Therapy for Miscarriage, Still Birth and Termination for Medical Reasons

Losing a baby is catastrophic.

The world stops. You experience feelings of despair, sadness, guilt, anger, and disbelief. Expectations of your envisioned life have been violated. Trust in your body is lost. Your faith is in question. Self-worth has diminished. You are scared. You feel alone. You feel rage.

Grieving the loss of your pregnancy is devastating. It can be lonely, especially with well-meaning family members and friends who don’t know how to comfort you.

There is no right or wrong way to grieve the loss of your baby.

Whether you experienced loss in the early or late stages of pregnancy spontaneously due to miscarriage, during the birthing process, or you had to made the difficult decision to terminate your pregnancy due to medical reasons, your vulnerable feelings are valid and need to be expressed.

Talking with a therapist about your loss will not bring your baby back. However, it will provide you a safe space to work through your intense feelings of distress, sadness, and heartbreak. During therapy you and I will explore your emotions surrounding your loss. We will identify safe and healthy ways to cope with the intense themes of grief. We will confront possible feelings of guilt and shame, and with time annihilate them. Therapy that surrounds the loss of a baby is not easy. It will be challenging, it will bring up all sorts of thoughts and feelings that you want to numb or avoid.  However, it is only through therapy, that you can begin to heal.

• Work through painful emotions surrounding the loss of your baby
• Learn how to communicate your feelings of grief with loved ones
• Cope with triggers such as the due date, other meaningful events, and pregnant family and friends
• Practice self-compassion as you heal
• Confront feelings of guilt and shame
• Redefine core beliefs and values surrounding pregnancy and motherhood
• Learn to trust your mind, body and soul again
• Process and heal from the trauma surrounding the event