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Manhattan Birth's Doula Mentor Program provides direction, accountability, and support through 12 months of interactive virtual lessons, small group mentorship, advanced trainings, monthly masterminding sessions, and an active community of successful birth and postpartum doulas.
Enrollment opens in Spring and Fall each year. Fall 2026 enrollment is open! Please enroll by November 10. The program is mostly virtual, with select in-person opportunities for those living in and near New York City. Resources and lessons are presented in both asynchronous format and as live & interactive sessions with your peers.
Pricing for the Doula Mentor Program is in three tiers, offering discounted pricing for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities. Choose the pricing that works best for your finances.
Sign up below to join our interest list to receive more information about the program and special invitations to our Fall mentor program events.
"I sincerely believe I wouldn't have had the knowledge, skills, and confidence to get my business off the ground if I wasn't a part of this program. Tanya always says 'a rising tide lifts all boats' and I truly felt that in my program year - being surrounded by so many determined, passionate, and amazing doulas helped elevate my own confidence and goals."
JENNIFER REYNOSO NG
Doula Program Mentee
Doula certification programs teach you how to support families. But they don't teach you how to build a birth practice, protect your mental health, navigate difficult cases or clients, or find your community. Those gaps become the sticking points that push talented doulas to quietly give up or dramatically burn out...
The Manhattan Birth Doula Mentor Program was designed to offer always relevant resources AND meaningful, ongoing community. In our 12 months together, you'll build real confidence, real skills, and most importantly, real relationships — with mentors who are actively working in the birth world and with a cohort of peers who will become your professional community for years to come.
We'll meet you wherever you are in your business: brand new or ready to shift and grow. For the aspiring or newly certified doulas, we offer direction, accountability, and the push to build a real, sustainable birth business from the ground up. For the experienced doula who wants to deepen their clinical skills, expand their scope, and elevate how they show up for clients, we offer advanced trainings and ongoing support.
No matter what you're working on, we'll lovingly hold you accountable with consistent advice and care. And we'll HAVE FUN doing it!!
Participants join for a full year of skill-building, expert guidance, and community support. This isn't just a library of pre-recorded lessons you'll forget to tune into. The Doula Mentor Program is a live, interactive, cohort-based experience with multiple learning formats running in parallel all year. You retain access to all materials (workshop recordings and on-demand resources) for one year beyond membership.
Sign up for email, and we'll send you information on how to tune in.
The training inside our mentorship is worth $700-2,950/year. Lifetime Certification is worth $250. The business setup assistance mentees receive is worth $300-$1500 per person.
Access to on-call mentorship would start at $100/hr. With midwives/IBCLCs? $250/hour. The always-available resources in our video bank alone are worth at least $500 in total learning.
Monthly learning inside the program is worth an estimated $1,680-$4,200. Plus, join our Doula Directory for ongoing referrals and keep in touch for community support forever. (That's priceless!!)
We offer a three-tiered pricing system in an effort to make our training available to as many people as possible. Please choose, based on the honor system and the criteria described below, which tier best reflects your current finances, so we may continue to provide this program in a way that reflects economic justice.
Returning members get 20% off - email us at info@manhattanbirth.com to get the link.
As a Mentor Program member, you will also receive significantly discounted access to our Integrative Lactation & Feeding Specialist certification. This is not included in your Mentor Program tuition, but a discount will be applied if you choose to enroll in the future.
*Please be mindful that if you choose the price at the lowest end of the scale when you can, in truth, afford a higher tier, you are limiting access to those who truly need the gift of lowest tier pricing to have access to their goals. Our community relies on the honesty of its members to thrive. Imagine offering sliding scale pricing to a client and discovering they were simply always looking for a bargain, or decided that's all your services were worth without the full picture, and that was your livelihood.
"This program has helped me so much - the teachers and mentors and the community they create is unlike any other... Everybody is so generous with the helpful tips they share and with the space they create for discussing the challenges that arise. I really feel like I could lean on anyone in the MB community if I need to and that is so special. The leaders also demonstrate through continued learning and action that they are committed to working towards racial justice in birth. I’d recommend the program in a heartbeat.
CLARE AMOAKO-PARKS
manhattan birth mentee
This is a year long program with periods of enrollment in the Fall and Spring. We meet virtually, but the program is live and interactive.
Full price is $3,000 for the year or $250/monthly; other tiers available for BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, disabled folks, and other communities who require a lower entry point due to their current finances.
Sign up below to join our interest list to receive more information about the program and special invitations to our Fall mentor program events.
