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Mothercentered is holistic maternal mental health training informed by Internal Family Systems. Mothercentered acknowledges the impact of patriarchy on matrescent women, and teaches practitioners a new way of working with Mom Parts that is respectful, validating and empowering.
In a baby-centric world, mothers' profound needs often go unrecognized - both by society and within their own transforming bodies and psyches. Mothercentered challenges this paradigm by creating new concepts and language to help mothers identify and build relationships with their parts.
By equipping practitioners to hold space for the full maternal experience (all Mom Parts welcome), we move beyond labeling natural responses as "disorders." Instead, we create communities where mothers' experiences are validated and their transformation is honored.
Mothercentered
Mothercentered is a 12 hour holistic maternal mental health training informed by Internal Family Systems. The training spans a total of 4 days to allow for coursework integration and community building.
In a baby-centric world, mothers' profound needs often go unrecognized - both by society and within their own transforming bodies and psyches. Mothercentered challenges this paradigm by creating new concepts and language to help mothers identify and build relationships with their parts.
Mothercentered acknowledges the impact of patriarchy on matrescent women, and teaches practitioners a new way of working with Mom Parts that is respectful, validating and empowering.
By equipping practitioners to hold space for the full maternal experience (all Mom Parts welcome), we move beyond labeling natural responses as "disorders." Instead, we create communities where mothers' experiences are validated and their transformation is honored.
Paradigm Shift
Life changing, experiential training that shifts the way we conceptualize, treat, and support women who are conceiving, birthing, and raising children.
Mothercentered brings an Internal Family Systems-informed, holistic vision for understanding maternal mental health and treating Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADS) - not as disorder in mothers - but rather as the consequence of parts and patriarchy during matrescence and the accompanying "disorder" of shame new mothers get burdened with. This is not a course about diagnosing PMADs - it's a course about understanding and working respectfully with matrescent women’s parts, without making mothers into identified patients on behalf of a patriarchal society that exiles their needs and dismisses their value.
Redefining PMADs
Mothercentered reframes maternal mental health by recognizing the natural emergence of distinct "Mom Parts" that emerge during matrescence and persist through the lifespan. This transformation is biologically designed to redirect resources away from mom and toward her baby,inviting an internal imbalance. When this massive shift occurs within a patriarchal, individualistic or racist context, mothers experience heightened anxiety, shame, self-doubt and self-criticism. What society labels as "disorders" are often protective responses to navigating motherhood without adequate support and validation. Without addressing contextual systems and perpetual patterns inherent to motherhood in the Western world, we will continue to regift intergenerational cycles of trauma and maternal struggle. Speaking the language of Mom Parts gives practitioners a way of normalizing, destigmatizing and empowering mothers to approach their mental health with greater insight, compassion and confidence.
This is a formative time for you, not just your child. You are allowed to be someone who is learning and developing.
There is no other way it can be.
The Benefits
Why be Mothercentered?
Internal Family Systems informed maternal mental health training.
Views matrescence as a wild developmental phase with unique healing potential (not a disorder).
Provides tools and deepens confidence in working meaningfully with grief and shame.
Identifies predictable Mom Parts to support deep exploration and healing of intergenerational wounds.
Names psychological patriarchy as a propagator of shame, and shame as a primary culprit in PMADs.
A Preview of the Training
September 2025
2- Week Training Schedule
Day 1:
September 3, 2025
4pm-6pm PST
4pm: Introductions & Overview
5pm: Internal Family Systems introduction/review
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12 CE's will be provided at an additional charge of $45 for folks licensed in California.
CEPA Provider: Jessica Tomich Sorci (Provider #1000049) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LPCC’s and LEP’s. Jessica Tomich Sorci maintains responsibility for the program & all of its content. Course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LPCC’s and LEP’s. Course completion certificates will be awarded at the end of the course in exchange for a completed evaluation form.
