Praise for Annie's Work
Annie Brook gives a very clear picture of how to work with and treat earliest origins of shock. Attachment treatment issues are clearly defined with treatment layout for any birth practitioner. This work is easily integrated into ones practice and is easy to follow. Annie Brook spoke at the recent conference of pre and perinatal psychology and health (APPPAH) and her information was well received. Her book is a continuation of her lectures and a great resource for this work. Sandra Bardsley, APPPAH president.
The power of the Brook method are the embodiment practices and therapeutic tools. When these tools are practised they give support for encountering and integrating the perinatal trauma patterns.
Encountering this material helped me meet, and recover from, my deepest wounding, my hope is that it does this for you as well.
-Damian
As a Somatic Movement Educator (a student of Body-Mind Centering for over 25 years), and someone who has their MSW, Annie's work helped not only bridge my mental health training with all the somatic work I have done, it opened up new worlds in my own healing process via the realms of Perinatal Psychology (grounded in embodiment). I feel like I am just beginning- I feel greatly resourced from her Healing Birth Trauma course and sessions, I am feeling pretty excited and fearless, and yet wiser and more relational, about doing more of this work in the future!
-Anonymous
Thorough summary of the complexities of optimum birthing. Many sources discuss the problems, but Dr. Brook describes both problems and solutions. Echoes of birth experience show up later in life, often in surprising ways, and these books give real therapeutic strategies based on body-centered psychotherapy principles.
-JohnC
I am so grateful for your teachings and have learned a great deal in these couple of classes. Thank you for everything!
Alison, 2023
There are few books that discuss how to do psychotherapy around perinatal issues, and even fewer that are good at it. These two books are that, and I recommend it to any therapist that would like to learn how to support their clients around that time period (which is most clients).
-Pete
It’s very reassuring to me that you have also been through a shock of being in an incubator after birth, and have healed from that experience. I feel like I am already starting to shift that pattern in myself!
Amazing that I’ve been with your course for less than a week, yet with all of your resources, I am feeling so much stronger and more powerful.
Thank you thank you for bringing me back to my body and all the resources I have.
I can’t wait to see what else unfolds in this journey with you.
Sending great love and appreciation to you,
Susan