About Dr. Diane S. Speier
This is where you can connect with the heart of my work and have a look into what inspires and guides me — the intentions that inform everything I offer through genuine connection.
My life’s purpose is to raise awareness for honoring life’s transitions, especially from birth into parenthood, and to facilitate healing psychologically, somatically, and energetically.
Healing
I practice as a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist, dedicated to helping clients confidently master their circumstances and skillfully feel back in control of their lives as quickly as possible. My BA is in Psychology and my MA is in Applied Psychology, with a specialty in The Psychology of Parenthood.
In addition to my general practice in hypnotherapy and psychotherapy, I specialize in Somatic Attachment Therapy, which reconnects us with a felt sense of our embodied experience and awareness within a mind/body/spirit/relational context. The process helps us feel safe in our bodies, and Somatic Attachment Therapy enables that safety. Attachment is the development of deep emotional bonds between child and caregivers which influences how we connect and relate to others throughout our lives. Working with patterns established in early life, often beneath our conscious awareness, we reframe our understanding using a body-focused approach to what happened, and we integrate positive relationship dynamics for now and the future. I love how this relational work with attachment brings wellbeing to my clients.
I am also an Eden Energy Medicine practitioner, facilitating greater health and healing using 9 energy systems that balance and harmonize our body’s energetic field. Our health is impacted by how the body’s energies flow and interact. When the flow is impeded, we can suffer with pain or other ailments. When our energies are healthy, our body/mind/spirit are healthy too. Energy medicine draws out the inner wisdom of the body, while correcting any challenges that disturb the flow of energy.
Energy medicine asks the question: “what is the body trying to communicate?” Our body speaks to us through our energies, and the practice of energy medicine helps the client learn the language of the body’s energies in ways that activate and support innate healing wisdom. I am a catalyst when I’m working with a client, and I facilitate natural healing by tapping into the reservoir of untapped vitality that lies within. Energy medicine empowers people to participate in promoting their own health and supporting their own healing. It provides a vibrant toolkit of techniques that are easy to learn and apply, and even a child can do them.
I created a free digital download that shares the Daily Energy Routine, which is beneficial for people of all ages and helps organize and strengthen a person’s energetic foundation. I also developed a 60-page digital download for parents in the fourth trimester called Energy Medicine for Postpartum Resilience.
Birth & Beyond
I became a certified childbirth educator in 1978, offering birth preparation courses and classes in fitness to pregnant and postpartum women for 20 years. I also started working as doula in 1978, as an enlightened and experienced guide for facilitating birth, and assisting mothers during the postpartum period as a postpartum doula.
In November 2013, I released the first version of a postnatal app called Digital Doula®. It was the first of its kind, and a rare information resource for postpartum women and their families. In 2019, I published the book Life After Birth: A Parent’s Holistic Guide for Thriving in the Fourth Trimester (Praeclarus Press).
Digital Doula®2.0 was released in 2020 as a completely upgraded app, available in both iOS and Android versions, as the companion to the book. The sections of the app match the sections of the book with additional ones added. As new information and research becomes available, it will be added to the app to positively supplement the content of the book.
After many decades as a veteran birth professional, I’ve distilled my experience into two important workshops for expectant and new parents. One is a way of avoiding birth trauma (Avoiding Birth Trauma: The Missing Link in Birth Preparation), and the other is a prenatal preparation for the postpartum period so you can thrive in the fourth trimester (Postpartum W.E.L.L.N.E.S.S.: Making the Most of Life After Birth). These empowering workshops supplement traditional birth preparation with content you won’t find anywhere else.
I’ve also created an online course called 8 Keys for Thriving in the Fourth Trimester: Unlocking the Potential of the Postpartum Period, to bring this information to a wider audience. The course prepares prospective and new parents for what happens after the baby is born. The 8 modules cover the range of experiences that most parents are unaware will have a profound impact on their relationship and their lives as they make the transition to parenthood. Being prepared for the postpartum period is something that is even more important than preparation for childbirth. As an online course, this is something that parents can dip into as and when they are able.
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