Caesarean Trained Practitioners
Melissa Spilsted is the Founder & Director of Hypnobirthing Australia™ and teaches parents hypnobirthing techniques in regular classes held at Paddington, Brisbane and Robina, Gold Coast. Melissa also teaches Practitioner Courses to childbirth professionals throughout Australia and the world. In addition to the regular Hypnobirthing Australia course, she has written a world first course for ‘Positive Caesarean Birth’.
Melissa brings to her hypnotherapy and hypnobirthing classrooms over 18 years experience in teaching and professional qualifications. In addition to this – Melissa has successfully used hypnobirthing techniques three times herself and has had three beautiful, peaceful and calm natural births!
Widely known as a hypnobirthing expert, Melissa’s TV and media appearances have included Channel 7 Sunrise, The Courier Mail, Woman’s Weekly, Nurture Magazine, Mother and Baby Magazine, Practical Parenting Magazine, Birth Matters, television and national radio interviews. Her work has also been showcased in the Royal College of Medicine in London and childbirth hypnosis albums (available through this website or iTunes) are popular throughout the world.
Based on her success in delivering hypnobirthing classes over a number of years, combined with her personal and professional teaching, voice training and clinical hypnotherapy experience; Melissa has developed the Hypnobirthing Australia™ Program that incorporates modern, contemporary training resources and professionally recorded Australian practice recordings; that is uniquely designed for contemporary Australian families and systems of maternity care.
Please click here to see Melissa’s timetable of classes and feel free to contact her directly to discuss your own positive preparation for a beautiful, calm birth.
Practice Name: My Best Birth
Servicing: Jindalee (Brisbane, QLD)
Mae’t is a Medicare Eligible Independent Midwife. She enjoys preparing mums and birth partners to have their best birth and an empowered transition to parenthood. Mae’t has been working with pregnant women and teaching childbirth preparation since 2004. Mae’t has three happy children, birthed in a hospital, a birth centre and a positive waterbirth. With experience in supporting women in birth, Mae’t has an interest and understanding of how to prepare mums and birth partners for a calm and empowering experience.
Practice Name: Belly2Birth Australia
Area’s Serviced: Gold Coast
Shari fell in love with Hypnobirthing after completing the Hypnobirthing Australia™ course back in 2011 and using it to birth her first child. Shari went on to have a beautiful natural birth and felt so empowered by this experience she just had to pass on the message to other women and couples.
Shari has now been teaching the Hypnobirthing Australia™ program for over 5 years and has taught hundreds of couples from all around Australia. Shari has also been awarded in our top 3 practitioners for the last 4 years running (2014/ 2015, 2016, 2017 & again this year 2018) and she also works at Hypnobirthing Australia head office. Shari now comes highly recommended from Doctors and Midwives and has attended local hospital workshops where she has shared the Hypnobirthing Australia™ program to care providers and how they can support Hypnobirthing couples during labour.
Shari has also been asked to speak at various events such as the Pregnancy, Birth & Baby Expos in both Gladstone and on the Gold Coast.
Shari is passionate about creating a beautiful experience for couples both in the course that she teaches and in the support that she offers not only as a Hypnobirthing Practitioner but also as a mum who has Hypnobirthed. You can watch her beautiful birth video HERE on her website homepage, where Shari & her husband show how she used the techniques to have an amazing water birth.
Shari offers group classes for both Natural Birth & our Positive Caesarean Birth Courses on the Gold Coast, Queensland, however, is available to travel if need be for one-on-one sessions or as Skype Practitioner for our online courses and is flexible and able to work in with you depending on your lifestyle.
To contact Shari please phone 0423 773 316 or visit http://www.belly2birth.com.au
Practice Name: Hypnobirthing Brisbane
Location of Service: Gordon Park (Brisbane)
Hello and welcome!
I am Caitlin, a childbirth educator, a registered nurse and a mother.
My passion is helping mothers.
Whether they are trying to conceive, pregnant, coping with a newborn or wrangling a toddler, I love hearing their stories, providing advice when I can or at least a shoulder to lean on. Since giving birth, I have provided casual encouragement to other women through my mommy blog http://www.motherdownunder.com.
I am thrilled to be a hypnobirthing practitioner and to be able to positively support women throughout their pregnancy, birth and beyond.
As a nurse, I have come to hypnobirthing from a scientific background, and I believe that empirically, the method makes so much sense. Our bodies are complex, are able to perform extraordinary feats and, just as they are capable of growing a perfect baby without our conscious input, they are also capable of birthing that perfect baby without much conscious effort.
After experiencing a beautiful hypnobirth, I felt so empowered and positive.
I strongly believe that, if your pregnancy and birth are the positive events that you hope they will be, you will enter motherhood feeling confident and better able to cope.
