Welcome. I am so glad that you are here. ​

I know that you know that birth and giving birth affects our entire lives. You are here because you know parents, mothers and babies can be honored and welcomed with love and presence. You know birth and ancestral imprints can be healed and integrated. You know that your spiritual path, your parenting path and your professional path can entwine more fully. 



​Hi, I’m Gena. I’m here to support you to build bridges  between your heart and your womb, between your birth imprints and your present life, between your spiritual, parenting and professional paths and between traditional perinatal health care and perinatal integrative health care.

I am committed to teaching skills that reduce and prevent trauma through education and community building. Experience and research show us that when we address trauma triggers and become trauma informed, we can prevent and reduce trauma. From there, we can move into the work of becoming informed by wonder, the place where bliss, pleasure and connection fills our bodies, our families and our communities

Upcoming Events! 

October 8th, Online Retreat, from 10am to 4:30pm​
We gather as a community of mothers and grandmothers for a Healing Birth Ceremony nourished by traditional dharma teachings and practices on the Great Mother, Prajna Paramita, somatic resourcing and elemental meditations. 
Through these teachings, meditations, sharings and ceremony we weave together a supportive and generative community that allows us to bring healing and transformation to some of our birth imprints. We learn how we can reclaim our strengths from difficult times and feel safe to open more to our practice and loving family relationships. Healing can happen at any time, no matter how old your child is. This healing radiates out from our motherhood mandalas as love, compassion and wisdom to ourselves, our children, grandchildren and ancestors. As we connect with the Great Mother, the very ground of being, we access resources and resilience to vision and dream the future.
Are you ready to bring more perinatal ceremonies into your life and work? Are you ready to become a facilitator or work with a skilled mentor on building your practice today? I offer individual mentorship sessions coupled with a plethora of resources, both cognitive and experiential, to bring you to the next level of your Ceremony journey. 

Join this growing movement of healers, coaches, mentors, ceremonialists, psychotherapists, midwives, doulas, nurses, hospital administers, and physicians!
Do you work in a clinic or hospital? Are you looking to develop, strengthen and expand evidence based Perinatal Integrative Health Programs? I hope so! My decades of experience have shown me that at the core of quality patient care is is a team of providers who experience holistic support and feel empowered. My programs are designed to reduce trauma and costs while maximizing healthy outcomes. 

Gena McCarthy RN, MFT

Gena McCarthy RN, MFT #32708 is a perinatal psychotherapist, a certified EMDR (PTSD treatment) provider and the developer of multiple community and county maternity emotional wellness care networks and integrative health programs. She has been a consultant and educator for maternity care clinic staff in psychological/spiritual self care and growth for many years. She is trained in cross-cultural Shamanic and Buddhist ways of healing, perinatal psychology and trauma healing. She supports Perinatal Professionals and Parents to be trauma and wonder informed, prepared and sustained.
“The journey of participating in Gena’s Birth Spirituality and Healing Coach Series has been a personal and professional healing experience for me. It has both helped me to remember the gifts given to me from my ancestors and how to integrate them and bring them forth into this world so hungry for healing.”

​Sheila Vandeveer, Midwife, CPM LM
Thanks & Roots 

This website and the work spun from it is dedicated with great gratitude for all my teachers and all those in our birth community including our ancestors and those yet to be born…
Birth Spirituality and Healing Services strengthen and support:
  • Women in their expression of their feminine power,
  • Humans embodying into our world,
  • Families in rites of passages,
  • The Perinatal Professionals who care for them​
Solidarity Statement

My ancestors are Romanian Jewish, Irish and English.  My Irish ancestors were farmers and come from a history of suffering under British imperialism and Irish upper class ​oppression.  They were also union organizers. My Romanian Jewish ancestors were traders and experienced pograms, the holocaust and racism.  They were also poets, musicians and spiritual teachers.
 
I am a white person who is involved in ongoing healing of the intergenerational trauma in my body from the abuse my white ancestors experienced and from the abuse and racism they perpetuated and resourced by their many blessings and gifts. And I am in an ongoing learning of how to recognize my own white privilege and not act it out.  
Since 1969, I have used my body and privilege to support movements to transform the inner and outer structures of racism, classism, sexism, and our disconnections from our bodies and the earth.

Today, I continue to stand with: Black Mothers and Babies’ Lives Matter, Indigenous movements, Black Lives Matter, BIPOC and others’ struggles and victories for reparations/rematriatians, land back demands, economic justice and earth care. 
 
I am grateful to pay tax to the Sogorea Te land trust to honor that I live and work on the occupied lands of the Miwok Ohlone Peoples and  to honor their work to restore their lands and people's ceremonies.
I am grateful to contribute to the Amah Mutson land trust to honor my friendship with this tribe and their efforts to bring right relationships and healing for all of our relations.
 
May we heal together.

Gena McCarthy RN, MFT#32708
(510) 685-6827