I am a specialist birth trauma midwife, with over 24 years experience in all areas of midwifery. I offer a complete package of care, to ensure you feel confident and calm to move forward from your diffcult experience and enjoy life again.

WHAT IS BIRTH TRAUMA?

Everyone deserves the ‘perfect birth’ experience. However, the truth is it doesn’t always happen like that! Whether you have pre-birth jitters, feel panicked whenever you think about your birth, are scared to talk to anyone about what happened, or feel traumatised, birth therapy can help you. It is important to remember that a ‘difficult birth’ doesn’t have to come from a life-threatening event; it can emerge from feeling a loss of control, no one listening to you, a sense of helplessness, or a loss of security. So even though you may feel you haven’t had a ‘traumatic birth’, you may feel unable to enjoy your pregnancy/new family life as you feel trapped with those negative emotions and disconnected. 

You are not alone and I offer fast and effective treatment to move forward positively in pregnancy, with your new family life and look forward to future pregnancies.  

Ask yourself: 

• Do you feel panicked or anxious about your birth?

• Are you avoiding talking about your birth to others?

• Do you feel disconnected from people you are close to? 

• Do you find it hard to sleep or stay asleep? 

• Do you have difficulty concentrating on things? Are you having nightmares/flashbacks of your birth? 

• Are you scared to have another baby? 

Any of these symptoms can be because you are experiencing trauma after your birth. This treatment offers you a fast, effective therapy to deactivate the trauma in addition to offering the vital additional techniques and strategies to provide a positive mindset moving forward. 

HOW A SESSION WORKS:   

The therapy is a gentle, effective and fast treatment for anyone suffering from trauma or anxiety in pregnancy, birth, or in early motherhood.

The sessions offer a safe space to work through your experiences with a midwife and birth trauma specialist, using proven therapeutic techniques and psychoeducation to remove the negative emotion of the event(s). Treatment includes: 

• 3-4 sessions that last between 90-120mins each

• Time with an expert midwife to discuss your experience

• Breathing and relaxation techniques to reduce symptoms of panic and anxiety in the body

• Humans Givens Psychotherapy - Rewind technique to transform the memory that previously made you feel anxious or scared, into a memory that doesn’t produce a response of anxiety or fear

• Emotional Release techniques to help rebuild your confidence after trauma

• A personalised guided visualisation/relaxation technique.

• Techniques to help prepare for a future birth.

  WHO IT AFFECTS

  I work with mothers, fathers and birth companions. I also work with parents-to-be who may be very anxious about their upcoming birth and health professionals suffering from vicarious trauma after witnessing a difficult birth.