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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 20 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: It takes a village Midwifery

Servicing: Kenmore (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 

Area’s Serviced: Gold Coast

Shari fell in love with Hypnobirthing after completing the Hypnobirthing Australia™ course back in 2011 and using the techniques 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 and program to other women and couples.

Shari has now been teaching the Hypnobirthing Australia™ program for over 7 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, 2018 & 2019) and Shari 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 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: Mother Down Under

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: Life Options (Beautiful Births)

Location of Service: Cleveland (Brisbane, QLD)

Gabriella from Life Options (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: Envision Health Qld

Location of Service: Townsville (QLD)

My name is Leigh-Anne and I am a University trained Naturopath with knowledge in many holistic modalities including western herbal medicine, homeopathy, nutrition, Iridology, massage and Kinesiology.

My husband and myself have two beautiful children, one of which was birthed using the hypnobirthing method. I wanted to incorporate hypnobirthing into my practice as I felt having experienced a very traumatic and out of control birth for my first, to having a very calm, relaxed and very much in-control birth for my second, I felt that this technique needed to be shared with all birthing mothers.

There is a lot of information for pregnant mums out there on what to eat and what exercise to do whilst pregnant but not much on achieving a calm, in-control beautiful birth.

Fear has replaced a woman’s natural instinct to birth in a calm, sacred and loving environment, hypnobirthing facilitates us to find that ‘safe’ place within ourselves to allow our bodies to do what they were designed to do.

To find out more about hypnobirthing classes (including your course options) please CLICK HERE.

Practice Name: Jayde McCarthy

Location of Service: Sunshine Coast, Buderim, QLD

My name is Jayde, I am a Registered Nurse and Mum to 3 hypnobubs. I found Hypnobirthing so empowering I became a practitioner and still use the techniques every day. Expecting a new baby can be overwhelming, my passion is to educate and empower mums to be, as well as your birthing partners to achieve your best birth and beyond. I am located on the Sunshine Coast servicing Kawana/Buderim region. I offer personalized one on one sessions as well as group classes.

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:  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: Maylands, Stirling & 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: Harmonic Hypnobirthing

Location of Services: I offer group Hypnobirthing Australia™ classes from Dee Why, Northern Beaches and also Copacabana, Central Coast. I also teach private classes across the Northern Beaches, North Shore and Central Coast.

I am mum to two gorgeous boys who I hypnobirthed into the world with tremendous love, focus and strength, it was their empowering births that inspired me to become a Hypnobirthing Australia™ practitioner.

I am also trained and experienced as a Hypnotherapist, Birth Doula, Natural Therapist, Energetic Healer, Flower Essence specialist, Angelic Reiki Master Teacher and Conscious birth leader and have been assisting couples of the Northern Beaches, North Shore and Central Coast to achieve calm and confident birth experiences since 2012.

My intention as an holistic birthing expert is to inspire women and their birthing companions to achieve both positive and sacred childbirth experiences, I believe that the facilitation of quality and independent childbirth education through the Hypnobirthing Australia™ program supports this intention wholeheartedly.

I know that everything a woman needs to birth her baby with strength, confidence and joy comes from deep within her. Birth is the ultimate instinctive act and even though in modern maternity practices it can sometimes be difficult to trust your instincts and know how to surrender, I am committed to reconnecting mamas to their feminine power, and to develop the trust and confidence in the inherent wisdom of their bodies.

I am a member of the Holistic Birth and Parenting Collective, supporting parents through all aspects of their pregnancy and birth journey and I am also a Positive Birth Movement facilitator, dedicated to expanding the message of positive birth in the community.

I offer group Hypnobirthing Australia™ classes from Dee Why, Northern beaches and also Copacabana, Central Coast. I also teach private classes across the Northern Beaches, North Shore and Central Coast.

I can help you to embrace and feel nourished in your pregnancy and assist you to create the birth experience you truly deserve.

