Have You Had a Reproductive Trauma?

This is a difficult question to answer fully, as everyone is so individual. The answer depends on your unique history, circumstances and personal goals.

The I AM Method® for Healing Reproductive Traumas is 3 hours in total, purchased as a package. This is recommended as a starting point for new clients. This may be 3 one-hour sessions, or fewer sessions of a longer duration.

Sometimes more than 3 hours is needed to reach your goals. This can be discussed as your progress unfolds.

Please see the booking page for FAQ about packages, prices and links to the booking calendar.

Payment plans can be arranged - please ask.

Your body, as well as your brain, stores the residue of big or traumatic events, until they are resolved.

For example, perhaps you have been told your own birth experience or time in utero was not ideal and stressful. Or perhaps you know you have had a traumatic experience giving birth, or experienced abuse, or a reproductive loss.

Sometimes it is the symptoms we notice: feeling stressed, easily triggered into anger or tears, or not wanting to think about what happened.

Sometimes it is other people who notice we "haven't been ourselves" since the event.

Our children also sense when we are stressed and can become distressed as well, or feel confused, unsafe and like they have done something wrong.

Perhaps you cannot remember a specific event, but have an ongoing unease or anxiety instead, which has stayed with you, despite not consciously knowing the cause.

If you find an uncomfortable, lasting memory or feeling you would like to be free from - book a session and it will certainly help you discover more clarity about your unique experiences.

PTS is a natural, automatic, survival response to an overwhelming experience.

PTS has nothing to do with your intelligence, your willpower, or how strong you are.

Put simply, your nervous system stays stuck in "fight, flight or freeze" mode, after the event.

This can happen to varying degrees and is very individual.

The good news is, the distressing symptoms of PTS can be switched off again, with the right guidance and techniques - no matter how long ago the original event was, or how complex it is.

The brain stores traumatic memories in a different way to normal memories.

Logic, analysis and re-telling details does not usually resolve traumatic memories.

Unfortunately this approach can often be triggering and distressing, because the trauma is relived - not processed.

For this reason, I use body-mind techniques instead of talk therapy.

I only need a small amount of information to process a traumatic memory and where it is stored in the body.

In addition, as the processing of the memory begins, the intensity of it reduces very quickly and it usually reaches a very low intensity level by the end of the session.

Yes. After the memory of your experience is resolved, it remains - yet it is altered and no longer triggers the shock response in your body.

It feels completely different.

It feels like any other normal memory you have, free from distress.

Yes. The changes that occur during your session are deep, real and permanent.

Sometimes easy-to-follow suggestions are provided for you to simply reinforce and strengthen the changes made, after your session. (This varies according to which technique is used.)

Also worth noting, is that there can be other memories of past experiences which occasionally surface and want to be resolved - after the original memory is resolved.

This is not to be confused with the original changes being insufficient or impermanent. My feedback channels usually identify these. Another session to cover these newly-resurfaced memories may be recommended, as they provide an opportunity for more relief to be achieved.

Unfortunately no, they are not. Nor are they available via a doctor's referral for a mental health plan.

Nearly every client finds their sessions to be highly cost-effective, life-transforming - and invaluable.

Depending on the individual situation, results are usually achieved quickly.

When relevant for your occupation, your investment in yourself may be classified as Professional Development, because our work usually results in increased:

• mental focus

• emotional intelligence

• productivity

• better relationships (at work and home) and

• less stress.

What this means is your investment in your session/s could become a tax-deductible item (in Australia). Please ask your accountant if you need to clarify this.