"Years from now when we look back on the childbirth reform movement, Gayle Peterson will be called a pioneer." -Peggy O'Mara, former publisher, Mothering Magazine, 1990

Gayle Peterson is a psychotherapist and author of An Easier Childbirth, Birthing Normally and Making Healthy Families. Since 1973, she has researched and developed a clinical model to treat childbirth trauma and prepare women for the childbirth experience. Dr. Peterson has trained and certified professionals in her method in the U.S. and Canada since 1990 and offered online certification training programs since 2008.

Her groundbreaking book, Birthing Normally, rocked the childbirth field in 1980 by proclaiming childbirth not only a life passage, but significant to a woman's development. Her Prenatal Counseling and Birth Hypnosis Training is available for continuing education credit for counselors through psychceu.com and for childbirth educators through CAPPA childbirth. Certification and non-certification tracks in the Peterson Method are now open for application and registration through this website.