Therapy for women & Birthing people
On a difficult fertility journey, pregnancy or who have experienced birth trauma
Move past your trauma and on to a happier future, whatever the outcome.
Hi, I’m natasha (she/her)
I’m so pleased you’ve found this page! I understand you might be feeling lost, anxious or unsure of which way to turn.
Please don’t worry. If you are on or if you have experienced a difficult fertility, IUI, IVF, ICSI journey, or have experienced a difficult pregnancy or birth trauma, I want to assure you that this is a safe place for you. You may be in a couple, a solo individual, identify as LGBTQAI+, Black, Brown, Asian or Neurodiverse. It does not matter, I am here to help you.
Working as a Specialist Trauma Psychotherapist since 2009, I focus on helping women and birthing people and their partners work through the emotional toll of their difficult fertility journey, pregnancy or birth trauma and on to a happier future.
Why? Because I’ve experienced infertility, difficult pregnancies and birth trauma too, so I can draw on this experience to treat my clients with the empathy and compassion they need. It’s also important to say that my services are not for everyone. My experience and skills lie specifically with helping women and birthing people who have experienced a difficult fertility journey, pregnancy or have experienced a birth trauma. If you have any questions about this, please get in touch.
How I can help YOU
Using empathy, sensitivity, professional and personal experience, alongside Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy (CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR), I provide a safe, nurturing environment that allows the people that I work with to relax and feel comfortable to talk about their issues of infertility and birth trauma.
Together, we face the trauma of IUI, IVF, ICSI, difficult pregnancy and/or birth trauma, so that you can emotionally prepare for future pregnancies or any other decisions that you have made around having a family.
Case Studies
Success stories from the women I’ve helped
Women and Birthing people come to me during or after undergoing fertility treatments such as intrauterine insemination (IUI), in vitro fertilisation (IVF) or intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI). This may include using donor eggs or sperm or both as a couple or as a solo person.
During this process, some women or birthing people may experience very high levels of stress and anxiety. Some may experience a miscarriage, still birth, premature birth, the termination of the pregnancy for medical reasons (TFMR), Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) or birth trauma. At times, the journey was considered as traumatic. This trauma had a profound impact on both parents or solo individuals, but thankfully therapy has allowed them to work through their trauma and as a result dramatically improved their quality of life and helped them re-focus on their future pregnancy journey.
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Meet Rose
When Rose* came to me after suffering two traumatic miscarriages, we began working on preparing her for her first cycle of IVF. We first explored her adopted coping mechanisms, and helped her to get a perspective on her perfectionist tendencies, her need for...
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Meet Lucy
Lucy came to me when she began to have difficulty focusing at work. A year earlier, during her first pregnancy, a routine scan had revealed that her baby’s heart was not beating, and the following day she had been rushed to hospital. She lost her baby. The trauma...
