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Digital Seminar

Maternal Mental Health Workshop: From Pregnancy and Postpartum to PMADs, Mom Rage, Maternal ADHD, Trauma and More


Speaker:
Danielle Gordon, LMHC, LPC, NCC, PMH-C
Duration:
6 Hours 17 Minutes
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Nov 12, 2025
Product Code:
POS150414
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar


Description

  • Move beyond outdated postpartum-only models
  • Get practical screening tools, case examples, and frameworks
  • Work with overlooked issues like identity shifts, invisible labor, and mom rage
  • Recognize underdiagnosed ADHD in women
  • Support mother’s holistically – mind, body, relationships, and more

 

Mothers today are burned out, under-supported, and often suffering in silence.

Behind closed doors, they’re grappling with rage, shame, sensory overload, and identities in crisis. And yet, our systems continue to miss – or mislabel – their distress.

They need treatment that sees the whole person – not just the symptoms – and honors the complexity of modern motherhood.

That’s where this all-new training comes in.

When you register, you’ll join licensed therapists, certified perinatal mental health specialist, wife, mom, and woman of many roles, Danielle Gordon.

She’ll equip you with a comprehensive framework and the tools you need to recognize, assess, and support the mental health needs of mothers at every stage – pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond.

Grounded in evidence and real-world clinical insight, this training prepares you to work with the full emotional spectrum of motherhood – including overlooked and misunderstood issues like maternal ADHD, mom rage, and trauma held in the body.

Whether you work in private practice, community health, a clinic or anywhere mom’s need help --- or you’re a mom yourself …

… this training will give you the language, tools, and clinical confidence to show up for them with expertise that honors the full reality of motherhood.

Moms need better care. This course will prepare you to deliver it.

Purchase now!

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



Canada Credit - *

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Program content is reviewed periodically per accrediting board rules for currency and appropriateness for credit. Credit approvals are subject to change. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. 
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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

 


Canada Credit - ---

Earn up to 6.25 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


Canada Credit - Canadian Counsellors and Psychotherapists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This self-study activity is approved for 6.0 credit hours.


Canada Credit - Canadian Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 6.0 self-study continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement


Canada Credit - Social Workers - National ASWB ACE

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2026 - January 27, 2029. Social workers completing this course receive 6.25 Clinical continuing education credits.

Course Level: Intermediate Format: Recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

Canadian Social Workers: Canadian provinces may accept activities offered by providers approved by the ASWB ACE program for ongoing professional development.


Canada Credit - Other Professions

This self-study activity qualifies for 6.25 continuing education clock hours as required by many national and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.


US National Boards - Addiction Counselors - NAADAC

This self-study course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming.

This self-study course offers 6.0 continuing education contact hours in the Counseling Services skill group. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.


US National Boards - Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, and Clinical Nurse Specialists – ANCC

PESI, Inc. is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses completing these self-study materials will earn 6.25 contact hours. Expires: 10/27/2028.



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Speaker

Danielle Gordon, LMHC, LPC, NCC, PMH-C's Profile

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Danielle S. Gordon, LMHC, LPC, NCC, PMH-C, is a licensed clinical therapist, certified perinatal mental health specialist, certified mental health and nutrition clinical specialist, reproductive mental health specialist, wife, mom and woman of many additional roles. Previously a school counselor, Danielle’s personal experience with (undiagnosed) postpartum mental health disorders ignited her desire to support birthing parents and spread awareness about perinatal mental health. While learning more about the field, Danielle volunteered as a local support coordinator for Postpartum Support International. She then started her private practice, providing therapy and support for women during pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond. Over the years she has broadened her area of specialty to include motherhood anxiety and burnout, as well as ADHD. She has proudly worked as a consultant at local hospitals, assisting with care coordination for patients and alerting physicians and staff to best practices. She has given presentations to large corporations such as Blue Cross Blue Shield about the importance of perinatal care and has remained involved with Postpartum Support International as a board member of the PSI Michigan Chapter as well as at a national level as the past professional outreach coordinator. Danielle offers education and trainings to other professionals and providers who work with women. She is also a Brown University ROSE certified instructor.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Danielle Gordon maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with Postpartum Support International. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Danielle Gordon is a member of Postpartum Support International.

 


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepesi@pesi.com.


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Objectives

  1. Define Matrescence and its psychological and neurobiological impact on maternal identity.
  2. Use gender-sensitive indicators to screen for maternal ADHD and its unique presentation in women.
  3. Differentiate between common perinatal mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs), including presentations beyond the traditional postpartum period.
  4. Utilize a trauma-informed framework to maternal anger and rage.
  5. Integrate somatic and environmental interventions into care plans to support maternal mental health.
  6. Develop maternal well-being by guiding clients in rebuilding support systems to reduce invisible labor.

Outline

  1. Reframe Maternal Mental Health for Real Life
  • Understand the full spectrum of perinatal and maternal mental health
  • Move beyond outdated postpartum-only models
  • The impact of social norms and invisible labor
  • Inclusive, identify-affirming language and frameworks
  1. Recognize Identify Shifts and the Psychological Transition of Matrescence
  • Matrescence as a psychological transition
  • Internal and external sources of distress
  • Differentiate normal adjustment from clinical concern
  • Address societal silence and mothering myths
  1. Recognize and Differentiate PMADs Across the Maternal Timeline
  • Diagnostic criteria and clinical presentation of PMADs
  • Mood and anxiety symptoms in later motherhood (not just postpartum)
  • Differential diagnosis, including overlap with ADHD, trauma, and burnout
  • Screening tools and referral pathways
  1. Identify and Support Maternal ADHD
  • Recognize underdiagnosed ADHD in women
  • How executive dysfunction affects parenting
  • The overlap with anxiety, rage, and shame
  • Screen, validate, and refer with confidence
  1. Mom Rage: Emotional Overload, Overstimulation, and Trauma Triggers
  • Normalize rage as a response to unmet needs and adaptive emotion
  • Explore emotional overload, overstimulation, and trauma triggers
  • Use psychoeducation and regulation strategies in session
  • Offer language and tools for self-understanding and repair
  1. Tools to Reconnect Mom’s to their Nervous System and body
  • Use simple somatic and grounding tools for nervous system regulation
  • Address the role of sleep, hormones, and nutrition
  • Apply trauma-informed, whole-person approaches
  • Help clients rebuild trust with their bodies
  1. Rebuild the Village and Support System and Reduce the Mental Load
  • Assess relationship strain and unmet support needs
  • Help clients map and strengthen their social ecosystem
  • Invisible load dynamics with partners/families
  • Scripts and tools for advocacy and boundary setting
  • Research, risks and treatment limitations

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counsellors
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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