Cynthia Good Mojab, MS, IBCLC, RLC, CATSM

about Cynthia Good Mojab

Cynthia Good Mojab is a clinical counselor and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant in private practice (www.lifecirclecc.com), a private researcher, the author of numerous publications, and an educator focusing on issues related to culture, psychology, and the family. As one of a small group of mental health care providers in the world who are also IBCLCs, Cynthia has a strong interest in lactational psychology. She is the founder and moderator of LactPsych, an international email discussion group for dual professionals whose work significantly addresses lactational psychology. She is a member of the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, is certified in acute traumatic stress management, and is a member of the Ask the Experts panel on Mothering magazine's website.

official bio

Cynthia Good Mojab, MS clinical psychology, IBCLC, RLC, CATSM, combines her multidisciplinary education and experience to create unique presentations addressing issues that are often complex, challenging, and controversial. Trained in the tools of adult education, her professional and image-rich PowerPoint presentations are well-organized, designed for various learning styles, thoroughly referenced, and applicable to “real life.” She has consistently received high ratings on evaluations of her presentations. She is responsive to the needs of conference organizers and has experience speaking to both large and small groups.

sessions

Cynthia Good Mojab is pleased to provide presentations on the following topics to professional and parenting conferences. Presentations on other topics may be available upon request and subject to sufficient development lead-time. (For CERP topics, required paperwork will be provided promptly to meet CERP deadlines)

The Hot Topic of Infant Feeding Rhetoric: Risks or Benefits?
90 - 120 minutes
CERP

An exploration of the multidisciplinary evidence base that provides guidance on identifying and using effective and ethical language when communicating about infant feeding.

Postpartum Depression: The Most Common Complication of Birth
90 - 120 minutes
CERP

An overview of postpartum depression, how breastfeeding and postpartum depression interact, and how and why to screen and refer breastfeeding mothers for treatment.Note: This session also heavily addresses ethics.

Breastfeeding Compatible Mental Health Care for Postpartum Depression
90 - 120 minutes
CERP

An introduction to the physical and psychological risks for mothers and their children of mental health care that undermines breastfeeding during postpartum depression and to a variety of breastfeeding compatible treatment options for postpartum depression in nursing mothers.

Mutually Inclusive: Breastfeeding Support and Mental Health Care
90 - 120 minutes
CERP

An invitation to multidisciplinary collaboration in the treatment of mother-nursling dyads coping with common postpartum mental health issues, as well as a dialogue about what lactation consultants and mental health practitioners can contribute so that breastfeeding and mental health are both supported.

It Wasn't Supposed to be Like This: Traumatic Birth, Traumatic Stress, and Breastfeeding
90 - 120 minutes
CERP

A sensitive discussion of how traumatic birth experiences affect maternal mental health, breastfeeding, and lactation consulting. Includes the importance of recognizing the difference between postpartum depression and stress disorders.

Managing Acute Maternal Traumatic Stress in Birth
90 - 180 minutes
CERP

An overview of the ten steps of Comprehensive Acute Traumatic Stress Management as adapted and applied to the context of traumatic childbirth.

Mother's Milk, Empty Arms
90 - 120 minutes
CERP

A guide to the compassionate management of lactation and breastfeeding in the aftermath of pregnancy loss and infant death. Addresses suppression of lactation, breastfeeding a surviving sibling, donation of expressed milk to a human milk bank, and the emergent psychological needs of bereaved mothers.

Stillborn: Surviving Grief and Traumatic Stress as a Health Care Provider
90 - 120 minutes
CERP

A step-by-step guide to understanding and coping with your own traumatic stress reactions after having witnessed the birth of a stillborn baby while serving as a health care provider, such as in the role of a midwife, nurse, doctor, or doula.

Loss, Grief, and Breastfeeding Counseling
90 - 120 minutes
CERP

An exploration of the role of loss and grief in the breastfeeding experience, including the loss and grief inherent in the acquisition of the maternal role, grief due to congenital disorders, pregnancy loss, and infant death, grief due to the loss of breastfeeding, and guilt as a symptom of grief.

Helping Mothers Create Breastfeeding Allies
90 - 120 minutes
CERP

An exploration of effective, non-manipulative persuasion techniques that can help women gain meaningful breastfeeding support in their families, workplaces, and communities. Includes discussion of the process of change, how to work with that process, and conflict resolution across cultures.

Brief Breastfeeding Encounters: Effective Counseling Techniques when Time is Limited
90 - 120 minutes
CERP

An introduction to key counseling concepts and techniques from solution focused brief therapy and their application to lactation consulting. Includes practical tools that any health care provider can routinely use to work more effectively with women when time is limited.

Empathic Listening and Beyond: Essential Counseling Techniques for Lactation Consulting
90 - 120 minutes
CERP

A discussion of fundamental, as well as more advanced, counseling concepts and approaches necessary for anyone working with pregnant or breastfeeding mothers.

Shades of Gray: Ethics, Culture and Breastfeeding
90 - 120 minutes
CERP

An overview of the process of ethical decision making in cross-cultural settings. Includes a discussion of how ethical issues in breastfeeding counseling are impacted by non-universal culturally based values and beliefs and how to respond to ethical issues of breastfeeding in a multicultural world.

From Barriers to Bridges: Culture and Breastfeeding
90 - 120 minutes
CERP

An introduction to concepts and tools that are useful when working with members of any culture. Includes a discussion of cultural dimensions, how culture impacts breastfeeding, how lactation consultants and others can work with parents from many cultures to promote positive breastfeeding experiences, and how to work toward the development of cultural competence.

Sunlight Deficiency, Vitamin D, and the Breastfed Baby: Helping Mothers Make Informed Decisions
90 - 120 minutes
CERP

An overview of the complex research base of information essential for facilitating informed decision making on vitamin D supplementation of the breastfed infant. Addresses risk factors for vitamin D deficiency and options for preventing vitamin D deficiency.

The Women behind the Breasts: The Context of Infant Feeding Issues
90 - 120 minutes
CERP

A review of several models of context and their application to infant feeding issues and decisions. Provides lactation consultants and other health care providers with understanding and tools to work more compassionately and effectively with mothers from all backgrounds.

Breastfeeding at a Glance
90 - 120 minutes
CERP

A fascinating tour of facts about breastfeeding, from the origins of breastfeeding to modern myths and facts about breastfeeding, from the legal status of breastfeeding to how breastfeeding rates vary with geography, from contraindications to breastfeeding to the risks of formula feeding, and much more!Note: This session can also be geared for parents.

Breastfeeding Basics: Becoming a Breastfeeding Family
150 - 180 minutes

An introduction to information and skills needed by first-time breastfeeding mothers and their partners. Includes how to make enough milk, how to breastfeed comfortably, and how to find solutions to common breastfeeding challenges.

Pioneer Mothering
60 - 120 minutes

An inspiring exploration of the challenges that many contemporary women courageously face as they mother in a markedly different way than has been done in recent generations, for example by being the first mother for generations in their family to breastfeedNote: This session can be given as a keynote, a presentation, or as an interactive workshop.