Birth Trauma Support
At Wolds Holistic Health, we recognise that pregnancy, birth, and the early postnatal period can leave a lasting emotional impact. While birth is often expected to be a joyful experience, for many it can feel frightening, overwhelming, or deeply distressing. If your birth experience was not what you hoped for, or if it continues to affect how you feel, think, or relate to yourself and your baby, you are not alone. We offer compassionate, specialist therapy for birth trauma, providing a safe and supportive space to explore your experience at your own pace.
Our Approach
Our counselling psychologist offers a warm, non-judgemental, and collaborative therapeutic relationship. We recognise that every birth experience is unique, and therapy is tailored to your individual needs, values, and pace. Our work draws on evidence-based psychological approaches, integrating Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Psychodynamic Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy to support healing and recovery from birth trauma.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT focuses on the connection between thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, and behaviours. Following birth trauma, it is common to experience distressing thoughts such as self-blame, fear, or a sense of failure, alongside anxiety, flashbacks, or avoidance.
Using CBT, we work together to gently identify and understand unhelpful patterns that may be maintaining distress.
Therapy can support you to develop coping strategies for managing anxiety or trauma symptoms, process difficult memories safely, and rebuild a sense of confidence, control, and self-compassion.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy explores how past experiences, relationships, and unconscious processes can influence how birth trauma is experienced and processed.
For some people, a difficult birth may activate earlier emotional wounds or unresolved feelings.
This approach provides space to explore deeper emotional responses, patterns, and meanings connected to your experience.
By developing insight and emotional understanding, psychodynamic therapy can support lasting change and a deeper sense of self-awareness and emotional healing.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Attachment-based therapy focuses on emotional safety, relationships, and connection.
Birth trauma can affect how you feel about yourself, your body, your baby, and your relationships with others.
Therapy may explore early attachment experiences alongside current relationships, including your developing relationship with your baby.
This approach supports the development of self-compassion, emotional security, and a stronger sense of connection, helping you feel more grounded and supported in your role as a parent.
What to Expect in Therapy
You can expect a safe, confidential, and supportive space where your experiences are taken seriously and treated with care.
Therapy is paced according to your readiness, and there is no pressure to talk about anything before you feel able.
We work collaboratively, integrating different therapeutic approaches as appropriate, while respecting your identity, background, and personal values.
You do not need to have the right words or know exactly what you need — this can be explored together.
Taking the First Step
If you are considering therapy for birth trauma, reaching out can feel like a significant step. You are welcome to get in touch to arrange an initial consultation or to ask any questions you may have. Support is available, and healing is possible.
“Thank you for sincerely caring”
—Leah L.