A gentle place to sit with your birth story. Maybe your birth didn't go as planned. Or perhaps it went "perfectly" on paper but you still feel a bit disconnected from the experience. Maybe it was ecstatic but it’s been hard to integrate in your postpartum. A birth reflection session with me is an opportunity to look back at your story with someone who understands that birth isn't just a physical event, it’s a massive shift for your identity and your nervous system. Together we can sit with the messy parts, the quiet parts, and everything in between, helping you to make sense of your experience while feeling held and supported.

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When we talk about birth, the world often focuses on the outcome and asks, “how’s the baby?”. A birth reflection session is a space where you get to sit with the whole experience and someone finally asks, “How are you?”.

It is a space to say it all out loud, as much or as little as you feel like sharing, knowing it will be held with care and understanding. There’s no "right" way to feel and definitely no judgment from me. Whether your experience felt disappointing, unexpected or scary, I’m here to help you untangle the threads so it doesn't feel so heavy to carry.

I want to follow your lead, so there's no rigid structure and you get to decide how we use the hour. Sometimes it’s about telling the whole story from start to finish, sometimes it’s focusing on one specific moment you can't stop thinking about and sometimes it’s less about the what happened and more about how it all felt to experience.

What does your support look like?

  • This is a single, hour-long session. It includes a follow up email afterwards with a summary of our chat and any signposting or resources that might help you beyond our session.

  • For some people, a one hour session is exactly what they need. For others, they want or need more ongoing support and regular counselling sessions is a better place to start. 

Is this right for me?

✨ Pregnancy, birth or postpartum felt difficult, scary, or just plain hard and you need space to talk about it

✨ You feel good about your birth overall but there are some niggles or parts that didn’t unfold in the way you expected

✨ You want to look at past birth experiences to help you feel more centred and prepared for a future birth

✨ You had a great birth and you want to soak it in and more deeply integrate your positive experience.

✨ Your story involves loss. This space is for those who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth, or abortion too. Your story deserves to be heard too.

Birth reflection sessions are not just for those who have had a traumatic birth. This session is for you if:

A difficult birth can ripple into everything, your parenting, your relationships and how you feel about yourself. If you’re ready to find your feet again and feel a bit more like you, then let’s chat.

pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it, how we transcend it.

- Audre Lorde