Birth Debriefing
Birth debriefing at MAMA offers a gentle, supportive space to understand and process your birth experience, including any feelings of grief, loss, or trauma. The way women birth matters, and distress can arise not only from what happened during birth, but also from how supported and heard you felt throughout pregnancy and postpartum.
Many parents choose birth debriefing to make sense of complex emotions, find clarity, and begin integrating their experience over time. These sessions are held with care, respect, and a deep understanding of the emotional weight birth can carry.
Birth Debriefing at MAMA
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The way women birth matters. Recent statistics reveal increasing rates of women who experience complicated and traumatic births. This can also be a result of how women felt during pregnancy and after their birth experiences, not just the birth.
It is important that a woman feels safe & supported, nurtured, cared for, respected and listened to throughout her pregnancy, during and following the birth, that will allow her to move forward confidently into her journey as a mother.
If this experience was not one that felt safe, respected and cared for, women can experience a range of feelings and symptoms that can have long-lasting effects and contribute to perinatal anxiety and depression.
Birth debriefing can be a starting point towards being able to understand, process and integrate your birth experience, which supports healing and change over time. A birth debrief may also benefit from further exploration of the emotions and feelings connected to your birth experience over a number of sessions.
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Our Working through Birth Trauma Circle provides a safe space for those who have experienced birth trauma and are ready to share their experiences. Together with a health professional experienced in the maternity and mental health fields, you will be held in a safe, emotionally supportive and non-judgmental space with the freedom to share experiences, learn from and support each other. There will be time to share with the group, as well as time for connection and chat. We look forward to helping you debrief and grow your network.
What to expect:
A 2 hour birth circle
A space that supports you to share your story
A place to connect with and show support for others
Cost $60
Upcoming Dates: TBC - if you’re interested, please contact us at 9376 7474 and we can notify you when a date has been set.
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MAMA Kensington or Telehealth (Zoom)
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1. Book with Rhea Dempsey
Rhea Dempsey offers both couples and individual counselling, as well as birth debriefing.
Availability: the second Wednesday of each month
Cost: $220 for two-hour debrief
$120 for 60-minute counselling session2. Book with Anna Chanty Welsh
Anna is our counsellor (and women’s health physiotherapist) and offers birth debrief as part of her ongoing counselling sessions or as a one-off session.
Availability: Wednesdays
Clinic / Telehealth Cost: $200 for 90-minute debrief
Please Note:
If you aren’t able to find a suitable time, please call Reception at 9376 7474. We can often make alternate arrangements or place you on a waiting list in the event of cancellations!
Meet our Birth Debriefing Practitioners
