Integrative Pelvic Therapy Certification Program

mentorship & certification program

with Dr. Kathryn Kloos

Take your abdominal and pelvic floor work with female-bodied clients to the next level. This certification program is designed for practitioners who want to strengthen their skills working with pelvic floor and reproductive issues, learn advanced bodywork and utilize somatic mind/body techniques to hold a profound healing container for your clients.

 

Registration Will Open for

Fall 2023

Prerequisites

To qualify for this course you must be an LMT, ND, Midwife, MD, Nurse practitioner, or student in one of these fields. I will be including the introductory pelvic floor level one within the mentorship. No previous pelvic floor therapy training is necessary.

 
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Advanced bodywork For women’s health

  • Abdominal and Uterine Massage

  • Pelvic Floor Therapy

  • Lumbar, sacral and hip assessment and myofascial release and trigger point therapy

  • cupping therapy for women’s health

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Somatic Awareness & Mind-Body Techniques

  • Learn how to use your intuition to guide your treatments

  • Give your clients mindfulness tools they can use for pelvic pain management and body image issues

  • Learn somatic techniques to increase efficacy of your bodywork treatments.

  • Provide trauma-informed care for your clients.

Fall and Winter Therapy Dates are now set for Portland and Seattle!

Seattle: November 17-20th, January 19-22nd

Portland: December 1-4th, January 26-29th

Topics include: Pelvic Floor assessment and treatment, Abdominal/Uterine Massage & Hip Alignment Manual Therapy, Trauma-Informed Care, Somatic Resoucing, Making Friends with the Body, Cupping and Case Presentations.

See Detailed Course Summary below for details of each weekend.

Eligible for CEUs for LMTs and NDs

Investment: Early Bird. Sign up by September 30th and pay $2500. Afterward, price goes up to $2700

- payment plans are available!

 

Why do a mentorship and pelvic health certification?

  • You have taken a pelvic floor intro class and would like to have mentorship to improve your skills

  • You want to be a practitioner who has competent skills and can accurately identify and treat common women’s health conditions.

  • You want to be able to access your intuition in combination with proven clinical outcomes.

  • You want to be able to hold a profound healing space for your clients where they feel safe to transform their wounds and find their power.

  • You want to have a diagnostic and treatment tools set that will give your female clients lasting results.

 

Detailed Course Summary

+ WEEKEND 1:Abdominal/Uterine massage and Intro to Pelvic Floor,

In this weekend we will review the anatomy of the abdomen and pelvis including the muscles, innervation, fascial connections and ligamentous structures. We will fine tune our skills of abdomino-pelvic assessment and treatment. ** **

Objectives

  • learn why uterine aligment is important
  • how to check and treat uterine aligment issues with myofascial release
  • abdominal organ massage
  • uterine unwinding and somatic therapuetics for the reproductive area.
  • pelvic floor anatomy
  • pelvic floor assessment tools
  • pelvic floor myofascial release, trigger point therapy and strain/counterstrain
  • learn how to perform self-abdominal massage and teach to your clients
  • abdominal cupping for reproductive and digestive health

Hips,Sacral and lumbar alignment

Objectives

  • lumbopelvic alignement
  • Pertinent orthopedic tests to differentiate lumbosacral pain
  • blocking and myofascial techniques for hip alignment
  • Evaluate and assess the pelvic girdle and bring it into balanced alignment.
  • Identify sacroiliac mobility dysfunction and and soft tissues techniques to address alignment
  • Practice pelvic floor work

+ WEEKEND 2: Pelvic Pain, Fertility, Pregnancy, Postpartum Care

Objectives

  • how to address pelvic pain with internal vaginal and abdominal myofascial release
  • Somatic Resourcing and Unwinding
  • How to release abdominal adhesions
  • Abdominal cupping to treat digestive conditions
  • practice pelvc floor therapeutics
  • How to access pelvic floor muscles without doing internal work
  • Conditions covered: Endometriosis, surgery scars, Coccyx pain, constipation, fecal incontinence
  • Pelvic Floor prescriptice exercises for stress incontinence and prolapse
  • Somatic Resourcing for the perinatal period
  • Fertility massage and home protocols
  • Pregnancy Massage Techniques
  • Postpartumpelvic floor and uterine care
  • Pelvic Floor practice

+ Bonus Lectures: 12 hours of lifetimes access video material

  • Uterine Anatomy and pelvic floor anatomy
  • Common pelvic floor conditions
  • Trauma Informed Care and the polyvagal theory for the pelvic therapsit
  • Vaginal Steaming 101
  • Somatic meditations
  • Uterine Unwinding
  • Uterine self-massage
  • Self abdominal cupping

One-on-One Mentorship- at the end of the mentorship you will be able to practice on a core teacher to get vital feedback and receive a session from a core instructor.