I found that hypnobirthing enabled me to have a relaxed pregnancy, a natural birth and demonstrated that trusting my mothering instincts led to ideal outcomes for me and my baby.
It is truly my wish that every woman has the opportunity to experience the pregnancy and birth that she desires.
Practice Name: My Private Midwife
Kate is a registered nurse and midwife who has a passion for helping mothers achieve their goals for pregnancy, birth and postnatal.
With over 20 years as a midwife in a variety of settings she is well qualified to offer new parents the information and support to make the transition form a couple to family. She currently works in a private practice as a private midwife, able to provide midwifery care throughout pregnancy and on discharge from hospital, with many services attracting a rebate from Medicare.
Kate is very excited about the opportunity to add hypnobirthing to her suite of services, with a belief that hypnobirthing aligns well with her philosophy of midwifery.
Practice Name: Beautiful Births
Gabriella from Beautiful Births has lived and worked in the Redlands Brisbane for over 20 years.
She is a mother of four and has run a clinic from her home in Thornlands for ten years. Gabriella is a CBP. ABP, Birth Doula, Hypnobirthing Practitioner and independent birth facilitator.
Gabriella’s passion and drive set her apart from her piers, she has dedicated her time to women and their families in her role as a Birth Doula and Holistic therapist. Her career has been a great success and very fulfilling. As a Hypnobirthing Practitioner Gabriella feels that she is able to give a greater amount of confidence and support to pregnant women and their families at a birth, especially when they fear the most natural thing a women can do (birth).
Gabriella has outstanding qualifications in all her chosen modalities and prides herself on delivering the highest quality of care to all her clients. It’s truly is a labour of love! LOOK @ LIFE THROUGH THE EYES OF YOUR CHILD
Practice Name: Lotus Patch
Servicing: Woolongong & surrounds (NSW)
My vision is to equip women and their partners in the Illawarra and surrounds with the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions around the birthing process. With this knowledge and confidence you will be able to achieve the outcome you desire and deserve – a positive, empowering and calm birthing experience.
I live in Wollongong on the south coast of NSW with my young family. I am also a certified mediation teacher, paediatric massage consultant and teach key word sign as a communication aid for people living with the differently abled, the very young and the very old. I am also a Certified Infant Massage Instructor with the International Association of Infant Massage.
I have previous experience as a research scientist and forensic practitioner and possess a number of management qualifications and degrees in various sciences.
After a challenging emergency induction with my son I was able to choose differently for the birth of my daughter. With my daughter, there was time to employ my meditation training to have a natural, intervention-free, pain-free birth. Hypnobirthing teaches how to achieve this without the years of mediation practice.
I run group classes in Wollongong with evening and weekend options. Private sessions are also available by appointment.
Practice Name: 4babyandyou
Location of Service: Pretty Beach & Central Coast Region
Hi, my name is Jan Rourke. I have lived and worked with families on the beautiful Central Coast, NSW for over 20 years while raising my wonderful son here.
I am a Registered Nurse, Midwife and Child and Family Health Nurse. I also hold a Bachelor of Counselling, Diploma in Relationship Counselling, and Certificate in Clinical Hypnotherapy. I am half way through a Graduate Certificate in Perinatal and Infant Mental Health and recently completed infant massage and Hypnobirthing training. As you may tell from this list, I am passionate about empowering and supporting families.
I chose to undertake Hypnobirthing training as I have witnessed the impact of a negative birth experience on the mental, physical and relationship health of birthing families and have also observed the lifelong empowerment that can occur when the birthing experience is a positive one.
I believe Hypnobirthing offers the opportunity for women and their families to strengthen and/or develop the skills to know and trust themselves, communicate their needs clearly and achieve a happy and peaceful birth experience.
With this beautiful beginning the family is off to the very best start.
Practice Name: North Brisbane Hypnobirthing
Sam is a certified Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner and Childbirth Educator (HPCE) based in North Brisbane. She has a Bachelor degree in Psychology and is currently working as registered Nurse. Sam has experience in adult mental health and works as part of specialised peri-natal mental health team. She is passionate about natural birthing and is a member of the Maternity Coalition.
After experiencing a traumatic birth with her first child, Sam understands the importance of the parents being validated, respected and informed during and after the birthing process. This experience has led her to discover Hypnobirthing.
Sam strongly believes that every woman deserves to have a positive, empowering birth. By learning and embracing Hypnobirthing, mothers and birth partners are equipped with the tools and techniques to make this a reality. Sam is excited to have the opportunity to teach expectant mothers and birth partners the benefits of Hypnobirthing and to be part of their journey towards a calm positive birth.
