Supporting Acute Loss, Medical Decisions & Maternal Morbidity & Medical Crises: A Masterclass for Counsellors

Description

• TFMR: Clinical Support for Termination for Medical Reasons
  • Navigating the unique guilt of choosing termination.
  • Supporting parents through fast-paced, high-stakes medical decisions.
• Loss in Multiple Pregnancies
  • Deconstructing the harmful “at least you kept one” narrative.
  • Balancing simultaneous grief for one twin and joy/anxiety for the survivor.
• Grieving a Savior Sibling Pregnancy
  • Managing the layered trauma when a pregnancy meant to save an existing child fails.
  • Addressing the profound family dynamics and compounded pressure.
• Perinatal Palliative Care & Comfort Care Decisions
  • Managing the choice to carry a life limiting diagnosis to term.
  • Navigating birth planning for an infant expected to live only minutes or hours.
• Ectopic & Heterotopic Pregnancy Emergencies
  • Processing the sudden, life-threatening loss of a highly desired pregnancy.
  • Addressing the unique psychological trauma of surgical fallopian tube removal.
• Intrapartum Loss & Unexpected Stillbirth
  • Supporting parents through sudden, full-term loss during active labour.
  • Handling the immediate shock, memory-making, and postpartum ward placement.

• The Dual Trauma of Near-Miss Maternal Mortality
  • Processing the fear of near-death experiences, including severe preeclampsia and uterine rupture.
  • Untangling survival trauma from the profound grief of pregnancy loss. 
• Oncofertility Crises in Acute Care
  • Managing the time-sensitive trauma associated with emergency fertility preservation.
  • Supporting patients forced to make immediate reproductive choices directly following a cancer diagnosis.
• Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) (known as severe pregnancy sickness) and Perinatal Loss
  • Exploring how severe physical debilitation alters and complicates the traditional grieving process.
  • Validating the trauma of enduring severe, non-stop physical illness during an active loss.
• Severe Postpartum Haemorrhage & Emergency Hysterectomy
  • Deconstructing the sudden, permanent loss of future fertility during a life-saving surgery.
  • Processing the acute psychological trauma of massive blood transfusions and intensive care unit (ICU) stays.
• Partner Grief After Maternal Death: Deconstructing the Trauma
  • Navigating sudden widowerhood and the abrupt shift from expecting a co-parent to becoming a grieving, single father in the delivery room.
  • Untangling secondary trauma from newborn care while processing profound grief for a deceased partner.