Conscious Support for Conception, Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond
BodyTalk Therapy is a whole-system approach that supports stress reduction, internal communication, and integration across the body, mind, and nervous system. Rather than focusing on symptoms alone, BodyTalk works by listening to what the body is prioritising and responding to — including stress, fear, anxiety, emotional load, and patterns that may be holding you back.
This work supports the body in restoring balance and coherence, allowing healing to occur in a way that is guided by your own system rather than imposed from the outside. BodyTalk also supports a deeper connection to your intuition and inner knowing — helping you build trust in your body, your choices, and your capacity to navigate pregnancy, birth, parenting, or the transitions that come with adoption or surrogacy. Learn more about BodyTalk.
How can we support you?
Learn Preconception Support
In the preconception phase, BodyTalk supports the body in preparing for change.
Many people arrive here having done “everything right” — tracking cycles, optimising nutrition, seeking medical answers — and still feeling stuck, pressured, or exhausted. Often, the body is not failing, but protecting.
BodyTalk supports preconception by addressing:
chronic stress and nervous-system activation
emotional or relational patterns that impact safety and receptivity
unresolved experiences related to pregnancy, loss, identity, or fear
physical stressors that affect hormonal balance, cycles, or energy
This work helps restore internal safety and trust, creating an environment where conception is not forced, but becomes possible when the body feels ready.
Preconception work may also include supporting communication with a future child, for those who resonate with this aspect of the work, while always remaining grounded in physiological and nervous-system regulation. Learn More.
Supporting Pregnancy & the Prenatal Period
Pregnancy is a shared experience — shaped by the body, the nervous system, emotions, and the developing relationship between pregnant person and baby.
BodyTalk supports both the pregnant person and the baby by working with stress patterns, internal communication, and the relational field they are creating together.
This work may support:
the pregnant person’s body as it adapts hormonally, structurally, and emotionally
the baby’s developing nervous system by supporting regulation and safety within the shared environment
the integration of inherited or earlier experiences that may be influencing either system
a deeper sense of connection, attunement, and responsiveness between parent and baby
Rather than trying to direct the pregnancy or birth, BodyTalk helps clear what may be interfering with trust and regulation — allowing both parent and baby to meet the journey with greater ease.
This work does not fix or force.
It supports the body’s innate intelligence and the baby’s capacity to respond within a regulated, connected system. Learn More.
BodyTalk supports birth preparation by working with the whole birthing person–baby system — including emotional stress, inherited patterns, nervous-system responses, and the body’s internal communication.
Rather than teaching techniques or directing the birth process, this work helps clear what may be interfering with trust, safety, and responsiveness as birth approaches.
By supporting regulation, emotional integration, and connection, BodyTalk creates the internal conditions that allow birth to unfold with greater presence and adaptability — for both parent and baby.
This is not about control or guarantees.
It is about supporting the body’s capacity to respond. Learn more.
Postpartum is a time of recovery, adjustment, and integration — for both parent and baby.
Support during this phase may include physical and emotional recovery after birth, nervous-system regulation, and the integration of the birth experience — whether it was joyful, overwhelming, medical, or unexpected.
This work also supports families navigating postpartum loss, grief, NICU experiences, or complex transitions, as well as practical and emotional support around infant sleep, bonding, and early parenting rhythms.
Rather than trying to fix or rush this stage, postpartum support focuses on helping the system settle, heal, and find steadiness — meeting both parent and baby with care during a tender time. Learn more.
Babies are not passive in their early experiences — they are responsive, aware, and deeply affected by their internal and relational environment from the very beginning.
This work recognises that stress, shock, or disruption can occur at any stage — during pregnancy, birth, or early life — and may show up as unsettled behaviour, difficulty sleeping, feeding challenges, or challenges with regulation.
Through gentle, non-invasive support, BodyTalk works with the baby’s system in relationship with their caregivers, supporting integration, regulation, and a greater sense of safety.
Support is always relational.
Babies are not “fixed” or treated in isolation — they are listened to and supported within the context of their family system. Learn more.
Hi, I am Joanne Yanke (Fisher).
I support individuals and families from preconception through postpartum, helping create the internal conditions for conception, pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood to unfold with greater ease and trust.
My work integrates consciousness-based therapy, education, and hands-on, emotionally attuned support. I specialise in preconception and fertility support, prenatal bonding, birth preparation, nervous-system regulation, generational healing, and conscious parenting — honouring both parent and baby as responsive, intelligent beings.
Through this whole-system approach, families are supported in reconnecting with their bodies, deepening communication, and navigating this transition with presence, clarity, and care.
Growing a baby — and becoming a parent — can be a tender, demanding, and deeply transformative experience.
For many, the journey includes uncertainty, worry, fear, physical discomfort, emotional intensity, and endless questions — sometimes beginning long before conception and continuing well after birth.
Conscious Birth recognises this journey as a whole.
Not just pregnancy or labour, but the internal environment that shapes conception, gestation, birth, bonding, and the transition into parenthood.
In our culture, discomfort and distress are often treated as something to simply endure or manage in isolation.
From a body-based, consciousness-informed perspective, these experiences are often meaningful signals — expressions of stress, adaptation, emotional load, or unintegrated experiences within the body and nervous system.
This work does not assume something is “wrong.”
It invites listening.
By supporting the body’s communication — physically, emotionally, relationally, and neurologically — Conscious Birth offers a way to meet each stage of the journey with greater awareness, regulation, and trust.
The intention is not to control outcomes or promise a particular experience, but to support the internal conditions that allow conception, pregnancy, birth, and early parenting to unfold with greater ease, connection, and care.
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