Katie X

“It was the most amazing and calm experience. The midwives couldn’t understand how I stayed so calm…they didn’t realize how advanced I was in labour…I can’t thankyou enough Katie for your hypnobirthing course and for all the wisdom and support that resulted in such a beautiful, calm birth for us all. ”

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

Location of Service: Elwood (VIC)

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

Location of Service: Maylands, Perth (WA)

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:  Sue Hunt

Location of Service: Central Coast (NSW)

I am a practising Caseload Midwife at Gosford Hospital. I have attended many hypnobirths through the years and know the difference it can make to a mother’s experience of labour and birth as well as the outcome!

Natural drug-free birth leads on to a happy baby and mum and easier breastfeeding.

I have a particular interest in VBAC (Vaginal Birth after Caesarean) as I experienced this myself. I’m also very supportive of waterbirth and fully support home birthing.

Negotiating the hospital system can be daunting. As a midwife who works in the system, my goal is to incorporate the best medical support available with natural birth practices.

Hypnobirthing Australia classes give me the opportunity to help empower women and their partners and share my expertise.

I am excited to teach Hypnobirthing Australia and assist women and their partners on their birthing journey. I look forward to sharing this exciting journey with you!

Sue Hunt Midwife – Home | Facebook

Practice Name: Yoga Mummas

Location of Service: Port Macquarie (NSW)

The combined skills of Yoga and Hypnobirthing techniques has allowed me to serve 100’s mums in my local area over the last 8 years. It’s so lovely to catch up with parents after their birth and hear how the pregnancy classes and Hypnobirthing techniques helped to positively influence their birth.

Birth is so raw and primal; in this day and age, many of us have lost touch with this side of ourselves. Pregnancy yoga can help women to connect to their body in a safe way. Through specific movements and learnt breathing techniques women naturally deepen their understanding of what they need to do to birth their baby. A woman’s awareness is naturally turned inwards during pregnancy, making it so much easier for her to relax into herself.  I have observed this many times over the years and it never ceases to amaze me.

The “hypno” part of hypnobirthing gives mothers a much-needed tool to help them get beyond the chatter of their mind, and allow their body to do what it is designed to do.

The theoretical knowledge learnt throughout the course gives parents a greater appreciation for the physiological processes of birth.

It’s so important to recognise that what we do and the choices we make during pregnancy have a huge impact on our birth.

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 2o 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:  Christa Buckland BHlthSc (Health Promotion), HPCE

Area’s Serviced: Macarthur, Wollondilly, Liverpool and Surrounds

I am an experienced doula and childbirth educator in south-west Sydney. I personally used hypnobirthing for three of my four 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 also have a Health Science degree (majoring in Health Promotion) and am currently pursuing a PhD with Western Sydney University. My research is on breastfeeding among young mothers.

I truly believe that birth is meant to be a beautiful, sacred and positive event in our life. Let me show you how with hypnobirthing!

Practice Name: Melissa Ayling

Location of Service: Geraldton (WA)

Hi there! I’m Melissa Ayling; a highly experienced Hypnobirthing Australia™ practitioner in Geraldton, Western Australia and pregnancy retreat leader in Bali, Indonesia.

I am also a qualified birth doula, postnatal doula, reiki practitioner, meditation therapist, and holistic counsellor. I am certified in aromatherapy for birth workers and–most importantly—the proud mum to two hypnobirthed boys!

I love the work I do because it lets me be a proud advocate for mothers and women everywhere, every day.

Together with Australia’s most popular childbirth education program, Hypnobirthing Australia™, I help women and their birth partners to feel confident, discover coping tools and positively prepare themselves for their best birth possible.

I believe no matter what path the birth journey takes—whether hospital, home birth, roadside (that’s me!), or caesarean—with the right education and support you will enjoy a positive birth experience.

Practice Name: True Focus Hypnobirthing

Practice Name: Path to Birth

Location of Service: Malvern (VIC)

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: Embracing Birth

Servicing: Newcastle (NSW)

Hi, my name is Karen and I have worked with women and their families as a health care professional for over 30 years. My work is also my passion.

As a registered nurse my speciality has been in sexual and reproductive health and when I completed post graduate studies, I became a midwife and still work in a private hospital setting today.

