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Pregnancy and childbirth can be profound, meaningful, fulfilling, and amazing. But some experiences result in loss, fear, and medical trauma. These events are shocking and unexpected. They can upend your views of yourself and the world. Rather than feelings of joy and celebration, you may end up shocked, stressed, sad, anxious, depressed, guilty, or ashamed.
EMDR therapy can help process trauma related to miscarriages, stillbirth, difficult or complicated pregnancies, unexpected birth experiences, traumatic medical events, and postpartum physical and emotional difficulties.
I am an EMDR specialist with nearly three decades of clinical experience treating trauma. And as a parent myself I have gone through both positive and negative events related to reproduction. Therapy with me can help you process the experiences and move forward with greater peace, confidence, and resilience.
In EMDR Therapy we will identify the experiences that continue to negatively affect you and use EMDR to help your brain and nervous system process them more fully. Healing does not mean forgetting. It means being able to remember what happened without continuing to experience the same fear, grief, guilt, or helplessness in the present.
You may find yourself thinking:
“I should have been able to prevent this.”
“My body failed me.”
“I can’t trust my body.”
“I’m not safe.”
“Everyone expects me to be okay, but I’m not.”
These responses do not mean that you are weak or failing. They are understandable responses to experiences that were frightening, overwhelming, or deeply painful.
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is an evidence-based therapy that helps the brain process experiences that remain emotionally unresolved.
Rather than requiring you to repeatedly talk through every detail of what happened, EMDR works with the memories, emotions, body sensations, and negative beliefs connected to the experience.
As traumatic memories are reprocessed, they can become less vivid and less emotionally overwhelming. You will still remember what happened, but you will no longer feel as though you are reliving it.
EMDR may help you:
