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North London, NHS Foundation Trust

Perinatal mental health

Develop your expertise and experience to enhance the care you provide.

Our courses seek to ensure that professionals working across the whole perinatal mental healthcare pathway have the skills, competencies and expertise needed to support women and birthing people experiencing mental illness during the perinatal period.

We offer a comprehensive programme of online training, from accessible introductions through to more in-depth, specialist courses. With an emphasis on experiential learning, our training deepens participants’ understanding of the complex difficulties women, birthing people and their families can face before and after birth – developing the capacity for skillful intervention and confidence to drive meaningful service improvements.

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As well as offering training for individuals, we also offer bespoke training for teams and services – including consultations to identify training needs, and courses in perinatal mental health, reflective practice, infant observation and trauma-informed care.

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    Being and Belonging 2

    Course codes: EC1, D12, ED12, D10, M45, M21, M6, CPD64, M7S, M7D, M7E, D58, BD58e, D10D, D10C, D4F, ED24, D55, M16, M10, M80, D59I, M34, D4I, D65
    Tavistock Centre
    £300 – £550

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“Feedback [from our staff] has consistently highlighted its clinical depth, practical relevance and reflective rigour. Practitioners particularly valued the psychologically informed framing of perinatal mental health, the emphasis on relationships and parent-infant interaction and the protected space for reflective dialogue about complexity, risk and difference. The training has really supported colleagues to consider application to practice and has strengthened confidence in supporting those experiencing perinatal mental health difficulties. It has been a vital contributor to embedding psychologically minded, trauma-informed and equity-focused practice across Camden’s Family Hubs.”
Clinical Lead for Best Start for Baby Psychology, Camden (2026)
“Engagement in this course has strengthened staff knowledge, confidence and clinical decision-making. The training enhanced practitioners’ ability to identify and respond to perinatal mental health risks, apply evidence-based care and treatment approaches, and work more effectively with families and partner services. Staff report increased confidence in managing complexity, leading to safer, more responsive, and compassionate care for parents and infants.”
Health Visiting Service Lead, Camden Integrated Early Years Service (2026)
“As part of our perinatal mental health offer in Leicester city, we worked with Tavistock and trained 20 of our multi agency partners on the ‘Perinatal mental health, risk, care and treatment’ course. The feedback from this has been fantastic and the reflection groups and support received from the team at Tavistock has enabled the group to grow and develop and embed their learning within their own teams and families. This is supporting Leicester’s multi-agency strategy for perinatal mental health and infant relationships to ensure all families in Leicester city have access to support at the right time.”
Cluster Manager, SEND and Early Help and Family Hubs, Leicester City Council (2026)
“It was a fantastic two days which covered so many important areas to support all the practitioners who attended in their understanding of perinatal mental health and gave opportunities and the time for questions to be asked to deepen their learning. I’ve received excellent feedback from those staff I have spoken to today and I know that lots of the course material will continue resonating many weeks after for all of us.”
Early Help Service, London Borough of Havering (July 2019)
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