Post-Abortion Healing

If you have been struggling with memories of your abortion experience, think about sharing it with a professional counselor who specializes in post-abortion therapy.  Each woman manages her experience and pain in the way she knows best.  Our counselors will work with you, at your own pace, and travel with you throughout your course of healing because each woman deserves to have her experience treated with the utmost respect and dignity.

We offer these healing approaches to meet each woman’s needs:

• Individual counseling to address issues of grief, trauma, and healing.
• Group counseling to address the need to share your experiences without shame and hear other women’s experience without judgment.  Led by a professional counselor who will direct the group in a safe, confidential and therapeutic manner.
• Retreat referral to a weekend retreat that focuses on the experience of abortion and its effect on life, using a psychological and spiritual approach.

Each woman has a different way of managing the experience, but there are some symptoms that are characteristic of post-abortion trauma.

You may have emotional side effects including:  Alcohol abuse, Changed attitude toward God, Drug abuse, Nightmares, Suicidal thoughts, Flashbacks, sensitivity to p eople, things, sights, smells, and sounds that remind you of your abortion, sensitivity to people or things that remind you of being pregnant, Anniversary Date or Birth date Sensitivity, Changed attitude toward children, Depression, Relationship problems, Sensitivity to sound (vacuum), Uncontrollable crying, Eating disorders, fear of Medical procedures, sensitivity of news coverage of the issue.

You may have had physical side effects including:Cervical damage, Hemorrhage, Infection, Infertility, Repeated Miscarriage, Ruptured uterus or Scarred endometrial tissue.

RACHEL'S VINEYARD RETREAT

To find out more about this wonderful experience, please visit http://www.rachelsvineyard.org.

SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT

We offer you a safe environment and the pregnancy resources you need. Call 504.831.3117 or email our center to request a time.