"Excellent and personal therapy which will last with me"

Marina provided excellent and personal therapy which will last with me - I feel I can use the skills she has taught me and apply it to other problems. Marina guided me through reliving my traumatic experience and helped me change my perspective on unhelpful and negative thoughts. I feel empowered after my CBT with Marina. I am very grateful for the help I have received. 

Story: My baby has cow's milk protein allergy which caused her severe symptoms such as difficulty breathing when drinking baby formula. GP prescribed medicated baby formula but I could not find this anywhere due to manufacturing issue. I was also stopping breastfeeding when this happened. Therefore, I had a day where I had no breast milk and no formula to feed baby. I was told to go to A&E if I couldn’t feed baby in the next hour. I thought I was going to lose her. Thankfully we found a pot of milk after searching lots of different pharmacies. However, I kept reliving that traumatic day and couldn’t move on. 

My therapist, Marina, guided me through CBT. I felt supported at all times, even when we did re-living - which is when you go back to the traumatic memory. I was worried about reliving this traumatic memory, but Marina went through safe spots of the memory (anchors) where I would feel safe to stop. It was very helpful to talk through what has happening, what I was afraid of happening, what actually happened and what I know now. 

E.g. I blamed myself that baby didn’t have any milk. I believed it was my fault because I should’ve been breastfeeding/expressing milk. However, after reliving this memory, I finally believed that I couldn’t have known about the formula shortage and I did everything I could, it wasn’t my fault - I am a good mum. This was a strong realisation which made me feel empowered.