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About this page
This page lists counsellors and therapists with specialist knowledge of trauma related to birth. They have paid to advertise their services. While every effort has been taken to verify the counsellors on these pages, any contact with the people listed is made at your own risk.
How to advertise
If you’d like a listing on our website, you must be accredited with the BACP or a similar professional organisation.
Please email details of your accreditation and the text for your advert (maximum 200 words) along with the completed standing order mandate for £8.00 per quarter.
If you are not able to scan the mandate, then you can post it to the treasurer at this address. If you would like to make an additional donation, you can do so via JustGiving.
Dr Lily Lewis
Are you looking to heal from a traumatic birth experience? You might be experiencing unwanted thoughts, images and memories, and finding yourself avoiding painful reminders. You might be struggling to relax or sleep, feeling on edge all the time.
Fran Ellis
I am a qualified and experienced Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing Therapist (EMDR) with over 23 years working in the field of mental health.
Sam Robb-King
Experiencing a traumatic birth is devastating. Maybe you were spoken to unkindly. Maybe you thought you, or your partner, or baby might die. Maybe something happened to your body that felt violating. Maybe life as a parent is not what you imagined it would be. I am an integrative counsellor with over a decade of experience supporting new families in non-clinical roles. I work with adults and all types of family including LGBTQ+ and solo parents.
Dr Caroline Silcock
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.
Clara Mai Fitzsimons
I am a counselling psychologist/psychotherapist who specialises in perinatal mental health. I currently work in an NHS perinatal mental health team in London where I offer therapeutic support to parents and their babies with a special interest in traumatic birth experiences.
Dr Anna Galloway
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.
Jessy Paston
Jessy works with clients who experience anxiety, low mood, self-esteem and confidence issues, loss and bereavement as well as issues around pregnancy, birth and early years, and providing specific therapeutic support for any associated traumas.
Helen Millar
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.
Dr Claire Wilson
I am a chartered clinical psychologist with extensive experience in working with trauma-related difficulties having worked in a specialist NHS trauma service since 2009 and in private practice since 2012.
Natasha Williams
I am a qualified and experienced cognitive behavioural psychotherapist with a post graduate certificate, Diploma and Msc in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT). I am also a qualified Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) practitioner.
Sarah Weir
We have a team of counsellors who specialise in supporting mothers and their partners with a wide range of issues, including birth trauma and also postnatal depression. Other issues we work with include anxiety, parenting difficulties and relationship difficulties. Parents with children of all ages can refer themselves to the service.
Dr Natasha Wallace
I provide a safe space for mothers, fathers and birthing people who feel they would like to explore their birth experience further, or feel they need some support with their psychological wellbeing in early parenthood.
Gillian Taylor Counsellor and Psychotherapist
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.
Gayle Sturrock
I work with complex cases with integrative psychotherapy regarding trauma, CPTSD, PTSD, attachment issues, postnatal depression, anxiety, depression, OCD, relationship issues and family issues. Please call for advice and information.
Lesley Strabel
I am a counsellor working in private practice in Cardiff, Wales. I have experience of working with birth, pregnancy and child loss, birth trauma, bystander trauma, and male and female PND. My experience has been gained through the fields of mental health and birthing support.
Jo Spilling
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.
Shortland Psychology
Shortland Psychology provide personalised support for adults, children and families who are impacted by trauma. Having a traumatic experience of any kind can be life changing and affects how we feel, think and behave. The effects of trauma are complex and can present as severe withdrawal, extreme anxiety, to having times of not feeling real, or any combination of these.
Mia S. Scotland
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.
Suzi Robinson
I am an experienced, qualified counsellor working out of my private practise in Arlesey, Bedfordshire. I am also a high-risk midwife with over 13 years’ experience based at a busy London hospital.
Julia Reissmann
I am a BACP registered counsellor working part-time as a perinatal counsellor in the NHS as well as seeing people privately. I see clients individually, as couples and sometimes run groups and training.