Who it’s for:

• Families, parents, and mothers who are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, stressed or finding it difficult to recover from traumatic events and birth experiences.

• Parents who may need support with boundaries, recovery patterns, self-confidence, unresolved childhood trauma, sleep distress, feelings of fear or shame, baby loss, addiction, and various other psychological circumstances.

• New and expectant parents who are struggling with the everyday challenges of parenthood.

Approach:

• Considerate, trauma-informed therapy and coaching sessions that support incremental steps towards healing.

• You will receive compassionate guidance and access to considered holistic modalities as part of your process if this feels right for you.

• You will learn tools to support changes in daily life, offering realistic support to help parents and mothers to reconnect with themselves and their families.

Format:
60–90 minutes · Single sessions & packages available

When are holistic therapies integrated into sessions?

• When this feels comfortable and right for the individual.

• This approach can be particularly supportive when trauma is being experienced or held within the body.

What can holistic modalities help with?

• Holistic and somatic approaches offer ways to recognise buried trauma and stagnant emotions in the body.

• Methods including breathwork, hypnotherapy, reflexology, EFT and fascial unwinding help the body begin to release stored trauma.

• This is beneficial for the healing process as traumatic experiences can often feel difficult to fully acknowledge and express through traditional therapy alone.

All sessions are trauma-informed, compassionately led and consensual.

Is Rewind a form of Hypnosis?

• Yes. Rewind is a hypnosis technique which supports deep relaxation, bypassing conscious thoughts to work with unprocessed memories responsible for symptoms of hypervigilance and fight-or-flight response to the traumatic event(s).

How long does it take?

• Rewind is often carried out in three appointments after an initial assessment appointment.

• Depending on the event(s), the rewind may be designed to cover two or more different blocks of memories.

• Melanie will plan with you the number of appointments required at the initial assessment. Occasionally rewind needs to be repeated.

Will I still be able to remember the details of what happened?

• Yes you will remember all the details of your experiences.

• Rewind works to support processing the memory so that the memory is stored and can be recalled but that the intensity of the feelings associated with the memories is reduced and no longer evoke distressing or painful reactions.

• Childbirth is a monumental and transformational event in a mother’s/father’s life — not to be erased or forgotten.

Will I be awake and in control?

• Yes, you will be awake and aware of the process which in essence is an extended deep relaxation and a set of guided exercises for your mind. You can stop at any time —although this is rarely required as the experience feels so relaxing and healing!

  You cannot do the rewind wrong!

Can you heal from birth trauma?

In one word - Yes!

• Each person’s journey is individual and it’s important to honour and recognise that.

How do I know if my birth was traumatic?

• Recurring thoughts about your baby’s birth, avoidance of hearing and sharing birth stories, increasing anxiety, feelings of anger, shame, guilt and failure are just some of the intrusive and heavy feelings and symptoms women can experience after a difficult or traumatic birth.

• If you identify with these symptoms or feelings, even if you do not think your birth was 'bad enough' to warrant getting help - Please don't suffer in silence as this is a big part of the problem.

• ‘30%’ of new parents recognise their baby’s birth as traumatic, even prior to lockdowns and especially for the births and babies affected by maternity care protocols etc during COVID-19.

• Trauma is in the eye of the beholder. If you experienced birth as difficult or traumatic then it was a difficult/traumatic birth.

My birth wasn't traumatic but I have found the postnatal period incredibly hard?

The thoughts of having another baby fills me with fear and dread?

• Sometimes perinatal difficulties or trauma are limited to one event like birth.

• Very often however, people have experiences of lots of different challenges which deeply impact them in terms of considering having another baby. It is common for mothers (and fathers) to recognise the fears and anxieties resurface at the prospect of having another baby.

• These anxieties or fears may be related to their last experiences related to giving birth, feeding, reflux, or NICU, to name a few. Rewind can work on all of these issues.

Initial Consultation

• A gentle starting point where we explore what’s bringing you here and what support you need.

• We’ll begin to shape a focus for our work together, and I’ll explain how I work, including practical details such as sessions, timeframes, and reviews.

• You can share as much or as little as feels right — this is a space to feel safe, informed, and able to decide whether this feels like the right fit for you.

Approximately 90 minutes in duration.

General Appointments

• These sessions are yours and the intention is to work together to get the most out of your appointment.

• Each session lasts up to 60 minutes.

How many sessions?

• This is something decided together with Melanie after the initial assessment and is reviewed after a mutually agreed number of appointments.

• Fees are discussed at our initial consultation in relation to the most suitable package of talking therapy moving forward.

• Payment is required prior to our appointment, preferably online via BACS (payment details are issued on confirmation of your appointment).

• Concessionary rates are available to those in difficult financial circumstances.

• Life happens and there may be unforeseen circumstances where sessions need to be rescheduled.

• This is not a problem. However, where possible I ask for 24 hours’ notice and will be flexible to reschedule where possible.

• If less than 24 hours’ notice is given there is a cancellation charge of 50% of the session fee.