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After the Birth: Healing Perinatal & Postnatal PTSD — a trauma-informed, evidence-based, faith-integrated GraceRoot Institute course for mothers, fathers, and partners who experienced trauma during pregnancy, birth, or postpartum. Understand perinatal trauma, heal mind and body, restore identity and self-worth, strengthen relationships, and build a life of wholeness. There is hope after trauma.
🤍 Trauma-Informed · Maternal Mental Health

After the Birth: Healing Perinatal & Postnatal PTSD

Trauma during and after pregnancy is real, common, and treatable — and it is not "just part of motherhood."

A trauma-informed course that equips mothers, partners, birth workers, ministry leaders, and clinicians to recognize, validate, and respond to trauma experienced during pregnancy, labor, delivery, NICU stays, and early motherhood.

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6 Modules 36 Lessons Embedded Video Peer-Reviewed Sources 8 Recovery Worksheets
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~1 in 10 mothers meet criteria for PTSD after childbirth (2024 meta-analysis)
In crisis? If you're thinking about harming yourself or your baby, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline) or the Postpartum Support International HelpLine: 1-800-944-4773 (text "Help" to 800-944-4773). If there is immediate danger, call 911. This course is education, not a substitute for medical or mental-health care.

Why this course exists

Perinatal PTSD is common enough to require education, under-screened enough to be missed, and impactful enough to affect maternal safety, bonding, breastfeeding, relationships, and infant well-being.

~10%
of women meet criteria for PTSD after childbirth (2024 meta-analysis)
5–20%
report clinically significant childbirth-related PTSD symptoms
~30%
experience obstetric complications that raise PTSD risk
73%
of birth-trauma survivors locate the trauma in labor & delivery
The Curriculum

Six modules from recognition to recovery

Each module integrates current research on childbirth-related PTSD, attachment, nervous-system regulation, bonding, relational support, and evidence-based recovery.

Who it's for

Whether you've lived it or you walk beside someone who has

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Mothers & birthing parents

Name what happened, understand your nervous system, and find a grounded path toward recovery.

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Partners & family

Learn how birth trauma shows up at home and how to offer steady, informed support.

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Birth workers & clinicians

Screen, validate, and refer with trauma-informed language grounded in current evidence.

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Ministry & care leaders

Respond to maternal suffering in your community with compassion and competence.

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NICU & postpartum families

Make sense of hospitalization, separation, bonding, and feeding after a hard start.

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Students & advocates

Build a research-backed foundation in perinatal mental health and trauma care.

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Inside the course

Everything you need to learn and heal

  • 🎬
    Embedded teaching videos
    Expert explainers on postpartum PTSD, the still-face experiment, EMDR, and the parental brain — each with a direct YouTube link if a video won't load.
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    8 recovery worksheets
    Practical, trauma-informed tools you can use between lessons and bring to your own care.
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    Scored pre & post quizzes
    Capture your baseline, then measure what changed by the end of the course.
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    Peer-reviewed research
    Every module links to current studies and clinical guidelines (ACOG, meta-analyses, and more).
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Dr. Donetta Quinones
Your instructor

Dr. Donetta Quinones, PhD, LPC, LMHC

Founder, GraceRoot Institute · Trauma-Informed Clinician

Dr. Quinones brings a trauma-informed, Christ-centered approach to maternal mental health — blending current research with clinical compassion. This course reflects her commitment to making perinatal trauma care accessible, validating, and genuinely healing for families and the people who support them.

Education, not a substitute for medical or mental-health treatment.

You don't have to carry the birth alone

Begin with a short baseline quiz, then move through six modules at your own pace. Validation, understanding, and a real path forward.

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Program Clarity

GraceRoot courses are psychoeducational learning programs, not emergency care, legal advice, or a replacement for therapy. Certificates document GraceRoot completion. Court, employer, board, or continuing education acceptance should be confirmed before purchase unless a page states a specific approval.

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