EMDR Therapy for Pregnancy Birth Trauma and Postpartum Healing
Healing your nervous system in fertility, pregnancy, & postpartum
Healing your nervous system in fertility, pregnancy, and the postpartum period
The perinatal journey which includes fertility, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and every transition in between can be incredibly meaningful, yet also deeply challenging. These moments often bring joy and anticipation, but they can also open old wounds or create new ones.
If you have been through a difficult birth, experienced pregnancy loss, struggled with fertility, or noticed past trauma resurfacing as you enter parenthood, you are not alone. You deserve support that honors the depth and tenderness of what you have lived.
EMDR also known as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing is a well established, integrative therapy that helps the brain reprocess distressing experiences and soften the emotional intensity that lingers long after the moment has passed. EMDR is not about forgetting your story. It is about helping your nervous system feel safe again so you can move through the present with greater ease.
What Makes EMDR Different?
EMDR is a somatic and brain based approach that works differently from traditional talk therapy. Trauma is stored in the body and nervous system, not only in words or thoughts. EMDR uses bilateral stimulation through eye movements, tapping, or sound to support your brain in completing the natural healing process that overwhelming experiences often interrupt.
The goal is not to erase what happened. The goal is to shift the way those memories live inside you so they no longer trigger fear, panic, shame, or a sense of danger.
Many clients describe feeling lighter and more grounded after EMDR. Others feel more connected to themselves and more present with their children. Even long standing patterns of anxiety or emotional reactivity often soften as the nervous system finds relief.
Want to learn more?
Here are some helpful articles about EMDR and its benefits during the perinatal period:
How EMDR Therapy Supports Pregnancy Loss, Birth Trauma, and Postpartum Anxiety
The perinatal season brings enormous emotional vulnerability and identity shifts. EMDR can support healing in many areas including the following
Birth trauma
Whether your birth involved medical interventions, emergency situations, a NICU stay, unexpected outcomes, or moments where you felt unheard, EMDR can reduce the distress that becomes tied to those memories.
Pregnancy loss and infertility
Experiences such as miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, or fertility challenges can be profoundly isolating. EMDR supports grieving, emotional processing, and gentle reconnection with hope.
Postpartum anxiety and intrusive thoughts
If your mind often jumps to fears, worst case scenarios, or overwhelming “what ifs,” EMDR helps re-pattern the nervous system so it no longer stays stuck in alarm mode.
Medical trauma
Complications during pregnancy, emergency surgeries, or invasive procedures can leave the body in a survival response long after the event has passed. EMDR helps release this stored activation so your system can rest again.
Old wounds resurfacing
Parenthood often brings earlier experiences back to the surface such as childhood trauma, attachment wounds, or losses. EMDR helps you process the past with compassion so you can show up more fully in the present.
The perinatal period asks so much of you. Feeling stuck in fear, sadness, overwhelm, or shame does not mean you are failing. It means your nervous system is calling for care.
EMDR can help you return to a steadier sense of self. It can help you reconnect with your strength, your inner calm, and your capacity to move forward with confidence and softness.
Whether you are preparing for birth, navigating postpartum, or parenting after loss, there is space for your healing here. I would be honored to support you.