Practice Name: Hypnobirthing Centre WA
Area’s Serviced: Stirling, Maylands & Northern Suburbs
Vicki Hobbs is a certified Hypnobirthing Australia™ Practitioner who has received a national award for the last three consecutive years for her dedication to community support and knowledge sharing.
She is a qualified Remedial Massage Therapist specialising in pregnancy, induction, labour and postnatal massage. Vicki is one of the most highly trained pregnancy massage professionals in WA having completed the NurtureLife® Pregnancy Massage Practitioner course in 2013 with Pregnancy Massage Australia as well as the Diploma in Pregnancy Massage & Maternity Care in 2008 after training with Suzanne Yates, who is a well-known author, midwife and the Director of the Well Mother Centre in the UK.
Vicki has expert knowledge and training of the anatomy and physiology of the pregnant body, stretching during pregnancy, labour and birth positions and massage training for your partner as well as Spinning Babies techniques, acupressure and aromatherapy.
She is also a certified Birth & Postpartum Doula and Childbirth Educator and is passionate about sharing her knowledge about pregnancy, birth and beyond to support women through all stages of their journey so they feel strong, confident and prepared.
Vicki loves her work as a certified Clinical Hypnotherapist having trained with TAD James in 2006 and offers one-on-one pregnancy and birth hypnosis sessions for fear releasing and relaxation. She also shares beautiful Reiki and Energy healing sessions for mum (and baby) before, during and after pregnancy.
Practice Name: Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting
Servicing: Victoria, Melbourne outer northern suburbs, Doreen, Mernda, Whittlesea and surrounding suburbs.
Noelene is a midwife, hypnobirthing childbirth educator, life coach, baby massage instructor and maternal and child health nurse. In addition to this, she is a mum to three beautiful children; Tristan, Kate and Christopher.
Her classes service the outer northern suburbs of Melbourne including, Doreen, Mernda, Whittlesea and surrounding suburbs.
Noelene will give you the tools and techniques to enable you to transform from being a “fearful birth worrier into a courageous birth warrior”.
Noelene is passionate about sharing her birthing knowledge, educating parents to help them achieve an amazing birth experience with the Hypnobirthing Australia program and then continuing to work after birth with mothers through the 12 week “Inspired To Success – Yummy Mummy” life coaching program and baby massage classes.
Practice Name: Big Hearted Birth
Cindy Fenn is passionate and committed to helping woman and their birth partners birth their babies calmly, confidently and on their own terms. She believes birth is one of the most amazing and empowering things a woman’s body can do and knows from first-hand experience how successful the knowledge, skills and techniques taught in a Hypnobirthing Australia course can be for affecting a positive mind-set for your baby’s birthing day.
She is a trained teacher so knows how to teach knowledge and concepts effectively and assist you to have the birth you want. Your upcoming birth is unique and special and with it a range of wishes, feelings and emotions can surround it – Cindy can ensure you are equipped to confidently meet whatever turn your pregnancy, labour and birth take.
Cindy has Hypnobirthed her two boys and from this understands that each birth experience is unique. She has birthed in a hospital setting and at home and on her second birth had the good fortune of an unintentional, undisturbed birth. She believes that the best place for a woman to birth is where they feel most comfortable. Now also consolidating her passion with formal training in Childbirth wants all woman to have the best opportunity to experience their best birth.
Classes can be taught privately in the comfort of your own home, or in small groups where you can meet other local couples at a similar time in your life.
Practice Name: Birth Savvy
Pip Wynn Owen has been a Registered Midwife since 1995, a Childbirth Educator since 2004 and is also a Mother of 4. She passionately believes that the birth of a child should be the most beautiful and empowering time in a couples life. And that women should feel like Wonder Woman after giving birth.
Like most hospital midwives Pip was “thrown in” to teaching antenatal classes, but it quickly became her passion and she decided she needed to do formal childbirth educator training. This dramatically changed her style of teaching and approach to prenatal education. However after the birth of her 4th child, her first with an obstetrician in the private hospital system, she realised there was a real need to step outside the system and give women a truly independent childbirth education service.
She started ‘Birth Savvy…Ask for what you want’ in early 2012 and now runs seminars, workshops, and private sessions in Perth WA
Pip realises how hard it can be to find your confidence and voice in today’s birthing environment and that sometimes information isn’t enough. She knows that what couples need, on top of good quality education, is specific techniques, tools and strategies to enable them to ask for and get the birth they truly want.
This is why Pip is delighted to be a Certified Hypnobirthing Australia™ Practitioner. She feels now she has found the programme that give couples the best chance at that beautiful, empowered birth she wishes for all couples.
Through Pip’s passion she is fast becoming the voice for pushing for better births in Perth’s private hospitals with journalists seeking her opinions for television news, radio, newspapers and magazines.
