Pregnancy & Infant Loss Therapy in Nashville & Mt. Juliet, TN
Your grief is real — even when others struggle to understand it.
The loss of a pregnancy or a baby is one of the most profound griefs there is — and one of the least supported. You don't have to minimize it, explain it, or get over it on anyone else's timeline.
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A Grief Like No Other
Pregnancy and infant loss is a grief that our culture doesn't know how to hold. It happens too often, too quietly, without the rituals or recognition that other deaths receive. People may not know what to say — or they may say the wrong thing entirely. Time passes, and the world expects you to move on. But grief doesn't follow those rules.
What you have lost is real. Whether it was an early miscarriage or a baby you held, the love you had for that baby was real. The future you imagined was real. And the grief that came with losing it is real.
Types of Loss I Support
Miscarriage and Early Pregnancy Loss
Early pregnancy loss is often met with silence — and with the pain of feeling like you're supposed to recover quickly and move on. The physical experience can also be traumatic, and the grief is often complicated by isolation. Your loss deserves acknowledgment and care, no matter how early it happened.
Stillbirth
A devastating loss — one that often comes after months of hope and preparation. The grief after stillbirth is profound and can involve aspects of birth trauma, physical recovery, and navigating a world that doesn't have a category for your loss.
Termination for Medical Reasons (TFMR)
A decision made out of love, under the most devastating of circumstances. The grief that follows is often complicated by silence and stigma. You made an impossible choice for your baby. That deserves compassion, not judgment.
Neonatal Loss
The loss of a baby in the days or weeks after birth — often after a NICU stay — is a grief that combines the trauma of medical crisis with the loss of a baby you held and knew. These losses are often overlooked, and the grief can be complicated by medical trauma and decisions made in impossible circumstances.
Pregnancy After Loss (PAL)
Its own complicated emotional landscape — joy and terror simultaneously, a hypervigilance that doesn't turn off, grief that doesn't disappear just because there's a new pregnancy. You deserve support through this in-between space.
Pregnancy Decision Support
Some losses come after the discovery of a fetal anomaly or a situation that requires an impossible decision. Whatever you're navigating, you deserve a space where you can be honest, explore your options, and receive support — without judgment.
What Grief After Loss Can Look Like
There's no single shape grief takes after loss. You might recognize some — or all — of these.
Grief Waves
The way it comes back without warning — at a grocery store, in a song, on an ordinary afternoon.
Guilt & Self-Blame
The relentless “what ifs,” even when they make no rational sense.
Invisible Grief
When others have moved on and you feel like you're grieving alone.
Fear
The way loss reshapes how safe the world feels, especially around subsequent pregnancies.
Disconnection
From your body, from your partner, from the world around you.
Anger
At the universe, at your body, at other people's healthy babies. All of it is valid.
How Therapy Helps
Therapy for pregnancy and infant loss gives you a space to grieve without a timeline — where you can say the baby's name, describe the loss in full, sit with the anger and the love and the guilt without being rushed through any of it.
I may also draw on EMDR when the loss has been traumatic — when intrusive memories of the birth, the hospital, or what you witnessed are still active and interfering with daily life. EMDR can help process those experiences at a level that talk therapy alone often cannot reach.
Recommended Resources
Trusted places to turn for support, information, and connection between sessions.
Share Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support
National peer-support organization — nationalshare.org
Ending a Wanted Pregnancy
TFMR resource — endingawantedpregnancy.com
Glow in the Woods
A community for bereaved parents — glowinthewoods.com
Empty Arms Bereavement Support
Peer companionship and bereavement support for grieving families.
RTZ: HOPE — Return to Zero
Peer-support and resources for stillbirth and infant loss families.
Frequently Asked Questions
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