A safe, compassionate space to process your birth experience.
Birth Trauma Recovery Support in South West London, Surrey & Central London
Supporting you
and your family
after birth
Birth Trauma Support
I offer a 3 step process for people who are struggling with trauma symptoms from their birth or from a perinatal experience. I trained in 'Traumatic Birth Recovery 3 Step Rewind' with the TBR College of Perinatal Emotional Health in 2018 and offer this to both women and their partners.
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I will work with you to understand the impact of what happened, how it is affecting your day to day life, disturbing your inner world and causing you to respond in ways that are sometimes unhelpful. We work together to discover the changes that could take place if you were able to remove negative ways of thinking, feelings and responses.
Over a series of three meetings, I create a safe and nurturing space for you to go through the process of unhooking negative feelings and emotions from the memory of what happened.
After birth and You
Sadly, 30% of births leave the mother, partner or family in a state of trauma and, of those, up to 9% suffer from PTSD.
Trauma symptoms include:
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anxiety, recurrent thoughts, flashbacks, anger, avoidance and hyper vigilance
PTSD symptoms include:
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flashbacks, a sense of heightened anxiety, constantly feeling on the alert, avoiding anything that reminds you of the trauma
The 3 Step Rewind Process aims to lift those symptoms.
It is a safe, gentle and effective neuro linguistic programming (NLP) exercise which will re-process the memory of what happened. This clears the trauma and creates the space to begin experiencing peace, hope and more positive feelings.
Your Transformation
​The Rewind will lift the feelings about your birth and give you an opportunity to think differently about your future.
You will realise you can choose different ways to respond to situations and you will release limiting beliefs.
You will create a picture of how you would like to feel, what you will be doing, how you will be responding, what will have changed, and how your relationships would be different if they no longer had the feelings associated with any trauma you may have experienced in your baby’s birth, or during a perinatal experience
How the 3 Step Rewind
process works
Session / Step 1
Is to hear your story (should you want to tell it, you don't have to if you don't want to), to understand how it is still impacting on your day to day life now and how you would like to feel if these feelings/ways of responding were lifted. We practice relaxation and imagine your future free of those feelings whilst deeply relaxed. It is usually 90 minutes. ​
Session / Step 2
Is to use the Rewind to re-process the memory of your birth so it no longer holds any emotional charge or anxiety. You will experience your future solution state whilst deeply relaxed. This is usually 60 minutes and I suggest holding this session about one week after the first session.
Session / Step 3
​Is to check back in that those changes have taken place. We focus on building confidence and resilience so that you no longer feel like you are owned by what happened and you are able to begin enjoying your life as a new parent. This is usually 45 minutes and I suggest holding this session about 2 weeks after the second session. ​
