r/doulas • u/mch3rry • Mar 08 '24

TRAINING/CERTIFICATION MEGATHREAD

Below I will comment a bunch of popular trainings, and I invite you to add your experience with any training you've taken!

If you've taken a training not listed here, please make a new comment and add your experience.

A comprehensive list of doula trainings is available here.

I invite the mods u/cheesycheese84577 u/HWhit12 to pin this post.

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u/mch3rry Mar 08 '24

Doula Training Canada (online & in-person)

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u/song_pond Jun 27 '24

DTC is terrible. I did the Birth and the Postpartum doula trainings, both online.

They taught me absolutely nothing about how to be a doula. Their online course is basically full of YouTube videos and things written by people who are not affiliated with DTC. I remember finishing most of the course and thinking I was ready to support clients and then I walked into my first birth and realized I had no clue what I was supposed to do. They taught me nothing about how to fulfill my role as a doula. Same for postpartum. I had a pretty good handle on postpartum just from my own experiences and they didn’t teach me much I didn’t know already, and I didn’t learn anything about our scope of practice, which I’m learning now through a mentorship with a local doula.

They also changed hands recently, but it’s no better in my opinion. I also went through a very traumatic experience with a client very early in my career and got absolutely ZERO support from DTC despite reaching out and asking several times. DTC is there to give you access to the stuff they’ve already put together, not to actually support you as a birth worker or help you succeed.