Perinatal & Birth Trauma Therapy

When pregnancy, birth, or postpartum brings FEAR instead of safety.

If your birth or pregnancy experience was terrifying, overwhelming, or traumatic, you’re not alone.


Maybe you can’t stop replaying what happened. Maybe medical settings make your heart race. Maybe you're afraid of ever going through it again.


Perinatal trauma is real — and YOUR STORY MATTERS.

You deserve support from someone who understands what trauma in the perinatal period looks like in the body, the mind, and the heart.

Schedule a FREE consultation with Betty today

Trauma Is How Your Nervous System Experienced the Moment

Perinatal trauma can include:

  • emergency C-section or unplanned interventions

  • hemorrhage or severe complications

  • preeclampsia, HELLP, or high-risk pregnancy

  • NICU stay or separation from baby

  • feeling ignored, dismissed, or unsafe with providers

  • trauma intertwined with a previous pregnancy or loss

Common symptoms:

Trauma Doesn’t End When the Birth Does

How Therapy Helps & What Healing Looks Like

  • We gently process the moments your body and mind are still holding onto — birth events, medical emergencies, pregnancy complications, or postpartum trauma — in a safe, paced, and contained way using EMDR.

  • Exposure Response Prevention Therapy helps you learn how to better respond flashbacks, panic, hypervigilance, and intrusive SCARY thoughts/images or sensations in a structured way to reduce fear, shame, and the urge to neutralize or check.

  • We focus on grounding, stabilization, and reconnecting with your body after experiences that felt terrifying or out of control. This includes nervous system regulation, emotional safety, and rebuilding trust in your body and instincts.

  • Description text goes hereThis part of therapy is about helping you feel more like yourself again.
    We work through how the trauma changed you — as a parent, a partner, or a person — and help you make sense of it in a kind, empowering way.
    If you’re thinking about future pregnancies, appointments, or medical settings, we prepare for those moments so they feel less overwhelming.
    In simple terms: the trauma stops being in charge of your life. You get to be in control again.

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Healing is not about erasing what happened — it’s about helping your body and mind feel safe again, one step at a time.

If Your Story Also Includes…

Infertility, IVF treatments, or

reproductive trauma:

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Pregnancy or  infant loss:

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