As a postpartum dad or couple, sometimes it’s hard to predict what emotions or challenges may come to the surface as you step into parenthood. You may experience grief, irritability, or patterns you hadn’t previously recognized in yourself. Despite your commitment to self care and dedicated use of coping skills you might engage in unhelpful habits, feel a constant sense of sadness, anxiety, or a general internal sense of tension.

Incorporating the use of EMDR into therapy sessions can be pivotal in healing and shifting towards a more freeing way to experience life, especially for new parents. Put into practice EMDR can soften your protective responses where hyper vigilance is no longer helpful and decrease the level of activation that past pain might continue to create.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful and highly researched treatment modality for trauma and other forms of mental illness that harnesses your nervous system’s natural healing process. EMDR has been shown to effectively reduce depressive symptoms, intrusive thoughts and flashbacks, anxious symptoms, and behavioral patterns that interfere with relationships and quality of life. Together we can safely reprocess and desensitize trauma or experiences that are driving your default emotional states and areas where you are feeling stuck. Postpartum life as a dad, and as a couple is challenging by nature, but it no longer has to feel debilitating.