Discover The Best Essential Oils For Birth In Our Professionals Certification Course

Comprehensive Safety Training 

Evidence-based birth-specific research is distilled into laser-focused application strategies curated just for birth professionals. 

The 10 Best Oils for Birth

You should never excessively layer multiple different oils during labor; this natural restriction enables you to gain a professional level of confidence in the masterful application of the ten best oils for birth.

The Brilliant Oil Spectrum

The therapeutic range of safe and effective oil use in birth is more conservative than traditional aromatherapy recommendations; receive an oils education from a trusted institution that specializes in oils for birth! 

Upon Course Completion A Certified Essential Oils Birth Consultant Will:

Gain a thorough understanding of how essential oils work therapeutically, the underlying science that supports their evidence-based application, how to perform clinical intake assessments, develop integrative plans of care during birth, and use individualized therapeutic blends to integrate aromatherapy in a home birth practice or clinical setting.

The Essential Oils Birth Consultant Certification Will Certify Your Calling & Transform Your Passion Into A Masterful Essential Oil Practice

Aromatherapy is a relationship in which the chemical intelligence of a plant’s constituent molecules interact with the multidimensional human body at a cellular, biochemical, emotional, and spiritual level. Aromatic plant essences from every corner of the global village are now are now accessible to empower, rejuvenate, focus, inspire, and soothe mothers in birth. Increasingly mothers who value natural solutions, self-education, and freedom in health care choices are more likely to seek out midwifery and doula care—as well as oils—at their birth! This course is a response to that expanding consciousness and is curated for birth professionals who want to deepen their wisdom in the art and science of plant-based solutions for birth.

If you have a calling to honor and work with plant based solutions for birth, we invite you to consider our certification program for two primary reasons:

Comprehensive Oils Training

Our essential oil training is more comprehensive than many level 1 accredited aromatherapy certification programs. Additionally, we teach (and advocate for) an altered therapeutic range of safe and effective oil use in birth that is unique to this program, and more conservative than traditional recommendations for important safety reasons.

Unique To Birth Training

This course focuses exclusively on labor-specific application techniques with more than half of our training addressing the anatomy, physiology, somatic psychology, hormonal progression of labor, and many other topics not addressed in aromatherapy programs. If you’re a birth professional, this course is curated for you.
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We Teach A ‘Unique-To-Birth’ Therapeutic Range Which We Believe Should Be Informed By:

The elevated respiration and temperature ranges of laboring mothers

The sensitivity of newborns in physiological transition to life outside the womb

The elevated temperature and humidity ranges of most birthing environments

Who’s Our Tribe? We Admire & Learn From: 

As an Essential Oils Birth Consultant on the unique therapeutic range of safe use of the best oils for birth, you will:

  • Receive professional-level training within a strict scope of practice with clear legal and professional parameters.
  • Recognize the signs & symptoms of the two types of adverse reactions; these may present similarly but require different first aid strategies.
  • Gain evidence-based professional guidelines for essential oil first-aid by the different routes of exposure.
  • What you really need to know about oils in birth: the physiological mechanics of birth and maternal anatomy that inform oil application strategies plus how to align oil use with the natural hormonal progression of labor.
  • How to be articulate and confident explaining the science behind the results of your oils recommendations so that you’re not left stammering by any client ‘why’ questions. BONUS: Use our done-for-you scripts to best communicate the art, science & bioenergetics of essential oil therapy.
  • Oil bioavailability timelines and safety guidelines that inform professional dosing strategy.
  • The stages and phases of labor and their clinical indicators; how to anticipate essential oil use for common symptoms (see above).
  • The physiological transition of the newborn including the most comforting aroma to the newborn (spoiler: it’s amniotic fluid—not an oil!)
  • Masterful knowledge of the top ten oils recommended for birth including usage strategies, safety precautions, and oil property information.
  • Learn professional charting of maternal essential oil use so that you can collaborate with primary care-providers that often have varying documentation requirements; this will be vital to your reputation.
  • The exact questions to ask in your client intake form.
  • Get our multi-media marketing materials, legal contracts, and other valuable professional assets. Download our courses’ full length learning objective statement here.

We Believe Plants Are HEre TO Heal Us

Become A Community Leader In Oil Safety

Our premier safety trainings are a valuable resource to the birth community, our certification program enables all of our advocacy work and community training.

Explore A Unique Certification

Designed to be a bridge between personal study and aromatherapy certification, this unique-to-birth course will certify you in an effective use of the best oils for birth.

