Birth Trauma Resolution Therapy
If your birth left you with more than just memories, if it's affecting how you feel day to day, or getting in the way of connecting with your baby this is a safe, specialist space to begin to heal. At your pace. Without judgement.
What you experienced was real. How you feel about it is valid. And healing is possible.
You don't need a formal diagnosis to seek support. You don't need to justify how you feel.
If something about your birth experience is still affecting you
days, months, or even years later — that is enough
What is Birth Trauma
Resolution Therapy?
Birth Trauma Resolution (BTR) therapy is a proven, solution-focused therapeutic approach designed to help you process and heal from birth trauma, loss, or perinatal PTSD.
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By combining neuroscience with effective therapeutic techniques, BTR helps alleviate distressing symptoms — so you can move forward with confidence and ease. You'll be able to remember your experience without reliving the pain.
Accreditation
BTR therapy is accredited by the Royal College of Midwives and the Human Givens Institute of Psychotherapy. All sessions are conducted with care, professionalism, and in line with strict ethical guidelines.
This therapy supports
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Birth trauma of any kind
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Baby loss — miscarriage, stillbirth, SIDS
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Fertility challenges
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Pregnancy or postpartum complications
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Perinatal PTSD
Open to mothers, birthing people, fathers and non-birthing partners.
Meet your therapist
I'm Melissa and I
Understand this personally
I'm a trained Birth Trauma Therapist and the founder of Beyond the Bump. Having personally experienced birth trauma, I understand how overwhelming it can be to find the right support.
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My mission is to help parents heal, regain confidence, and move forward free from the weight of trauma. Using BTR therapy, we'll work together to reduce the distressing emotional intensity linked to your birth experience — so you can remember it without reliving the pain.
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You deserve to heal, and I'm here to support you on that journey.
What happens in Birth Trauma therapy
Session 01
Understanding & Validation
We begin by listening to your experience with compassion and without judgment. We validate your feelings — your response to trauma is completely normal. You'll learn simple but powerful breathing techniques to manage anxiety and overwhelm.
Session 02
Healing & Processing
Gentle therapeutic techniques reduce the emotional intensity linked to your birth experience. A personalised guided relaxation and visualisation is created for you. You'll begin to feel a shift — gaining relief from flashbacks, panic, or anxiety.
Session 03
Confidence & Moving Forward
​We focus on rebuilding confidence and equipping you with practical coping strategies. A guided relaxation continues your healing. Many people leave feeling lighter, more in control, and ready to move forward.
What every session offers
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A safe, judgement-free space to share your experience and feel truly heard
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Breathing Technique & tools to rebuild confidence and move forward
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Validation of your birth experience and acknowledgement of its impact
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Guided visualisation recordings for continued healing
When can you have BTR therapy?
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During pregnancy
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6 weeks post-birth
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Years after birth
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Following baby loss
The right time is whenever you feel ready.
How you might feel after therapy
Lighter & at peace
A weight lifted off your shoulders after just a few sessions
More in control
Practical tools to manage emotions, anxiety, and triggers in daily life.
Less anxious
The strong emotional charge attached to your experience will ease over time.
Confident again
Trauma no longer has to define your parenting journey or future birth experiences.
5.0 ★★★★★
From course attendees
★★★★★
My wife and I attended antenatal classes here, and the experience was highly informative. From a birthing partner’s perspective, the learning should not be overlooked, I took many of the lessons into our own journey, and they really paid off.
Go in with an open mind. You may not agree with every approach or ideal, but they are presented to challenge your thinking, not to suggest there is only one “right” way. Vicky, who led the sessions, is very open about this.
Highly recommended.
Saam Watts
★★★★★
We have now completed both the Antenatal courses and the Baby massage with Beyond the Bump and have loved both. Vicky and Melissa are so friendly and helpful and the information provided during the sessions is non-bias and greatly for first time parents. We have made a great group of friends from our course and can't wait for future play sessions! Would highly recommend
Katie Cook