Giving birth is a profound experience which greatly affects our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual selves. Childbirth can feel empowering, scary, and exciting. Birth counselling can help you to identify and work through concerns and/or fears about your upcoming birth so that you can develop strategies to cope and maximize your chances of having a positive and empowering birth experience.
My Approach:
Birth Counselling might involve:
Exploring Fears: fears around birth such as losing control, undergoing physical exams or invasive medical procedures, being in a hospital, experiencing pain etc. or fears based on past experiences of traumatic birth. Together, we will find strategies to help you cope with your fears including ways to avoid triggers, reduce their impact, or cope with those that are inevitable.
Creating Safety: creating a birth plan to address strategies for coping with fears and personal preferences, developing tools to feel grounded, safe, and calm during the birth process, recognizing associations between feelings about the birth and past experiences or trauma, and exploring letting go of control and leaning into surrender.