Trained Caesarean 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: Indooroopilly (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: Gladstone, Boyne Island, Tannum Sands

Shari fell in love with Hypnobirthing after completing the Hypnobirthing Australia™ course with Melissa 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.

After moving to the Gladstone region in 2012 and seeing the need for more pregnancy support in the region she decided that teaching other couples this amazing program was the path she wanted to take with her life. Shari has also studied the Marie Mongan Method however once she heard of the all new Hypnobirthing Australia course she jumped at the chance to teach the modern Australian Program created by Melissa.

Shari has now been teaching the Hypnobirthing Australia™ program for 4 years and has taught hundreds of couples from all around Central Queensland. She now comes highly recommended from the local Doctors and Midwives and has attended local hospital workshops where she has taught  care providers how they can support Hypnobirthing couples during labour.

Shari is also an active member in the community teaching workshops and she is also the organiser of Gladstone Pregnancy, Birth & Baby Expo.

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.

Shari offers group classes in Gladstone and she is also available for one-on-one online courses and is flexible and able to work in with you depending on your lifestyle or work rosters that are common for this region.

To contact Shari please phone 0423 773 316 or visit http://www.belly2birth.com.au

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

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.

Servicing: Pretty Beach & Central Coast Region

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

Vicki Hobbs is certified Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner and also a qualified Redial 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 position techniques and massage instruction for your partner.

She is also a Certified Birthing Assistant (Doula) and Childbirth Educator and is passionate about sharing her knowledge as a Hypnobirthing Australia practitioner.

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:  Tranquil birth

Servicing: Cranbourne, Melbourne (VIC)

I am a proud mum of 3 children; a nurse/midwife with over 10 years’ experience in both the public and private health care sectors and a I’m a Hypnobirthing practitioner. I facilitate childbirth education classes that assist women and their birth partners to release fear surrounding labour and birth. Instead they leave feeling empowered and excited.

When I had my children I was uninformed and I felt like control had almost totally been taken out of my hands. I was wrapped up in my fear and I know that this greatly affected my birth experience. As a midwife I see this happening in practice all too often. When I became a midwife I had the privilege to be part of a beautiful hypnobirth. That was the moment that I knew there was a better way and I had to share this information.

I am dedicated to empowering women throughout their pregnancy and birth. I believe by having confidence and by learning to trust their body women are able to bring their babies into the world calmly and experience birth as a wondrous, profound and joyful event.

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: 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 over 11 years.

After using hypnobirthing for her own calm and positive birth, Melissa was inspired to share this birth preparation with others. She believes all mothers and their babies all deserve a positive and empowering birth experience; and an important factor in achieving this is through effective childbirth education.

This is what she says:

“I believe all women deserve to be empowered through knowledge, good support and tools to make choices in birth based on them as an individual person. No matter how a baby enters the world- birth can be and should be a positive, beautiful and transfomative time in a womens life. It is a meaningful life event where both a mother and baby are born and they fall in love with each other. This is worthy of a celebration!”

 Melissa believes that hypnobirthing can help promote a more calm and confident pregnancy, positive birth experience and can be used throughout nursing. Hypnobirthing is also a great foundation to positive parenting and this can have great benefits on their child’s overall wellbeing in years to come. Hypnobirthing teaches skills for life!

Hypnobirthing classes are simple, straight-forward and down-to-earth. Melissa’s dedication to ’empowering women’ is evident while she presents Australia’s most popular childbirth education program. Melissa has a charismatic personality and is a honest, understanding and  compassionate Hypnobirthing Australia™ practitioner.

No matter what birth you are preparing for she has classes to suit your needs. Please don’t hesitate to contact Melissa to speak further about your own path to a positive birth experience.

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: 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.

Classes available from November 2014.

Private health rebates are available.

Please discuss payment options, if you are a health care card holder.

Group classes on weekends, 2 consecutive Sundays from 9am-5pm (with breaks). Please discuss for alternative arrangements, if a group class does not suit.

Any questions or to book a class, please call or email me

Practice Name: Horizon Hypnobirthing 

Location of classes – Greensborough and surrounding suburbs.

My name is Sarah Boothroyd and I am a passionate hypnobirthing practitioner and mother of two hypnobirthing babies. I feel privileged to be in a position to teach mothers and birth partners how to use techniques that can positively assist them during their birthing journey.

