Navigating Your Fertility Journey: A Process Group
Family planning can be a consuming, overwhelming and isolating experience. 1 in 8 couples have difficulty getting pregnant or sustaining a pregnancy. Only 5% will seek additional support, despite evidence of how beneficial therapy can be.
This group will offer you support, coping tools, weekly fertility topics, such as:
1) Relationships: Navigating your friends/family/workplace dynamics
2) Anxiety: How it shows up & tools to manage it
3) Social Media: The pros & cons
All this along with a sense of community with other women who are in the midst of their fertility journey.
Where: Flourish Counseling & Wellness
53 W. Jackson Blvd, Suite 1232
Chicago, IL 60604
When: 2nd & 4th Wednesdays of each month, beginning January 8, 2020
Time: 7:00pm – 8:30pm
Cost: $45 self-pay rate per group session
Facilitated by: Emily Heilman, MA, LCSW, PMH-C, Founder & Psychotherapist
Registration: Call (312) 659-4718, email hello@flourishcounselingltd.com or visit www.flourishcounselingltd.com
Birth Doula Process Group
Nearly 1/3 of births are identified as “traumatic” by women and their partners. Whether the trauma is medical or social-emotional, birth workers are at the forefront in supporting women through birth and postpartum journey.
Doula work is a high risk profession requiring the birth worker to support the birth giver and partner, while carrying their own birth experiences, trauma history and mental health.
This group will provide you with a safe space to process the birth journeys you witness paying particular attention to what gets stirred up in you, allowing you to be more present and self-aware with the women and families you serve.
Where: The Birth Boutique – 128 Harrison Street Oak Park, Illinois 60304
When: 2nd Fridays of each month from 1:30 – 2:30pm
Cost: $20 per group, $5 when for you & a friend when you bring a fellow birth doula
Registration: http://www.chicagobirthboutique.com/events/2019/11/10/birth-doulas-processing-group
Facilitated by: Emily Heilman, MA, LCSW, PMH-C, Founder & Psychotherapist
Workshops
She Flourishes: A Mind+Body Workshop
Motherhood changes our physical and emotional states, lending to challenges as we navigate our postpartum journey. This workshop will offer strategies for reconnecting with our bodies by setting mindful intentions to simplify post-baby body challenges and emotional well-being. All women are welcome, no matter where you are at in your prenatal and motherhood journey.
In this workshop, Emily Heilman of Flourish Counseling & Wellness and Rebecca Qualiato of The She Revival will help participants:
- Explore the significance of the mind-body connection
- Learn mindfulness & grounding techniques to help alleviate stress, anxiety and restore a connection to the mind-body
- Learn about the pelvic floor & diastasis recti: what it is and how it is impacted during pregnancy & birth
- Learn pelvic floor exercises you can do at home to help heal/tone the pelvic floor
- Receive local resources for postpartum health & wellness
Where: The Birth Boutique – 128 Harrison Street Oak Park, Illinois 60304
When: Saturday, November 2 from 11:30am – 1:00pm ***
Cost: $30
Registration: http://www.chicagobirthboutique.com/events/2019/10/5/she-flourishes-mind-body-workshop
Facilitated by:
Emily Heilman, MA, LCSW, PMH-C, Psychotherapist & Founder of Flourish Counseling & Wellness
Rebecca Qualiato, Pregnancy/Postpartum Exercise Specialist, Founder of The She Revival
*** This workshop will be facilitated again in the New Year. Please reach out to Emily if you are interested in being added to the contact list – hello@flourishcounselingltd.com **
Healing Birth Circle
“Birth trauma lies in the eye of the beholder” (Beck). It is estimated that up to a 1/3 of women identify some aspect of their birth experience as traumatic.
Whether you’ve experienced a terrifying medical complication, a felt lack of safety, care or communication from providers, women and their birthing partners are often left feeling isolated and alone having been told, “a healthy baby is all that matters.”
The “Healing Birth Circle” is an opportunity to heal, connect and share your birth story with fellow moms. This group is open to women at any point along the motherhood journey.
Where: The Birth Boutique – 128 Harrison Street Oak Park, Illinois 60304
When: Saturday, November 16th from 2:00pm – 3:30pm
Cost: $15
Registration: http://www.chicagobirthboutique.com/events/2019/11/16/healing-birth-circle
Facilitated by: Emily Heilman, MA, LCSW, PMH-C, Founder & Psychotherapist
(312) 659-4718 | hello@flourishcounselingltd.com