Phyllis Klaus is an international speaker, author, licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a clinical social worker who currently teaches and practices in Palo Alto, California, providing psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, and counseling to individuals, couples, families, and groups.

She has been involved with doula and perinatal research, and training of perinatal caregivers working with the concerns, both medical and psychosocial, of pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period for the past 37 years.

She has extensive experience in treating trauma –related disorders, such as PTSD, dissociative disorders, and survivors of abuse.

She also incorporates somatic and energy therapies, hypnosis, ego-state therapy and others in the treatment of somatic and medical disorders, family of origin and attachment disorders and complicated grief.

She conducts workshops nationally and internationally and is co-author of several articles as well as The Amazing Newborn, Mothering the Mother, Bonding, Your Amazing Newborn; The Doula Book; and When Survivors Give Birth.

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