Practice Name: HypnoBump
My Name is Charmaine. I am a midwife and live in Busselton, a beautiful part of the south west of Western Australia. I am fortunate to have a very supportive husband and three gorgeous children.
In 2005 I graduated from university with a Bachelor of Science (Nursing), which took me on some great working adventures in the northwest of Western Australia and to remote Islands in the Northern Territory. My desire to be a midwife has always been strong so I finally took the dive back into study and graduated as a midwife in 2012.
My interest in hypnobirthing came about when I was pregnant with my third child and was overwhelmed with how beautifully calm and relaxed my labour was with my own ability to breathe my baby out.
As a midwife I come across many women fearful of childbirth, mostly due to previous experiences or from what they have heard through friends or media. I want to be able to make a difference, to provide women with the tools to relax, cope, feel empowered and have a positive mindset when they approach childbirth.
I’m extremely excited to be able to deliver hypnobirthing to many women in south west of Western Australia. Please contact me to start your own beautiful hypnobirthing journey.
Melissa Spilsted is the Founder & Director of Hypnobirthing Australia™ and teaches parents hypnobirthing techniques in regular classes held at Paddington, Brisbane and Robina, Gold Coast. Melissa also teaches Practitioner Courses to childbirth professionals throughout Australia and the world. In addition to the regular Hypnobirthing Australia course, she has written a world first course for ‘Positive Caesarean Birth’.
Melissa brings to her hypnotherapy and hypnobirthing classrooms over 18 years experience in teaching and professional qualifications. In addition to this – Melissa has successfully used hypnobirthing techniques three times herself and has had three beautiful, peaceful and calm natural births!
Widely known as a hypnobirthing expert, Melissa’s TV and media appearances have included Channel 7 Sunrise, The Courier Mail, Woman’s Weekly, Nurture Magazine, Mother and Baby Magazine, Practical Parenting Magazine, Birth Matters and national radio. Her work has also been showcased in the Royal College of Medicine in London and childbirth hypnosis albums (available through this website or iTunes) are popular throughout the world.
Based on her success in delivering hypnobirthing classes over a number of years, combined with her personal and professional teaching, voice training and clinical hypnotherapy experience; Melissa has developed the Hypnobirthing Australia™ Program that incorporates modern, contemporary training resources and professionally recorded Australian practice recordings; that is uniquely designed for contemporary Australian families and systems of maternity care.
Please click here to see Melissa’s timetable of classes and feel free to contact her directly to discuss your own positive preparation for a beautiful, calm birth.
Practice Name: Begins Within
Area’s Serviced: Gold Coast, Miami
Trudy is located at her “begins within … naturally” natural HealthCare and fertility practice centrally situated in Miami, Gold Coast.
Her motivation is to work with you to achieve balance – physically, mentally and emotionally so you can live your life to it’s full potential and reclaim ownershipof your health.
Trudy assists couples with preconception & conception care and birth preparation using herbs, nutriceuticals, bush essences, homoeopathics, lunar biorhythmic cycle calculations & hypnosis. Addressing fertility concerns and achieving positive fertility results for her clients within a short time frame using integrative natural medical treatments.
As a versatile naturopath, homoeopath, medical herbalist and certified consulting hypnotherapist, Trudy uses her extensive health analysis & knowledge of natural therapies to cover a broad cross section of services & treatments. Tailoring individual programs designed to achieve optimum physical, mental & emotional health, whilst fitting in with the demands & diversity of each client’s lifestyles.
Nutritional & lifestyle choices can profoundly affect fertility as well as the health of baby. Parents want the best possible start for their child and in fact it is a child’s natural birth right.
For Trudy, Hypnobirthing Australia™ classes are a ‘perfect fit’ to her extensive treatments and to support women to achieve a calm and empowered birth.
Practice Name: Mind Body Birthing
Servicing: Ballarat and district
My name is Katrina Foord and I am a qualified Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner. My interest in hypnobirthing has developed over my many years as a registered nurse, midwife, hypnotherapist, NLP (neuro linguistic programming practitioner) and a mother of two. Considering my background and experience it has become a natural progression to become a hypnobirthing practitioner.
I had two very different birthing experiences prior to becoming a hypnobirthing practitioner – an emergency Caesarean (after being induced) and a VBAC (vaginal birth after caesarean). One of the differences I remember is that with my vaginal birth, I had a covering obstetrician who asked me to visualise myself on a tropical island to help me relax. I remember this helping enormously.
I have always been interested in the power of the mind and subsequently completed courses in hypnotherapy and NLP. I have since used hypnotherapy for many things including walking on hot coals and completion of my first 1/2 marathon last year with ease.
My aim is to teach women and their birth partners, techniques such as breathing, visualisation, relaxation and self-hypnoisis to empower them to have a calm, positive birthing experience.
