Gently Held
Counsellor – Coach – Birth Psychology Educator -Healing Birth Practitioner – Hypnotherapist
Pre & Perinatal Holistic Healing Services
- Bonding & Attachment Support for Conscious Conception Pregnancy, Birth & Early Infancy
- Healing Birth & Womb Trauma– for Mama’s & Babies
- Healing Your Past – Beliefs, Conditioning & Trauma
- Advocacy & Awareness of the Baby’s Experience
- Healing your Own Birth & Womb Experience
- Inner Child Healing
Life doesn't look or feel the way you wish it would...
– Aspects of your life haven’t turned out like you thought they would
– You feel stuck and don’t know how to change and move forward
– You just can’t let go or heal from traumatic experiences
– Or perhaps its pain from your past
Please know this... change and healing is possible when you gain a deeper understanding of your issue.
Welcome...I'm Michelle
I believe supporting mothers, babies and their family during this time is pivotal for creating healthy happy outcomes and communities.
I guide parents in conscious bonding and attachment during conception, pregnancy and birth and an advocate for education and awareness of the baby’s experience.
I support mothers and babies to heal and integrate traumatic and stressful experiences that may have occurred in pregnancy, birth and the post partum period.
Babies have their own experiences which may need to be healed too. It may show up in difficulties like colic, constant crying, feeding, breathing, constipation and their sleep patterns.
I work with adult women in a gentle somatic approach to release and transform unresolved issues from their own foundational period.
I also support couples with developmental and intergenerational trauma awareness/healing, how it influences their lives and how to make changes for themselves and their baby.
Gabor Mates definition of trauma is ‘trauma is not what happens to you, it’s what happens inside you as a result of what happened to you’.
Because the ‘beginning time’ is so important and because of my own personal experience and journey to healing, my calling is to hold a heart centered space to ‘gently hold’ others to explore and heal ‘what happened inside them’ when they’ve experienced these impactful events.
"Michelle is so welcoming and easy to open up to.
My feelings were validated and I was able to begin to understand my response and feelings around my birth experience. I felt heard. Michelle was able to relate my experience back to physiology and gave me a different angle to look at what happened. To celebrate my strength and journey. I have recommended Michelle to other mothers already and am looking forward to working with her again before any future births."
Nynke
What is Birth Psychology?
Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology. It is the study of the baby’s experience starting preconception through the first year of life. Pre and perinatal psychology and somatic health is the study of influences on the baby’s experience from preconception through the first year of life. This includes conception, prenatal experiences, birth, and attachment. Studies have shown that ancestral health, the womb environment, how we are born and attach with our caregivers all have biopsychosocial effects that can have lifelong implications.
by APPPAH (Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health)
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