Everyone desires and deserves a wonderful birth and after attending hypnobirthing classes myself I have experienced its benefits first hand and am dedicated to educating my clients so that they too can have the opportunity to experience their best birth.

I offer small group classes which are held in Greensborough as well as one-on-one with the option to be taught in the comfort of your own home. I also offer flexibility with class days and times to better suit your needs.

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 Services: Thebarton & Largs Bay (Adelaide, South Australia)

‘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 coach 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 two Adelaide hospitals, run regular group as well as private Hypnobirthing classes, and am completing my Masters in Primary Maternity Care at Griffith University in order to bring you even more knowledge and support.

I would absolutely love to support 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.

The Kindred Birth Support

Women deserve to feel empowered when it comes to birth. Birth is a beautiful experience for both mother and baby.

Hi my name is Corrina and I am a self-confessed birth junkie, a wife, a mum of 2 hypnobabes.

My dream is to support women through pregnancy, birth and motherhood. This all came about from my first pregnancy where I found HypnoBirthing Australia and fell in love with the knowledge that birth can be beautiful not something that you need to be scared of and when I say that, women need to feel empowered and safe whether they have a “natural” birth or a caesarean section. I had two beautiful births thanks to the tools and techniques I learnt from attending Hypnobirthing Australia’s child birth education classes.

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: Lala’s Place Parenting

Servicing: Cabarita, Kingscliff to Pottsville and surrounding areas

My name is Jen Baker, I have over 25 years experience in nursing and midwifery. I am a hypnotherapist and have an online parenting advice service.

As a nurse I have worked in paediatric nursing both here and in the UK. As a midwife, I look after women and their families throughout pregnancy and childbirth. I especially love helping women become confident parents, I believe that greater confidence taking a new baby home is gained when the birth experience is a positive one.

I have a large family of my own, and memories of my childbirth experiences bring joyous happy feelings. I used hypnotherapy for my last two births and I was amazed at how calm, positive and in control I felt throughout. I would like every woman to have those feelings when remembering their own childbirth experiences.

I have been extremely fortunate in studying the Hypnobirthing Australia course. I believe this programme can offer women and their partners a fantastic means to have a calm positive birth experience. The course doesn’t just focus on teaching methods to aid in natural birth, but can be used for any planned or unforeseen situation that may arise.

Click here to find Lala’s Place Parenting on Facebook.

Click here to go to my website http://www.lalasplace.com.au.

Practice Name: Vivienne Maitland

Servicing: Hazelbrook (Blue Mountains) NSW

Viv Maitland has a background in general nursing, secondary teaching and marketing fundraising but life over the last 13 years has been spent as a counsellor in both private practice and teaching in the Diploma Counselling and Bachelor Human Services (Counselling).  Viv also works in the brokered counselling program for Carers SA which provides specialized counselling to carers of people with mental illness, frail and aged, challenging behaviour and disability. It is this work that brings a sharp focus on the arena of grief and loss as experienced by both the carers and the caree.

Training in Hypnosis with Hypnosis Today, Viv has been able to introduce this approach into her practice to further enhance the counselling work with her clients.

Since moving to the Blue Mountains Viv has successfully completed her certification as a Hypnobirthing practitioner with Hypnobirthing Australia.

Viv is a mother of three adult children who followed in her footsteps and chose hypnobirthing to deliver the new generation of hypnobubs.

Practice Name: Purely Mindful

Location of Service: Rockingham (WA)

Jo has had a keen interest in people for as long as she can remember. Her passion is helping her clients holistically to explore, create and achieve the life they want for themselves. Over the last eight years she has worked in various counselling roles, to assist people to bring about positive changes in their lives. Jo has worked with individuals, couples and families, to help them face the challenges encountered in their daily lives to help bring back their sense of balance and harmony. She has experience in the treatment of grief and loss, depression and anxiety, fears and phobias, addictions, goal setting and relationship counselling. Jo believes that hypnobirthing, hypnotherapy and counselling are respectful and gentle ways to create meaningful and long lasting changes.

There is more to than dealing with problems; there have been many occasions where clients have used our services as a platform to explore their potential and unlock their desires in order to reach fulfilment in their day to day lives. We can assist our clients to develop plans for their future in a safe and relaxed environment. Jo is passionate about women’s health and all that is encompassed within that that field.