Listening, support, and therapy for birth experience and birth Trauma.
- Finding closure following pregnancy, birth and early parenthood
- regaining confidence for pregnancy and future birth
Treatment Focus
It’s natural if you feel a range of conflicted emotions after experinced a challenging fertility journey or after you have had a baby. If thinking about your experience, your pregnancy, birth or the time after birth still leaves you feeling unsettled several weeks, months or even years later, then this service may be helpful towards resolving any issues.
A challenging individual fertility journey, a pregnancy or the birth of your baby can have a profound affect on you, your family, and your parenting journey. If your experience was not as you had planned or hoped for, if you are unclear about what happened, or if complications arose then you may be left struggling to understand and manage your feelings. In some cases you may even be left feeling traumatised from everything that you have been through. Your journey and experience are as unique as you are. Your feelings are valid, and you deserve to be heard – what feels authentic to you is always real.
Treatment Focus
It is important to remember that those feelings don’t just have to come from a life-threatening event; issues can also emerge from other feelings such as loss of control, a sense of helplessness or a loss of security or from individual challenging fertility journeys. Even though you may feel you didn’t have a ‘traumatic experince ’, you still may feel unable to think beyond your experience or enjoy your pregnancy/new family life as you feel trapped with these negative emotions and disconnected.
Birth Thoughts may help you.
You are not alone and I offer treatment to move forward and support you in your healing.
Your symptoms & Postnatal healing
Every experience is unique and how you feel about your experience matters!
Postnatal healing goes beyond physical and whether your birth experience was straightforward or complex, you may have been left with a ton of emotions you don’t know how to process.
- Do you feel panicked or anxious about your birth?
- Do you have questions about what happened and why things happened the way that they did?
- Are you constantly revisiting aspects of your pregnancy, labour or birth?
- Are you avoiding talking about your birth to others?
- Do you feel disconnected from people that you are close to?
- Do you find it hard to sleep or stay asleep?
- Do you have difficulty concentrating on things?
- Are you having nightmares/flashbacks of your birth?
- Are you scared to have another baby?
Perhaps you're overwhelmed by intrusive thoughts that are affecting your well-being. The processing of your feelings and being able to talk with someone you trust is important to healing. When we are able to share our feelings, pain, grieve the loss of a wanted experience, it can support our journey into parenthood, the acceptance of what we have experienced helps with the first steps towards healing.