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Trying to Conceive After a Traumatic Labor and Delivery
Feeling anxious about pregnancy after a traumatic birth? Learn how EMDR therapy can help you process past trauma, ease fear, and feel emotionally prepared as you try to conceive again. Discover compassionate, evidence-based support at Regnier Restorative Counseling.
Mother’s Day and Mom Guilt: Do I Deserve to be Celebrated?
Mother’s Day can be filled with guilt for moms recovering from birth trauma, a NICU stay, or postpartum PTSD. If you're questioning whether you deserve to be celebrated, you're not alone. This blog explores the emotional weight of mom guilt, why it's often a symptom of unprocessed trauma, and how EMDR therapy can help you heal and reconnect with yourself and your baby.
How to Navigate Mother’s Day While Battling Postpartum PTSD
Mother’s Day can feel especially heavy for moms living with postpartum PTSD. Whether you're grieving a traumatic birth or feeling disconnected from joy, this blog offers gentle guidance, trauma-informed support, and real ways to cope. Discover how EMDR therapy and compassionate care can help you find grounding, connection, and a sense of peace on a day that feels anything but easy.
Dealing with Postpartum PTSD: How Long Does It Last and How Do I Treat It?
Experiencing a traumatic birth or perinatal loss can leave deep emotional wounds that linger long after delivery. Many women silently struggle with postpartum PTSD, flashbacks, anxiety, or guilt—especially when the world expects them to be “grateful” and move on. At Regnier Restorative Counseling, I offer EMDR therapy for women in Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC, and beyond to help gently reprocess trauma and begin healing. Whether your baby is in the NICU or you’re grieving an unexpected loss, you don’t have to go through this alone.
Balancing Having a Baby in the NICU and Kids at Home
Having a baby in the NICU while caring for other children at home is one of the most emotionally complex experiences a mother can face. After a traumatic birth or medical complications, it’s common to feel torn between your children, exhausted, and overwhelmed. This blog offers emotional support, coping tools, and guidance on how to ask for help—and explores how trauma therapy, including EMDR, can support your healing in Reston, Fairfax, Vienna, and Great Falls, VA.
What to Say to a Grieving Mother After She Loses a Child or Pregnancy
Supporting a grieving mother after the loss of a child or pregnancy can feel overwhelming, but your words matter deeply. Whether she is grieving a daughter, losing a son, or facing the heartbreak of a miscarriage, this guide offers compassionate and helpful things to say—and avoid saying. Learn how to show up with love, understand unresolved grief, and explore how trauma therapy or grief counseling in Reston, McLean, or Falls Church, VA can help her heal.
Grieving the Birth Experience You Wanted but Didn’t Get to Have
Grieving the birth experience you hoped for—but didn’t get—can bring profound sadness, guilt, and unresolved grief. Whether you are coping with the loss of a child, a traumatic delivery, or an unexpected outcome, this kind of grief is real and valid. Many women silently struggle with feelings of numbness, anger, and deep emotional pain after losing a son or daughter, or after facing a difficult birth. Trauma therapy like EMDR can help you process the heartbreak, manage grief brain, and begin healing. You are not alone—and support is available for navigating the complex emotions of grief and loss.
Why the Worst Day of Your Life Keeps Replaying—and How EMDR Can Help
After a sudden loss, it’s common to feel stuck in the worst moment. Whether you're replaying the event in your mind or struggling with panic, guilt, or numbness—these experiences may be signs of trauma, not just grief. This blog explains the difference between trauma and grief and how EMDR therapy can help.
Is This Trauma or Grief? How to Tell the Difference After a Sudden Loss
After a sudden loss, it’s hard to know if what you’re experiencing is grief, trauma, or both. If you’re stuck in painful memories, feeling constantly on edge, or emotionally numb, it may be more than grief. Learn how to recognize trauma symptoms after sudden loss and how EMDR therapy can help.
What PTSD Looks Like After Losing a Spouse or Child
Losing a spouse or child can lead to more than grief—it can trigger trauma. If you're experiencing flashbacks, guilt, or feel stuck in the moment of loss, you may be living with PTSD. In this post, learn how to recognize the symptoms of trauma after sudden loss and how EMDR therapy in Reston, VA can help you begin to heal.
