-based and somatically-informed background.
Stephanie received an MA from Naropa University in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Wilderness Therapy. After meeting her husband in the same program and falling in love with their first-born daughter in 2007, Stephanie turned her focus to early somatic attachment work, training and assisting with The Brook Institute. She then earned her PhD from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, with an emphasis in Somatic and Pre- and Perinatal Psychology in 2015, having a second, deeply-loved daughter along the way.
Stephanie is the Editor-in-Chief of the academic Journal of Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health, as well as a writer. Her first book—the one she wishes she’d had for herself when first becoming a parent—is currently in the publishing process, and has a “due date” sometime in January, 2020. Tentatively titled Preparing for Parenthood: 55 Essential Conversations for Couples becoming Families, the book is filled with conversation-starters and helpful action items for couples to complete prior to becoming parents. These conversations and action items help couples transition into parenthood in ways that best align with their own beliefs and values, creating greater connection, understanding, and confidence for the new family.
A lover of wilderness, travel, and all creatures, Stephanie spends most of her free time with her family outdoors. She lives in Boulder, CO with her husband and two daughters.
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