Grief in the perinatal period hijacks what you have been promised.
Grief from fertility challenges, miscarriages, losing a baby as a stillborn or because of SIDS robs you of the joy and sense of purpose the motherhood journey promised you.
Carrying grief, mothering ourselves while finding creative ways to mother our children who have crossed over is possible with EMDR therapy. You don’t have to do this alone.
We don’t just stop grieving.
We learn to live with grief. We get our nervous systems to find inner safety through the worst days of our lives, and most importantly, we honour what our body is craving: to mother our child, even if they are not in the physical world anymore.
EMDR Therapy helps you process the trauma from the grief.
We’re not saying we’ll make it all ok, because it will never be ok. Here is what we can say though: you are worth being taken care of. Even if you may not feel worthy of help because the self-blame is suffocating.
Perinatal grief leaves the body craving a return to its intended purpose: to mother. Too often, we completely put to the side what our bodies are telling (or screaming) at us. EMDR therapy can help you honour your body’s needs through the grief.
Meet your EMDR therapist for perinatal grief
After hundreds of EMDR sessions with moms carrying perinatal grief of many forms (fertility challenges, miscarriages, stillborn baby, and SIDS), Danik Bernier, MSW, RSW can guide you to a place where the guilt, self-blame, shame and terrifying trauma surrounding your loss are not hijacking your daily life anymore. Where you can return to your intended purpose: to mother your child who has crossed over and to mother yourself.
Danik sees clients virtually across Ontario and Quebec, often from the Ottawa and Gatineau areas for perinatal grief therapy.