Birth Trauma Therapy
You prepared for a wonderful birth. You had a birth plan, spoke with your midwife, your partner, maybe a doula. You hoped for an easy, calm birth, but something went wrong.
You may be experiencing:
✔ Difficulty bonding with your baby because the memory of giving birth is still painful.
✔ Feelings of violation from medical personnel who patronized you or denied your rights.
✔ A sense of being broken even when everyone was supportive and kind, but the birth was physically challenging.
✔ Lingering fear and pain after you or your baby went through emergency interventions.
✔ Grief over an unplanned cesarean section and the birth experience you didn't have.
✔ Shock from an unplanned home birth when there wasn't time to reach the hospital.
✔ Overwhelming emotions even when everything went "okay"—you still need a safe space to process your feelings.
✔ Unbearable grief from the loss of your baby and need space to cry and speak about your pain.
Every Birth Story Matters
All mothers have birth stories. While some are empowering and healing, many others need healing. I am here to listen. I have heard many birth stories over the years. Even positive birth experiences benefit from having space to be shared and processed.
It's important to talk about it. To feel the pain, to grieve, to cry quietly in sadness, or to shout and release your anger. You don't have to sit alone with your pain. I am here to listen and help you process everything that happened.
Every year, 4-5% of women who give birth develop PTSD, and many more experience trauma during birth. They (we) are left with distress that doesn't fade with time
As someone who has given birth twice, I understand this journey personally. I work closely with doulas and have learned from world-renowned obstetrician Michel Odent and experienced doula Liliana Lammers about what an ideal birth looks like and how to recognize when things go wrong for mothers.
Your body remembers what you've been through, so our work together won't only involve talking. We'll engage your body to support it in releasing the trauma you've experienced.
You will be able to choose the format of your therapy sessions which suits you best. You can come once a week for a 50-minute session, or you can choose intensive therapy sessions where we meet 3–4 times in one week for 3–4 hours to address your difficult birth story. The choice is yours.
You and your birth story are welcome.
How I Can Help
Recovering from a difficult birth while caring for a newborn, and perhaps an older child too, is exhausting in every sense. It can be hard to even recognise that you need support, let alone find the mental and practical resources to organise childcare and commit to regular weekly therapy.
That's why I offer short, intensive support designed around your life. Together, we'll process your birth experience so that what remains are memories, not triggers.
Here's how it works:
1. Initial consultation (2 hours)
We begin with a thorough two hour session where you share your birth experience with me. I'll ask questions. Lots of them. Not only about the birth itself, but about you as a whole person. This session lays the groundwork for the active processing of the triggering memories that will follow. Birth is often a long and complex experience, and there may be more than one difficult moment that needs attention.
2. Intensive EMDR processing (9 hours)
We schedule nine hours of EMDR work within the following week or two, in a way that works best for you. This might look like three days of three hours each, or perhaps four hours one day and five the next. We'll find a shape that fits your life. Maybe your partner can take a couple of days off, or a family member is visiting and can be with your baby. A trusted neighbour, a nanny - you'll know what support is available, and we'll work around it. We move through all the difficult memories together, and you go home.
3. Follow up session (1 hour)
Around two weeks later, we meet for an hour to check in - how you're feeling, what has shifted, and whether anything new has surfaced. Sometimes, once we process one memory, another that had been pushed down may gently ask for attention too.
EMDR is a somatic form of therapy that can bring meaningful results in a short period of time. Working intensively - several hours across one or a few days, rather than fifty minutes once a week - allows healing from the aftermath of a traumatic birth within days rather than months. This is the heart of why I offer Intensive Birth Trauma EMDR in this format.
Every mother deserves to look back on her birth without pain and every baby deserves a mother who can be fully present. Healing birth trauma has a profound effect on the mother-baby bond and that truly matters to me. As a mother, you are changing the future of our society and I am honoured to support you in that.
You and your birth story are welcome here.
Meet your therapist
Hi, my name is Aggie (Agnieszka) Korzeniewska, and I’ve spent over 15 years supporting women just like you. Women who are holding so much, often without anyone truly holding them.
I bring a down to earth, holistic approach to therapy. It’s not about “fixing” you. You’re not broken. It’s about helping you come back to yourself, slowly and safely, piece by piece.
Some women I work with find it easy to open up. Others sit quietly at first, unsure where to start. Both are completely okay. Your therapy space is yours. I’ll meet you wherever you are.
We’ll talk. We’ll breathe. We’ll include your body because it remembers the stress, the joy, the heartbreak, the survival. You don’t have to have all the words. We’ll find them together.
Whether you’re overwhelmed by motherhood, facing a big life change, or just can’t shake the feeling that something isn’t right, I offer a place where you can stop running, take off the mask, and feel what needs to be felt.