With years of experience behind me I have gained a clarity into what women need to have the birth they desire.

Teaching Hypnobirthing and becoming a doula has allowed me to empower women to achieve their goals.

If you would like to know more about me and what I can offer you, don’t hesitate to call or email. Feel free to click on my Facebook and Web pages, I have lots of info about pregnancy, birth and parenting.

Karen x

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: Clarence Valley Hypnobirthing

Location of Classes: Yamba (NSW)

Heather Collins

Registered Nurse/Midwife (RN/Mid)

Ba. Ed. (Early Childhood)

Grad. Dip. (Learning Support)

Life Member Australian Breastfeeding Association

Australian Tutoring Association Member

I am a midwife and have seen many changes in the care of birthing women. I have always understood the importance of empowering women and have promoted this in my midwifery practice. The miracle of growing a little person and birthing in a calm and gentle way consumes me to the point where educating other midwives and doctors has been a career long obsession.

Every women deserves a wonderful birthing experience and by hypnobirthing you will be able to empower yourself to achieve this goal. I will help you to trust birth by teaching deep relaxation, and equipping you with tools to confidently and calmly birth your baby. Natural birthing is how nature intended and interventions should be welcomed in special circumstances only.

I invite you and your partner to gain the birth you deserve by attending hypnobirthing education with me in beautiful Yamba.

Practice Name: Kathryn Bell Birth Support

Location of Service: Bump Health & Fitness 693 Pittwater Road, Dee Why NSW 2099

Kathryn is a mother of two girls and an experienced doula who has been working with couples since 2012 to help them achieve beautiful, empowering birth experiences.

The birth of her first daughter inspired her to train as a doula and after supporting many hypnobirthing mums and seeing how effective the tools are, she became a Hypnobirthing Australia™ practitioner in 2015.

Kathryn used the Hypnobirthing Australia™ tools herself for the birth of her second baby girl in July 2016.

Kathryn is passionate about helping couples to be informed, prepared and excited about the birth of their baby. She hopes all women can come to have confidence in their innate abilities and instincts so they can get the most out of the amazing rite of passage that is birth.

Her focus is providing:

• balanced information about pregnancy care and birth options
• a holistic, evidence-based set of tools and techniques for pregnancy, birth and postpartum
• encouragement to trust in natural birth
• positive energy and inspiration, helping couples to envisage for themselves a beautiful and powerful birth experience
• caring, intuitive and practical doula support (educational, emotional and physical) for labour, birth and postpartum.

Kathryn teaches group classes at Bump Pre- & Postnatal gym in Dee Why on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. She can also take you and your partner through the course privately. Kathryn provides doula support to couples across Sydney.

“With the help of Kathryn and the hypnobirthing tools and techniques she provided us with, the birth of our son Max was the most incredible and positive experience we could have wished for. We can’t recommend this course highly enough.

Hypnobirthing allowed me to completely overcome any anxiety with regards to pain and the birthing process, and was amazing for preparing my partner with how best to support me during labour.

By using the hypnobirthing breathing techniques I was able to stay so relaxed and focused through my labour, and we were able to achieve the calm, natural and completely intervention free birth we were hoping for. It was such an empowering experience and I would encourage anyone hoping for a positive birth to give Hypnobirthing a go.” (Ainsley, 2017)

“Being a first-time mum, I attended every birth class my obstetrician provided. Each time we left feeling traumatised, it was all ‘this will happen to you’ and ‘this will happen to you’.

I had always wanted a water birth, but I wanted to know HOW I could do it in a calm, empowered way.

Kathryn came to our home to teach us privately. Each time she left we felt more empowered and ready for birth.

When the day came everything went perfectly … the midwives said I was deep in the self-hypnosis and a birthing goddess! I felt extremely empowered and having this amazing birth has carried me into an amazing intuitive journey of motherhood.

