I’m a mentored trauma-informed birth and postnatal doula and a parent of three teenagers, with lived experience of home and hospital labour, emergency caesarean birth and VBAC. I’m drawn to this work by a deep belief in the importance of feeling emotionally held, respected, and listened to during pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood.

Alongside my doula training, I bring over 30 years’ experience in rights-based work, including ten years in international women’s rights, much of it centred on trauma and gender-based violence. This has deeply shaped how I support people - gently, culturally aware, without judgement, and with great care for emotional safety, consent and informed choice.

I offer birth and postnatal support that is responsive rather than prescriptive, with particular awareness of the needs of neurodivergent people. Drawing on personal experience, I understand how sensory needs, communication differences, anxiety, or past experiences can influence how pregnancy and birth are felt, and I work in a way that is calm, flexible, and shaped around you.