A Process Group for Birthing People — North Greenpoint, Brooklyn
Becoming.
Because you don't just have a baby. You become a mother. And that changes everything — including your relationship.
Next Cohort · Oct 12 – Nov 2, 2026 · Enrolling Now
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EFT Therapy
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Somatic Practice
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Ancestral Wisdom
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Curandera-Informed
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In-Person Community
Next Group · Oct 12 – Nov 2, 2026
The next circle
is forming.
Registration is open for the next BECOMING cohort, running October 12 through November 2, 2026 in North Greenpoint — and spots will fill quickly.
The best way to hold your place is to book a free 15-minute consultation with Liliana. It's a chance to ask questions, make sure the group feels like the right fit, and secure your spot before the group fills.
The women you meet here will know your story before your baby does.
Secure Your Spot
Oct 12 – Nov 2, 2026 Cohort · Minimum 6 spots
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Book your free 15-minute consult — a short call with Liliana to see if BECOMING is the right fit for you right now.
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Get added to the waitlist — you'll be the first to know when your spot is confirmed.
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Hold your spot — the group is kept intentionally small, with a minimum of 6 women, and fills on a first-come basis.
No commitment required — just a conversation.
What This Is
This is not a birth class.
It's a space to be held — body, mind, and heart.
Most pregnancy resources focus on what's coming — the nursery, the birth plan, the newborn phase. Very few make space for what's happening right now: the quiet identity upheaval, the shifting relationships, the fears you carry in secret. BECOMING invites you to pause, attune to yourself, and practice emotional regulation, so your relationship with yourself, your partner, and your baby can thrive.
BECOMING is an in-person therapeutic process group for a small cohort of pregnant people who want to do the inner work of this threshold — together, before the baby arrives. Through Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), attachment-informed practices, and ancestral healing rituals, you'll explore your fears, strengthen your emotional resilience, and build attuned connections with a community that will continue postpartum.
What makes this group rare is its continuity and depth. Using EFT as a foundation, you'll explore your attachment patterns, fears, and relational needs, learning how to respond intentionally to yourself, your partner, and your baby. Through curanderismo-inspired practices and somatic exercises, you'll develop tools to regulate your nervous system, stay grounded, and form meaningful connections — so your relationships can truly thrive.
"Pregnancy isn't just a physical experience — it's an identity transformation. It even has a name: matrescence."
Just as adolescence describes the identity shift into adulthood, matrescence describes the profound — and often disorienting — process of becoming a mother. BECOMING gives that experience the space, witness, and guidance it deserves, integrating emotional attunement, relational insight, EFT principles, and ancestral wisdom.
This Group Is For You If
You're carrying more than
a baby.
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You feel lonely in your pregnancy — surrounded by people who love you, and still somehow unseen.
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Your relationship is already shifting and you and your partner aren't talking about it.
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You're grieving the "before" — your identity, your body, your freedom — even while you're excited about what's coming.
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You're afraid of postpartum isolation and want to build your village before the baby arrives, not after.
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You want to break cycles — to understand what you're carrying from your lineage, and what you're choosing to pass forward.
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You crave depth — real conversation with other women, not just apps and advice and checklists.
What you'll walk away with
A small group of women who know your story — not just your birth story, but your whole story. A language for your own needs that you can bring into your relationship. A clearer sense of who you are at this transition, and what you're choosing to carry forward. And a community that doesn't end when the group does.
The Curriculum
The Passage to Becoming
Each session moves through an EFT- and attachment-informed, curandera-inspired journey — grounding, unearthing, cleansing, and blessing forward.
Fall Cohort · Oct 12 – Nov 2, 2026 · Enrolling Now
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Session One
La Raíz
The Root
Who Am I Becoming?
We begin by naming what's already happening — the identity upheaval of matrescence, the attachment needs activated by pregnancy, and the longing underneath the fear.
◦ Introduction to matrescence — the identity metamorphosis of becoming a mother
◦ EFT-informed group check-in: uncovering fears, longings, and attachment patterns
◦ Grounding ritual: naming a woman in your lineage you carry into this passage
◦ Building the group container: safety, trust, and agreements for emotional attunement
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Session Two
Las Heridas
The Wounds
What We Carry Inside
We go deeper — into intergenerational patterns, unspoken partnership fears, and the grief of leaving your "before" self behind.
