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Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Womb twin loss: a new specialism for psychotherapists?

There are many hundreds of millions of womb twin survivors in the world and many of these are in therapy, trying to find out what is wrong.   Yet there are very few therapists specialising in providing help specially for them. As knowledge increases of the existence of so many womb twin survivors in the population, more and more will seek help with their healing, and counsellors and psychotherapists will begin to specialise in this area.  But that happy day is not yet with us: at the moment womb twin survivors search endlessly and in vain for someone who truly understands.  Many of them come to me and tell me a story of decades of wasted money and time spent with therapists who did not understand.

We need to put that right:  so for a start, let's find the people who are already working with womb twin survivors as a specialism and create an online directory here, connected to this blog and my web site.

Here is  a start:

Gisela Murrel   She is to be found in Rhode island in the USA.

I operate in St Albans, Hertfordshire, UK   The support I offer,  plus workshops anywhere.

The Crucible Centre in  Hartley Valley, NSW  Australia  offers Sandplay Therapy

It seems that family constellation therapy, transpersonal psychotherapy and pre- and perinatal psychotherapy come the closest. However, even among therapists using these schemes and methods, there is a lot of ignorance about the specific needs of womb twin survivors.

Obviously, the best therapists for womb twin survivors are people who are womb twin survivors themselves and have achieved their own healing and know what it is like to struggle with this difficult psychological material.

Please add a comment with a link and a description if you offer specialist therapeutic help of any kind to womb twin survivors, or if you know of anyone who specialises in this work.

Thanks!

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