Begin healing from birth trauma with three gentle art therapy techniques. Art therapy offers a gentle, non-linear path toward healing from birth trauma. It allows you to approach painful memories without having to put everything into words.

A personal story of birth trauma, tongue ties, and the emotional journey to exclusive breastfeeding, shared in honor of World Breastfeeding Week.

If your birth experience left you feeling anxious, disconnected, or stuck, you may be carrying birth trauma. This blog explains how EMDR therapy can help you process painful birth memories and reconnect with yourself and your baby. Whether you're newly postpartum or years into parenting, EMDR offers a gentle, effective path toward healing.

Birth Trauma Awareness Week reminds us that joy and grief can walk hand-in-hand after birth. Therapist Alanna Betts offers reflections on her own experience and how therapy can support the healing journey after traumatic birth.

Create a piece of art that maps out the landscape of your thoughts. What would it look like? How does it feel to live within this thought landscape?

Pregnancy loss—whether through miscarriage, abortion, stillbirth, or medical complications—is a deeply personal and often invisible trauma. It can leave lasting emotional wounds that are too often minimized or misunderstood. In the quiet aftermath, grief can feel isolating and overwhelming.

Struggling with body image in pregnancy or postpartum? Find compassion and healing through therapy, art, and somatic work - you're not alone

If I was going to do the work, I wanted to know I could be RECOVERED. I wanted to know there was an end to my struggles with food and body image.

FULL recovery was possible for me.
FULL recovery is possible for you, too.

C-Section Awareness Month shines a light on the emotional impact of cesarean birth. Learn how trauma-informed art therapy at Alanna Betts Art Therapy and Counseling supports healing after a C-section—through compassion, creativity, and connection.

Pregnancy and childbirth are transformative experiences. Along with the physical changes of pregnancy, you may experience new emotions. Using affirmations during pregnancy and birth can reduce stress and anxiety, promote positive thinking, enhance mind-body connection, and encourage emotional resilience.