Perinatal, Postpartum & Birth Trauma Therapy for Mothers & Birthing People

Pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood can be some of the most transformative experiences of a lifetime. They can also be overwhelming, tender, disorienting, and deeply vulnerable.

Whether you are pregnant, newly postpartum, or parenting through the early years, you deserve support that honors the profound transition you are moving through.

I offer therapy for birthing people and mothers navigating the perinatal, postpartum, and early parenting years, including those healing from birth trauma, experiencing postpartum anxiety, or moving through the complex emotional landscape of matrescence.

You deserve care and support. You don’t have to navigate all of this alone. Reach out here to see how I can support you.

Honoring the Transition of Matrescence

The transition into motherhood — often called matrescence — is not simply a life change. It is a profound identity shift that affects your body, nervous system, relationships, sense of self, and place in the world.

You may be experiencing:

• A loss of your previous identity

• Heightened emotional sensitivity

• Overwhelm or anxiety

• Grief around your birth experience

• Difficulty adjusting to the demands of parenting

• A sense that no one prepared you for how intense this transition would be

All of these experiences are valid.

This work creates space to process, integrate, and make meaning of this transition, so you can move through motherhood feeling more grounded, resourced, and connected to yourself.

Healing Birth Trauma

Birth experiences can stay in the body and nervous system long after the event itself.

Even births that appear medically “successful” can leave lasting emotional imprints if the experience involved:

• Loss of control

• Fear for your or your baby's safety

• Feeling unheard or dismissed

• Unexpected medical interventions

• Emergency or traumatic events

• Separation from your baby

• Overwhelming pain or fear

When trauma from birth is not processed, it can show up as:

• Intrusive memories of the birth

• Panic or anxiety

• Avoidance of reminders of the birth

• Difficulty bonding or feeling present

• Hypervigilance around your baby's safety

• Postpartum anxiety or distress

You do not have to carry this alone.

Short-Term Birth Trauma Healing

Bilateral Stimulation Resourcing Therapy

I offer short-term therapy focused on healing birth trauma using bilateral stimulation resourcing techniques. This work follows the birth trauma healing model developed by Gena McCarthy, RN, MFT, which integrates bilateral stimulation, resourcing practices, and perinatal trauma-informed care.

This approach helps the nervous system safely process overwhelming experiences while building internal resources for regulation and resilience.

In this work we focus on:

• Gently processing the birth experience

• Reducing the intensity of traumatic memories

• Restoring a sense of safety in your body

• Strengthening nervous system regulation

• Reconnecting with your sense of agency and trust

Many parents find that targeted trauma work can bring meaningful relief and integration in a relatively short period of time.

Expressive Arts & Embodied Healing

Not all healing happens through words.

Pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood are deeply embodied experiences, and the emotions connected to them are often held not only in the mind, but also in the body.

For some parents, creative and body-based practices can open pathways to healing that feel more intuitive and supportive than traditional talk therapy alone.

When it feels helpful, our work may include expressive arts and embodied practices that allow space for emotions, memories, and sensations to be explored in gentle and non-verbal ways.

These practices might include:

• drawing, painting, or visual expression

• guided imagery or visualization

• movement or body awareness practices

• breath and nervous system regulation

• symbolic or creative exploration of your birth experience or transition into parenthood

For example, some parents find it helpful to explore parts of their birth story through gentle movement or embodied expression. This can create space to process moments that felt overwhelming or unresolved, and sometimes allows parents to reconnect with their voice, agency, or the response they wish they had been able to express at the time.

Through these experiential approaches, parents often find new ways of making meaning, reclaiming their experience, and integrating what happened.

When experiences that once felt overwhelming can be revisited with support, safety, and creativity, many parents discover new ways of reclaiming their voice, their agency, and their relationship to their story.

Expressive and embodied work is always offered as an invitation, not a requirement, and we move at a pace that feels supportive and safe for you.

You Deserve Support

If you are moving through pregnancy, postpartum recovery, or early parenthood and feeling overwhelmed, anxious, or impacted by your birth experience, you are not alone.

Healing and integration are possible.

Therapy can offer a space to process, regulate, and reconnect with yourself while navigating this profound life transition.