You’re told you should feel grateful. You have a beautiful, thriving baby.
So why does your body tense every time you think about the birth?

You replay the moment your baby was whisked away to the NICU.
The unanswered questions.
The fear.
The helplessness.

Now, when someone asks you to “share your birth story,” your heart races. Your chest tightens. You want to escape the room. You wonder why something that’s “over” still feels so present in your body.

This is not weakness.
This is birth trauma.

You Don’t Have to Re-live It Forever

As a licensed therapist specializing in EMDR therapy for birth trauma, I help mothers process and heal from traumatic birth experiences, whether your trauma came from an emergency C-section, NICU stay, medical complications, loss of control, or feeling unheard during labor. Sometimes the birth just didn’t go how you had hoped.

Through EMDR therapy and talk therapy, we work together to help your nervous system release the emotional charge attached to the memory. The goal isn’t to erase your experience, it’s to help your body recognize that you are safe now.

So your birth story becomes just that:
a story, not a trigger.

You showed up.
You stayed calm.
You held it together.

But inside, your body remembers everything.

The rush of doctors into the room.
Your baby being taken without explanation.
The pressure to stay composed while hearing words no parent expects.

You tell yourself you shouldn’t feel this way, you weren’t the one giving birth. And yet, the anxiety still hits. The memories still replay. The fear still lives in your body.

Birth trauma affects partners too.

Your Experience Matters

As a psychologist trained in EMDR therapy for birth trauma, I work with fathers and partners who witnessed traumatic births and are struggling with anxiety, intrusive memories, or emotional shutdown afterward.

EMDR helps process what you saw and felt, without requiring you to relive it over and over. Together, we create space for your nervous system to settle, so you can be fully present in your life and your family.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a research-backed therapy designed to help the brain process traumatic experiences that feel “stuck.”

During EMDR sessions, we use bilateral stimulation (such as guided eye movements or tapping) while gently focusing on the memory. This allows your brain to reprocess the experience in a way that reduces emotional intensity, physical symptoms, and intrusive thoughts.

EMDR is especially effective for:

• Birth trauma and traumatic deliveries
  
  

• NICU experiences
  
  

• Emergency medical situations
  
  

• Anxiety, panic, and PTSD symptoms after childbirth
  
  

Many clients report feeling relief without needing to retell their story in detail again and again.