The process was deeply satisfying and bonded us as a new little family. I honestly learnt so much from Kathryn. I’m eternally grateful to her for passing on her knowledge.” (Carmen, 2016)

Practice Name: Lavender Hypnobirth

Location of Services: Tweed Heads/ Banora Point (NSW)

My name is Amy and I am a mum to three beautiful children who fill my heart and home with laughter and love and keep me on my toes each and every day.

I am a Registered Midwife a Registered Nurse and a Hypnobirthing practitioner. I work with two midwives at Coastal Midwives and will be commencing employment at the Gold Coast University Hospital soon.

I have a passion for antenatal education and empowering women to achieve the birth that they desire and I believe that Hypnobirthing allows women to achieve this. I believe that all women have the right to a joyous, memorable and loving birth and I would love to assist you and your birth partner to gain knowledge and to learn strategies and skills that will help you to achieve an awesome birth experience.

Practice Name: Hannah Willsmore – Adelaide Hypnobirthing & Midwife Support

Location of Service: Magill (Adelaide)

I’m Hannah Willsmore, and I am an Adelaide-based midwife and award-winning childbirth educator. My clients are driven, ambitious women who are ready to take charge of their pregnancy, birth and postnatal journey so that they can give themselves and their baby the best start to life.

I have been a Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner for 5 years and have taught over 300 couples. I am also incredibly grateful to have received a Hypnobirthing Australia award for the past three years running. I love teaching this program and 100% believe in the ability of the Hypnobirthing Australia course to revolutionise your birth.

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 run monthly group as well as private Hypnobirthing Australia™ classes, provide private midwifery services to support women throughout their preconception, pregnancy and postnatal journey, and also work as a midwife at one of Adelaide’s biggest maternity hospitals.

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: The Rural Midwife

Location of Services: North Burnett Region (QLD)

Hi, I’m Steph from The Rural Midwife. I provide private practice midwifery services to families in the North Burnett and am passionate about improving outcomes for families however they might like to birth. I love educating and look forward to meeting you on your journey to positive birth! I love teaching the Hypnobirthing Australia course and believe it is the best investment you can make toward your pregnancy, birth and postpartum period. I look forward to talking with you!

Practice Name: Ready Mum

Location of Services: Geelong, Surf Coast (VIC)

Hello, my name is Agnele (pronounced as Aniele). Professionally I’m a midwife and childbirth educator and privately I’m a mother of 2 beautiful children. I help my clients to prepare for labour and birth through the skills acquired over the years. This includes mindfulness with Hypnobirthing, movement with Spinning Babies, Breastfeeding and Acuneedling with Acupuncture.

My goal is to provide clients an opportunity to learn more about the role of the body and mind connection to support an easier and more comfortable pregnancy, labour and birth.

Nature intended for women to give birth with confidence, yet for many pregnant women I’ve met, the perception of physical pain provokes fear and apprehension of the birthing process. Furthermore, most women and their partners form an idea of labour and birth from ‘others’. I aim at demystifying this idea with independent unbiased education and approach to labour and birth.

The workshops I offer provide greater support for the pregnant women and their partners to learn some important and valuable mind and body techniques. Let’s get to a place where the pregnant woman and her partner embrace the birthing journey, not fear it.

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: Nurture Birthing

Location of Service: Bendigo (VIC)

I became a midwife to help support women during birth. I have spent a majority of my time as a midwife working in the private sector and I have cared for many women who have walked into the birthing suite with no real thought on how labour will be. They are simply willing to hand their care over to their caregivers and allow many of the decisions to be made for them.

Nurture Birthing was born out of a need for something different in the birthing services field, especially in the private sector. I aim to educate women and their partners to empower them during their pregnancy and birthing journey. Following the philosophy of hypnobirthing I wish to provide women with the tools to overcome the fear and anxiety of birth for a positive birthing experience.

Practice Name: Change Therapy Hypnosis & Counselling

Location of Service: Point Cook (Victoria)

I am a Clinical Hypnotherapist and Counsellor who is passionate about empowering women to birth with confidence.

We live in a time where our society seems to promote fear around birth and it is such a shame because it doesn’t have to be that way.

