EMDR Therapy for Birth trauma

Make peace with your birth story.

Coming to terms with birth trauma

You had imagined feeling like a goddess. Having your baby put on your chest for skin to skin and feeling that immediate oxytocin boost while you nurture your brand new wrinkly little one.

But instead things took a quick turn for the worst and you ended up feeling disempowered, helpless, and out of control.

Now you’re left feeling angry, sad, and confused.

Maybe you even feel guilty for choosing to be induced or not trusting your gut when it came time to make decisions about your birth.

After a traumatic birth, it can be difficult to bond to your baby too. You just feel so broken and unfixable.

If you get pregnant again, you may be anxious about losing the baby or thinking, "Can I go through this again? Why did my body fail me?"

Between 33-45% of moms describe their birth as traumatic.

  • Reliving parts of the birth - like it’s happening all over again

  • Can’t stop thinking about what happened

  • Thoughts of pictures of the birth keep you from sleeping

  • Avoiding people, places, or other things that remind you of the birth

  • Being more irritable than normal

  • Trouble concentrating or focusing

  • Feeling numb or like you’re watching yourself from outside your body

  • Struggling with memory of details of your birth

  • Being gaslighted by doctors, nurses, and family members:

    “Oh I’m sorry you perceived it that way.”

    “You’re lucky that everything turned out fine.”

    “You were so exhausted from birth it’s probably hard to remember exactly what happened”

Healing and connection is possible.

EMDR can help you acknowledge what happened, process it, and accept what happened without having negative feelings. Let’s work together to help you see your birth with a more balanced perspective and positive view of yourself. You want to find the beauty in life again.

Are you ready to find peace and healing?

We can get to the root of your symptoms so you can start sleeping better, feel more present in your day to day life, and reconnect with your loved ones. Find the joy & excitement in your life as a mother.