Birth Trauma* Healing Facilitator Josie Lacy Roberts
*and trauma and emotional wounds of all kinds, especially perinatal, gynecological, reproductive and sexual violence trauma healing
Before I talk a bit about my bio and my professional history, let me tell you why I am passionate about this work:
In my life, due to my experiencing complex trauma and many other big traumas piled on top, I lived for years (decades!) in disempowered and dissociative states. My traumas related to the subjugation of the feminine and the disempowerment of self.
I know what it is to be unmoored by trauma, to live shut out from normal feelings of security, peace, ease and joy. To live years spiraling in desperate emotional states, shame, confusion and running away from pain.
About 25 years ago I was shown my intuition was my direct link to God and my higher Self. This was a core “deep in my bones” knowing.
I wasn’t able to put that wisdom to much use right away, and subsequently I went through many more years of darkness. But, even though I was often still in bad environments I slowly, piece by piece, found myself guided towards wholeness.
*Guided to how to re-parent myself.
*Guided towards how to trust myself and not give my power away to others.
*Guided in how to address my shadow.
*Guided to how to begin the process of becoming embodied again.
*Guided to begin to know my own power and goodness.
Now, after many years of personal healing I can sincerely say I feel tremendous gratitude for all my experiences - even the harrowing, horrific ones. They enable me to have a knowing of the collective wounds of the feminine (and the experience of trauma in general - regardless of gender).
My own suffering and subsequent healing has distilled and brought forth the healer within me.
How my past experiences inform my interest in helping resolve birth trauma:
When I began working as a nurse in Labor and Delivery wards I was grieved to witness and participate in the spiritual injuries to women’s initiation of childbirth.
Because of my past experiences it was crystal clear to me when birthing mothers or their partners were being denied agency, and/or were overwhelmed and going into a dissociative trauma response. Because I was in service to them I was attuned to them and I could “see” it and feel it in my bones, my soul and my whole nervous system.
My body knew these states and I would feel it echo and reverberate within me.
Often I would worry about families going home after I witnessed them experience events where I KNEW there would be significant aftermath. From my own experiences of the impact of trauma and remembering my own postpartum time I would worry:
Who around them would understand what they went through? Would they have enough support? While they care for their infant will they ever receive care for themselves, or will they just try to “white-knuckle” through the first months and years? Will they find the right resources, people and community to help them integrate and resolve this trauma?
Once my ability to facilitate healing for others was activated within me, I knew I was going to use it to alleviate the aftermath of birth trauma many families experience. It pains me so many families come away from the birth of their beloved child traumatized by the experience. I can’t NOT use this gift in this way.
So I have cultivated and deepened my connection to Source, the Great Mother and the Angelic Realm. The flow in sessions has become more refined and powerful. My mission is for us all to enjoy unwavering self-trust, freedom, joy, and the ability to love ourselves and others with sweetness and ease.
I have worked in healthcare since 2004, first as a licensed Radiation Therapy Technologist in oncology, and then as a Registered Nurse since 2012.
At the birth of my daughter in 2015 I was unexpectedly assisted by the power of the Great Mother when I was desperate and prayed more deeply and fervently than I have ever prayed. This aspect of Source - the Great Mother and Her unconditional love, creative power and intelligence - directly inspires and guides the healing work in each of my sessions.
Although I have worked with my intuition and energy fields for decades, in 2022 I learned a technique that enabled me to be aware of and facilitate powerful Healing Frequencies for others.
What I do:
In sessions I invoke and am a conduit for the Great Mother and Angelic healing frequencies for your quantum healing. I am attuned to how They work in your space by what I feel in my hands as I visualize your physical form and aura. I use my clairsentience and other intuitive gifts to be guided in the session. My knowing of the injuries to the feminine and the details of medicalized birth brings a deep understanding. My bringing attention to the causes of your suffering, and the act of observation of the healing enables and assists the healing.
The result is healing, especially of the nervous system, as well as the non-physical self: your emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. With healing the body can become a safe place to come back into. The deeper underlying seed/core issues (including ancestral and karmic patterns) and density in your DNA that is ready to be released - it is are all addressed.
I believe the healing occurs through the unconditional love and grace of God/Source/Creator that enables your body and self to come into alignment with your higher God-like Self. This more expansive, higher frequency part of yourself is also where Angel Frequencies reside and interface with us. I am in awe of this.
I specialize in restoration after birth, perinatal, gynecological, reproductive and sexual violence trauma as these are my passions!
If you feel called to work with me for something outside the areas I am always available.
For birth trauma I am available to help resolve trauma for both parents and baby. I can also help facilitate birth processing and trauma release from your own birth imprint (when you entered the world). I also welcome all witnesses to birth (nurses, doulas, midwives, doctors, surgical techs etc.) to help integrate and process trauma from birth experiences.
I am immensely grateful for this heartfelt work - and I am humbled to be able to serve you in this way.
Some dates along my path:
2004 - Associates Degree in Radiologic Technology, working with oncology patients
2010, BSN degree- first worked as a RN beginning in 2012 in hospitals in neurology, neurosurgery, neuro-trauma & ortho-trauma, end stage oncology/hospice
2015 - attended several immersive Birth Doula trainings and experienced my own child’s birth
2016 - had personal realization trauma was stored in the body and began deeper personal healing journey with somatic therapy
2017-2021 -transitioned to labor and delivery nursing. Due to relocations experienced working L&D in 3 different hospital systems - one on the East Coast, two in California
2021- began personal healing with shamanic ceremony
2021- 2025 ob-gyn clinic nurse
2022 - Total kNowledge Technique ™ (TNT) training, this technique was developed by Dr. Anthony Cahill (this activated my access to Healing Frequencies). Additional TNT trainings in 2023 & 2024
2025 - Psychic Reiki practitioner certificate
I am discovering what occurs in sessions is outside and beyond any particular healing modality. I am not affiliated with any spiritual or religious practice but honor all, and particularly resonate with the Divine Feminine in all her forms, the Angelic Frequencies that flow in the sessions, Earth Mother Gaia and the Soul within all of us.
Many blessings!