Improving Reproductive Health for Women with PTSD

This blog post from the Department of Veterans Affairs affirms that trauma-focused therapies (such as EMDR) are safe to use while pregnant.

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“Evidence-based treatments for PTSD are effective before, during or after pregnancy. There is no reason to believe that trauma-focused psychotherapies – talk therapies where you focus on the trauma you experienced or its meaning – are unsafe while pregnant. Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Prolonged Exposure (PE), Written Exposure Therapy (WET) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) are all effective options.”

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Open Access

Vantage Point Contributor. (2021, March 30). Improving Reproductive Health for Women with PTSD. Vantage Point: Blog of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. https://blogs.va.gov/VAntage/86691/improving-reproductive-health-women-ptsd/