Afterthoughts Counselling And Training Ltd

Afterthoughts Ni specialises in working with women and men who have anxiety symptoms, depression or Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms or Disorder in relation to life events or the pregnancy continuum. Discuss financial capacity. Private Insurance available.

When planning for pregnancy and birth women and their partners do not normally expect to be affected by long term negative emotional responses. If these occur it can be difficult to differentiate between what is a normal level of anxiety or depression and what is not. Much depends on a person’s individual situation and experiences.

-Problems that Afterthoughts counselling can help with may include

-High levels of anxiety during your pregnancy

-Fear (terror) of child birth itself

-Understanding your birth story

-A birth trauma (fight /flight /freeze) response to your birth experience

-Grief in relation to loss

-Trauma response as the birth partner

-Relationship difficulties following birth

-Planning for birth

Afterthoughts counselling service aims to help you

~Understand and come to terms with your emotional and physical journey
~Receive therapeutic help adapted to your needs
~Provide you with techniques and tools specific to how these symptoms present. These tools will also provide you with life skills to manage anxiety symptoms now and in the future
~Treatment for the trauma response will help to reduce or eliminate the need for your body to retain a switched on response to a threat that is now in the past yet continues to be triggered in the present. The effect is most often immediately perceptible to the client.
~Afterthoughts NI have a small and growing team of counsellors who have been trained to work with birth trauma in this way. 90% of women report relief to symptoms using this particular model of care