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For Professionals

If you are a professional looking for additional information or perspective on working with pregnant, birthing, and postpartum sexual trauma survivors I commend you. Working with trauma is not easy, but it is so very important.

It's important because you regularly encounter childhood sexual abuse and sexual assault survivors in your work. The National Center for Victims of Crime reports that at least 20 percent of adult females were sexually abused or assaulted as a child; although a disheartening statistic, it means that you are regularly working with childhood sexual abuse survivors in your practice. When you also include adult sexual assault, intimate partner violence, and/or birth trauma survivors in those statistics the percentage is significantly higher.

Providing trauma-informed and trauma-responsive care to your clients/patients is important because a trauma history can bring up a lot (physically, mentally, and emotionally) for someone during their pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey. You learning how to better support your clients/patients - especially those who have a history of sexual trauma - can significantly change their perinatal and parenting experience for the better.

Your clients/patients may not want to disclose or directly address their trauma history during pregnancy or postpartum. Rather, it is our responsibility, as perinatal professionals, to learn more about how our care can be immensely repatterning and healing (or equally retraumatizing) for someone with a history of trauma. Learning how to shift our care, to a model that embodies true informed consent and honor the experiences each client/patient brings into their pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, can help them heal and prevent further traumatization. This can be life-changing for them and their children, and you can be an important part of it.

I offer trainings and consultations for professionals to learn more about working with pregnant, birthing, and postpartum trauma survivors.

For more information on either of those services, please click on the appropriate link above. And please feel free to contact me if you have questions or want additional information.