Birth Trauma Therapy for Infants and Young Children
Birth trauma therapy sessions for infants and children aged (0 - 5 yrs) focus on understanding how the birth and perinatal experience was for both mother/caregivers and the child, as well as helping the child to re-experience a different entry into the world and a healing initial bonding/attachment experience. Sessions are guided by the child’s age and developmental needs, and typically involve allowing the child to explore their sensory body and emotional experiences through safe and welcoming attachment play with the support of mother/caregivers. Sessions may include: tunnel play, breast crawling/attachment exercises, play with primal expressions, and emotional attuning exercises between mother/caregivers and child.
Babies can also experience birth and perinatal trauma. Babies are highly social from birth and feel their world particularly through their sense of touch, their emotions, their spiritual sensitivity, and the nervous systems of others they are close to. For a baby a difficult birth can show up in many different ways as they develop. It may show up with an unsettled nervous system, with crying and not settling when held or other core needs are being met, with feeling unsafe or unsettled with touch or sensory stimulation, challenges with feeding, digestion, sleeping, and in the basic developmental movements.
Sessions available in-person in Te Puna, Tauranga
60 min session - $100
CONTACT
Practice Hours:
MONDAY 8 AM - 6 PM
WEDNESDAY 8 AM - 6 PM
THURSDAY 8 AM - 6 PM
FRIDAY 8 AM - 1 PM
Available by appointment only
47 Pitua Road, Te Puna, Tauranga 3176
021 665 915
rose@aldebaranhealing.co.nz
