HEALING MAMA’S TRAUMA

A day of support for moms in the early years to cultivate healing and community (when things have been less than perfect).

🌿 Event Overview

Early motherhood can be profoundly beautiful—and also unexpectedly complex.

Beyond the surface, many mothers are quietly navigating identity shifts, unresolved trauma, relational strain, and a deep longing to feel more like themselves again. At the same time, many existing spaces can feel performative, overly clinical, or disconnected from the reality of lived experience.

Healing Mama’s Trauma was created to offer something different.

This is a thoughtfully curated, multi-modality experience designed to meet mothers where they are—with depth, nuance, and care. Through a blend of somatic therapies, relational work, clinical insight, and shared experience, this event creates multiple entry points into healing—whether you’re seeking hands-on support, meaningful conversation, or simply the relief of being in a space where you don’t have to explain yourself.

You are invited to move through the day in a way that feels intuitive—taking what resonates, and leaving what doesn’t.

🌿 What’s Included

Bodywork & Movement

Hands-on and experiential practices supporting nervous system regulation, physical recovery, and deeper mind-body connection.

Small Group Support

Facilitated, experiential spaces to explore identity, emotional processing, and connection in early motherhood.

Informational Talks + Group Sharing

Clinically grounded conversations paired with optional sharing—offering both insight and connection.

Clinical Consultations

Brief, individual space offering time for personslized questions to explore more about how these clinicians would approach individual work for you.

🌿 Event Program Details

✨ Authentic Movement (Intro + Demo)

This session offers a gentle introduction to Authentic Movement, a meditative, body-based practice that invites you to reconnect with yourself through intuitive movement and quiet awareness. In a supportive, non-judgmental space, you’ll be guided to listen inward—allowing the body to move naturally, without performance or expectation—while also experiencing the powerful role of witnessing and being witnessed. Particularly supportive for mothers navigating identity shifts, overwhelm, or disconnection after birth, this practice can help restore a sense of grounding, self-trust, and embodied connection. This 45m session will focus on understanding the goals of Authentic Movement and include one group exercise to demonstrate and experience it’s affects.

Facilitated by Gretchen Cohoon, LCSW relational and somatic psychotherapist specializing in trauma, couples work, and attachment-based healing. Grounded in Relational Life Therapy, her work supports clients in building deeper, more authentic connections with themselves and others.

✨ Adult Children as Parents (Inner Child Meditation + Group Experience)

Motherhood often brings old patterns, emotions, and unmet needs to the surface in unexpected ways. This experiential group offers a gentle introduction to inner child work, helping you connect with younger parts of yourself through guided meditation, reflection, and optional sharing. You’ll be supported in exploring how past experiences may be shaping your present, while learning how to meet those parts with greater compassion and care. This session emphasizes embodied healing—moving beyond insight into lived, felt experience.

Facilitated by Gretchen Cohoon, LCSW relational and somatic psychotherapist specializing in trauma, couples work, and attachment-based healing. Grounded in Relational Life Therapy, her work supports clients in building deeper, more authentic connections with themselves and others.

✨ Relational Support for New-ish Moms

This group offers a grounded space to explore the relational shifts that often emerge in early motherhood—including changes in identity, partnership dynamics, and connection with others. Blending practical tools with guided reflection and conversation, this session helps illuminate how past patterns may be influencing present relationships, while offering clear, accessible ways to move toward more honest, supportive connection.

Facilitated by Gretchen Cohoon, LCSW relational and somatic psychotherapist specializing in trauma, couples work, and attachment-based healing. Grounded in Relational Life Therapy, her work supports clients in building deeper, more authentic connections with themselves and others.

✨ Trauma Beyond Postpartum (Including Motherless Mothers)

An expanded conversation on the often-unspoken layers of maternal trauma that extend beyond the immediate postpartum period. This session will explore experiences such as navigating motherhood without your own mother, as well as the impact of anxiety and unresolved trauma during early parenting. Blending clinical insight with shared reflection, this space offers both validation and connection for experiences that are rarely named.

Facilitated by Mary McGregor, LCSW is a trauma-informed psychotherapist specializing in EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and relational work. She supports individuals and couples in processing trauma, anxiety, and life transitions with depth, clarity, and compassion.

✨ Food, Body Image, and Shame in Motherhood

A HAES-informed, body liberation–oriented conversation for mothers navigating food guilt, body image distress, and the pressure to “bounce back.” This session offers a compassionate, non-judgmental space to better understand these experiences and begin relating to your body with more care and respect during a time of profound change.

Facilitated by Danielle Konsky, LMHC, Ed.M. is a senior clinician and clinical supervisor specializing in eating disorders, body image, trauma, and mood concerns. Her work is grounded in a HAES-informed, body liberation–oriented approach, supporting clients in developing a more compassionate and sustainable relationship with food and their bodies.

✨ Clinical Herbalism for Early Motherhood

A grounded introduction to herbal support during the early years of motherhood, with a focus on nervous system regulation, recovery, and daily resilience. This session explores how plant medicine, nutrition, and simple lifestyle practices can support emotional and physical well-being—offering accessible tools that can be integrated into everyday life.

Facilitated by Monica Iker is the resident herbalist at HAVEN and a trauma-informed clinical herbalist offering integrative, holistic care rooted in both traditional systems and modern science. Her work focuses on individualized, whole-person healing, supporting clients through chronic physical and emotional conditions with herbal medicine, nutrition, and lifestyle practices.

🌸 Closing Note

This is not a space that asks you to show up as your best self. It is a space that allows you to show up as you are.

You’re invited to take what you need—whether that’s support, insight, connection, or simply a moment to exhale.

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