What I Help With
Parenting with Trauma
Trauma therapy in Portland, Oregon
You’d probably heard that “your own stuff” would come up in your relationship with your child, but you’ve been blindsided by how just intense, how surprising, and how overwhelming that stuff can be.
You’ve read the books, taken the workshops, and followed all the parenting tips accounts on Instagram – and they help. But it’s still so hard to show up as your best self as a parent when so much of your own past is weighing you down.
Maybe you struggle with reactivity in your relationship with your child –
with anxiety in the face of their intense emotions, handling the weight of rejection when they push you away, or a sense of failure when you can’t make them happy.
Maybe you’ve found your mind unexpectedly drifting back to things that happened when you were little, suddenly seeing those experiences in a different light, and not knowing what to do with the memories that are surfacing now.
Parents often find they’re more motivated AND more scared to do trauma work than before they had children – because the stakes feel so high and the weight of what gets activated in our relationships with our children is so heavy.
As a mother, I get it. The emotional work of parenting may be the hardest labor any of us will ever do.
Fortunately, you already know that it’s also some of the most worthwhile – or you wouldn’t be here reading this. As we work through the process of confronting your trauma, the confidence and sense of presence you gain will show up in the relationship you have with yourself and the one you have with your child.
