Doula, Antenatal Educator & Hypnobirthing Teacher

I’m a birth doula based in Hastings, East Sussex and working with clients across East and West Sussex, parts of Kent, London and internationally too.

After many years trying to create my own family, I gave birth at home on the sofa to my bouncy, smiley son who was conceived through IVF (and a lot of love). After this experience I trained as a birth doula and now spend the majority of my time thinking, talking and breathing all things birth.

I work with people across the full range of reproductive experiences, but with a focus on my specialism - working with those who have undergone (or are undergoing) IVF or assisted conception or have struggled with infertility. I understand the range of emotions and barriers that having experienced infertility or assisted conception can lead to, including feelings of mistrust in the body, anxiety and trauma, and seek to work specifically with these feelings and provide tailored support that takes your experiences into account.

As a doula I provide unwavering, non-judgemental support, information, resources and advocacy, as well as a healthy dose of help to navigate the many systems you might encounter on your journey. My goal is to support you to feel safe and heard and to ensure that you are able to make informed choices about your care and have these choices respected. I am passionate about ensuring that women and birthing people can develop (or redevelop if this is something they have lost) trust in their bodies and have full choice and control over what happens to them.

I believe that making sure you feel safe and in control is the most important part of my job. I bring a gentle, choice-based and feminist approach to birth, as well as strong advocacy skills.

Training & Experience:

• Qualified doula, trained with Developing Doulas.

• Hypnobirthing teacher, originally trained with The Wise Hippo and now delivering my own bespoke course as well as a course specifically for people with experiences of assisted conception.

• Recognised doula with Doula UK.

• Trained in Biomechanics for Birth with Molly O’Brian

• Experience of supporting parents who have been through assisted conception, loss and trauma, including infertility, IUI, IVF, ICSI and those who have been through TFMR and miscarriage.

• Over ten years experience of providing trauma-informed support to women and girls in a variety of circumstances and settings.

• Trained in Advanced (Level 3) Safeguarding, Contextual Safeguarding and across a range of other safeguarding areas.

• Enhanced DBS checked.

• Self-certified member of the infertility club 🍍