Personalized, whole-person support to help you feel informed, connected and capable — physically, emotionally and practically — from preconception through pregnancy, birth, postpartum and beyond.
I help you understand what you need, prepare as a whole person, and build the right support around you for where you are. That may mean working with physiology and movement, understanding options and decisions, or exploring the beliefs, experiences and deeper stories underneath fear, stress, reactivity or pain.
You do not need to know which service you need before you begin.
Fertility support, BodyTalk and Aligned Creation for the emotional and relational experience of conception.
Prenatal BodyTalk, movement, baby connection and support through the experience of pregnancy.
Prepare for birth feeling informed, confident in your decisions, and better able to work with your body as labour unfolds.
Continuity through pregnancy, labour, birth and postpartum with preparation already built in.
Birth debrief, recovery, integration, movement, infant sleep and family transition.
Whole-person BodyTalk support for adults, babies, children and families.
Birth has never been just professional for me. I have experienced birth as powerful, pleasurable and deeply connected — including orgasmic birth. And now I am preparing to experience pregnancy and birth from an entirely different place, as a surrogate.
But some of the deepest roots of this work begin with my own sense of belonging.
I have carried a painful feeling of disconnection — of being an inconvenience, of being unwanted, of not quite having a place.
When I began studying prenatal and birth psychology, I found a framework that helped me understand how some of those patterns may begin much earlier than we usually imagine — in pregnancy, birth, attachment and the earliest experiences of relationship.
That changed the direction of my work.
Because if some of our deepest pain can begin before we have language for it, then I do not only want to help people repair that pain later.
I care deeply about prevention.
I want to support pregnancy, birth and the earliest relationships in ways that protect connection wherever we can — supporting the person carrying the baby, reducing unnecessary fear and disempowerment, strengthening attachment and helping babies enter the world with as much safety, welcome and belonging as possible.
We cannot control every birth or prevent every difficult experience.
But we can pay attention to how people are treated. We can support informed choice. We can protect connection. We can help people process what happens. And we can recognise that the emotional and relational experience of birth matters alongside the physical one.
My work brings together more than twenty years of working with bodies and movement with BodyTalk, prenatal and birth psychology, birth preparation, advocacy and hands-on birthkeeping.
How can we support people earlier, so there is less to repair later?
Birth preparation is not about learning how to make birth obey the plan. It is about helping you understand your options, ask useful questions and remain part of the decision-making when circumstances change.
Understand recommendations, risks, benefits and alternatives. Prepare useful questions and your support team. Stay involved in decisions when circumstances change.
Pregnancy changes the pelvis, core, pelvic floor and the way you move through everyday life.
Help your body create the space your baby needs to move through birth.
Birth asks your pelvis to create different spaces at different moments. Your baby needs to move through the inlet, midpelvis and outlet — and the positions you use can change the space available.
We work with your body so it can better soften, open and create the changing space your baby needs to descend and rotate.
We position you to help position the baby.
Pregnancy, birth and postpartum rarely fit into one neat category. Neither do the stories of the people I work with.
I hired Joanne for her doula services with body talk and her expertise on becoming a mom.
She was afraid that the pain and intensity of labour could activate an existing health condition, so birth felt potentially overwhelming. We worked through what labour could look like, the choices she might face, and how she could prepare physically, emotionally and practically.
When labour began around 8 p.m., I encouraged her to rest and wake me when she needed me. That call never came. Her baby arrived at approximately 4:30 a.m. — about eight and a half hours after labour began. She had prepared so thoroughly that she did not feel she needed me physically beside her.
“She taught me about all the different scenarios I may encounter & the pros/cons of choices I will have to make in labour.”
Brielle O.
I will be working closely with her through motherhood and with my next pregnancy!
We spend months preparing for the moment of birth, but birth is the doorway, not the finish line.
So much preparation focuses on the birth: what labour might feel like, where you’ll give birth, who will be there, what choices you might face.
But very little prepares you for what happens after.
Your body has to recover. Your hormones shift. Sleep changes. Relationships and roles can change overnight. You may be processing a birth that was beautiful, difficult, unexpected — or all three.
You may be caring for a newborn, navigating feeding and bonding, experiencing loss, or moving through a surrogacy journey while the baby goes home with their intended parents.
I specialize in supporting the transition after birth in all of those realities — including surrogacy, where recovery and integration can look very different while the baby goes home with their intended parents.
Postpartum deserves a plan too.
Support may include early recovery, birth debrief and integration, BodyTalk, movement, infant sleep education and helping the whole family find its footing in the transition.
A deeper, whole-person pathway is in development for people who want continuity across pregnancy, birth, postpartum and the transition that follows — without having to work out the whole support ecosystem by themselves.
What If the Baby Can’t Tell You the Story? →
Listening for what a baby may be communicating before behaviour is simply treated as something to stop.
What If the Memory Is Older Than the Family? →
A deeper exploration of memory, family stories and the questions that arise before birth.
What If This Fear Didn’t Start With You? →
Pregnancy, inherited patterns and becoming curious about what we may be carrying.
You do not need to figure out the right service before reaching out. Tell me what is happening, what you are concerned about and what you want to feel different. We can work out the best next step together.