Practice Name: Natural Birth Connection
Area’s Serviced: Campbelltown
I am an experienced doula and childbirth educator in south-west Sydney. I personally used hypnobirthing for two of my births and found it to be empowering, transformative and healing. This is what sparked in me the deep desire to help other mums prepare for birth.
I have supported clients (as a doula) who were using hypnobirthing in their birth preparation and have witnessed the incredible difference that it made to their births. I am very proud to be a Certified Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner, and offer these amazing classes to the women in my area.
I truly believe that birth is meant to be a beautiful, sacred and positive event in our life; and it can be with hypnobirthing!
Practice Name: Hypnobirthing Geraldton
Melissa Ayling is a certified and award winning Hypnobirthing Australia™ Practitioner and has shared this special program with many couples of Geraldton and its surrounds. She is also a certified Meditation Therapist, Holistic Counsellor and has worked in administrative support in the medical field for 10+ years.
This is what she says:
“I have always been very independent in life. However when I first became pregnant back in 2013 I realised quite quickly that pregnancy was a time where support was critical and that birth was an adventure I would need to prepare for.
My common sense was telling me there was more to childbirth. I wanted to approach my birth the way I approached my life. Positively, naturally and consciously.
I felt there was a lack of complimentary resources for pregnant women including limited childbirth education classes that acknowledged the feminine power and value of birth.
I found it hard to talk to people about the birth I was preparing for. I had no one to confide with and turn to ask my (many) questions. And despite many nudges on my part, I just couldn’t get my partner on board and understand the birth I wanted. I felt unheard.
Thankfully, the universe sent me hypnobirthing. The positive mindset I developed, as well as the knowledge and tools I learnt, helped me gain confidence in my ability to give birth & removed all of the fear from the equation.
Oh, and the cherry on top? I’ve birthed not one – but two – babies into the world using Hypnobirthing.
My first in a beautiful, calm and in control natural hospital birth and the second in a crazy-beautiful, exhilarating on the side-of-the-road car birth. Yes, I gave birth in my car! I know I was only able to do this because I had the hypnobirthing preparation to optimise the birth process and the tools to comfort myself during all its challenges and intensities.
Hypnobirthing changed my life – in fact, it became my calling. I’m now so passionate about bringing LIVE Hypnobirthing Australia™ classes to the Geraldton area – real time support & resources that were not available until recently. I want to support and inspire women the way I would of have loved to be, too.
I want to remind women that nature wants us to want to give birth. It doesn’t want us to fear it and meet our children full of adrenaline. Nature wants us to meet out babies full of oxytocin and feeling love!
I believe birth is one of the heights of human experiences. During birth, a woman should feel at her most powerful she has ever felt during her life. She is also at her most vulnerable. Imagine a world where ALL women felt informed, honoured and empowered at this time? Imagine the impact of every woman entering motherhood with a deep belief in themselves?
Birth is transformational stuff.”
Practice Name: Birthing Breeze
“My passion is to empower and inspire expecting mothers and their birth partners to have a beautiful, calm and positive birth experience that they deserve.”
I am a certified pregnancy massage therapist, a certified Hypnobirthing Australia ™ Practitioner and I am a proud mother of two precious girls. My aim is to provide holistic care for birthing mothers and their birth partners, assisting to prepare their body, mind and spirit during the pregnancy and birth through massage therapy and the Hypnobirthing Australia ™ program.
I believe that ‘Having a baby’ is such a special moment in life. This intimate time paves a pathway of building the special relationship that exists between a mother and baby, also as a family. Becoming a mother was the most amazing and empowering experience I’ve ever had. I had beautiful, natural and gentle birth for both of my little ones using the same techniques and mindset that we teach in our Hypnobirthing Australia ™ class.
Empower, enhance and enjoy your primal birth instincts with Birthing Breeze.
Practice Name: Path to Birth
Jess is a Fertility, Pregnancy and Wellness Coach and an Australian Certified Hypnobirthing Practitioner.
Jess is passionate about all things fertility, pregnancy and birth! She is a big believer in the power of the mind-body connection and how this can be used to create an empowered, positive birthing experience!
With a background and qualifications in psychology and coaching, Jess loves working with women and birth partners, helping them to let go of any fears about birthing!
She is dedicated to arming mothers and birth partners with practical tools, relaxation techniques and information about childbirth and birthing options to create a mindset of confidence, courage and positivity as they prepare for their amazing birth!
Practice Name: Sarah Purvey
Hi, I’m Sarah. I’m a Clinical Psychologist and a Hypnobirthing Practitioner. I became passionate about birthing, during the pregnancy of my first child in 2013. My daughters birth was the most challenging, but beautiful and rewarding event I have ever experienced. I genuinely believe that the preparation I did throughout pregnancy and her subsequent relaxed entry into the world, made a contribution to her being such a calm, happy and alert baby.
