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The live class has ended, but you can still access the training.
Where Is the Doula? | Postpartum Psychosis, Crisis & Community Care is now available as an on-demand training, including the 90-minute recording and The Doula’s Field Guide to PPP.
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WHERE IS THE DOULA?
Postpartum Psychosis, Crisis & Community care
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Pay what you can · Suggested $25–$75
WHAT WE'LL LEARN AND HOLD TOGETHER.
Doulas are not clinicians, and our role is not to diagnose postpartum psychosis. But being non-clinical does not mean being unprepared. We are often close enough to notice change, hear what isn’t being said, and recognize when something needs more attention.
Together, we’ll explore what doulas need to know to recognize, respond, and understand our place within a larger circle of care. And because this work does not live only in textbooks, we’ll also make space to share, reflect, ask questions, and process what we have witnessed and carried as doulas.
This is part education, part facilitated conversation, and part space to be with one another in the complexity of this work.
Know what you’re looking for.
Understand postpartum psychosis, common risk factors, early warning signs, and the changes in sleep, behavior, thinking, mood, and perception that may signal something more urgent is happening.
You don’t need to diagnose in order to notice.
Know what to do when something feels wrong.
Explore what a doula can ask, document, communicate, and do when concerned about a client, including when and how to escalate care, involve the family or care team, and respond when immediate safety may be at risk.
Scope should give us clarity, not make us disappear.
Understand the doula’s unique place in the circle of care.
Examine why full-spectrum, postpartum,  and birth doulas may notice things other members of the care team never have the opportunity to see. We'll explore how relationship, proximity, continuity, advocacy, and community care can become meaningful parts of a family’s safety net.
Non-clinical does not mean unimportant.
WE ARE ERICA AND SHISHI.
We’re postpartum-centric, full-spectrum doulas and educators with over 20 years of collective experience in this work. We have both cared for families navigating postpartum psychosis and recovery, and we are mothers ourselves. Our work is rooted in a deep commitment to birth and postpartum justiceand to building communities where no one has to face crisis alone.
"Doulas often have more touchpoint with a family than anyone else in the care model. Â We are close enough to notice when something changes. That means understanding postpartum psychosis cannot be outside the scope of our education."Â
 Erica Livingston
"Postpartum psychosis doesn't happen in a vacuum. Medication, hormones, sleep, relationships, systems of care, and the people surrounding a new parent all matter. We have to be willing, and able, to look at the whole picture."