I have been fortunate to have 3 beautiful natural births and recognised so many things in this wonderful program that can help couples experience the birth of their children calmly and without fear.

It’s a pleasure to be a part of Hypnobirthing Australia and I look forward to sharing this wonderful program with you and your Birth Partner

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: Birthing Bella

Location of Service: Townsville (QLD)

As a registered nurse, midwife and maternal and child health practitioner, I care for families through providing safety, security and understanding through the complex and sometimes daunting experience that is childbirth and early parenthood.

On a personal level, I have often found myself struggling to come to terms with the highly medicalised, unintuitive and business-like path birth has taken in Australia. Through the media and health professionals instilling the subliminal message that birth is a high-risk event to be managed and feared, we have lost the ability to trust the incredibly clever process that is natural birth.

As a certified Hypnobirthing Australia practitioner, I offer women and their partners the opportunity to explore birth as a natural life experience. Equipped with a balance of information around natural techniques, normal birth physiology and the art of deep relaxation, parents and their babies can look forward to a safe, positive and gentle birth experience.

Practice Name: Breathe and birth

Hi, my name is Lisa, a passionate midwife of 4 years and paediatric nurse of 14 years.

I believe that it is the right of every woman to have a positive, empowering, beautiful and calm birth. I commonly see women come into hospital to have their baby with minimal knowledge of what to expect in labour and are happy to hand over all decisions to care givers.

The education and tools given in the hypnobirthing class, allows you and your birth partners to approach labour and birth in a positive way, with confidence to trust that your body is made to birth your baby and feel empowered that you can do it. With the aim to birth your baby calmly in whichever direction your labour journey takes you.

I myself have 3 beautiful children. Having had a normal birth, an emergency caesarean and a VBAC (Vaginal birth after caesarean), I know too well how important and how much of an amazing, long lasting effect, a positive and calm birth experience has on later life.

It would be such a privilege to teach you in this class. I want to inspire you, educate you and help you get your own positive birth.

Practice Name: Nature’s Studio

Location of Service: Cohuna, Kerang, Echuca, Tatura and Shepparton areas.

Tracey has used hypnobirthing techniques herself twice and has had two positive birth experiences. This is where she gets her passion to help other mothers and birth partners to have a positive calm birth experience as well.

Tracey has been working in the health field for over 12 years, 9 of which as a Health Coach focusing on behavior change and using the power of the mind. As well as training other health professionals to become Health Coaches.

Tracey has many years of experience helping people to reach their goals and fullest potential.
She is passionate about supporting mums-to-be and their partners during their pregnancy journey and preparing for a positive birth experience.

Hypnobirthing taught me techniques to use during my birth and I am very thankful to have learnt them, that’s why I want to pass these onto others.

Classes available in the Cohuna, Kerang, Echuca, Tatura and Shepparton areas.

Practice Name: TranceAnd Hypnotherapy & Complementary Therapist

Location of Service: Lennox Heads, Northern Rivers, NSW

Joyce Bucholtz (Clin. Hyp. CHt. NLP Pract. HPCE)

My name is Joyce, mother of two beautiful, healthy children and I live/work in Lennox Head, Northern Rivers, NSW. I have worked in many professional areas before discovering the immense passion I feel in helping others with unfolding the incredible power of their own subconscious mind. At 38 years of age, I was drawn to what I would now refer to as my “Life’s calling or Life’s purpose”.

I had been practicing Clinical Hypnotherapy for approximately 2 years before I realised that I could do more. I was deeply touched after watching a video of a ‘hypno- mum’ and I knew then that I could make a real difference in the lives of parents-to-be (and their unforgettable experience of childbirth), helping parents to achieve a beautiful, positive and memorable birth experience. I have found hypnobirthing to be an incredible tool to have in my box of expertise, helping mothers and their partners to walk through their journey of childbirth and beyond, feeling more empowered, confident and at ease. I look forward to walking this journey with you.