Trauma Responses That Kept You Safe Then—But Don’t Serve You Now
Some trauma responses helped you survive—but now they’re holding you back. Discover how behaviors like hypervigilance, people-pleasing, and overcontrol may be rooted in past trauma and how virtual EMDR therapy can help high-achieving women in the DMV finally feel safe and free.
When Your World Shifts Overnight: Healing After Sudden Loss, Accidents, or Trauma
Feeling blindsided by trauma? Discover how virtual EMDR therapy helps high-achieving women in the DMV heal after sudden loss, accidents, or emotional shock—before it turns into PTSD.
Burnout or PTSD? How to Recognize When Work Stress Has Become Trauma
Struggling with stress or something deeper? Many attorneys mistake trauma for burnout, delaying the care they truly need. This blog helps you understand the difference between burnout and PTSD, especially in the legal profession, and how EMDR therapy offers fast, effective relief. Learn how to recognize trauma symptoms early and take the first step toward feeling focused, clear, and in control again.
Why Women Attorneys Can be at Higher Risk for PTSD (And What to Do About It)
Women attorneys face unique challenges that increase their risk of PTSD, including secondary trauma from client cases, workplace harassment, and toxic law firm cultures. The high-pressure legal profession often discourages mental health care, leaving many female lawyers struggling with anxiety, burnout, and emotional exhaustion. This blog explores the hidden impact of legal trauma, the signs of PTSD in attorneys, and why EMDR therapy is a fast, effective solution for trauma recovery—helping women lawyers regain clarity, confidence, and resilience. Read more to learn how you can heal while thriving in your legal career.
The Role of Mindfulness in Trauma Recovery for Attorneys & Executives
Discover how mindfulness can support trauma recovery for attorneys and executives in Georgetown, Chevy Chase, and McLean. Learn practical mindfulness exercises that fit seamlessly into a busy schedule, helping high-achieving professionals reduce stress, enhance focus, and accelerate healing—especially when paired with EMDR therapy. Explore quick, effective techniques to regain control and resilience in high-pressure environments.
Why Self-Care May Not Be Enough: How EMDR Provides the Deeper Healing You Need After a Traumatic Event
Self-care practices like yoga and spa days provide temporary relief but don’t heal trauma at its core. High-achieving women in Georgetown, Chevy Chase, and Washington, D.C. need a deeper solution. EMDR therapy is a science-backed, efficient way to process trauma, restore emotional balance, and help you thrive in your career and personal life. Learn why EMDR is the missing piece in your healing journey.
"I Have to Keep It Together for Everyone"—How Trauma Affects the Strong, High-Achieving Mom
High-achieving moms are often the pillars of strength in their families and careers, but when trauma strikes, their ability to 'keep it together' can take a toll. Unresolved trauma seeps into work, parenting, and well-being, making it harder to be present and emotionally available. This blog explores why strong women struggle to seek help and how EMDR therapy offers a fast, effective path to healing. If you're a professional woman in Georgetown, Chevy Chase, McLean, or the greater Washington, D.C. area, learn how you can regain clarity, resilience, and balance.
The Power of Early EMDR Therapy: Preventing PTSD Before It Takes Hold
Experiencing a traumatic event can be overwhelming, but early intervention with EMDR therapy can prevent PTSD and help you regain control of your life. High-achieving women in McLean, Georgetown, and Chevy Chase benefit from this efficient, structured approach to trauma healing. Virtual EMDR therapy offers busy professionals a time-effective way to process trauma before it solidifies into long-term emotional distress. Don’t wait—learn how early EMDR can support your resilience and recovery.
How to Know If You’re Coping or Actually Healing from Trauma as a High Achieving Woman
Are you truly healing from trauma, or just coping? Many high-achieving women in Georgetown, Chevy Chase, and McLean push through challenges, but unprocessed trauma can linger. Learn the key signs of coping versus healing and how EMDR therapy can help you move forward. Discover a fast, effective approach to trauma recovery before it turns into PTSD. Take the first step toward emotional freedom today.
How EMDR Therapy Can Help Overwhelmed Attorneys & Executives Process Recent Trauma
Discover how EMDR therapy helps high-achieving women, attorneys, and executives in Washington, D.C., McLean, and Georgetown quickly process trauma and regain confidence. Learn the science behind this research-backed therapy and how it reduces anxiety, improves focus, and enhances emotional resilience. Virtual EMDR therapy is available for busy professionals who need effective, time-efficient trauma recovery. Book a free consultation today and take the first step toward healing.