Welcome. I am so glad that you are here.
I know that you know our own 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.
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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. I am deeply 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. |
I invite you to explore all the ways I can support you on your path as a parent, perinatal professional and spiritual being.
Whole Person Perinatal Mental Health Conference, 2022
Friday June 3rd, 1:30 to 2:30pm, CE's avaiable
I am excited to be presenting my workshop “Reclaiming the Perinatal Ceremony” at this wonderful conference. Creating bridges between the professional and spiritual world will always have a special place in my heart. Whole person care is not only important, it’s effective care to those experiencing perinatal depression. You can’t heal mental frameworks without addressing physical, emotional and spiritual components. We need you there!
This hybrid conference is tailored for perinatal health care professionals including therapists, clinical psychologists, social workers, community health workers, counselors, nurses (neonatal, labor and delivery, maternity, NICU), midwives, nurse practitioners, physicians (psychiatrists, OB/GYNs, pediatricians, neonatologists, family practitioners, general practitioners, primary care physicians), physical and occupational therapists, lactation consultants, holistic providers (acupuncturists, nutritionists, herbalists, etc.), health educators, early childhood practitioners, birth workers/doulas, home visitors, and more!
Friday June 3rd, 1:30 to 2:30pm, CE's avaiable
I am excited to be presenting my workshop “Reclaiming the Perinatal Ceremony” at this wonderful conference. Creating bridges between the professional and spiritual world will always have a special place in my heart. Whole person care is not only important, it’s effective care to those experiencing perinatal depression. You can’t heal mental frameworks without addressing physical, emotional and spiritual components. We need you there!
This hybrid conference is tailored for perinatal health care professionals including therapists, clinical psychologists, social workers, community health workers, counselors, nurses (neonatal, labor and delivery, maternity, NICU), midwives, nurse practitioners, physicians (psychiatrists, OB/GYNs, pediatricians, neonatologists, family practitioners, general practitioners, primary care physicians), physical and occupational therapists, lactation consultants, holistic providers (acupuncturists, nutritionists, herbalists, etc.), health educators, early childhood practitioners, birth workers/doulas, home visitors, and more!
How do we create more juicy connections in our lives? How do we prepare to bring bliss and joy into the birth-field of our clients? We must experience it first! Once you do, you will not want to go back.
Preparing to attend a Ceremony supports you to receive the gifts of ceremony: guidance and transformation. We will review these universal indigenous principles taken from the Four Fold Path as Taught by Angeles Arrien.
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The Sacred Basket Program is an online self paced 6 Chapter course for Perinatal Professionals who want to
integrate renewal and healing into their busy lives. 
Dear Mamas, bring what needs care to the hearth of ceremony. Here, we create safe & nourishing space so you may claim your intentions & experience transformation while strengthening your connections with your body, meditation practice, and the earth.
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Gena McCarthy RN, MFTGena 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.
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“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
Sheila Vandeveer, Midwife, CPM LM
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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:
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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. My Romanian Jewish ancestors were traders and experienced pograms, the holocaust and racism. 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 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 in solidarity 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 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 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.
Today, I continue to stand in solidarity 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 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 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.
