I'm an Integrative Therapist with a passion for helping adults navigate life's challenges, from anxiety and depression to grief, loss and trauma. I specialise in pregnancy and birth, having trained in perinatal loss and worked with Gloucestershire's only pregnancy and baby loss counselling charity Footsteps Counselling & Care.

I am an experienced, caring and compassionate Counselling Psychologist, with a passion for supporting women through their perinatal journey. As a mother of a young child myself, I understand the unique pressures that motherhood (and the struggles towards becoming a mother) can bring. I also understand just how hard it can be to reach out for help.

I am an experienced clinical psychologist with a passion for supportingwomen and their partners following perinatal and birth trauma. After working at Great Ormond Street Hospital for many years, with pregnant women and in the neonatal intensive care unit, I am now Perinatal Lead at the Integrated Psychology Clinic.

I have a particular interest in working with trauma, especially the impact of Birth Trauma. I have also worked in the NHS as a Specialist Neonatal counsellor supporting families through their NICU experience.

I work in a person-centred way which allows you to work at your own pace but will use relaxation and visualisation techniques to regulate emotions helping prevent you from becoming traumatised all over again. You will gain a deeper understanding of your experiences allowing you to process them and move forward with your life.

My ethos is to respond to individual needs, anxieties and distress, providing a safe space in which to work through concerns. It is my hope that through working together, counselling can help bring you relief from emotional distress, improve your relationships and help you to make constructive changes.

I am a mother of three boys, a clinical psychologist, and a birth doula – my experience as a doula gives me a unique understanding of what actually happens in the birthing room. I have been treating trauma successfully for over 25 years and have specialised in perinatal mental health for the past 15 years.

The key to my approach is to create a genuine and understanding relationship with you that’s as free of judgement as possible and then to support you to find your own answers to your distress at your own pace.

As a midwife I have a unique insight into the trauma which can occur during the perinatal period and am passionate about using this insight to support individuals, couples and families effected by birth trauma, perinatal mental health issues, feeding issues and all areas of birth trauma.

I want to support new parents affected by birth trauma so that they can come to terms with their birth experience, helping them to recover and enjoy life with their baby.

Christina is a kind, compassionate, gentle Human Givens psychotherapist with over thirty years experience working across the social care sector including the NHS, GP surgeries, community mental health teams , the charity sector and in private practice. For the last fifteen years she has been working with those who are pregnant, giving birth or in the early months of parenthood.

You shouldn't be left feeling upset when you think about your birth experience. Perhaps you ended up having an emergency c-section after planning a water birth. Maybe there was a medical problem with you or your baby, or you felt ignored by people who were supposed to be caring for you. Instead of being joyful and happy, as you had imagined it, your experience of giving birth felt lonely and frightening.

I work with women who have experienced birth-related trauma. I gently hold space for you to share your stories, explore your feelings with all the tender parts of you. I ask curious questions, offer reflections, guidance and wisdom to help you decide on how you want to move forward.

I am a BABCP accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, specialising in pregnancy and postpartum therapy. In my practice, I regularly assist new mums to recover from traumatic births, to feel confident and content.

You do not need to suffer in silence. There are evidence-based therapies that can support you not only to recover from a traumatic birth, but to emerge from this experience as the parent that you want to be.

I can support individuals experiencing a range of difficulties in the perinatal period including: birth trauma, perinatal loss, adjustment to the role of parenting, tokophobia and perinatal low mood and anxiety.

I have 10 years of experience of working within a maternity setting as both a nurse and a midwife and in that time have developed a real interest in working with parents who feel that they need to explore their birth experience further or are daunted by the prospect of parenthood.

I strongly believe in early intervention and I specialise in supporting parents who are struggling to bond with their babies. These kinds of struggles can be due to a traumatic birth, an early separation, parents’ own difficult childhood, past trauma, a bereavement…

I run my private practice alongside my role in a busy NHS trust where I have delivered psychological therapy and supervision for the past 10 years. I can help you to see yourself as resilient and feel positive about the world around you and your future.

I am passionate about lifting that burden of carrying birth trauma around, and helping people toward a more peaceful path.