An ideal workshop for Health professionals, Counsellors, social worker, family support workers, or any professionals involved with working with mums and families who have experienced infant loss, to include, ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage, still birth, and medical termination.
This workshops will explain what is infant loss, what support statutory services offer, and what resources are available.
Learning Objective Participants Can Expect From This Event
- Explain the different types of loss, ectopic, miscarriage, neonatal death, still birth.
- Explore the medical support that is available.
- Look at the effects loss can have on relationships.
Who is This Workshop Appropriate For?
- Health professionals, Counsellors, social worker, family support workers, or any professionals involved with working with mums with social care involvement. This course will help provide a clearer understanding of the legal process and also how to work with the mums to engage and support them therapeutically.
How May This Workshop Impact Your Practice?
- Understand what impact infant loss has on individuals and family members. Using the right language and know what wider support will be available to the families experiencing grief.
Course Content
Presenter
Kate Blakemore is a mum of three, who is a counsellor with specialism in infant loss and birth trauma. Kate has had her private counselling practice since 2012 and has a diploma in Specialist Fertility Counselling.
Kate is also the founder and Chief Executive of the charity Motherwell Cheshire, a Women and Girls Charity which was founded in 2015.
Kate is passionate about supporting women and girls and in particular mums mental health. Kate felt there were many books out there for new mums but nothing really available for the “mothering journey” and so the start of the book “mums the word – the mothering journey” began.
