The Cost of Birth Trauma: A Core Needs Approach

Online Webinar and Resource Bundle

Birth trauma can affect parents in many layered ways, including their sense of safety, stability, trust, connection, confidence, identity, emotional support and self-worth.

A core needs approach can help parents understand why their responses make sense, validate the depth of what they have experienced and build greater self-compassion as they begin to process and integrate their birth experience.

For clinicians, this needs-focused approach offers a collaborative way to support recovery by exploring how birth trauma has impacted a parent’s core emotional needs, while also identifying what may support healing, reconnection and repair.

The ideas and resources included can be used alongside EMDR, Schema Therapy and other trauma-focused interventions.

This online webinar and resource bundle includes:

• The online webinar, The Cost of Birth Trauma: A Core Needs Approach

• PDF copies of the webinar presentation slides

• Five practical PDF resources for parents:

1. Reclaiming Your Needs After Pregnancy and Birth Trauma
2. Navigating Maternity Care for Survivors of Trauma
3. Coping in the Early Postpartum After Birth Trauma
4. Birth Trauma: Understanding the Bigger Picture
5. Preparing for Birth: Strategies to Soothe the Nervous System

Designed for clinicians supporting parents during pregnancy, early parenthood and birth trauma

A core needs approach can help parents understand why their responses make sense, validate the depth of what they have experienced and build greater self-compassion as they begin to process and integrate their birth experience.