The Leclaire Hypnobirthing Method: Certification Program

Now two ways to learn the method that has the birthing world buzzing from LA to New York to London! Learn the Leclaire Hypnobirthing Method through our Certification Program or through observation and participation in our Saturday class. 16 CE Credits & Certification.

Upcoming dates and locations:

When:
2007
December 1
2008
Jan 26 Feb 23 Mar 29
Apr 26 May 24 Jun 28
Aug 16 Sep 27 Oct 25
Dec 6
Where:

Temescal Canyon Conference Center
15601 West Sunset Blvd., Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

Cost:

$250.00 + materials

Call (310) 454-0920 to reserve your place!

Long distance learning available. Click here for more info.

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You will learn:

  • How to prevent postpartum depression and how to address it, if it occurs.
  • How Mothers can easily give birth in comfort and without fear.
  • How to utilize the Leclaire Smart Beginnings model for prenatal care.
  • Mind-Body techniques and how they affect pregnancy, labor and birthing outcome.
  • How to apply this model in prevention of complications and in the treatment of existing complications.
  • How to alter the perception of pain in labor and dispel the myth that pain is a necessary counterpart of labor.
  • How to reframe familiar and cultural beliefs.
  • How to access emotions and transfer fears for the birthing process.
  • How to use Clinical Self-Hypnosis, imagery and visualization to enhance the pregnancy, labor and birthing process.
  • How to enhance the process for the father/support person thus enhancing the comfort and serenity of the mother.
  • How to help each mother create her own Birthing Imagery.
  • How to help a mother deal with past sexual abuse issues often remembered during pregnancy.

Course content:

  • The Leclaire Smart Beginnings Philosophy.
  • How your brain controls your emotions and how you direct your brain.
  • How to define and reach your goals.
  • How to have the emotions you want to have.
  • How to identify and transform fear.
  • How to address the underlying unconscious through dreams; your anger, sadness, and the underlying needs behind your emotions. (Level II).
  • The origin of the pain myth.
  • How to redefine unhealthy sociological beliefs surrounding pregnancy, labor, birthing and parenting.
  • How to reeducate the mind and body through Clinical Hypnosis and Self-Hypnosis.
  • The value and criteria of effective mental imagery in pregnancy.
  • The mental imagery process.
  • Sound: The interrelationship of voice to internal organs, pertaining to pregnancy, labor, birth, and fetal growth and development.
  • Music: The resonating effects of music in the human body.
  • Meditation: Fixing the mind on a simple sound object to develop one-pointedness during labor.
  • Pregnancy Health Plan.
  • How to incorporate all techniques in the classroom setting and in your practice.

Call (310) 454-0920, or email info@leclairemethod.com, for more information and a brochure.

Certification Program cost:

$250 + materials

Who should attend?

All those who want to bring peace to the world, one baby at a time. Please join us for this exciting presentation of Mind-Body Medicine at its best.

  • Nurses
  • Physicians
  • Midwives
  • Ayurvedic Practitioners
  • Childbirth Educators
  • Doulas
  • MFCCs
  • Psychologists
  • And. All those who want to participate in teaching pregnant couples Imagery, Visualization, & Self-Hypnosis in order to help them have a pregnancy, labor and birth that is calm, centered, easy, safe and remarkable, developing a relationship with each other and their baby that is deeply nurturing.

About your instructor:

Michelle Leclaire O'Neill, Ph.D., R.N., has worked for 30 years in New York and Los Angeles helping patients to heal. She was on the staff of the Simonton Cancer Center for 10 years where she taught the "Getting Well Again Process" in family, individual and retreat settings. Dr. O'Neill has also trained physicians, nurses, and many other health care professionals from all over the world in Mind-Body Medicine and How to Get Well from Cancer. As a balance to her long-term work with cancer, Dr. O' Neill developed the Leclaire Hypnobirthing Method for Natural Childbirth and the Mind-Body Fertility Program. A mother, as well as a professional, Dr. O'Neill is a certified practitioner of Deepak Chopra's Magical Beginnings Prenatal Program. She is the author of Creative Childbirth, The Complete Leclaire Method, The Pregnancy Diary, Meditations for Pregnancy and Nine Glorious Months, a unique breakthrough in prenatal bonding. She has also written Twelve Weeks to Fertility and the Hypnofertility Bundle, in addition to the Hypnosis for Childbirth Tapes: I. Pregnancy, II. Labor, III. Music for Labor, Breastfeeding, Healing, Fertility and Cancer.

What people are saying about the Leclaire Hypnobirthing Method

"Patients who have used the Leclaire Hypnobirthing Method show none of the somatic and physiologic signs of distress that I have seen in patients who have studied [other methods]."
– Yvonne Fried, M.D.		   "It is a joy to see how effectively Dr. Leclaire O'Neill has integrated the mind body concepts in the area of pregnancy and delivery."
– O. Carl Simonton, M.D., Author of The Healing Journey		   "Super innovative method. A great resource for parents and practitioners alike. My only regret is not having it available years ago when my first child was born."
– Jeanne Achterberg, Author of Imagery in Healing