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.
Hi, I’m Gena McCarthy. 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 educational activism. Experience and research show us that when we address trauma triggers and become trauma informed, we can and will 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. 
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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
Important Reading for these Times....
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:
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.
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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. 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.
.
