What a birth debrief with me looks like
£80 per hour
A birth debrief with me offers a safe and reassuring space to discuss and unpack your birth in order to for you to move through any big feelings still connected to your experience. It is a listening service that is dedicated to you and aims to acknowledge and validate your experiences and help you to think and feel differently.
For many, a birth debrief is sought out to process feelings of trauma, sadness or grief around your birth experience, however please know it is also a wonderful service for sharing positive birth experiences too. To learn more about whether a debrief can benefit you, please feel free to explore here.
A debrief with me is a 60-90 minute listening service that takes place online, so you can access the service from anywhere in your own comfort. I know how hard it can be to schedule this time in for yourself, so being online helps provide flexibility and in no way affects the quality of the service, in fact for many it will bring an added sense of safety to be able to sit in the comfort of your own home.
Prior to your debrief and before confirming your booking, you will also have the opportunity to share with me what it is you hope to gain from your debrief and ask any questions you may have about the process. This is a really important part of the debrief process as it ensures that this is the right service for you and that I can tailor the debrief appropriately.
Your session with me
For most, a debrief begins with an opportunity to share your birth story with me should you wish to. This is entirely on your terms and at your own pace, I am here to hold you in this process and have completed training so that I am able to provide true trauma informed listening, so please know you will be very safe. I will be there to acknowledge your experience and validate any emotions you have around it.
Understanding where these emotions come from can, in itself, be a very empowering tool to working through your feelings around your birth.
We will then look together at how these feelings are still affecting your day to day life. We will gently explore how you might wish to feel differently and what this would look like for you. This is a powerful way of identifying tangible solutions and allows you to envision a positive future.
Each session ends, if you would like to, with a relaxation script tailored to you based on our session together and the solutions that came up for you. This relaxation helps to ensure you end the session feeling calm, held and regulated.
The recording of this relaxation will also be available to you to use whenever needed and is a powerful tool in teaching your nervous system to self regulate.
Feel validated in your experience.
Be able to shift from living your experience in the past and focus on the now.
Recognise where further support, both physical and emotional might be needed and feel more confident to seek it out.
Confidence in your ability to move forward from your experience and be able to envision a positive outcome for future births should this be something you are planning for or expecting.