Practice Name: Ignite Your Glow

Location of classes: Mackay (QLD)

I was one of those pregnant first time mums hearing all the horror stories and became so fearful of birth I focussed on everything else but the arrival. Put it to the back of my mind and kept saying I would get an epidural. The further I got into into pregnancy I started to come to the realisation that an epidural was just not going to be for me or my baby. I preferred more natural non toxic ways of living, so this really wasn’t a selection of my lifestyle. I took a leap and started researching options, and it was my mother who was living in the UK that had heard about Hypnobirthing. Once I contacted Hypnobirthing Australia I felt like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders and after finishing the course with my partner, we both looked forward to our birth with some clear knowledge and a new found excitement.

I have now Hypnobirthed two children; they were completely different labor but both empowering experiences. I found I had a newfound appreciation for my body, but I also understood the power of my mind, which was mind-blowing.

After this I realised and also witnessed mums around me having either some stressful births, or missing out on the relaxation and empowering experience. It has become my mission since to give that support and knowledge to other mums, so that they can have their own unique and beautiful births.

Find out more:

Website: https://igniteyourglow.com.au

Instagram: @ignite_your_glow

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/igniteyourglow

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: Mother Birth Mountains (T/A Casey Russell)

Servicing: Blue Mountains & the Central West – Lithgow (NSW)

After working individually with women as a certified Birth Doula and Self Hypnosis Doula, bearing witness to the difference that self-hypnosis was making for individual clients, Casey believed that everybody should have access to the Birth Education and skills taught through hypnobirthing and so became a Hypnobirthing Australia™ Practitioner to provide services that enabled her to reach more women.

As well as supporting women through their pregnancy and birth as a certified Birth Doula, Casey is also a certified Placenta Encapsulation Specialist providing women with services to aid in their postnatal healing.

Casey was well known throughout the Macarthur Area on the outskirts of Sydney and has now made the move to providing services to the women of the Blue Mountains and the Central West being based near Lithgow NSW.

Practice Name: Defining Moves T/A DonnaMMartin

Location of Service: Whitsundays including Cannonvale, Bowen, Hamilton Island & Mackay (QLD)

Donna is a Registered Midwife, certified Master Practitioner & Trainer of NLP & Hypnotherapy, Life & Parenting Coach. She is also a Certified Practitioner Hypnobirthing & Childbirth Educator, & an Accredited Consultant & Trainer in Human Behaviour, who believes that becoming a parent, is one of life’s most treasured gifts.

A Hypnobirthing course with Donna prepares you for embracing your experience from a mind-body connection perspective. You will release any fears you hold, understand the power of your body, & be given powerful tools that positively influence your birth, as well as strengthening your relationship & connection to your partner.

This allows for smoother transition to parenthood & a happier, calmer baby. The techniques Donna teaches will be used in everyday life to help you feel & be the confident, calm, loving, supportive & engaged parent you want to be.

Her philosophy is that EVERY birth can be a POSITIVE experience, & that the Hypnobirthing Australia techniques will give you that.

Donna’s passion is working with mothers & their birth partners to ensure you are educated & confident, clear on choices & roles, & fully equipped so you get to experience a positive & calm birth regardless of the situation & circumstances. Let your story be positive & joyous.

Donna looks forward to working with you to make this journey truly magical.

Practice Name: Geelong Born

Location of Service: Belmont (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: Eastside Midwives

Practitioner Name: Helen Barrington (Independent Midwife) BMid, IBCLC, GradCertPharm, GradDipCounsPsych

Servicing: Ferntree Gully, Melbourne (VIC)

Hi there! I’ve been working with birthing women for over 15 years. I’ve been a midwife for nearly 13 years and what a wonderful journey that’s been. It’s such a privilege to work with families in my community. I’m a mother of 3 and all of my births have been with midwives and have been wonderful, life changing experiences. The midwives who cared for me provided such helpful, patient encouragement, I’m indebted to them for life. Having said that, my aim for families that I work with is to be able to say “We did this together, as a couple !” and to be able to feel like they are stronger as a couple and more empowered together. I’d like couples to feel like they had all the tools themselves, and that it doesn’t necessarily matter where they birthed or how they birthed but they feel empowered and positive about their birthing experience. Able to go into parenting as a couple who are stronger and ready for whatever parenting has in store for them. This is what Hypnobirthing can do for you !!

