Birth Story Support

The birth of your baby is a pivotal experience that changes you in profound ways. The ways in which you experienced, remember, and feel about your birth, postpartum, or breastfeeding story NOW matters. It shaped your early parenthood experience, and it’s affecting your continued journey in parenting — and life — still.

We can’t change what happened, but we CAN change how we feel about what happened. Plan to be surprised at how much can change in a session, even when you can’t imagine change can happen at all. You will come away feeling greater resolution, deeper peace, and more compassion for yourself and your story.

Birth Story Services

I call these “birth story” services for the sake of simplicity, but birth isn’t the only story. My processes are relevant and impactful for parents who are struggling with difficult stories about infertility, miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth, infant loss, breastfeeding, or postpartum.

Birth Story Debrief

For parents who have recently experienced a difficult or traumatic birth, or anyone who would benefit from telling their full birth story.

  • Completely confidential, safe, and validating space to share your full birth story without judgement or censorship. Empathetic listening from a trained and trauma-informed birth professional. Release big emotions, find compassion and validation, and access your resilience. 75-minute virtual session.

    $145

  • Processing a difficult or traumatic birth with a skilled and empathetic guide improves mental health and reduces the likelihood of traumatic memory formation.

    Here’s why. Putting felt memories into words changes the way your brain relates to those memories. When this process is completed inside the “safe container” of our session, the empathy and stability you feel becomes integrated as a new piece of your story. Your story becomes infused with positive meaning, helping you find empowerment and access your resilience.

  • As a doula, I am well-versed in both the physiology and modern medical management of birth. As a trauma-informed professional, I am trained and competent in implementing evidence-informed practices that support mental health. And as a mother who has personally experienced and healed from birth trauma, I understand how debilitating the weight of a difficult birth can be. By holding space and showing up with love, we can take a first bold step into the light, together.

Birth Story Medicine

For parents whose difficult or traumatic birth was at least 6 weeks ago, who are seeking tools for change and are ready for reflective healing work.

  • Completely confidential, safe, and validating space to explore your story in a new way, consider alternative ways of thinking, and change the way you feel about what happened. 75-minute Birth Story Medicine session with a certified and trauma-informed birth, bereavement, and postpartum doula. $145

  • For some, our birth stories are joyful and empowering. For others, our stories may be disappointing, scary, or marked with grief. They may have left us feeling angry, disillusioned, or sad. If your story feels raw or unresolved; if you’re telling yourself things should have been different; or if you just feel…stuck: there is medicine for that.

    When the passage of time, trying to forget about it, or talking about your birth isn’t enough, the Birth Story Medicine process is a breath of fresh air. By exploring your birth in a new and different way, you can create healing transformation that changes the way you relate to your story.

  • Even in darkness there is light.

    As a survivor of birth trauma myself, I bring this steadfast belief to every parent who is wounded, anguished, or grieving. Personally experiencing the process of healing from trauma has given me the perspective and insights needed to truly meet you where you are, then help you move forward.

    I am a trained Listener with Birth Story Medicine and utilize this specialized and guided process to help parents find peace around their birth stories. The work we do here is both based on the science of neurobiology and is sacred. It orients you to the light within, the one that shines brightly on your individual path to growth and healing.