Perinatal PTSD

How to Cope When Birth Takes a Traumatic Turn By Emily Guarnotta, PsyD, PMH-C
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How to Cope When Birth Takes a Traumatic Turn

Overcoming a traumatic birth experience can be difficult. Learn about coping strategies and find support on your path to healing.
Invisible Victims: How Maternal Near-Misses Result in Trauma and PTSD in Birthing Partners By Tiffany Lowther, MA, LMHC, PMH-C
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Invisible Victims: How Maternal Near-Misses Result in Trauma and PTSD in Birthing Partners

Learn how to support birth partners after a traumatic high-risk pregnancy and near-miss. Discover ways to address trauma and PTSD for a healthy recovery.
Ignored Beauty: Exploring the Dangers of Avoiding Childhood Trauma for Black Mothers By Taylor J. Bryant, PhD
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Ignored Beauty: Exploring the Dangers of Avoiding Childhood Trauma for Black Mothers

Explore how Black mothers and other mothers of color are disproportionately affected by perinatal mental health disorders. Learn about the intricate relationship between black maternal mental health and childhood trauma. Review a case study demonstrating healing and happiness on the other side of telling your story.
Addison Caproni, Founder, Caproni Coaching
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Working Through Postpartum Mood Disorder and a Traumatic Birth: A Partner’s/Father’s Roadmap to Recovery

Working Through Postpartum Mood Disorder and a Traumatic Birth: A Partner’s/Father’s Roadmap to Recovery. Includes exercise, diet, meditation, journaling.
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June Newsletter 2 – Full Articles

Breakout Session: From Trauma-Informed to Trauma-Responsive: Making Perinatal Psychotherapy Whole with Coregulation Focusing on trauma in perinatal mental health is not optional. Trauma-informed perinatal care is built on awareness of how…
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EMDR in the Perinatal Period

  Early in my career while working in community mental health, my supervisor often said, “it’s all trauma.” After a few years of experience, I recognized her wisdom and understood more clearly that my clients’ struggles did…
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Postpartum Support International is a Global Resource for Mothers and Families

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Postpartum Support Is an International Resource for Mothers and Families You Are Not Alone, You Are Not to Blame, With Help, You Will Get Well Portland, OR March 9—One in seven pregnant or postpartum mothers…
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Birth Trauma

by Emma Quick It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost two years since we were anxiously awaiting our daughter’s arrival. Our second baby, but we had a different birth plan this time due to breech presentation.  My son had been born…
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EMDR Therapy

EMDR & Perinatal Mental Health Written by Shannon Kane, MSW, RSW “Trauma is perhaps the most avoided, ignored, belittled, denied, misunderstood, and untreated cause of human suffering.” -Peter Levine Eye Movement Desensitization…
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Letter from Co-founder of International Father’s Mental Health Day, Dr. Andrew Mayers

International Fathers Mental Health Day 2019 A blog by Dr Andrew Mayers As we mark another International Fathers Mental Health Day, it’s a good time to reflect on what we have achieved since June 2018 but also reinforce what still…
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Featured PSI Member: Sharon Dekel, PhD

Featured PSI Member: Sharon Dekel, PhD PSI’s 2018 Susan A Hickman Memorial Awardee Assistant Professor of Psychology, Harvard Medical School Tell us a little about yourself outside of your work I live in Cambridge with my husband…
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Freeing Myself

Freeing Myself from My Negative Perceptions in the Postpartum By MJ Golias for the PSI Blog April 6, 2018 I don’t “just let go” of anything; I analyze, then analyze some more. Many, including my husband, say that the “why” doesn’t…
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