Just as birth can leave physical trauma, so too can birth leave mental trauma that creates a psychological scar. The impact of birth trauma reaches every facet of a persons life because it influences the way they think, feel and relate to others on a daily basis.
During a traumatic birth or witnessing a traumatic birth, stress levels can be so high as to prevent the brain from processing the event and creating a 'normal' memory. The memory created is a trauma memory, stuck in the flight/fight/freeze response part of the brain - the Amygdala. Fortunately 8 out of 10 trauma memory's will be naturally processed by the brain within a period of about 4 weeks.
For some however, where this does not happen, symptoms such as flashbacks, anger, feeling emotionally preoccupied or distant, sleep disturbances or replaying the birth are common daily symptoms that persist. These symptoms can be tiggered by any sight, sound or smell that the brain pattern-matches to the trauma event - as it trys to keep you safe from future danger.
These kind of symptoms often meet the criteria for post-traumatic stress syndome (PTSD) or what is described as sub-threshold PTSD. Understanding, acknowledgment and treatment of PTSD and PTSD symptoms following birth is in relative infancy. So much so that the psychological wound from a birth trauma is often unrecognised or treat as antental or postnatal depression.
As a certified Birth Trauma Resolution Practitioner, a treatment endorsed by the Royal College of Midwives and the Human Givens Psychotherapy Institute, I can provide effective treatement to remove the emotional charge and reprocess the memory, which can quickly reduce symptoms. Treatment usually requires 2 to 4 sessions. Each sessions is based on your individual needs and symptom reduction can often be felt following your first treatment.
To book a session, ask questions or for a free, confidental chat please contact me at MATERNITY HOLISTIC'S.
Cost
Solution Session: £80 - Allow up to 2 hours