Birth Trauma

Birth trauma can happen when pregnancy, birth, or the postpartum period felt frightening, overwhelming, or very different from what you expected. Sometimes there was a medical emergency, a loss of autonomy, or moments when you feared for your safety or your baby's. In some cases, everything may have looked fine from the outside, but you were left feeling powerless, alone, or deeply unsettled by what happened. Many parents try to push these experiences aside, telling themselves they should be grateful or able to move on, and many find this doesn’t work. Birth can be one of the most vulnerable experiences we go through, and when something about it feels traumatic, it can affect every aspect of parenting, from how you feel about yourself, your body, and your relationships to your experience of becoming a parent. Healing becomes about understanding its impact, processing your experience, and beginning to feel more like yourself again.

What I Can Help With

• Making sense of a pregnancy, birth, or postpartum experience that felt overwhelming, frightening, or not how you expected it to be

• Processing the emotional impact that can stay after birth, including grief, fear, anger, or feeling unsettled

• Understanding how the experience may still be showing up in how you feel about yourself, your body, or becoming a parent

• Repairing your relationship with your body after an experience that may have felt intense, disconnected, or out of your control

• Finding your way back to yourself after an experience that felt disorienting or out of your control

• Moving toward a greater sense of steadiness, trust, and connection with yourself over time