Birth Story processing

Compassionate space for your birth experience

A guided, confidential one-on-one session to speak your story, discover hidden layers and unprocessed emotions, and integrate your experience into your motherhood and life.

Is it time to sit with your birth experience?

Birth story listening may be for you if:

You are struggling to accept your birth experience
Medically your birth was “routine” but your lived experience was different
You are considering or preparing to bring another child into the world
You feel that your birth experience is affecting your motherhood
You feel called to explore how you could feel differently about your experience

There’s no “right” timing for processing your birth story. I find that this work calls for you when you’re ready — maybe as you approach a milestone birthday, maybe as you consider bringing another child into the world. Many women are ready sometime between 0-5 years post-birth, but there is no “cut off”” for this work.

What happens in a session?

Birth Story Listening is a fully-guided process in a compassionate container focused on listening, reflecting, and prompting in service of guiding you to your own internal healing.

In our time together, you’ll be invited to share both what happened and how you experienced it. Together we’ll explore the deeper meaning and feelings hidden under the surface, where more resonant healing takes place.

Client Reviews

“My birth story listening experience with Kate was incredibly healing and grounding.

Her gentle encouragement, deep listening, and powerful invitations and reflections helped me reframe a story I've been telling myself since the birth of my second son, a story that has been laced with guilt and shame.

In the matter of an hour, I was able to find healing & peace in something I've carried for over 3 years with angst and pain. It offered me a fresh start and hope for the future.”

— Steph

“Before meeting with Kate, I was holding onto a significant amount of anger and disorientation that I didn't know how to move past. I felt like a victim of my own story.

Through Kate’s compassionate and skillful guidance, I was able to revisit and process my experience in a way that felt safe and restorative.

She helped me completely shift the narrative I had created. I walked away finally feeling a sense of peace, having let go of the heavy emotions I’d been carrying. I no longer see myself as a victim of what happened. If you are looking for clarity and emotional healing after your birth, Kate is the person to help you find it.”

— Teresa

“Connecting with Kate in Birth Story Listening helped me see my experience again through new eyes, feel where my story lives in my own physical body, and open myself to new possibilities for my life.”

— Anonymous

Matrescence doula and mother of two Kate Seaton, smiling woman with wavy hair wearing a dark sweater and light pants outdoors.

Photo by Marin Family Photography

I'm Kate

matrescence doula, mom of 2 & certified birth story listener

Birth story healing is personal for me. I became a certified Birth Story Listener as part of my own healing journey after a traumatic birth with my second daughter. I found the process to be unique and powerful, delivering a shift in how I viewed my experience that wasn’t offered elsewhere. I am honored to offer this work to women recovering from difficult birth experiences and as part of my matrescence support practice.

A diploma certificate titled 'Introduction to the Birth Story Medicine Process' awarded to Katelyn Seaton, signed and dated December 2024, with decorative swirl artwork on the left.

BOOK your Session

75-min video session (with audio recording)

$125

WHO IS BIRTH STORY LISTENING for?

Anyone who has experienced or witnessed a birth (birthing people, partners, birth workers, etc) who has unresolved feelings about the birth may benefit from a birth story listening session.

Birth story listening is designed for those who:

Feel shame, anger, sadness or other difficult emotions about a birth experience
Have difficulty thinking about or accepting a birth experience
Want to explore compassion and resolution around what happened

how soon after the birth is birth story listening recommended?

Healing isn’t linear and each person processes differently, but generally, in the first few weeks and months after birth, you are still integrating your experience and may not be ready to process it.

Some women may be ready to reexamine their birth story as early as 3 months postpartum and for many others it can take years before they’re ready to look at it again.

There is no time limit on reexamining a painful birth experience. I have heard stories from women months, years and decades after they happened.

Is this therapy?

I am a matrescence doula and Birth Story Listener, not a therapist. Birth Story Listening is not therapy, nor is it a replacement for therapy. I’ve found Birth Story Listening to be a beautiful complement to therapy and/or a unique and powerful format for reexamining birth experiences to find healing, which comes in many forms and avenues, in my experience.