please note I have limited availability for doula clients.

What is a doula?

A doula is someone who provides emotional and practical support during the precious time of pregnancy, birth and the early post natal period.

What is a shamanic approach?

Giving birth is a transformative and intense rites of passage. 

As a shaman I am interested in restoring sacred rites of community care in childbirth, like that of our ancestors’ wise-woman traditions, providing loving companionship and protecting the sanctity of the birthing experience.

A shamanic approach would seek to aid  the natural process of the initiation of pregnancy of birth,  supporting your deepest connection with your body, baby, and the spiritual wisdom within, of which birth is a portal to, so that you can have the most natural birth possible, and honour your spiritual experience within it.  The wisdom of the all the mothers and grandmothers who have supported and given birth before you is in your bones and my work is to support you with the natural conditions and care you need to trust that wisdom and allow your instincts to lead, supported by ritual, sacred space-tending and relationship.

As your doula, I provide counsel, comforts, advocacy and consistency of care for you to have the most natural, positive and powerful birth possible, for you, baby and your ancestral line.

What to expect?

As your doula our time together will be organic and centred on your needs.  I can offer a holistic range of support which could include any of the following:

• counselling and coaching for any emotional or mental support you need on your journey.

• Advocacy whilst navigating the medicalised model of birth within mainstream maternity care, upholding and protecting your choices and assisting you in making informed and empowered decisions about your body, baby and birth preferences, signposting you with the information you need to feel centred, confident to make informed evidence-based decisions about the right birth plan for you and feel intuitively connected to the needs of your body and baby

• hypnobirthing tools and techniques to unlearn our culture of fear around birth and .reclaim the calm, confident and positive experience that birth can be.

• nature-based energy medicine to provide comfort, relieve tension and anchor deep trust with options of reiki, crystals and plant oils and nutritional advice.

• ritual and ceremony that respect the natural physiology of birth

• Attendance at your birth, as a gentle presence, protecting your process and birthing space and advocating for your choices and your body’s needs.

• postnatal loving care and breastfeeding support for you and baby.
  
  

Support packages are highly personalised and tailored to meet the specific needs of you, baby and birth partner (if you have one).  Packages start from 4 hours of antenatal contact time, plus attendance at your birth, and a visit after birth for postnatal care.  You also have unlimited support via text or email throughout pregnancy and 2 weeks after birth.  Fees are agreed depending on your chosen package of care. Payment plans are available on request.