Giving you the support you deserve.
Having worked on the NHS frontline for over a decade, I know how busy, understaffed and impersonal the system can be. Let me add back what’s missing from your experience: truly personalised, compassionate care and attention, with the time you need to be seen, heard and empowered.
In addition to my extensive midwifery expertise, I’m proud to be able to offer Birth Trauma Resolution therapy and have recently completed a COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills. This unique skill set enables me to be alongside you no matter what you’re going through - to assess your needs and to respond to them in a truly individualised way.
Consultations may be held in person for clients in West/Central Scotland, or on Zoom for those further afield. Wherever you are in the world, we can meet at at date and time that’s convenient for you. Services include:
BIRTH IN FOCUS: This is your opportunity to ask any and all questions you may have about labour and birth, including environment, relaxation, pain relief, interventions, delivery of the placenta, infant feeding and postnatal recovery.
POSTNATAL BIRTH DEBRIEF: Only you know how it feels to live inside your body, and only you know how it felt to have the birth you had. In this non-judgmental, safe, confidential conversation, we can explore the timeline of events and work to understand how and why things unfolded as they did. Suitable at any time postpartum, from the earliest days of parenthood to many months or years later - whenever you feel compelled to share.
BIRTH TRAUMA RESOLUTION THERAPY: Nearly half of all women report their birth as traumatic. If you’re preoccupied by memories of your birth, feel like you’re in a constant state of of high alert and/or would like to be more confident about future births, this intensive course of 3 sessions is for you. I will listen compassionately to your birth story, give you strategies to calm your nervous system, create a bespoke relaxation script just for you, use proven psychotherapeutic techniques to ‘rewind’ and process your birth memories safely, and help you build a positive vision of your future. Also suitable for any perinatal trauma such as miscarriage, stillbirth or termination, and effective for staff trauma too.