Birth Trauma Support

You don't have to just get over it.

Birth can be beautiful. It can also be difficult, frightening, overwhelming or traumatic.

‍If you're struggling with your pregnancy, birth or postnatal experience, I'm here to listen, without judgement, and help you understand what you need next.

book a free consultation

Or find out how 3 Step Rewind can help you.

Your experience matters.

Birth trauma isn't only about what happened medically.

It can also be about how you felt.

Feeling unheard.
Feeling powerless.
Feeling frightened.
Feeling ignored.
Feeling like decisions were made about you rather than with you.

Sometimes the birth itself isn't what stays with you.

It's how you felt during it.

Could this be birth trauma? →

You might be experiencing birth trauma if…

Flashbacks
Thinking about your birth again and again.
Anxiety / panic
Feeling worried about something that might happen
Hyper-vigilance
Being in a state of high alert, constantly tense and ‘on guard’
Sleep
Difficulty Sleeping
Intrusive thoughts
Intrusive thoughts are unwanted thoughts or mental images that make people feel uncomfortable.
Feeling Worried
Feeling worried that something wrong with you or your baby

Anger
Feeling angry or frustrated about your birth
Numbness
Feeling numb or disconnected to your birth
Difficulty bonding
Finding it difficult to connect and bond with your baby
Grief
Grieving the birth that you had hoped for
Shame
Feeling guilty or ashamed of the birth and blaming yourself for what happened
Fear
Feeling frightened about another birth

How it Works

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The Three Step Rewind takes place over 3 sessions that take place one week apart.

In the first session, we focus on talking through your experience in a safe non judgemental space. If you prefer not to talk through your experience, we can focus on the feelings that you have when you think back to your memory or experience. We will gently explore how you would like to feel.

The session will finish with a guided relaxation which you can also listen to at home in between sessions. This session usually lasts up to 2 hours.

In the second session is the “rewind” element which focuses on helping you to dissociate the negative feelings that you have linked to your memory and helping you to file that memory away as we normally do with most of our day to day experiences. This session usually lasts an hour.

The third session we focus on how you are now feeling, the positive changes that you have noticed and support and focus on moving forward. This session usually lasts for an hour.

Occasionally it may be necessary to repeat session 2.