Navigating Emotional Challenge
Find Support for Your Path to Parenthood
Many women face emotional hurdles during pregnancy or fertility journeys that can cast a shadow over their pregnancy and birth experience.
Women come into pregnancy and birth with a story.
- Past traumatic experiences like sexual violence, impacting your current pregnancy and birth.
- Fears of childbirth and even tocophobia that need to be addressed before your big day.
- The emotional toll of fertility treatments weighing on your journey.
- A past traumatic birth that you need to process before facing another pregnancy or birth.
- Difficulty scheduling medical exams due to anxiety or fear.
You are not alone and you deserve understanding and support!
GIVE YOURSELF THE SPACE YOU NEED
B.O.T. Sessions: Your Safe Space
During our sessions, we create a supportive environment for you to address fears, challenges, and emotions. By dedicating time to explore your story, we allow you to process and understand each layer of your experience. Just as climbing a mountain or diving into the ocean reveals new perspectives, this space facilitates clarity and equips you with practical tools for your journey to parenthood.
Types of Meetings
Meeting Your Fears
This session focuses on addressing anxieties, birth fears and tocophobia in a safe and supportive space. We’ll work together to explore your challenges and develop coping mechanisms for a more confident birthing experience.
- 2-5 sessions (75 minutes each).
- Cost: 300₪ per session
- Package Discount (3 Sessions): 800₪
- Location: My office (Adam Street, Jerusalem), or online.
- *Bonus after 3 sessions: Receive a relaxation tools guide to support your emotional well-being during pregnancy and birth
Birth Prep for Survivors
This session offers a safe space to discuss past experiences of sexual violence and how they might impact your current pregnancy and birth experience. We’ll work together to identify triggers, focus on understanding your nervous system, and build skills for you to use in case you find yourself in a difficult situation during birth.
- 2 sessions (75 minutes each)
- Costs: 550₪
- Location: My office (Adam Street, Jerusalem), or online.
The Next Chapter: Preparing for a Positive Birth
Designed for women facing a new pregnancy after a difficult birth. We’ll take time to process your previous experience and learn from it, creating a personalized set of tools for a more positive upcoming birth.
- 2-5 sessions (75 minutes each): 300₪ per session, 800₪ for a package of 3 sessions.
- Can be combined with birth education and doula services.
- Location: My office (Adam Street, Jerusalem), or online.
Open Dialogue: B.O.T. for Any Concern
This session allows you to discuss any topic related to fertility, pregnancy, birth, or postpartum. It’s ideal for navigating difficult decisions or feeling overwhelmed with emotions.
- 2-5 sessions (75 minutes each)
- Costs: 300₪ per session, 800₪ for a package of 3 sessions.
- Location: My office (Adam Street, Jerusalem), or online.
How to Book a Meeting?
ARE YOU ALSO LOOKING FOR A DOULA? Check out my special doula package that includes B.O.T. sessions as part of the prenatal meetings.
OFFER: Participants of the birth preparation course (including online), doula clients or birth processing group participants receive a 10% discount
Refunds: Within 6 months of birth, refunds through the kupot cholim may be applicable.
Please note, that these sessions do not replace psychological long-term therapy, we are not working on changing behaviors, on childhood trauma etc.
Contact me if you have questions or want to schedule a meeting.
(RE)BIRTH yourself and your family
Birth is a powerful and transformative experience, one that forever changes a woman’s (and couple’s) life. However, the path to parenthood isn’t always smooth. Many women face unexpected emotional challenges before, during, and after childbirth. These challenges can leave them feeling confused, overwhelmed, and even traumatized, often with physical manifestations.
While they often feel alone, their experiences are quite common:
- One-third of mothers describe their birth as traumatic.
- One in three women experience sexual assault during their lifetime, while one in seven women experience rape. This can significantly impact their birth experience.
- In Israel, more than 26,000 women undergo fertility treatments annually.
- 1,200 stillbirths and 16,000 terminations every year, can leave women feeling isolated and unsupported.
As a birth educator with a background in gender studies and the study of sexual violence, I have witnessed these challenges firsthand since I started teaching birth education. I felt how women carry and sometimes share their previous experiences with me, but I also realized that I didn’t have the tools to specifically address these issues. I was afraid of making their pain worse, I was afraid of retraumatisation, and I knew I needed more training. I am very passionate about providing a safe space and enabling women to use the power of birth as a healing moment in their lives.
This is why I became a certified B.O.T. facilitator. I did the basic and advanced training. Birth Oriented Thinking (B.O.T.) provides a safe and supportive space for women and couples to address emotional challenges related to all aspects of childbirth, from the initial stages of fertility through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
I offer both birth processing sessions and emotional support before birth. Learn more about each option below:
B.O.T.: Supporting Emotional Wellbeing Throughout Your Birth Journey
A Place for Emotional Challenges
B.O.T. (Birth Oriented Thinking) is a specialized field that emerged from the growing recognition of the emotional impact surrounding childbirth. Recognizing the emotional needs in the field of birth, B.O.T. was developed for and by professionals working in the field of birth, including doulas, midwives, OB-GYNs, birth educators, psychologists, social workers, and breastfeeding consultants.
Preparing and Processing
B.O.T. sessions create a safe and supportive space for individuals and couples to address and process emotional challenges related to all aspects of their childbirth journey, from fertility and pregnancy through birth and postpartum. This can include:
- Processing past experiences: Birth trauma, loss of breastfeeding, miscarriages, invasive medical procedures, or fertility treatments.
- Emotional preparation for upcoming birth: Addressing anxieties before becoming pregnant, navigating challenges faced by survivors of sexual abuse while pregnant, making difficult birth decisions, or processing fears related to upcoming medical exams or procedures.
Rite of Passage
B.O.T. acknowledges childbirth as a profound journey, impacting you and your partner emotionally and psychologically, as well as physically. B.O.T. sessions help explore and process these aspects of your birth experience.
I also offer B.O.T. birth processing meetings
More questions? Want to book a meeting?
Call or text me: 0584302519
Looking forward to talking to you!