Your calling. A community to help you grow.
Bring your questions, your experience, and your heart for supporting families. We will help you build the knowledge and hands-on skills to take your next step in birthwork.
- CERTIFICATION INCLUDES
- Four credentials
- NEXT COHORT
- Cohort 12
- CREDENTIAL AWARDED
- C.D.Adv-T
A comprehensive education
Certification with Gifted Hands is a complete education, not a single credential. Alongside your advanced doula certification, you earn three additional certifications as part of the program.
You finish qualified to support a family through birth, through feeding, and through the fragile first months at home — with the documentation to show for it.
Advanced Doula Certification, C.D.Adv-T
The GHI credential, awarded on completion of the full G.I.F.T. training standard.
CPR Certification
The qualification hospitals and agencies look for before a doula attends a birth on site.
Safe Sleep Ambassador
Qualifies you to guide families on infant sleep safety, one of the clearest ways a doula protects a life after the birth.
Community Lactation Educator
Lets you support feeding through the postpartum weeks, when families most often feel alone with it.
Learning with GHI
After years of training doulas and attending births, Shana Phillips designed the standard she wished she had been given.
Our info session walks you through the G.I.F.T. model, program expectations, clinical learning, and the support available along the way.
ASK ABOUT THE CURRICULUMMeet us at an info session
Get to know the program and ask your questions.
Send your application
After attendance is recorded, apply online for our team to review.
Make your next step official
After acceptance, you have 14 days to submit your deposit and signed registration agreement.
Tuition, length and next cohort
Everything you need to decide, in one place, before you ever speak to us.
| PROGRAM LENGTH | 20 weeks of online training |
|---|---|
| FORMAT | Online training plus four days of in-person clinical training in Burr Ridge, Illinois |
| TUITION | $2,197.00 |
| PAYMENT OPTIONS | Payment plans and Klarna available |
| NEXT COHORT BEGINS | January 4, 2027 |
| APPLICATIONS CLOSE | October 30, 2026 |
| CREDENTIALS AWARDED | C.D.Adv-T, CPR, Safe Sleep Ambassador, Community Lactation Educator |
| SCHOLARSHIPS | Ask Enrollment about current options |
Still deciding? The monthly info session is a live walkthrough with Shana, with no obligation.
Already certified with us?
Alumni stay connected for continuing education, agency placement and community.