Therapy for Pregnancy Loss & Infant Loss in Santa Rosa, Ca
For hearts broken by loss, there is a way through this.
Available in person and online throughout California.
Bridging trauma healing and
sacred grief work on your journey as a parent.
Hi, I’m Jessica.
I help you with the loss that’s turned your world upside down.
I am so sorry for the depths you are walking. Your body, mind, and spirit are reeling inside and there is so little guidance for this intensity of loss.
Whether you are navigating pregnancy/infant loss, birth trauma or the long road of infertility, these losses are so impactful, and too often parents are dismissed or treated like their baby never existed. In actuality, this kind of loss is one of the most shattering there is.
I know this terrain personally. I have walked the road of infant loss and I was a mom before I was a therapist. My son inspired me to understand the work of grief and to help others through this important, dark time. My work is rooted in lived understanding of what it means to carry love and loss all at once.
If you’re at a loss for how to be here right now, if you’re having trouble sleeping, if it is difficult to eat, if you don’t know who you are anymore without this little one that your whole life was circling around, your response is deeply human and you deserve excellent support.
I offer therapy that bridges effective trauma treatment with nourishing grief work. I’m not just offering coping skills. I give real support for the heartbreak, the overwhelm, the self-blame, the insomnia, the flashbacks, so your nervous system can settle and your heart can begin to gather in the grief and the love, with support.
As you pick up the pieces, know there is room for all of you here — including your powerful, broken heart.
LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent clients are joyfully welcomed.
Specialties
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Pregnancy & Infant Loss/Infertility
I offer a place to hold the depths of sorrow for the pregnancy that ended, the baby you lost, the overwhelm and longing of IVF. We will learn about grief and create “holdfasts” for you to anchor into grounding during this time in the dark, and find ways to connect with the love for this child so your heart, mind and body can keep living. LGBTQ+ welcome.
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Grief Work
I help you feel more whole and supported as you reclaim the heart, relief and love that comes with the flow of grief. You no longer have to reject the sad parts of you that hold wisdom and depth. In our work, we honor the descent and the importance of this territory.
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Trauma Healing
Feel present, safe and grounded, able to connect with your partner, your friends, your kids, and unbound from the triggers that take over your body and mind. With Brainspotting, depth work, and the Safe and Sound Protocol, we make room for your body, heart and nervous system to find safety and connection.
TEENS
Your teen or child can find security, self-love and understanding for what they are facing, whether that is the challenging drama of middle school and high school, or an intense loss. We build trust in our sessions, and a place for them to find their voice. I support many teens with ADHD and ASD, and in the queer community.
GETTING STARTED
Email or call to set up a free 20 minute consultation on phone or video, and if we are a good fit, we book our first appointment. (fill out form below)
We will book a regular, weekly session time and create a plan for tracking and supporting your healing process, which may include telling your story, finding ways to grieve, building an inner relationship with your child, gentle trauma processing, or personalized rituals.
You find both more ground and opening in the depths, living a life that includes all parts of you, includes joy, sorrow, a sense of safety, connection to yourself and your loved ones as you walk this path and face what needs tending,
Let’s Work Together
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My office is located in downtown Santa Rosa, CA and I am seeing people in person as well as virtually.
If you are ready to find support for your sorrow and guidance with the process of your grief, you can schedule a free consultation HERE. Or fill out this form to reach out and tell me what you are looking for and best times to contact you. I am happy to answer any questions you have. Thank you for reaching out, I look forward to talking with you.
Email: jessica@jessicamalmberg.com
Call: (707)758-2365
Jessica Malmberg, LMFT
818 Cherry Street,
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
You have come to a threshold…
This loss goes deep. Sometimes it’s more than you can bear. Your most tender dreams, ending suddenly. Your baby, your child, your loved one.
And yet you still show up, for work, for other kids, carrying this weight inside, feeling like no one really understands. It’s hard to keep going like you did before, and you know you need help.
Your partner may be grieving so differently than you, both of you overwhelmed, so exhausted and stressed, and the places that were once safe now feel empty and on the verge of collapse.
You need a place to bring this heartache, places to bring this pain of body, heart and mind that is so heavy. Doctors dismiss it, friends may tell you to “try again” without knowing the loneliness and darkness that you are moving through.
I want to hear your story and help you find ground again.
The road can be so long…
You have fought so hard to get here. So many injections, hormonal turmoil, ultrasounds, disappointing results, waiting in the unknown, waiting with the longing. Over and over again. It takes so much, it asks so much of your relationship, your sense of self, your day to day existence.
It’s easy to feel like your body is failing you, like everything is falling apart. And when a loss happens after so much effort and hope, it feels tremendously unfair.
The trauma is real. Your nervous system needs a place to land, to ground, to heal again. And caring for your heart deeply affects the state of your body.
Your body is so connected with your loved one, your baby. They left when you had not yet known separation from them. Your hearts beat together. Your biologies were completely intertwined, and both parents are primed to be keeping this child safe and thriving.
To move from this to accepting their death, to not tending to them, touching them, holding them, is excruciating. You might feel like you’ve lost yourself as well as them.
You deserve support for the ache, for the sleepless nights, for the anxiety that comes with this shock, this missing.
Our culture doesn’t have much guidance for this loss, but there is wisdom in the alchemy of grief. It brings us to the deepest part of ourselves, and there is gold in this darkness. You don’t need to be here alone.