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Reproductive Trauma
Reproductive trauma is often kept secret, in the shadows. Infant death is a disenfranchised loss that our society doesn’t know how to properly grieve. Although miscarriage and pregnancy loss affect one in four women, we are told to keep it secret, leaving us to feel alone. Worse, those that experience it often blame themselves.
Selecting the right kind of therapy for reproductive mental health
Over the years, I have helped a number of my clients overcome various reproductive losses and birth trauma. As an integrative therapist, I am very strategic in selecting a combination of evidenced-based best practices as well as trusting my intuition to invent or match a novel approach.
What is reproductive trauma?