birth trauma release
Sometimes our experience of birth can leave us with difficult feelings.
Birth Trauma Release is a gentle but effective programme that helps you achieve resolution if you’re being troubled by uncomfortable thoughts following your birth, pregnancy or postnatal journey.
As a trained 3 Step Rewind practitioner, I will guide you using a combination of deep relaxation and NLP techniques to help to neutralise difficult memories and feelings.
How does it work?
3 step rewind has its roots in NLP or neurolinguistic programming and uses gentle guided relaxation techniques to walk you through a process designed to help you dislodge the stuck memory and neutralise uncomfortable feelings associated with that experience.
The memory is still available to you but the disturbing emotions associated with it are lifted.
How is it done?
Across 3 sessions.
Session One: Sharing Your Story. I invite you to share your experience in a safe, relaxed and confidential space (usually your home or on zoom). If you don’t feel comfortable sharing your story, the process can still work, I just need to understand the feelings you hold around the event.
Session Two: The Rewind. Usually a week later, we meet again and using deep relaxation and visualisation techniques I gently guide you through your experience from different viewpoints; double disassociation, disassociation and re-association. Each view point helping to shift how you are storing the memory of the event.
Session Three: Reflection and Relaxation. We come together once more a week or so later to see how you are feeling after the Rewind and to enjoy a future pacing relaxation that looks to the future you can enjoy now those uncomfortable feelings have been lifted. There will be an opportunity to re-do the Rewind at this session if you feel it would be helpful.
How much does it cost?
£160 for all three sessions, each lasting between 60-90 minutes. *
The price includes two personalised relaxation tracks for you to keep.
We can work together either in person (if you are Cornwall based) or on zoom.
* 10% discount for birth workers/doulas/midwives who have personally been effected by birth trauma either a birth of their own or one they have supported
I would really recommend these 3 Step Rewind sessions with Caitlin. I felt safe held and heard. I had a space to explore and just 'be'. Even if you had a ‘textbook’ birth I think we could all do with having a space to acknowledge a moment in our lives which fundamentally changes so much. I cannot thank Caitlin enough for gently guiding me back to myself.
My sessions with Caitlin came during a period of deep healing, and felt like the final step in bringing my nervous system into regulation. It's hard to describe how different I feel since the three step rewind. The effects were gradual and built over the 6 weeks following my final session to the point where I feel calm, contented and joyful the majority of the time.
Caitlin created a space that felt safe, so that I could tell my story
calmly, and without judgment. She reassured me through each session, and
helped me to see the strength it took me to open up and face some
demons I’d been carrying.