downtown St. George & online across utah
somatic maternal mental health therapy
come back to yourself
this is not how you thought things would go
You’re just trying to keep your head above water
Nothing has ever felt quite the same since your family growing.
You’re going through the motions,
but inside your body and mind there is so much more going on
Growing your family has felt like a quiet yet radical awakening.
Your imagination can get the best of you, everyone has opinions, and it can feel like your worst insecurities and fears are coming up out of nowhere sometimes. For good reason, it’s hard to trust safe space or judgment free zones.
You feel fraught, this hasn’t been easy, and you think I can’t keep going on like this.
Childbirth is beautiful, but it’s not pretty. It is grisly and life affirming. It is both a normal, everyday occurrence, and a significant medical event. It’s unifying, yet so individual. Birth and motherhood, each, can be many things at once.
A relatively straight forward process is actually so complex. There is often grief that most don’t see. You’ve prepared, researched, and yet uncertainty is inevitable. The feelings that follow may be intertwined physiologically and emotionally, and hard to detangle.
Maybe you’re trying to navigate the postpartum emotional landscape: the alienation from your own body, the full-on identity shift. Everyone thinks they know best, but as a culture, there is no collective definition of what is “safest” or “right” or “wrong” way to birth or to parent. You could feel lost and alone.
Perhaps you chuckle when you think of yourself as postpartum still. You know your older kiddo is hurting, but it’s getting harder for them to let you in, and it has been really hard to find a therapist they open up to and make good use of. They’re just trying to figure out where they fit in still anyways.
Your own relationships have faded to logistics. You experience symptoms in your body that no one can figure out. It’s been really hard for a while, and it’s hard to imagine anything significantly changing anytime soon. You feel like it’s impossible to nourish yourself even though you know you need it.
What if someone was finally caring for you the way you care for everyone else?
What if you had the safety and support around you for your nervous system to regulate naturally?
What if your story was seen—parts finally processed, and you were understood?
What if your life felt more like your always imagined?
therapy you actually look forward to going to
hey, i’m Trina.
let’s start where the body is, instead of the story
In therapy with me, you’ll find safe space and gentle support to tune into your body as a doorway to your mind. I’ll meet you where you’re at and help you find and process experiences that are stuck in your nervous system—in ways that aren’t too much too fast, for you to finally heal. You won’t have to fit everything into words, and you’ll notice things start shifting in everyday life much faster than with solely traditional talk therapy. I help moms, new parents, and older kids to quiet the storm and grow into the next season in life with confidence. When you start with a sensation instead of the story in therapy, you feel something different:
an experience that sets change into motion
SPECIALIZING IN:
01
pERINATAL (prenatal, postpartum +)
Bearing a child and taking care of a child are two different things. Developing babies is utmost importance, but so is developing mothers and parents. No one is supporting mom’s mood beyond a quick 6-week checkup. This space is changing the culture of the support available to moms.
Specializing in perinatal mental health, grief and loss, and traumatic birth experiences.
02
Becoming a parent changes everything long after the first year or so, and coexists with nostalgia for who you used to be. Your brain, your body, your identity, your relationships, your priorities. The word for this development phase is Matrescence, and it is arguably lifelong and not linear. There is a word for what you’ve been experiencing. I believe that if every mother knew about Matrescence, their journey into motherhood would be easier. Space for autonomy and ownership of who you are, messiness, flaws, contradictions, and all—we can begin to fade into the background, a shadow to ourselves and our children. This space is for parents, especially mothers, at any season in their journey of motherhood.
Specializing in Advanced Maternal Age and blended families.
03
ADOLESCENCE (11+)
Is it hard for your older kid to fit everything into words? This is safe space for them to be themselves and find motivation to keep figuring out who that is—share this page with them to decide for themselves. I usually do a free consultation with parents and child.
Specializing in expressive arts, trauma, and self-harm.
04
brainspotting
Push talk therapy aside and experience how eye positions can access different parts of the brain to set into motion deep, rapid healing. Developed by Dr. David Grand, Ph.D. in 2003, Brainspotting is a somatic (brain-body based), relational therapy that can be woven into your sessions as much or as little as you choose. Sometimes your heart needs to catch up with what your brain already knows.
Specialized as one of Southern Utah’s only Certified Brainspotting Practitioners.
Remember little you?
They’re calling.
let’s go get them.
They have a lot to say if we listen.
working together is simple
the process:
Connect: in as soon as one business day, have a free, no obligation consultation to ask any questions and help you decide if I’m the right therapist for you.
Discover: your body knows more than your mind tells you, and you can cut to the chase much fast than originally thought in therapy
Experience: release of painful experiences and stress so you can finally heal; therapy where you can feel the difference
your birth ended
the story didn’t
i get mom life
Babies-in-arms welcome
A cozy, modern office located in historic downtown St. George
Or therapy can come to you through secure virtual sessions. All you need is a space that is as private as you can get, and a computer or phone with a camera and internet connection