Pregnancy, Birth and Trauma Support
Clinical Educator and Guide
Dr. Jill is dedicated to providing you support throughout your pregnancy, including the postpartum period. She will address your concerns and support you by providing answers, tips, and resources, while assessing your needs and educating you on any potential risk factors you may have.
Trauma Processing with Resolve
All Birth Trauma is Valid and can happen to anyone, even with a lot of preparation. Dr. Jill approaches trauma using the HeartMath tool and techniques such as birth story processing and grounding for Resolve to restore, recalibrate, reduce residual trauma, and regulate neurologically, physiologically, and emotionally
Most Commonly Discussed Topics include:
We will work one-on-one with you and offer you support with both physical and mental health issues. We will encourage you to follow your treatment plan, help you set goals and teach you how to handle symptoms.
- Addiction recovery;
- Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD);
- Bipolar disorder;
- Depression.
- Creating a birth plan
- Making healthy lifestyle changes such as quitting smoking, becoming more physically active, and reducing stress
- Breastfeeding
- Baby basics like clothing, diapers, and crib safety
- Vaginal births versus C-sections
- Premature birth and ways to reduce the chances of having one
- Transitioning back to work
- Managing chronic conditions, such as gestational diabetes and high blood pressure or asthma, while pregnant
- Vaccinations for infants
- Signs and symptoms of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders
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Collaborative Care
Dr. Jill is trained in psychopathology, the scientific study of mental disorders. She is a Doctor of Public Health that has spent 14 years of her schooling in in-depth study of problems related to both physical and mental health, including causes, development, and outcomes.
Her work with clients involves specific plans based on the latest scientific evidence to help them work through the symptoms of psychological disorders such as Depression with Peripartum Onset (PPD and other PMADS), stress, anxiety, etc. Dr. Jill uses her expertise to analyze your medical history and provide evidence-based recommendations, screening, and guidance based on scientific theory and evidence.
Her services are not meant to substitute or replace those of a therapist or psychologist, but are meant to work in conjunction with them. If you are seeing a mental health clinician, please fill out a release so collaboration is possible.
Helping to Resolve Both MATERNAL and INFANT Trauma
Signs of dysregulation or trauma
- unusually high levels of distress when separated from their parent or primary caregiver
- a kind of ‘frozen watchfulness’ – ‘shocked’ or zoned out look
- loss of playful and engaging smiling and ‘coo-ing’ behavior
- loss of eating skills avoiding eye contact being more unsettled and much more difficult to soothe
- slipping back in their physical skills such as sitting, crawling or walking and appearing more clumsy
Helping your Baby Recover
- Trauma can have a serious effect on babies. Many people wrongly believe that babies do not notice or remember traumatic events especially if they happened while still in the womb, but the event is recorded in the child’s brain as a traumatic memory.
Providing support to help the family rebuild a safe, secure and nurturing home will help the baby recover.
Traumatic Experiences can be:
- Prenatal substance exposure/ Neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS, FAS)
- Natural disasters, community violence, refugees
- Military family-related stressors, ie. parental deployment or loss
- Medical traumatic experiences (ie. NICU, prematurity, surgery)
- Attachment and Bonding issues
- Maternal Mental Health issues
- Adoptive infants
Treatment Options we provide
- guidance on secure attachment
- bodywork, including massage and reiki
- play and developmental tips and tools
- lifestyle and nutrition support
- social, emotional and cognitive stimulation
- epigenetic and neurobiological support of prenatal and newborn development
Dr. Chasse is a Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist
The Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist-Prenatal (CCTS-P) certification is designed using evidenced-based leading edge interventions and protocols that clinicians can immediately implement to augment their work treating trauma especially within a family context. It represents knowledge of how trauma, toxic stress and teratogens impact a mother’s body and nervous system before and during pregnancy. The CCTS-P Certification demonstrates knowledge of how and why stress and adversity affect the body and how our bodies react when regulated and dysregulated. The CCTS-P certification will aid clinicians in addressing and resolving client and family traumatic stress even when other primary diagnoses are present. The design and implementation of treatment can have a powerful transformational effect that rapidly accelerates treatment.
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Now Available online in print!
Work on your trauma whenever you need to with this guided book full of exercises. meditations and activities. Dr. Jill approaches trauma using the HeartMath tool and techniques such as birth story processing and grounding for Resolve to restore, recalibrate, reduce residual trauma, and regulate neurologically, physiologically, and emotionally