BackgroundThis research explored the phenomena of breastfeeding trauma and sought to assess the feasibility and acceptability of an online group psychotherapy intervention using Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR/GTEP). Women…
More than 30% of women describe their labor and delivery experience as traumatizing. This figure does not include trauma that occurs in the effort to become pregnant, during the course of pregnancy itself, or complications in the newborn period.…
The Calming Womb Family Therapy Model (CWFTM) is a multi-modal, integrative, early intervention approach to treating mothers and their babies from conception through the first year postnatally. Its foundations lie in Murray Bowen’s family systems…
For most people, childbirth is a time for celebration and joy. However, for some women it can prove a harrowing and traumtising experience. This may result in mothers developing Peri-Natal Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PN-PSTD), (Slade, 2006)). The…
For most people childbirth is a time for celebration and joy. However, for some women it can prove a harrowing and traumatising experience. This may result in mothers developing Peri-natal Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PN-PTSD), (Slade, 2006). The…
The transpersonal nature of pre/perinatal life enhances healing of trauma from this early time with the use of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR has been acclaimed as being an extremely effective therapeutic method for…
