Birth Trauma & NICU Trauma Therapy
Trauma-informed therapy and EMDR for difficult births, medical trauma, and NICU experiences in New York & Connecticut.
The birth is over. Your baby may even be home.
But part of you still feels like you’re there.
Maybe you replay moments from the delivery or NICU. You feel anxious before medical appointments. Certain sounds, smells, dates, or memories bring you right back. You may feel angry about what happened, disconnected from your body, guilty about things you could not control, or confused because everyone keeps telling you that you and your baby are “okay.”
What happened to you matters, too.
When Your Body Still Feels Like It’s There
A traumatic birth or NICU experience can leave you feeling frightened, powerless, disconnected, or constantly on alert long after the immediate crisis has passed.
You may notice:
Intrusive memories • Anxiety or panic • Nightmares • Hypervigilance • Guilt or shame • Anger • Difficulty trusting medical providers • Feeling disconnected from your body • Fear about another pregnancy or birth
You do not have to convince yourself that you “should be grateful” in order to heal.
You can love your baby deeply and be affected by what happened to you.
Both can be true.
Helping You Feel Safe Again
I specialize in birth trauma, NICU trauma, reproductive trauma, perinatal mental health, and grief.
Our work is not about forcing you to retell every painful detail or simply teaching you to cope with it.
It is about helping your mind and body recognize that the emergency is no longer happening.
Depending on what you need, I may integrate EMDR, trauma-focused therapy, somatic and body-based approaches, mindfulness, and nervous-system regulation to help you process what happened and begin feeling more grounded and connected again.
We will move at a pace that feels manageable.
You remain in control of the work.
You Survived It. Now You Deserve Support Healing From It.
You do not have to wait until the memories, anxiety, or fear become unbearable.
And you do not have to know whether what happened was “traumatic enough” to deserve support.
If it is still affecting you, it matters.
We can start there.