Pre- and perinatal healing
Your journey began long before your first memory.
The experiences of conception, womb life, birth, and early bonding live within your body as implicit memories that continue to shape how you move through the world today.
Understanding Your Early Imprints
From the moment of conception through your first years of life, your nervous system was learning how to be in the world. These early experiences created patterns of safety, connection, and self-regulation that may still be influencing your relationships, health, and sense of belonging.
What Lives in Your Body
• Feelings of safety or vigilance in relationships
• Patterns of connection or withdrawal
• Your capacity for rest and regulation
• Beliefs about your place in the world
• Physical symptoms without clear cause
A Gentle Approach to Early Healing
Pre- and perinatal therapy recognizes that your body holds wisdom about these early experiences. Working at the pace of your nervous system, we create a safe space where these implicit memories can be gently met, understood, and integrated.
Your Sessions Include
Nervous system awareness
– learning to recognize your body’s signals and rhythms
Gentle somatic exploration
– allowing early patterns to emerge and be witnessed
Resourcing practices
– building capacity for regulation and self-compassion
Honoring your timing
– following your body’s natural pace for healing
Creating Safety for Deep Work
This work requires exquisite sensitivity. Your nervous system will guide the process, and we move only as quickly as feels safe for you. There’s no pushing, no forcing memories to surface, no timeline for healing.
Instead, we create conditions where your body can safely reveal what it’s ready to share. Many clients discover that longstanding patterns, anxieties, or physical symptoms begin to shift as these early experiences are finally met with compassion and understanding.
This work is not about fixing you. It’s about helping your nervous system complete experiences that may have been interrupted or overwhelming at the time. Your body’s responses made perfect sense given your early circumstances.
Before Your First Session
Your inner work may begin as you decide to book your first session. If possible, I invite you to complete the intake form and return it via email at least 24 hours before we meet. If completing the form alone feels overwhelming, we can spend your first sessions exploring your story together. Please let me know what kind of support you need.
The form is comprehensive and explores personal territory that may bring up emotions. Please give yourself quiet, uninterrupted time to complete it at your own pace. You may need to reach out to family members for some historical details. If certain questions cannot be answered because information isn’t available, that’s completely fine – we can only work with what’s accessible to us. Often during sessions, your own subtle inner knowing will emerge to fill in these gaps.
Creating Your Safe Container
During our initial sessions, we will establish the principles that guide this work. These create a safe, stable foundation where you can gradually access earlier somatic memories and reconnect with your inner wisdom.
If you feel drawn to explore how your earliest experiences may be affecting your life today, I invite you to begin this gentle journey of discovery and healing.