◦ Family-of-origin reflection: what to repeat, what to break — integrating attachment awareness
◦ Processing fears about the relationship: intimacy, resentment, shifting roles
◦ Naming and honoring grief — for self and relationship before baby
◦ Womb meditation: attending to what is held in the body that didn't originate with you
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Session Three
El Pasaje
The Passage
Navigating the Relationship
We turn toward partnership — understanding how attachment needs shift postpartum and building the language to stay connected as you move through this transformative passage.
◦ Psychoeducation on relationship shifts after birth — normalizing change and fostering attunement
◦ EFT-informed exercises: uncovering the deeper longings underneath frustration
◦ Rehearsal: expressing needs postpartum intentionally, without conflict
◦ Introduction to optional partners group and couples retreat
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Session Four
La Bendición
The Blessing
Stepping Forward
We close the journey with integration, intention-setting, and a collective blessing — each woman witnessed by the others who have walked this path with her.
◦ Integration: reflecting on beliefs, patterns, and shifts throughout the journey
◦ Cultivating intentionality: leaving with clarity and conscious practices for partnership and postpartum life
◦ Closing ceremony: a spoken blessing from the group, honoring transformation and relational growth
◦ Laying the foundation for postpartum connection, attunement, and mutual support
Where therapy meets ancestral medicine
Each session is held with Emotionally Focused Therapy as the clinical backbone — and woven through with curandera-informed practices: intentional opening rituals, somatic check-ins, ancestral healing framings, and a closing ceremony in the final session. This is not therapy dressed up in spiritual language. It is both, held with integrity and clinical rigor, offered to you as a whole person.
Each 2-Hour Session
How we hold
the time.
Every session follows a consistent container so the group can settle into a rhythm of safety and depth.
0:00–0:15
Opening Ritual
A brief grounding practice, breath, body, or simple ceremony to mark the space as sacred and separate from the rest of the week.
0:15–0:30
Check-In
Each woman checks in briefly: what she's carrying, what she needs today. No fixing, no advice. Just witness.
0:30–1:30
Core Process Work
The heart of the session. Psychoeducation, EFT-informed group process, somatic practice, or themed experiential work — guided by Liliana, shaped by what the group brings.
1:30–1:50
Integration & Sharing
Each woman names one thing she's taking with her. The group reflects and witnesses. No pressure, no performance.
1:50–2:00
Closing
A brief closing: breath, intention, or a simple word to honor what was held in the room before returning to the world.
Group Details
FormatIn-Person Only
LocationNorth Greenpoint
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Duration4 Sessions · 2 hrs/session
Day & TimeMondays
Oct 12, 9:30–11:30am · Oct 19, 5:30–7:30pm
Oct 26, 9:30–11:30am · Nov 2, 5:30–7:30pm
Oct 12, 9:30–11:30am · Oct 19, 5:30–7:30pm
Oct 26, 9:30–11:30am · Nov 2, 5:30–7:30pm
Group SizeMinimum 6 Women · Intentionally intimate
Who2nd or 3rd trimester
Facilitated byLiliana Doyon, LMFT
Certified EFT Therapist
Certified EFT Therapist
Investment$1,500 · Full series
Next StepFree 15-min consult call
The full BECOMING series is $1,500 — four sessions, and a community that carries beyond the group. Superbills provided for out-of-network reimbursement.
Finances should never be a barrier to this work. One full scholarship spot is available per cohort, and sliding scale fees are offered — because the circle is stronger when it's accessible. Inquire on your consult call.
Your registration also includes a BECOMING workbook, a journal, and a hand-selected ritual welcome bag — an anointing oil, a candle, a crystal, palo santo, and a ceremonial herbal tea to accompany your journey.
The Bigger Picture
The full journey
Phase One
The Women's Group
4 sessions. A small, intentional cohort. The core work of this program — identity, relationships, ancestral patterns, and building your village before birth.
Phase Two · Optional
The Partners Group
A parallel 4-week group for partners who want to do their own work — their identity shift, their fears, their own preparation for this threshold.
Phase Three
The Couples Retreat
Both groups come together for a half-day retreat — facilitated couples work, shared ritual, and the chance to do the relational work side by side.
Your Facilitator
Liliana
Doyon
LMFT
President, NYCEFT
Certified EFT Therapist
Curandera-in-Training
Spanish-Speaking
LGBTQIA+ Affirming
I'm a mother before I'm a therapist. I birthed both of my children with midwives by my side, and I walked through my own threshold of matrescence — the identity unraveling, the relationship strain — and I know firsthand how much this transition asks of you and of your relationship. That lived experience is not separate from my clinical work. It is the heart of it.
