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Fiona Rogerson - Trauma and Perinatal Counsellor & Birth Educator, Perth

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Fiona Rogerson - Trauma and Perinatal Counsellor & Birth Educator, Perth

Specialist counselling and EMDR for birth trauma, perinatal trauma, PTSD & cPTSD. Perth + Aus-wide.

26/05/2026

Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) is not just morning sickness, it’s relentless, debilitating, and deeply isolating.

It’s the kind of sickness that leaves you questioning everything...
Why is this happening to me?
How will I get through this?
Will I ever feel like myself again?

These questions can spiral into guilt, shame, and self-blame.
So many of the mums I support wonder if they could’ve done something differently, if they’re failing their baby or their family, or if their body is betraying them. HG has a way of breaking down not just your body but also your spirit.

HG isn't not caused by something you did or didn’t do. It’s not a reflection of your strength, your worth, or your love for your baby. And yet, the mental and emotional toll can feel just as heavy as the physical symptoms.

When HG is dismissed or downplayed, when you’re told “it’s just part of pregnancy” or to “stay positive”, it only deepens the isolation. But your experience is real, your pain is valid, and the support you deserve starts with acknowledgment.

HG doesn’t just end when the nausea stops. For many, the trauma stays long after the pregnancy. Flashbacks, avoidance of triggers, fear of future pregnancies, and feelings of helplessness can stay with you. But it doesn’t have to define your story.

We understand the toll HG takes, and we’re here to help you process the heavy thoughts that often come with it. You deserve a space to untangle the guilt, find your sense of self, and heal. We can work through the emotional impact, so you don’t have to carry this weight alone.

If this resonates with you or someone you know, please share this post to raise awareness. HG is more than physical, it’s a full-body, full-heart experience, and no one should navigate it without support.

12/05/2026

Most people know birth trauma can affect the person who gave birth.

Fewer people talk about what it does to the relationship.

The disconnection, the distance, the feeling of living alongside someone you love but can’t quite connect with… that’s not a sign the relationship is broken. It’s a sign that something happened that neither of you has had the support to process yet.

Trauma doesn’t just live in one person. It lives in the space between people too.

If this resonates, the link in my bio has more on how our perinatal-focused couples counselling works. We would love to support you.

10/05/2026

Thinking of you, and hoping for peaceful day x

03/05/2026

Sometimes what looks like “protective parenting” is actually a nervous system trying to make sure nothing bad ever happens again.

After a traumatic birth, it can make complete sense that you would want to keep your baby close.
Not because you do not trust your partner. Or because you think you are the only parent who matters. Or because you are trying to shut anyone out.
But because your body remembers what it felt like when things became frightening, unpredictable, rushed, painful, or out of your control.

And when your body remembers that, letting go can feel enormous.

So when your partner picks the baby up and does things differently, something in you might tense before you have even had time to think. You might hover. You might correct. You might feel irritated, panicked, watchful, or unable to relax. You might be exhausted and desperate for help, but the moment help arrives, your whole system reacts as if you need to take over again.

That's a very lonely place to be, because on the outside it can look like you are being controlling. On the inside, it may feel like you are trying to stop the worst thing from happening again.

Birth trauma doesn't always stay neatly within the memory of the birth.
It can follow into feeding, sleeping, settling, appointments, separation, and parenting.
It can make ordinary moments feel loaded.
It can make your partner’s care feel like something you need to supervise, even when another part of you knows they love your baby too.

This is not a parenting flex. It's also not proof that you are difficult, dramatic, or “too much”. It may be a trauma response looking for the control it lost when you were at your most vulnerable.

Healing doesn't mean forcing yourself to hand the baby over and just “get over it”. It begins with noticing what is happening with compassion. With understanding that your protectiveness may have a story. And with the right support, that grip can start to soften, not because you love your baby any less, but because your body no longer has to stay on high alert to keep them safe.

DM me the word BIRTH and I’ll send you my guide, 7 Signs Birth Trauma Is Impacting Your Parenting so you can learn more.

22/04/2026

Birth trauma can leave more than one person hurting.

It can leave a couple caught in trauma patterns they do not understand, cannot interrupt, and cannot repair alone.

Individual counselling supports each person’s healing.
Couples counselling helps address what the trauma has started doing between them.

If that is where you and your partner feel stuck, send me a DM and we can chat about how couples counselling can help.

x

20/04/2026

I just got back from a week down south in WA’s stunning south west with family, cousins, noise, mess, shared meals, and all the crazy chaos that comes with a big trip away with kids.

Halfway through, I got the flu. Not the sniffles, the kind of flu that absolutely f**** with you.

The kind where your body feels heavy, everything takes more effort, and you suddenly realise how much harder it is to cope with things you’d normally take in your stride.

How much harder do things feel when your nervous system and body are under strain??

Things I would normally have more patience for suddenly felt like too much. Noise felt so much louder. Demands felt sharper. I felt touched out faster. I had less room. Less buffer. Less access to the version of myself I wanted to be.

I think about this all the time in motherhood. And as a birth trauma counsellor, I see it all the time in others.

