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About Phyllis

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Phyllis Klaus, LMFT, LMSW, is a licensed Marriage Family Therapist and Social Worker. Formerly on the faculty of the Department of Family Practice, Michigan State University and the Milton H. Erickson Institute, Santa Rosa, CA., she currently teaches and practices  in  Palo Alto, California, providing psychotherapy, hypnotherapy and counseling to individuals, children, couples, families and groups. She has been working with the concerns of families in the perinatal period for over 37 years.

Phyllis is an EMDR Institute Certified Therapist, Consultant, and Trainer. As an EMDR Institute Trainer, she did the first EMDR Trainings in Europe in Switzerland and Italy. She is also an Instructor of hypnosis, grief counseling, and several therapies such as somatic and energy therapies.

She is a Founder of
DONA International and PATTCh (Prevention and Treatment of Traumatic Childbirth). She has extensive experience in treating trauma-related disorders, such as PTSD, dissociative disorders, and survivors of abuse. She also incorporates Hypnosis, EMDR, Ego-State Therapy, EFT along with other psychotherapies in the treatment of somatic and medical disorders, family of origin and attachment disorders, and complicated grief. 

She consults, does research,  presents workshops nationally and internationally and is co‑author of several articles as well as Mothering the Mother, the Doula Book; Bonding; Your Amazing Newborn;  a video, The Amazing Talents of the Newborn; and When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women.


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Phyllis Klaus and Gail Tully of Spinning Babies in a Prenatal Bonding session
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Debra Pascali-Bonaro and Phyllis Klaus
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Phyllis Klaus and Chris McBride
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Phyllis Klaus shares "how to promote a natural, more comfortable, and positive birth experience" with Nick Olow in this annual summit of birth world greats.
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Bonding and Birth is your comprehensive guide to works by Phyllis and Marshall Klaus. It also contains bios for both Phyllis and Marshall.
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