Partners

You were there. That part is rarely acknowledged.

You watched someone you love go through something frightening, painful, or wrong, and you did what you could. Which may not have felt like enough. Which may have left you with something you haven’t known where to put.

Partners carry birth trauma too. The helplessness of standing in a room where things were happening that you couldn’t control or stop. The images that surface without warning. The feeling of having failed, even when there was nothing different you could have done. The difficulty talking about it, because the focus, rightly and understandably, has been elsewhere.

Some partners find it hardens into anxiety, or anger, or a distance they can’t quite explain. Some are afraid of another pregnancy. Some are still replaying a moment, months or years later, wondering why they can’t simply move on.

A session offers somewhere to bring all of it.

We sit together for an hour, online or in person in Stroud, and go at your pace. There is no particular way your experience needs to look to be valid here. You don’t need a diagnosis. You don’t need to have been the loudest person in the room with your distress. You just need to feel that something from that time is still with you.

Drawing on an understanding of birth physiology, trauma, and the nervous system, we explore what happened, how it has settled in you, and what might help it begin to shift.

Partner birth reflection session (60 mins): £85

If your partner is also working with me, or considering it, sessions can complement each other, though there is no requirement for that. This space is yours.