Because for many women, this is not just about being tired or needing a break. When you have experienced birth trauma, your nervous system carries so much long after the birth is over. So when parenting feels relentless, when your baby will not settle, your toddler is melting down, everyone needs something at once, and your body feels like it is going from zero to one hundred, that is not always about anger, impatience, or you somehow failing. Sometimes it’s trauma physiology.

Sometimes it is a nervous system that learnt in birth that things were not safe, and is still responding from that place. That can look like yelling, snapping, feeling rage come up quickly, shutting down, going numb, or feeling completely unlike yourself as a mother. And this is the part so many women feel deeply ashamed of.

Because you love your children deeply.
Because this is not how you want to respond.
Because you thought you would be calmer, steadier, more in control than this.

This is why healing birth trauma often needs more than parenting strategies. In my work, that can include trauma therapy, EMDR therapy, and helping women make sense of what their body is doing and why.

If this feels close to home, know that your reactions do not tell the whole story. 💛

08/04/2026

Birth trauma can leave two people carrying the same day in completely different ways.

I often see mums needing to talk about the birth because their body is still trying to make sense of what happened. They want their partner to sit with them in it, to acknowledge how hard it was, and to help hold some of what came after. So when he goes quiet, looks away, changes the subject, or says he does not know what to say, it can feel incredibly lonely.

I see again and again that his shutdown is not always about not caring. Sometimes it is freeze. He feels the helplessness, guilt or fear underneath it all, and his system just stops. He goes blank, quiet, distant.

Sometimes it is flight. He gets busy, changes the subject, focuses on what needs doing, or pushes to move on because slowing down feels too exposing.

Sometimes he could not protect you in the moment, and talking about the traumatic birth brings that sense of failure straight back.

Sometimes his confidence took a real hit after the birth, and now he is frightened of saying the wrong thing and making it worse. I often find that for some partners, silence feels safer than getting it wrong.

That does not make it any less painful for you. But it can sometimes help to understand that one of you may be reaching for the conversation, while the other is backing away from it for reasons that live in the nervous system, not just in the relationship.

This is often the work in couples counselling after birth trauma. Not just helping you communicate better, but helping both of you make sense of the fear, shame, freeze, flight and disconnection underneath the silence, so the conversation starts to feel safer for you both.

Head to the link in my bio to find out more about couples counselling, or send me a DM and we can talk about whether it's the right fit for you both.

07/04/2026

Doing it all on your own after a traumatic birth is NOT a sign that you are coping well.

I see this every day. Mothers who look incredibly capable on the outside, the ones who keep going, keep organising, keep showing up, and rarely ask for anything. But underneath that, there is often a deep exhaustion. A constant scanning. A sense that everything rests on their shoulders. Feel that too?

Because somewhere along the way, their nervous system learned that relying on other people was not safe.

After trauma, self-sufficiency can feel like the only option. Not because you truly want to do motherhood alone (most of us want to feel deeply held and nurtured, right?!), but because needing support can feel too exposed, too risky, too disappointing.

So you push through. You tell yourself it is just easier this way. You minimise your own needs. You become the one everyone can count on, while quietly feeling like no one really sees how much you are carrying.

This response makes complete sense! It's often a protective pattern, shaped by trauma. And while it may have helped you survive at one point, it can make motherhood feel even heavier than it already is in the wake of birth trauma.

Changing this is not about forcing yourself to suddenly be more open or more dependent on people, it's about slowly building enough safety in your body to believe that support might be possible. That your needs can be met. That you do not have to hold everything on your own to be okay.

If this feels close to home, DM me to make a time to speak with us. We would love to support you to feel less like you have to hold it all on your own.

16/03/2026

Self-gaslighting is what happens when you begin to doubt your own experience, when you minimise your pain, justify what happened, or convince yourself that you’re “overreacting.”

After birth trauma, it might sound like this:

“It wasn’t that bad.”
“Others have had it worse.”
“I should be grateful.”
“The staff were just doing their job.”
“Maybe it’s just me.”

These thoughts can creep in quietly. They often show up as your mind trying to make sense of something overwhelming. If you can explain it away, minimise it, or compare it to something worse, then maybe you don’t have to feel how painful it actually was.

But what it often does instead is silence your own experience.

Many women I work with spent months, sometimes years, convincing themselves that what happened during their birth “shouldn’t” affect them this much. They try to be the reasonable one. The grateful one. The one who moves on.

And yet the body keeps remembering. The thoughts come back at night. The anger or sadness appears in unexpected moments. Parenting feels heavier than they imagined it would.

You don’t need to justify what happened to you.
You don’t need to compare your story to anyone else’s.

Your experience matters because it happened to you.

Healing often begins in a very simple place, when you stop arguing with the part of you that says something about that wasn’t okay.

If you’re ready to start making sense of what happened and begin working through it, send me a DM and we can find a time that suits.

10/03/2026

If you’ve ever had even one of these thoughts and wondered what’s wrong with me, this is for you 👇🏽

Comment PARENTING below and I’ll send you my guide
7 Signs Your Birth Trauma Is Impacting Your Parenting.

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