Services
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We provide a number of ways to receive the support you are looking for. Each option provides an innovative approach, tailored to meet your unique and individual needs. Learn more about our services below.
The Melanated Mommy Tribe presents The Bringing Baby Home Workshop
Learn the strategies and skills to make a successful transition to parenthood.
Even the strongest relationships are strained during the transition to parenthood. Lack of sleep, never-ending housework and new fiscal concerns can lead to profound stress and a decline in marital satisfaction — all of which affect baby’s care and the overall mental health of both partners. Not surprisingly, 67% of new parents experience conflict, disappointment and hurt feelings.
This research-based Bringing Baby Home workshop prepares couples for life with baby and helps them be the best parenting team possible. In a relaxed and supportive environment, parents learn to strengthen their relationship and foster baby’s development during this challenging time. They build on what Dr. Gottman and colleagues found is the best predictor of marital adjustment after baby arrives: the quality of friendship in the marriage. Come learn the skills needed to encourage healthy, supportive family relationships.”
(SOURCE: HTTPS://WWW.GOTTMAN.COM/PROFESSIONALS/TRAINING/BRINGING-BABY-HOME/)
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This 2-Day Workshop is both research based and research tested and has been shown to help new families experience the best possible outcomes.
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Workshop will be 6 hours (First half: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Lunch 12:30- 1:30 PM, Second half: 1:35 PM - 4:30 PM)and will include a 1 hour lunch break each day.
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In packet (separate from workshop fee) couples will receive:
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Bringing Baby Home Couple’s Workbook
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Love Maps Card Deck
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Love Maps for Couples with Kids Card Deck
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Open-Ended Questions Card Deck
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Father Cards Card Deck
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Softened Start-Up and Expressing Needs Card Deck
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Cost: Packet $39 and 2-Day Workshop $300 per couple.
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A link will be sent to couples once registration is completed to order packet. Packet is required for workshop.
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Dr. Kim is available to offer this workshop to groups of 3 or more couples (click Book to submit an inquiry and/ or to Book). Also stay tuned to see when she will be offering the workshop if you and your partner are interested in joining a workshop.
The Melanated Mommy Tribe presents Seven Principles To Making Marriage Work Workshop
This 6 hour jam packed workshop will take your relationship to the next level! This workshop is for couples contemplating engagement, pre-marital couples, cohabitating couples, and couples who have been together or married for decades.
The Seven Principles workshop, based on The New York Times bestseller The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, was developed from Dr. Gottman’s four decades of research with more than 3,000 couples. Over the years, Drs. John and Julie Gottman have continued to fine-tune their innovative method of disrupting negative behaviors that send relationships onto the rocks.
Showing partners how to work with the small daily moments that make up the heart and soul of any relationship, the Seven Principles workshop will teach couples proven, practical, and effective strategies for making marriage successfully work. Each couple will receive a couples packet complete with two Seven Principles to Making Marriage work couple's guides complete with exercises and activities, two card deck games (Love Maps & Open Ended Questions) and a copy of the best selling book Seven Principles To Making Marriage Work (packet cost: $49.00).
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What you will gain from attending this workshop:
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How the Seven Principles works
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Proven evidenced based tools to help couples
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Improve friendship, fondness & admiration
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Manage conflict constructively and successfully
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Skills to address perpetual and solvable problems
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Create shared meaning
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Enhance romance and intimacy
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This workshop will teach couples evidence based proven skills that can enrich their relationship throughout a lifetime together.
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Space is limited to 5 couples to keep it intimate.
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Format includes lectures, group exercises and private couple exercises.
Workshop will be 6 hours (First half: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Lunch 12:30- 1:30 PM, Second half: 1:35 PM - 4:30 PM)and will include a 1 hour lunch break.
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Half of fee is due at registration to lock in your space; this fee is refundable if cancellations are made 48 hours prior to workshop. The remaining half of fee due 24 hours prior to the start of the workshop. The couple packet includes (not included in workshop fee): A copy of The Seven Principles to Making Marriage Work by Dr. John Gottman, two couples guides complete with exercises and activities to be completed during the workshop and independently and a two deck Love Maps card game.
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Total investment for an enriched and improved relationship $249 (includes workshop only; packet purchased seperately). Invest in your relationship!
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A link will be sent to couples once registration is completed to order packet. Packet is required for workshop.
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Dr. Kim is available to offer this workshop to groups of 4-6 couples (click Book to submit an inquiry and/ or to Book). Also stay tuned to see when she will be offering the workshop if you and your partner are interested in joining a workshop.
The Melanated Mommy Tribe: It Takes A Village
Peer to Peer Support & Process Group
Motherhood is many things to many moms. It is one of the most important and hardest jobs there is. It can bring joy, immense love and purpose amongst other amazing things. After all, being able to hold the title of being a mother is truly a blessing. However, being a mother can also be met with states of depressed mood, increased anxiety, fatigue, grief and loss of identity, career shifts, role transitions, changes in relationships amongst other physiological and life changes women undergo when becoming a mother. When a woman becomes a mother she is changed from her core to her outer being physically and psychologically. Many people shy away from discussing this side of motherhood…leaving many to wear a mask constantly leading to feelings of isolation and failure ("I'm the only mom going through this...what's wrong with me?"). These groups aim to provide a safe space to discuss the unpopular truths of motherhood while also normalizing and providing support and helpful tools to assist with being your best self which will in turn help you to be holistically healthy and present for yourself, baby, partner, etc. Having a community while traveling this road of motherhood makes all the difference. That is why holistic wellness therapist and perinatal mental health clinician, Dr. Kim LO, LCSW, PMH-C created The Mommy Tribe: It Takes A Village Support & Process Groups! We hope you will join our village!
The Melanated Mommy Tribe Perinatal Mental Health Support Packages
For women in the perinatal and postpartum stages of motherhood
Packages that provide multiple layers of support throughout the perinatal and/ or postpartum period of motherhood.
The Melanated Mommy Tribe's Education & Consulting Services with Dr. Kim LO
The Melanated Mommy Tribe founder, Dr. Kim LO, offers workshops, classes, professional consultations and contracts her services as well as is a highly sought after speaker on Black maternal health and is available for hire for speaking engagements.
Dr. Kim LO has over a decade of experience as a licensed mental health therapist (Licensed Clinical Social Worker). She is a DONA international trained birth doula, certified perinatal mental health clinician (PMH-C), Clinical Director and owner of Life Begins Here Therapeutic & Counseling Services, wife and mother.
Please send an email to submit your inquiry and learn more!