CranioSacral Therapy (CST) can help ease the changes women experience throughout pregnancy and postpartum. A gentle manual technique focusing on releasing connective tissue restrictions throughtout the body, CST can help maintain postural integrity, ease nausea, alleviate low back pain and improve pelvic alignment for optimal positioning at birth. Working directly on the organs and structures of the nervous system, it can reduce postpartum stress, improve immune response, and increase energy and vitality. CST can release postpartum and post surgical compressions and adhesions, thereby reducing structural complications, postpartum depression, and recovery times. Sometimes the journey into parenthood is extremely challenging. Difficult pregnancies, miscarriage, premature birth, medically eventful labor and delivery, stillbirths, SIDS, and the like can create feelings of grief, loss, anger, fear and despair and can result in bonding issues with present and future children. CST and SomatoEmotional Release can help parents cope with the unique physical, emotional and spiritual complications that accompany traumatic pregnancy and birth.

Services Offered

I offer CranioSacral Therapy/SomatoEmotional release work to expectant and postpartum mothers. I specialize in working with parents who have experienced especially challenging pregnancies and births (recent or past), the resulting physical, emotional, and spiritual problems inculding treating bonding problems with children (and spouses) that may result.

Qualifications

Wisconsin Certified and Nationally Licensed Massage Therapist/Body Worker; Certified CranioSacral Therapist; Advanced training in SomatoEmotional release; Wisconsin Licensed Clinical Social Worker; MSW in Clinical Social Work; MA in Humanistic Psychology; over 20 years practice as a holistic psychotherapist working with families and specializing in treatment of trauma and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; Mother of a daugher who surprised her parents in 1996 by arriving three months early.

Gretchen "Rose" Brown can be reached at 608-206-2432 or rosebrowncst@sbcglobal.net or view www.iahp.com/rosebrown.com.

-- March 12, 2007