You only get one chance to birth your baby, so it makes sense to give you and your birth partner some tools, to be as informed as you can be, for the arrival of your precious little one. I look forward to working with you, to help you prepare for the beginning of your journey with your baby.
Private health rebates are available.
Please discuss payment options, if you are a healthcare card holder.
Group classes on weekends, 2 consecutive Sundays from 9am-5pm (with breaks). Please discuss alternative arrangements, if a group class does not suit.
Any questions or to book a class, please call or email me
Practice Name: Empowered to Birth
Hello, I’m Debra, Midwife, Mother of four and passionate about every birth being a positive experience for every family.
My children were all born before I was a Midwife or a Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner. Their births span 3 decades and 2 centuries. I know, this makes me sound old, but it has given me wisdom on many levels.
Conventional Hospital Birthing Classes classes can be quite confronting. I know, because I teach these classes, both locally and previously at a large private hospital in Melbourne. The facts need to be taught in these settings, but often they are large, rushed and impersonal. Family and friends often feel it their role to inform a pregnant woman “How it was for me”. These uncensored stories and other life events can instil fear for many women.
I want to empower couples to be knowledgeable, flexible, assertive and prepared, no matter the mode of birth.
I want to help pregnant women and their birth support person overcome fear and anxiety they may have. Instead filling their birth preparation with positive images of birth and practical tools to cope with the journey through pregnancy, labour and birth into their parenting.
By attending one of my Hypnobirth Australia courses I can share all this with you.
Phone 0428 560 658 for more information or booking.
Classes are either:
Weekends: 2 x 6 hours 9am to 4pm
Evenings: 4 x 3 hours 6pm to 9pm
Practice Name: Adelaide Hypnobirthing
Location of Service: Payneham (Adelaide)
‘I believe that having a positive birth experience starts from within.’
I’m Hannah and I am a Midwife, Childbirth Educator and Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner.
I work with women who are overwhelmed by their upcoming birth, helping them to take away the fear and teaching them how to work with their body to achieve a beautiful experience. I am passionate about providing knowledge and supporting women and their partners through their own journey of pregnancy, birth and early parenting.
As a Hypnobirthing Practitioner I have combined my theoretical knowledge, real life labour and birth experience, and of course the Hypnobirthing training to provide you with an antenatal education program that supports and empowers you to achieve a positive birth experience.
I am currently employed as a Registered Midwife at one of Adelaide’s biggest maternity hospitals, run regular group as well as private Hypnobirthing classes, and also provide consulting services to support women throughout their preconception, pregnancy and postnatal journey.
I would absolutely love to work with you on your journey. If you are ready to take the next step – to learn, relax, be supported, and to feel confident about your baby’s birth – contact me to find out more.
Practice Name: Mind, Bump & Birth
Location of Classes: Darwin (NT)
As a midwife and a fellow hypnobirthing mum of two, I am extremely passionate about ensuring women feel empowered during pregnancy, labour, birth and beyond. After using the Hypnobirthing Australia technique twice myself I want to enable other mums have the amazing experience I was able to experience, one full of love, empowerment and knowledge. Contact me today to book into a course in Darwin and surrounds.
Practice Name: Julie Jarrett
Location of Service: Emerald, Berwick, Upwey Victoria and surrounding areas.
Hi, I’m Julie. I am a Registered Nurse and Midwife and I am currently working in a private hospital as a Lactation Consultant and Child Birth Educator.
I first came across Hypnobirthing many years ago and was very impressed with the calmness that surrounded that birth. I am very grateful to this family who inspired me to find out more and later to become a Hypnobirthing Practitioner.
I am very passionate about working with families through pregnancy, birth and after the baby becomes part of the family to help make the journey the best possible experience no matter what the circumstances.
Please feel comfortable to contact me with any questions.
I am able to provide Hypnobirthing classes and follow up support in the areas surrounding Emerald, Berwick and Upwey Victoria.
Practice Name: Prana Place
Location of Service: Doncaster East (Melbourne)
Dannielle is a Critical Care Registered Nurse, Yoga Practitioner and Yoga Teacher, offering Pre-Natal and Restorative Yoga to expectant mothers.
She encompasses the philosophy of natural child birth where possible. Her intention is to prepare expectant mothers and their birth partners through education, empowering them to create a unique individual experience free from unnecessary fear and anxiety, giving expectant mothers the confidence to trust in themselves and the birthing process. Therefore facilitating the transition from pregnancy to parenthood and creating positive, loving and joyous memories along the way for everyone involved.
Danielle offers, one-on-one couple session, monthly group sessions, refresher courses and hypnobirthing for caesarean.
