Phyllis Klaus is a licensed psychotherapist and social worker. She practices in Berkeley, California, providing psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and counseling to individuals, couples, families, children and groups. She has worked with the concerns, both medical and psychosocial, of pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period for the past 30 years, and has been involved in research and training of maternity caregivers. She is also a founder of DONA International. She is a National Board Certified Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy and Fellow in the American Psychotherapy Association, as well as the American Academy of Experts of Traumatic Stress. She is an EMDR Institute Facilitator, and Trainer, an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, and has incorporated EMDR into her work for the past 17 years. She consults and presents lectures and workshops on psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and EMDR nationally and internationally.
Barbara C. Decker has been a childbirth educator for over 40 years, is a HypnoBirthing Practitioner, Certified Prenatal Bonding Facilitator (BA and GPE), a doula and doula trainer. Barbara is a believer in the need to teach parents about the intelligence of the conscious baby in the womb. She has co-written a Preconception/Early Pregnancy Education Program, “Empowering Pregnancy: Parenting from the Beginning of Life”. Barbara lectures at conferences about the need to teach parents of the social epigenetic impacts on the fetus in the womb. This new educational paradigm concerning early pregnancy is her passion. She is a faculty member of Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association (CAPPA), Treasurer of the National Guild of Hypnotists, Washington Chapter (NGHWA), and a board member of the Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH).
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Activities for pregnancy comfort and easier birth.