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. 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 innately wired for emotional connection from birth and feel their world particularly through their acute sense of smell, touch, their strong emotional expression, 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 traumatic implicit memory crying and not settling when held or after their 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

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