Birth Doula Certification

Washington State holds 759 active credentials of this type — 0.1% of every active health care credential in the state. Here is what that number is made of, and how to check one.

What kind of credential this is

A Birth Doula Certification is a Certification — a credential the state grants against a defined standard. It is what Washington uses where the work is real and regulated but typically carried out under someone else’s direction rather than independently.

That word is not a formality. Washington issues 145,796 active credentials in this form across the state, and it decides what the holder may do without someone else’s supervision. How a certification differs from the others.

When these credentials expire

Washington renews on the holder’s birthday, so these 759 expiry dates are spread right across the calendar rather than falling together. By year:

Continuing education

The Department records a continuing-education due date for 746 of these 759 credentials (98.3%). Where it is absent, that does not mean no hours are owed — it means this file does not carry the date.

How long these holders have been credentialled

The oldest Birth Doula Certification credential still active in Washington was first issued in 2023. 755 of the 759 were issued in 2024 or later — 99.5% of the profession is that new.

The disciplinary flag

None of the 759 active credentials of this type carries a disciplinary flag in the Department’s published file.

Do not let the date pass

759 credentials of this type are active in Washington. Washington renews most of them on the holder’s birthday, every year or every two years, and continuing-education hours have to be done before that date — not after. Leave your details and we will tell you when yours is close, and pass your request for continuing-education hours to providers who teach for this credential.

We take no commission and we vouch for no training provider. We have no arrangement with any provider today — we are collecting these requests in order to go and find them. What we do with this.

Some of the 759 holders

Named as the Department of Health holds them, and limited to 140 rows — the full set is in the search, by number or by surname.

Narrower pages for this profession

• Birth Doula Certification expiring in 2027 — 441
• Birth Doula Certification expiring in 2028 — 259
• Birth Doula Certification first issued in 2025 — 378
• Birth Doula Certification first issued in 2026 — 248

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Neighbours by size, not a ranking: this list slides with the profession you are on, so every one of the 98 pages is reachable from the others rather than only the largest few. All of them.