What is Prenatal and Birth Therapy?
Prenatal and Birth Therapy supports a baby or adult to
open to their full human potential; to live a healthy,
peaceful life and relationships; and to contribute to
the world.
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What is Prenatal and Birth Therapy?
Prenatal and Birth Therapy is a cutting-edge, research and
experience-supported, family-focused, integrative therapy that
focuses on providing the opportunity for parents and baby to
create secure attachment and bonding. CranioSacral Therapy is
integrated with traditional psychotherapy, and family therapy
modalities and with new scientific findings in cellular biology,
brain development, trauma resolution, body-mind consciousness,
and pre- and perinatal psychology.
CranioSacral Therapy is a gentle, light-touch manual therapy
that comes from Osteopathic medicine. The CranioSacral system
extends from the bones of the head (cranium) down to the bones
at the base of the spine (sacrum) and plays the vital role of
maintaining the environment in which the central nervous system
functions. CranioSacral Therapy works gently, yet deeply, at
the limbic system level of the brain, in the fluid tides system
of the cerebral spinal cord, and in the energetic central
nervous system.
Prenatal and Birth Therapy works with the baby from the
baby’s perspective of his or her birth and facilitates a
person of any age (prenatal to adult) to resolve trauma at the
central nervous system level and to re-pattern traumatic
experiences. Adults may participate in individual or
group sessions, and children participate in sessions with their
parents. Therapy is most effective when begun when baby is
newborn to six months of age. It is gentle, non-invasive, and
yet profoundly powerful as it facilitates the resolution and
healing of the parent-child relationship in the early days and
weeks of life. Babies and parents heal together (sometimes
generations of trauma and wounding) at the earliest opportunity.
Prenatal and Birth Therapy encompasses the whole person,
addressing the emotional, mental, and physical aspects of the
infant and her place within family relationships. Parents learn
how to listen to their infant’s story of birth that is seen in
everyday life of children’s language, play, and actions — in the
joys and difficulties. By teaching mothers and fathers to listen
to and talk to their babies about their experiences, parents
begin to communicate deeply with their infants. Parents learn
the skill of settling their own central nervous system in order
to present with, support, and interact positively with their
child. They are then able to facilitate and assist their child
in working through the trauma imprints that otherwise undermine
and shroud the child’s higher potential. Parents often begin to
explore the origins of their life issues in relationship to
their own prenatal and birth traumas and attachment, and this
facilitates and enhances the healing work with their baby. The
therapeutic process of this facilitates the parents and baby to
create
secure self-attachment and
bonding which was most likely interfered with because of
prenatal and birth trauma. Secure self-attachment is now known
to be crucial in the ability of a human being to live in a
trusting, positive, productive, healthy mutual relationship with
others.
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