3 Benefits to Couples Therapy After Experiencing Birth Trauma

Experiencing birth trauma is one of the most difficult and complex situations that a couple can face.  Oftentimes, individuals not only have to learn how to cope within themselves, but there is so much healing that must occur as a couple – and that is not always an easy task.  You will want to be there for your partner and with your partner, but you may not know how to be – and this can cause significant struggles within a relationship. Therefore, it can be incredibly beneficial to seek out marriage counseling or couples counseling when recovering from a birth trauma because the couple’s therapist will be able to coach you and your partner through birth trauma therapy, allowing both you and your partner to begin the healing process while being able to support each other.

Benefit to Couples Counseling after Birth Trauma: Improving Communication and Connection

When couples are faced with a birth trauma, they tend to withdraw into themselves – oftentimes wondering, but not being able to ask their partner how the other is feeling.  They want to be supported and offer support – but many times don’t know how or what to say to “make things better”.  This is where couples therapy, specifically birth trauma therapy, comes into play.  A couple’s therapist will be able to guide you and your partner through the difficult journey of re-learning how to communicate with your partner in a healthy and positive way. This process of learning how to reconnect and re-engage with your partner is not always easy, and not always something that can be accomplished on your own.  This is why birth trauma therapy, offered through couples counseling or marriage counseling can be, and oftentimes is, incredibly beneficial for your relationship with your partner.

Benefit of Marriage Counseling after Birth Trauma: Removes Blame

Many times, when a traumatic event, particularly a birth trauma occurs – at least one partner within the relationship feels that they need to place blame in order for this incredibly sad and traumatic event to “make sense” to them.  This is not a healthy way of coping with the event, but to them, it may be the only way to reconcile within themselves what happened. This is an incredibly unhealthy and potentially extremely detrimental means of coping with this traumatic event because it can divide you and your partner.

Couples often lost sight of the fact that this traumatic thing happened to both of you – and therefore, it is most beneficial and healthy to begin the journey of recovery as a team.  However, when one partner is feeling blamed, or looking to place blame – this cannot be done. Birth trauma therapy, offered within couples counseling or marriage counseling can change that mindset and bring both you and your partner back together to work through this traumatic event as a team!

Benefit of Couples Therapy for Birth Trauma: Healing happens on an Individual Level and as a Couple…

Healing is the ultimate goal with being faced with a birth trauma.  Healing must occur on an individual level and as a couple. However, one usually comes instead of the other, causing stunted and ineffective healing.  This is because both need to occur! Attempting to heal on your own as an individual is a great place to start, however, that usually comes at the expense of healing as a couple – which can then cause your individual healing to plateau and taper off.

The same goes for focusing on healing as a couple without encouraging and allowing for individual healing.  Therefore, seeking the help of a marriage therapist can only be helpful in the sense that, they are uniquely trained not only to specialize in birth trauma therapy, but also to provide tools that foster healing as an individual and as a couple! The unique feature of couples’ counselors or marriage counselors is that they are trained in individual healing as well as the healing of the couple as a unit. This individual typically has a lot of experience in helping couples through some of the most difficult aspects of their lives and can address healing in all aspects, both individual and within the partnership!

We Offer Birth Trauma Therapy in Miami and Online in Florida

If you are looking for marriage counseling in Miami or couples counseling in Miami – we are the place for you! Not only do we have fantastic therapists specializing in working with couples – we also have therapists that specialize in birth trauma therapy. I strongly encourage anyone that has gone through a birth trauma to seek guidance and direction from one of our amazing couples therapists in Miami. We understand that this is an extremely difficult situation for both you and your partner, and we want to help. The expert guidance of our therapists can help you and your partner begin your journey of healing.