therapy after abortion in kansas & missouri

You don't owe anyone your reasons, but you want someone to talk to about it. You're carrying feelings that don’t always make sense.

Even if you know it was the right choice. Even if you don't regret it. Even if you do. Even if you're not sure.

Maybe receiving an abortion wasn’t what you imagined your story would include. Or maybe it was — & the emotional fallout still surprised you.

You didn't expect to feel isolated in the stigma of your choice. You didn't expect your friends or family to react how they did.

Abortion changed you in ways you didn't expect.

Abortion can bring:

relief & grief.

Certainty & sadness.

Love & loss.

Hope & trauma.

Maybe your experience looked like:
  • Feeling relief but unsure if you’re “allowed” to say that out loud
  • Struggling with shame or spiritual questions no one prepared you for
  • Grieving a pregnancy you deeply wanted & still chose to end based on your circumstances 
  • Navigating medical trauma after rude medical providers or horrible protestors
  • Avoiding people who told you to “just move on” or “look on the bright side”
  • Holding joy & devastation in the same breath
  • Feeling disconnected from your body, your partner, or your community
  • Facing stigma or judgment even from people you trusted

This is more than a decision.


It’s a moment in your life that mattered.

At Holding New Therapy, we don’t pathologize your feelings or assume how you should feel about your abortion.

You need support from a therapist who:
  • believes abortion is a medical event
  • knows terminating the pregnancy may have been your only choice for safety
  • understands that stigma can be more traumatizing than the abortion itself
  • supports both planned and unplanned abortions
  • knows there's no "right" way to feel

We won’t rush you into meaning-making or try to fix the unfixable.
  • Speak your truth — without explaining, defending, or editing it
  • Explore your emotions even if they contradict each other
  • Reconnect with your body & your self-trust
  • Work through spiritual or cultural narratives that feel at odds with your experience (maybe you never thought you’d be the one to make this choice)
  • Hold grief without collapsing under it
  • Release shame & claim your story — even if it stays in the therapy room
  • Let your experience be real, complex, & worthy of care

support after an abortion
offers a place to:

find support todayyou've held it together long enough
You don’t need to “earn” support by hitting a crisis point.

& you don’t need to minimize what this meant to you just because others don’t get it.

If you're tired of searching "Abortion counseling near me" & only seeing crisis pregnancy centers in the results,
we're here for you.

Let's tend to the echos of abortion procedures together.

therapy without stigma

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