My Continuing Education

This is a list of most of my continuing education classes, sorted loosely into categories, though there is of course overlap. I did not include classes taken during massage school or midwifery school, and I have taken many classes geared toward physical therapists, or lactation consultants, and other professions adjacent to my own. I have also served as a teaching assistant for multiple courses in each of these categories.

Perinatal Care & Bodywork, Chest Wholeness

• 59.5 hours of perinatal bodywork, with Leslie Stager
• other prenatal bodywork courses too many to list
• Full Chest & Breast Massage, with Barbara Helynn Heard, 16 hours
• Postpartum Physical Therapy Examination, with Cynthia Neville, 2 hours (also listed under pelvic floor training)

My Pelvic Floor Training

I have taken about 138.75 hours of training specific to pelvic bodywork.

• Pelvic Floor Function, Dysfunction and Treatment Level 1, with Holly Tanner & Tina Allen, 22.5 hours
• Pelvic Floor Function, Dysfunction and Treatment Level 2B: Urogynecologic Examination and Treatment Interventions, with Nari Clemons & Tina Allen, 22.5 hours
  (I will be attending their Pelvic Floor 2A in March, and then the Pelvic Floor Capstone.)
• Chi Nei Tsang and the Pelvis, with Saumya Comer, 17 hours
• Functional Applications in Pelvic Rehabilitation, Parts A & B, with Kathe Wallace, 10 hours
• Integrative Techniques for Pelvic Floor & Core Function: Parts A, B & C, with Bill Gallagher & Richard Sabel, 9.5 hours
• Clinical Pelvic Floor Therapy, with Bryan Baisinger, 6 hours
• Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy (ATMAT) Level 1, 17.5 hours
• Understanding Prolapse, with Michelle Lyons, 1.5 hours
• Understanding Endometriosis, with Michelle Lyons, 1.5 hours
• Sex and Sexuality in Physical Therapy Practice, with Talli Rosenbaum, 10.75 hours total (also listed under queerness, sexuality, & trauma)
  • Part A
  • Part B: Sexuality for Pelvic Floor Practitioners
  • Part C: Clinical Tools for Treatment of Complex Sexual Pain Disorders - Addressing Psychosocial Factors in Treatment
• Postpartum Physical Therapy Examination, with Cynthia Neville, 2 hours (also listed under perinatal care)
• Introduction to Female and Male Pelvic Pain*, with Holly Tanner, 4 hours

* Many of my classes have used language in their titles and their content that needlessly and harmfully genders the body, such as "female reproductive system" or "male pelvis." I make a point of stripping the information of trans-erasive language--extrapolating, adapting, and supplementing it--to approach the matter from a trans-competent and inclusionary framework. I also make a point of speaking up in class, and talking to my instructors afterward about trans relevancy and inclusion. That said, I am fallible myself, and appreciate the opportunity to grow when folks point out my missteps and points of potential obliviousness. Read more about how pelvic floor work specifically applies to trans clients.

Queerness, Sexuality, & Trauma

My first Bachelor's Degree is in Gender Studies with a focus on Queer Studies. I've also done various trainings about PTSD and sexual trauma and about making a queer-safe practice. Though I myself am queer and trans, I still think it’s important to seek out LGBTQ+ health care-specific training. Some of the courses I’ve taken include:

• From the National LGBT Health Education Center:
  • Pathways to LGBT Parenthood: Assisted Reproduction and Adoption
  • LGBT Families: Improving Access to Better Health Care
  • If You Have It, Check It: Overcoming Barriers to Cervical Cancer Screening with Patients on the Female-to-Male Transgender Spectrum
  • Breast Cancer Risk and Prevention in Lesbian and Bisexual Women
  • Sexual Health among Transgender People
  • Understanding and Assessing the Sexual Health of Transgender Patients
  • Issues in Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Considerations, Suggestions, and Resources
• Sex and Sexuality in Physical Therapy Practice, with Talli Rosenbaum, 10.75 hours total (also listed under pelvic floor training)
  • Part A
  • Part B: Sexuality for Pelvic Floor Practitioners
  • Part C: Clinical Tools for Treatment of Complex Sexual Pain Disorders - Addressing Psychosocial Factors in Treatment
• Ethics, Gender, & Sexual Orientation for Massage Therapists, with Bridge 13 & AMTA, 4 hours

Miscellaneous

I don't feel the need to list classes like Tax Law, or all the midwifery-specific classes I've taken, considering I'm not actively attending births as a midwife.
I've also completed the Chiropractic Assistant (CA) Training Program, and practiced for a while in a chiropractic clinic, but have since let my CA license lapse.

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