Perinatal Support for Sexual Assault Survivors
Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum can reactivate old trauma in ways that feel confusing and overwhelming. You deserve care that honors your full story.
Specialized, Trauma-Aware Perinatal Care
For sexual assault survivors, the perinatal period can bring intense body memories, vulnerability, and fear responses that may seem to come out of nowhere. Medical visits, physical changes, labor, postpartum recovery, and relationship shifts can all become activating. None of this means you are broken. It means your nervous system is trying to protect you.
In our work, we move at your pace and center your agency in every session. The goal is not to push through distress, but to help you feel safer in your body, supported in your choices, and grounded through each phase of this season.
Your body is not the enemy. We can help your nervous system learn that the present is different from the past, so you can move through pregnancy and parenthood with greater steadiness and self-trust.
Care Informed by Perinatal Mental Health Certification
I hold the Perinatal Mental Health Certification (PMH-C) through Postpartum Support International, which reflects advanced training in the emotional, relational, and trauma-related realities that can emerge during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
What Support Can Include
- Body-based stabilization and grounding support
- Pregnancy and birth-trigger processing
- EMDR-informed trauma reprocessing
- Attachment-focused relational healing
- Preparation for medical appointments and birth planning
- Postpartum trauma symptom support
- Boundary and consent-focused communication support
How We Work Together
We begin with stabilization and practical tools to help you feel safer day to day. As your capacity grows, we can process deeper trauma material using EMDR and somatic-informed approaches, always with clear consent and collaborative pacing.
This is care grounded in dignity. You are not expected to explain everything at once, and you are never asked to bypass what your body is telling you.
You Deserve Compassionate, Specialized Support
You do not have to navigate this season alone.