Practice Name: Zing Wellbeing
Location of Service: North Lakes, Burpengary, Narangba, Caboolture and Morayfield (QLD)
Stevie-Jae is a Hypnobirthing-Mum and experienced the benefits for herself when using the Hypnobirthing Australia techniques for the birth of her son.
She is an advocate for the importance of maintaining a healthy mindset during pregnancy and labour. Her goal is to help expecting families prepare for the birth of their baby in a positive way because having a baby is a beautiful experience and should be celebrated. She believes Hypnobirthing Australia provides women and their birth partners with invaluable tools for their mental hospital bag.
Her holistic approach includes: prenatal yoga support, Hypnobirthing classes, postnatal yoga for postpartum recovery and Mum and Baby Yoga for bonding between mother and baby.
Stevie-Jae has been a student and teacher of yoga for over 13 years in Australia and abroad. She has studied Vinyasa Hatha yoga, completed Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga teacher training and Core Strength Vinyasa training. She is a high school Biology teacher and has completed postgraduate research at the University of Queensland into the benefits of yoga for stress relief.
She offers classes at her peaceful, purpose-build studio in Morayfield. Additional classes are held in North Lakes and Scarborough.
Practice Name: The Hypnobirthing Mum
Location of Service: Lilyfield, Sydney (NSW)
Qualifications: Kerry Sutcliffe, Bsc(Hons), MPhil, PgCert APIMH, DipCouns, DipNLP, HPCE.
Kerry Sutcliffe is a Certified Hypnobirthing Practitioner and Childbirth Educator (HPCE) based in Inner West Sydney. Kerry is a hypnobirthing mum to three young children and her first-hand experience of giving birth using hypnobirthing techniques has resulted in three calm and empowering births. These experiences have led her to being a passionate advocate for this approach to birth.
With a background in Psychology, Counselling and Mental Health, Kerry has worked extensively with people living with anxiety and depression. The psychological and physical health of new and expectant mums is now the primary focus of her work.
Kerry has found the HypnoBirthing Australia™ course to be the most comprehensive, realistic and supportive programme available to mothers and their birth partners. When delivering this course Kerry presents the content in an understanding and reassuring manner and feels privileged to support mothers and their birth partners towards a calm and positive birthing experience.
Practice Name: Geelong Born
Location of Service: Geelong (VIC)
Hi, I’m Rosie.
I have proudly been working as a registered nurse and midwife for over 10 years. During this time, I have worked in a wide variety of women’s health and maternity settings. My role at Geelong Born focuses on independent childbirth education and midwifery support. I strive to empower, inspire and bring confidence to expectant parents.
I am mum to my two beautiful little girls. My own positive birthing experiences have given me further drive to promote pregnancy and childbirth as a natural and profound life event. I believe all births are unique and that women should be supported in a way that is individually tailored to their own needs. I draw upon experience as a mum and a midwife to ‘keep birth normal’ and avoid unnecessary intervention.
I am delighted to be a Certified Hypnobirthing Australia™ Practitioner. I passionately believe this program gives couples the best chance of achieving the birth they dream of. I take a relaxed and friendly approach during my classes and I feel very privileged to be teaching expectant parents how to give birth in such a calm and positive way.
Practice Name: Purely Mindful
Location of Service: Rockingham (WA)
I am a qualified Clinical Hypnotherapist and Counsellor and I have had a keen interest in working with people for as long as I can remember. My passion is helping clients holistically to explore, create and achieve the life they want for themselves. Over the last ten years, I have worked in various counselling roles, to assist people to bring about positive changes in their lives. I have worked with individuals, couples and families, to help them face the challenges encountered in their daily lives and to help bring back their sense of balance and harmony. I have experience in the treatment of grief and loss, depression and anxiety, fears and phobias, addictions, goal setting and relationships. It is my belief that hypnobirthing, hypnotherapy and counselling are respectful and gentle ways to create meaningful and long-lasting changes.
As a registered Clinical Hypnotherapist with the Australian Hypnotherapists Association, you may be eligible for a rebate. Contact your Private Health Fund to discuss.
Practice Name: Born Into Calm
Location of Service: Fremantle (WA)
As a Hypnobirthing Mum I have experienced first-hand how powerful a calm, positive birth can be for Mum, birth partner and baby.
Following the birth of my first baby I felt disillusioned with the ‘birth process’ – I felt like all decisions had been taken out of my hands. I absolutely knew there had to be a better way!
With baby number two on board, my search began…….
As a fitness ‘enthusiast’ I know that we can achieve amazing things when body and mind work together. I also believe in evidence-based approaches and, for me, Hypnobirthing Australia ticks all the boxes.
I am passionate about ensuring women know we have choices when it comes to birth and providing accurate information to enable you to make informed decisions from a place of positivity.
