Postpartum Stress & Career Reintegration
A Culturally Competent, Feminist Approach
Help your clients navigate the transition back to work with tools grounded in equity, advocacy, and clinical excellence.
Register Now for the 2025 CCA Conference
August 20 · Keystone, CO
Why This Training Matters
The return to work postpartum is not just a personal transition; it is shaped by systemic inequalities that disproportionately burden women. Unequal pay, workplace discrimination, and the gendered division of household labor intensify stress and anxiety, leaving many mothers feeling unsupported both at home and in their careers.
As clinicians, we must move beyond individual treatment plans and into frameworks that acknowledge the cultural, structural, and political realities our clients face. This session invites you to do just that.
“Clinicians must be equipped with a culturally competent, feminist framework to help postpartum clients navigate these challenges.”
What You'll Learn
Training Outcomes that Transform Your Practice
This session will explore the intersections of gender inequality, career reintegration, and maternal mental health, offering practical interventions to validate and address the fears of returning to work.
Participants will learn how to:
→ Examine how gendered labor and workplace dynamics impact maternal mental health.
→ Apply culturally competent, feminist approaches to reduce anxiety around career reintegration.
→ Develop strategies to support postpartum clients managing separation anxiety, burnout, and identity shifts.
→ Help clients advocate for themselves—at home, at work, and in the therapy room.
→ Bring systemic awareness into your clinical lens, without losing sight of individual needs.
This Training is Ideal for Clinicians Who Work With...
→ New parents navigating early postpartum challenges
→ Working mothers dealing with stress, burnout, and identity shifts
→ Clients struggling with workplace discrimination or inequity
→ Individuals managing both separation anxiety and career pressure
Whether you’re a therapist, counselor, or social worker, this session will help you show up for your clients with deeper insight and stronger tools.
Session Details
Date: Wednesday afternoon, August 20, 2025
Location: Keystone Resort, Colorado
Hosted by: Colorado Counseling Association (CCA)
Registration Info: Available through the CCA Annual Conference page
CEUs available through conference registration
Markie Damiana, MA, LPC, LPCC
I’m a licensed professional clinical counselor in California and Colorado, and my work lives at the intersection of mental health, matrescence, and career development. For years, I’ve supported women navigating the complexities of identity, ambition, emotional wellness, and motherhood.
I am a supervisor and counselor educator drawing from feminist therapy, career development theory, and cultural relational theory. I help clinicians expand from treating symptoms to understanding the personal, social, and cultural pressures new mothers face.
My goal is to equip helping professionals with frameworks and language that empower both therapists and clients to name what’s really happening and to stop pathologizing what are so often reasonable responses to unreasonable conditions.
Empower Your Clients. Expand Your Perspective.
Postpartum stress is not simply a personal adjustment, it’s a reflection of broader social and economic pressures. By attending this session, you’ll leave with a renewed sense of purpose and a deeper capacity to hold space for postpartum clients in a way that is both validating and empowering.
Join a growing community of clinicians committed to feminist-informed, culturally competent care.