#birthtrauma

Are you struggling to adjust to parenthood?

Are you struggling to adjust to parenthood?

Becoming a parent or welcoming subsequent children into your family can be a time of significant adjustment. Coping with this adjustment can be extremely difficult, and it may affect your mood, thoughts and interactions with others.

Adjustment difficulties may make you feel anxious, low in mood, and very stressed. You may notice tendencies of wanting to be in control, not wanting to socialise and experience feelings of anger or rage.

Therapy for Postnatal Depression - PND

Postnatal Depression, known as PND, is a common experience for women after they have had a baby.

You don't have to suffer alone, reach out so that you can begin to enjoy this time rather than just survive it.

EMDR Psychological Therapy for Birth Trauma

EMDR Psychological Therapy for Birth Trauma

Trauma in the perinatal space might be a traumatic birth, but it is much broader than that. Perinatal trauma can occur during pregnancy, the birth or postnatal period.

The good news is that there is treatment available for birth trauma and it’s highly effective - that therapy is call EMDR.

Improving the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Expectant and New Parents

Improving the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Expectant and New Parents

The perinatal period, from preconception through to 3 years after birth, is critical time where the mental health of a baby begins, and it is a unique time where women are highly motivated to seek help.

There is a complexity to women’s mental health. In the perinatal period, there are significant hormonal changes, physical body changes, identity changes, role changes, workplace and financial changes and often significant shifts and changes within our social and attachment relationships.

Birth Trauma

Birth Trauma

It is our own psychological experience that will determine whether a birth was traumatic – and given it’s the inner experience of the mother, only a mother can determine if she felt traumatised.