With over a decade of experience in adult education and training, I bring a supportive, respectful and light-hearted approach to my Born into Calm Hypnobirthing Australia classes.
I offer both small group classes and private sessions depending on your needs. Contact me to find out more or you can find me on Facebook
Practice Name: Enhanced Hypnobirthing
Location of Services: Adelaide CBD
Hello and my name is Liza Perks. I am a Master Neuro-Linguistic-Programmer, Master Time Line Therapist, Hypnotherapist and Trainer in all of these modalities. I am very interested in how the mind works and how to get the best out of it for yourself and your loved ones.
I used Hypnosis 16 years ago when I was in late pregnancy with my second son. At this time, Hypnobirthing was not readily available, in fact, I was the only one that I knew who used Hypnosis for childbirth.
I repeated the process with my third child and utilised Hypnosis again during the birth. I was so proud that my babies had such a peaceful start to their lives.
From that moment onwards, I always knew that somehow I would share my experiences and show other women with a similar philosophy as myself, a new way of childbirthing.
I have noticed in the media, pregnant mums have so much information available to them about where to buy the best prams, the most nutritious foods to eat, the best form of exercise whilst pregnant, but only limited amounts of information on calm, in-control instinctual births.
My vision is to equip women and their partners the knowledge and skills needed to make informed decisions around the birthing process.
I am looking forward to joining you in this world wide movement and experience the joy of giving birth naturally and positively.
A peaceful earth can start with every child having a serene birth.
Practice Name: Amy Giannakis
Location of Service: Glenside (SA)
I’m Amy, a mother of three gorgeous children who were all beautiful homebirths.
I have a background in chiropractic and a passion for helping women to have positive and empowering births.
The birth of your baby will be one of the most life-changing moments that you will experience, and it should be one you look forward to rather than fear. You may have heard lots of other women’s stories that sound frightening and painful which would naturally increase anxiety and fear surrounding your birth.
Changing your thoughts and feelings around birth can make the most dramatic difference to how you experience labour and the birth of your baby.
The Hypnobirthing Australia class will give you the tools to have a positive and calm birth, no matter where you choose to have your baby!
Contact me on 0403 085 816 or email amygiannakis1@gmail.com
I look forward to hearing from you with your questions or bookings.
Practice Name: Hypnobirthing SA
Location of Service: Norwood (SA)
With a background in Nursing and Midwifery, Sherie Johns is a PhD Scholar specialising in Chronic Urogenital Pain Syndromes. Previously as a registered midwife, Sherie experienced the full spectrum of birthing, from planned caesareans in bustling theatres to secluded home births, with particular interest in advocating for continuity of care and the opportunity for water immersion during labour and birth. With her PhD research focusing on understanding the mechanisms of chronic urogenital pain, she sees a link between increased pain, anxiety and dysfunctional pelvic muscles.
Sherie has Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner Certification, and has provided successful physical therapy to hundreds of women with chronic pain problems that previously prevented natural conception. Years later, she still enjoys hearing from women that they have fallen pregnant and gone on to experience a positive birth, using the skills and techniques taught during therapy.
Sherie brings with her a wealth of clinical skills and the unique qualification of personally being able to relate to women affected by chronic urogenital pain, and can share her experience of birthing with and without implementing hypnobirthing skills. With her passion and personal warmth, Sherie will provide you with professional birthing education, and will share a depth of knowledge that will leave you feeling more confident and relaxed about your upcoming birth.
Practice Name: Julie Vélina
Location of Service: Manly (NSW)
Julie Vélina believes that every woman deserves to experience a peaceful and calm birth and be confident in her choices.
Practice Name: Mindful Impact
Location of Service: Adelaide Hills
Tania’s focus is on helping women to successfully realise their goals through guidance, empowerment, and the belief you can achieve anything you put your mind to!
As Owner and Director of Mindful Impact, Tania brings her vast experience and qualifications to the Hypnobirthing classroom to ensure parents release their fears and have the best opportunity to easily learn this incredibly powerful suite of techniques.
Hypnotherapy has been a part of Tania’s life since childhood and her deep understanding of the mind body connection thrived during her own two positive, calm and natural hypnobirths.
Combined with her personal experience and professional qualifications, Tania brings her practitioners knowledge of hypnotherapy, Neuro Linguistic Programming, NLP Coaching and Time Line Therapy® to all that she does. It is her belief that empowering women for birth is the most wonderful gift you can offer not just the mother, but also to her child and partner.
Contact Tania to discuss how she can help you to design your own positive preparation for an empowered birth. Tania teaches hypnobirthing techniques around the Adelaide Hills and throughout SA, as well as over Skype.
Tania Davies – HBCE, PNLP, Pht, Ptlt, PNLPC, MMktg, BMgmt, DipDM