FAQs

Frequently Asked Questions

What are your program requirements for certification?
  • View at least 80% of the course training
  • Complete our guided blending at-home practicums
  • Complete the dilution math problem worksheet
  • Formulate oil birth plans according to example in-take forms
  • Submit 10 essential oil profile papers including references
  • Successfully pass the end certification exam with a minimum score of 80%
What is the material of this course based on?
This course is presented by a certified aromatherapist; it is science-based and research-focused curriculum sourced by current studies and multiple acclaimed textbooks including:
  • Tissarand and Young’s Essential Oil Safety: A Guide for Health Care Professionals
  • Clinical Aromatherapy: Essential Oils in Healthcare by Jane Buckle PhD RN
  • Aromatherapy for Health Professionals by Shirley Price
  • Medical Aromatherapy: Healing with Essential Oils by Kurt Schnaubelt Ph.D.
  • The Healing Intelligence of Essential Oils: The Science of Advanced Aromatherapy by Kurt Schnaubelt Ph.D.
  • The Complete Book of Essential Oils and Aromatherapy by Valerie Ann Worwood
  • Fragrance and Wellbeing: Plant Aromatics and Their Influence on the Psyche by Jennifer Peace Rhind
  • The Chemistry of Aromatherapeutic Oils by E. Joy Bowles
  • See our full recommended source list here.
Our medical sections (on labor progression disorders, newborn physiology, etc) have been sourced with the same standard as the rest of the academy: over 1000 medical journal articles, 250 books on birth, dozens of modern obstetric textbooks, and every single midwifery textbook published in English in the US, Canada, and the UK since the 1950s.
What is the average length of study until certification completion?
The course is designed as a 12-week course of study to be completed in under one hour per day with an average of less than five hours of work per week required. There are 27 lectures plus assignments and exams. Most of our students have full schedules with families and jobs. Our intensive timeline will stretch you, but will still be manageable with real-life responsibilities. The courses are dynamic. Some are focused on getting you to practice your new expertise with practical, project-based assignments. Some lectures include illustrated quick reference guides or curated textbook excepts, other lessons will look like a 10-minute video on an application strategy that ends with an assignment so you can act immediately on new insights instead of thinking “oh, I remember that presentation on dilution strategies…but none of the specifics…how do I do that…” The course is organized around completing oil-based assignment projects and learning from experience. Our completion rates are higher than industry standard and we value our student’s success– not just their initial payment. We’re here to help you succeed as quickly as possible!
What is the course experience like?
Our Advanced Technology Creates A Transformational Learning Experience Online Our multimedia classroom experience brings instruction into your home and delivers on your schedule. Learn from the academy founder, our course directors, and incredible guest speakers such as a labor and delivery nurse who does on-demand consults her hospital co-workers from obstetric doctors to heart surgeons with essential oils with astounding results!
  1. Watch condensed video presentations
  2. Download convenient audio files
  3. Access curated (not just transcribed) illustrated and detailed PDFs resources so you can reference and review what you’ve learned including:
  • Step-by-step quick reference guides on safety & application strategies
  • Business worksheets
  • Our illustrated ten advanced essential oil profiles with formula guides
  • How to conduct an intake consultation guide
What deliverables do I actually get with this program?
This site contains a unique highly discounted access to our EOBC course from Brilliant Birth Academy and includes access to the EOBC certification course ONLY. 
  • Lifetime access to the Essential Oils Birth Consultant Certification online course plus guaranteed access to any future updates as the course develops and expands.
  • Buying assurance with our 100% money-back guarantee
  • Lifetime certification: no yearly fees here. Our continuing ed programs are voluntary, awesome, and free.
You may also purchase this course for $297.00 with Brilliant Birth Academy and get these additional offerings: 
  • Epic Bonuses including courses like Finishers Formula, Self Care for Birthworkers, Brilliant Branding, legal/contract swipe files, social media assets and more.
  • A Brilliant Events Pass to all of Brilliant Birth Academy’s online events and summits.
  • A 40% off Brilliant Insider Coupon Code to use on all future course purchases with us. 

Rachel M
Birth Doula + Plant Based Healer

“I’ve had a lot of clients specifically wanting a doula who uses essential oils, but I knew I couldn’t properly support them. I did some research, but it’s hard to know what to trust; I just didn’t feel confident in the information I was finding on random websites. When I found the Brilliant Birth Academy Essential Oils Birth Consultant course, I was overjoyed! I was so relieved that I found a trustworthy source about properly using essential oils during labor and now I feel very confident when using oils during birth. I’m so thankful I found this course and, because of it, can better support my clients during such an important time!”