![]() ![]() Specific work and training in working with prenatal and perinatal education: Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics (Co-Founder, Co-Developer). ![]() Prenatal and Perinatal Educator Certificate Program (Founder and Creator).Alchemical Alignment with Brigit Viksnins.Transforming the Experiential Brain with Stephen Terrell.Advanced Family Training with Ray Castellino, Tara Blasco and Mary Jackson.Polarity Life Coaching with John and Anna Chitty.Prenatal, Birth and Attachment Therapy with Myrna Martin.Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, 2016, 216 hours.Registered Biodynamic craniosacral therapist, 1999, 700 hours.Certified Educator of Infant Massage by Infant Massage USA 2015, 25 hours.Certified infant massage therapist, 1995, 6 hours.Certified prenatal massage therapist, 1995, 2011, 32 hours each.Certified massage therapist, Potomac Massage Institute, 1995, 500 hours.She is certified in adult and infant CPR. She is Board certified by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork (NCBTMB). Her list of trainings equals thousands of hours and practice. In 2022, her practice was nominated for Best in Virginia, a consumer-based measure of good service in Central Virginia with Virginia Living Magazine. She has a comprehensive education including anatomy, physiology, neuroscience, embryology, interpersonal neurobiology, infant massage, prenatal massage and autonomic nervous system function of the mother-baby dyad. She was further honored by APPPAH with an Appreciation Award in 2019 as she left her job as Director to create new programs for practitioners. She is Founder and former Director of the Department of Education for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (2013-1019) and is now Founding Director for her own educational center in Charlottesville, VA the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Program,. This peer review award recognizes individuals in the field of pre and perinatal education who have helped "educate professionals and the public, worldwide, that a baby’s experience of conception, pregnancy, and birth creates lifelong consequences for individuals, families, and society." Kate has helped develop and now manages international educational programs with students all over the world interested in the pre and perinatal period. In 2015, she was honored with the Outstanding Educator Award in pre and perinatal psychology and health by the Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health. She has run a perinatal collaboration in Charlottesville of many kinds of pre and perinatal professionals with whom she created the Healthy Birth Healthy Baby Expo, a very successful educational event that ran for four years starting in 2009. In 2012 she was recognized by Birth Matters Virginia as being instrumental in improving the culture of birth in central Virginia. She also specializes in working with babies and families that are have experienced birth trauma. She runs an online school, hosting many professionals and offers a training program of her own: Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics. She has also completed the Somatic Experiencing training. She combines her years of practice with a trauma-informed approach that focuses on the blueprint of our being. She has studied with all the pioneers in prenatal and perinatal trauma from the baby's perspective, including William Emerson and his student, Karlton Terry, Ray Castellino and his student Myrna Martin, and Anna and John Chitty. Her training in this specialty began in 1999. Over many years of training, Kate has developed a specialty in healing earliest trauma, helping people to find their essence that is caught up in the adaptive strategies from our first years of life. Her work is a translation of some of the research on how parents are with their children affects neural pathways and perception. Her work combines somatic therapy with brain development to help give families with babies and small children the best possible start. She is a mother of two children, holds a BA and MA in Communication, and is a Registered Craniosacral Therapist in the Biodynamic Craniosacral method. All her therapeutic work and classes arise out of her work as a somatic therapist, where she is passionate about the brain and mind-body medicine. Kate White is a somatic trauma resolution therapist, Biodynamic craniosacral and advanced bodyworker specializing in prenatal and perinatal therapies. ![]()
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