Reclaiming the Self After Birth: Postpartum Healing Through IFS & Somatics

This workshop invites clinicians, therapists, and birth workers to deepen their understanding of postpartum mental health through a trauma-informed, parts-based lens. While many approaches focus on postpartum depression or anxiety as diagnostic categories, this session explores the identity fragmentation, emotional overwhelm, and somatic distress that often go unseen.

Drawing from Internal Family Systems (IFS) and somatic trauma healing, participants will learn how to identify and work with common postpartum parts—such as the Overfunctioner, the Inner Critic, and the Self-Sacrificing Caretaker. Practical tools will be shared to support clients in reconnecting with their inner world, regulating their nervous system, and reclaiming the Self after birth. This session is especially beneficial for those supporting intellectualizers and high achieving birth persons.