Supporting Your Journey Through Postpartum Depression, Anxiety, and Birth Trauma
Counseling and EMDR therapy for women experiencing loss, infertility, difficult pregnancies, birth trauma, or challenging postpartum recovery.
Finding Strength After Birth: Support for Postpartum Challenges
Do you find your mind caught in a loop, replaying moments from your birthing experience or the days that followed? Perhaps the memory of meeting your baby stirs feelings of anxiety or panic, making it hard to feel present with your joy. You might be dissecting every detail, searching for answers to what felt overwhelming or out of your control.
If this resonates with you, working with a perinatal mental health therapist trained in EMDR could be a transformative step. We understand the unique emotional landscape of the perinatal period. We offer compassionate, trauma-informed care aimed at helping you process what happened, so you can move forward with more peace and resilience.
Birth trauma isn’t only about the physical challenges that can arise during childbirth. It also includes the emotional and psychological wounds that often go unseen. Some of the experiences that contribute to this trauma include:
Unexpected or urgent medical interventions
Intense pain coupled with a sense of losing control
Emergency C-sections that shift your birth plan suddenly
Feeling unsupported or unheard by healthcare providers
Lack of clear, honest communication during critical moments
Fear for your baby's or your own survival
Post-birth complications that interfere with bonding and attachment
These deeply personal experiences can leave lasting and powerful marks on your emotional well-being. You deserve gentle, compassionate, and effective support to help you heal in a safe space with someone who genuinely cares about your full recovery and overall health.
Signs you may be experiencing distress from birth trauma:
Being easily startled or jumpy
Reliving the trauma through unwanted, intrusive memories
Experiencing emotional flashbacks, nightmares, or sudden waves of panic
Having sudden bursts of anger or feeling irritable more often
Wanting to withdraw and spend more time alone
Finding it hard to relax or get restful sleep
Feeling overwhelmed by hopelessness, helplessness, or self-doubt
Avoiding physical contact or intimacy because it feels unsafe
Noticeable changes in appetite, either eating much more or much less than usual
What to expect:
My approach truly centers on your whole well-being, integrating a variety of evidence-based methods thoughtfully tailored to meet your unique and individual needs. These can include mindfulness-based skills, EMDR for trauma reprocessing, integrative parts work, yoga, eco-therapy, and more. When working with me, you can expect a compassionate, respectful, and supportive environment where your experiences are fully honored and your healing journey is guided with careful attention and empathy. I offer a broad selection of therapeutic tools and techniques specifically designed to address your experience, ensuring that the personalized plan we create together fosters meaningful growth, increased resilience, and lasting balance. Whether you choose to work with me exclusively or collaborate alongside your primary therapist, my ultimate goal is to help you feel safe, deeply understood, and genuinely empowered throughout every step of the healing process.