Pregnancy, Birth & Postnatal Therapy
Compassionate, evidenced based therapy helping you to explore where your difficulties stem from, and make the changes you want to make in the here and now.
Online
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In person in Sheffield
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Availability Thursdays & Fridays
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Online ✳︎ In person in Sheffield ✳︎ Availability Thursdays & Fridays ✳︎
Therapy for Mums & Dads: My approach
I know from my own personal experience that starting therapy can feel uncertain and anxiety provoking and making changes can feel challenging. I’m here to offer a safe and containing space for you, to not only explore, and understand where your difficulties stem from, but also to support you to be able to make the changes you want to in there here and now.
I understand that when we come to therapy, we are bringing the most challenging and distressing parts of our lives to the surface. I’m here to hear those parts and support you to make the changes you’d like to make.
My process is one of collaboration. I will bring my expertise and ideas about what might be helpful, but you will always be in control of the therapy process and your goals will direct the work we do together. I’ll use your feedback to tailor our approach so it’s right for you.
I draw on a range of evidenced based approaches to tailor therapy for you. This includes Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, Narrative Exposure Therapy, Dialectical Behvaioural Therapy as well as Systemic and Psychoanalytic ideas. In my work with individuals I often also draw on my couples therapy training, helping you to make sense of patterns in relationships and how these might be feeding into you difficulties.
The work we do together might also include an exploration of how your own experiences of being parented, your cultural and spiritual background and neurodiversity have shaped who you are, the way you see things and how you respond. Together we can make sense of how these experiences may be influencing your difficulties and draw on your strengths to help you make changes.
What Pregnancy & Postnatal Therapy helps with…
Trauma, Complex Trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) including childhood trauma, birth trauma and traumatic grief
Pregnancy loss and stillbirth
Difficulties in couple relationships
Grief where this feels stuck (this might feel like being absorbed by grief or you may feel cut off from your grief)
Worry and Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Health Anxiety, including overwhelming anxiety about your baby’s health
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Panic attacks and Panic Disorder
Social Anxiety
Phobias including emetophobia and needle phobia
Low mood, Depression and difficulties with self-esteem
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Pregnancy & postnatal therapy may be helpful if..
becoming a parent is bringing up difficult experiences or trauma from your own childhood
you want to understand your own childhood experiences and feel able to do things differently for your baby / children
you or your partner experienced a difficult or traumatic birth when your baby was born and you’re stuck thinking about it and reliving it in your mind
becoming a mother or father has left you feeling anxious or re triggered old anxieties
you want to understand where your difficulties stem from but also work on making changes in the here and now
How will specialist pregnancy & postnatal therapy help?
feel relief from past traumas and free from distressing, intrusive memories
understand why you’ve been feeling the way you were feeling and understand yourself better
be able to move forward from the experience of birth and not be reliving it in your mind
feel more empowered to be the mother you want to be
feel less overwhelmed and more able to be present in the here and now
feel that you have a range of strategies or ‘tools’ to help you cope with the challenging bits of early parenthood
be more able to enjoy early parenthood
Get in touch to find out more or book a FREE consultation
I’m fully Accredited with the British Association For Cognitive and Behavioural Psychotherapy (BABCP), an accredited member of the Professional Standards Authority. You can check the BABCP register by searching my full name (Elizabeth Siddell) online here