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Emotionally Focused Therapist with over 15 years of experience, I've dedicated my practice to helping couples prevent the disconnection that new parenthood so often brings — and to repair it when it's already arrived. I'm the President of the New York Center for Emotionally Focused Therapy, a first-generation Mexican American, a Spanish-speaking therapist, and a curandera-in-training.
My work blends evidence-based therapy with ancestral wisdom and somatic awareness. I show up for the whole person — including the parts that are still healing.
This group comes from a place of genuine conviction: that the threshold of becoming a parent deserves real witness. And that the women who walk through it together carry each other in ways that last far beyond the group itself.
Learn More at lilianadoyon.com →Before You Apply
Frequently Asked
Questions
The full BECOMING series is $1,500 — four sessions, and a community that carries beyond the group. Superbills will be provided for out-of-network reimbursement.
Finances should never be a barrier to this work. One full scholarship spot is available per cohort, and sliding scale fees are offered for those who need them. Please inquire on your consult call — it is always a welcome conversation.
Your registration also includes a BECOMING workbook, a journal, and a hand-selected ritual welcome bag — an anointing oil, a candle, a crystal, palo santo, and a ceremonial herbal tea to accompany your journey.
BECOMING is a small, intentional group — every seat holds the container for everyone. For this reason, all payments are non-refundable except in the case of a medical emergency. If a medical emergency arises, please reach out directly and we will work with you compassionately.
Yes — and this is intentional. BECOMING is a process group, not a drop-in class. Each session builds on the last, and the depth of the work depends on the continuity and trust of the full group. When you register, you are committing to all 4 sessions. Please review your schedule carefully before applying.
Liliana is not in-network with insurance providers. However, a superbill will be provided after each session, which you can submit directly to your insurance company for potential out-of-network reimbursement. Many participants recover a portion of the cost this way. We recommend calling your insurance provider ahead of time to ask about your out-of-network mental health benefits.
Please wear comfortable, loose clothing — something you can breathe, move, and settle into easily. Sessions include somatic and body-based practice, so you'll want to feel at ease in your body. Think layers, stretchy fabrics, and whatever makes you feel most like yourself.
Bring a water bottle — staying hydrated is especially important during pregnancy and during emotionally engaged work. A journal will be provided for you at the first session, along with any materials needed for the group. You don't need to bring anything else — just yourself.
This group is open to people in their second or third trimester. Second trimester tends to offer more energy and comfort for in-person work, but third trimester is equally welcome. If you're unsure whether the timing is right for you, reach out and we can talk it through on a free consult call.
No. This group is designed to stand on its own and is appropriate whether or not you are currently in individual therapy. If deeper individual support feels needed during the group, Liliana can provide referrals. If you are currently working with a therapist, participating in this group alongside that work is absolutely welcome.
No. This group is just for you. After the women's group completes, there is an optional partners group that runs for 4 weeks for those whose partners want to do parallel work. Both groups then come together for an optional couples retreat. Your partner's participation is entirely their own choice and is never required.
Each session is opened and closed with a brief grounding practice — breath, simple ceremony, or intentional ritual — rooted in Liliana's curandera training. The final session includes a closing ceremony and collective blessing. These practices are offered as an invitation, not a requirement, and are designed to honor diverse spiritual backgrounds. You do not need to share any particular belief system to feel comfortable in this group.
Your health and your baby always come first. If something comes up — a medical appointment, bedrest, or an early arrival — please reach out as soon as possible. We'll handle it with care. Life happens, and especially at this stage of pregnancy, flexibility and compassion are built into how this group is held.
Book a free 15-minute consultation call with Liliana at lilianadoyon.com. This is a chance to ask questions, make sure the group feels like the right fit, and hold your place for the October 12 – November 2, 2026 cohort. The group is intentionally kept small, with a minimum of 6 women, and fills on a first-come basis.
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Your village starts
before the baby.
The October 12 – November 2, 2026 cohort is forming now. Minimum 6 spots, kept intentionally intimate. The women you meet here will know your story before your baby does — and still be in your corner postpartum.
Minimum 6 spots. In-person · North Greenpoint, Brooklyn · Oct 12 – Nov 2, 2026