Practice Name: Eastside Midwives

Practitioner Name: Amy Gillies (Independent Midwife & Counsellor) BN, GradDipMid, GradCertPharm, GradDip Psychology

Servicing: Boronia (VIC)

I have been a midwife for 15yrs – I am also a nurse, a lactation consultant and have a post graduate degree in psychology. I have worked in various settings as a midwife including, most recently, in independent practice. I co-own Eastside Midwives with Helen Barrington, a hub of activity for pregnant families and new parents.

I am a mother to two boys (18yrs and 7yrs) and learnt as much from their births as I did from my experience as a midwife. Using hypnosis during my second birth made it an amazingly empowering day and inspired me to become a Hypnobirth Australia Practitioner.

A Hypnobirth Australia course in our beautiful rooms in Boronia will provide you with the knowledge, tools and confidence to make your birth everything you dreamed it could be.

Practice Name: Hypnobirthing Sunshine Coast

Practitioner Name: Kylie Gillespie (Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner, previous career in Physiotherapy) HPCE

Location of Service: Forest Glen and surrounding areas (Sunshine Coast)

Kylie previously worked in physiotherapy with special interest in birth and women’s health, before becoming interested in hypnotherapy and hypnobirthing. Years of physio clinical experience highlighted the important mind-body role in healing and wellness for Kylie. Her own four positive births were testimony to the power of that mind-body connection in birthing.

Every woman hopes for a gentle, natural positive birth and Kylie believes that a positive birth experience creates satisfaction, well-being and empowerment that reach well beyond the birthing suite. She provides education and support to assist women to experience the joy and empowerment of a positive birth, no matter what circumstances arise.

Group classes and private sessions are conducted in the Sunshine Coast and hinterland area at a number of locations including Forest Glen and Caloundra. Kylie has extensive qualifications and experience, and is committed to providing the best possible education and support to all her clients on their most important journey.

Practice Name: South East Hypnobirthing

Practitioner Name: Jemma Vyas – Bachelor of Science in Midwifery Practice (BSc Hons) & Hypnobirthing Practitioner Childbirth Educator (HPCE)

Servicing: Narre Warren and surrounding areas (VIC)

I am a passionate midwife who has been in clinical practice for 10 years. I trained and practised in the UK, and moved to Australia 9 years ago to advance my midwifery career. I have worked in the public and private sector here in Australia, working across all clinical areas of the midwifery spectrum, and have been involved with home births and water births back in the UK.

I believe I have found my calling in becoming a Hypnobirthing Australia™ practitioner. Pregnancy, birth and beyond is a magical journey. I wish to share the positivity and empowering impact that childbirth can have on you and your birthing partner. I believe that knowledge is power and that through the tools learnt in the hypnobirthing program, you will be well informed, empowered and be comfortable in birthing your baby gently into this world.

Back in June 2017, I had my own hypnobirth when birthing my daughter. With the knowledge behind me and the tools in hand, my husband and I shared a quick and very positive birth experience. I loved every minute!

I offer the full group course, individual private course, half group/half private course and the refresher course in the comfort of my home. I also offer the hypnobubs® private 90-minute upgrade via Skype or face to face.

I look forward to meeting you and being part of your positive childbirth experience.

Jemma Vyas

Practice Name: Empowered Pregnancy and Birth Hypnobirthing

Practitioner Name: Kelly Austin (Registered Nurse – RN, Registered Midwife – RM, Hypnobirthing Practitioner Childbirth Educator – HPCE)

Servicing : Scarborough (WA) 

Practice Name: Bright Mums

Location of Service: Fremantle (WA)

I fell in love with the Hypnobirthing Australia™ program when I used it for the birth of my second baby – the first of two positive, empowering VBACs (vaginal birth after caesarean). I found that the knowledge, tools and techniques I gained from the program completely changed the way I looked at birth.

My first birth was an experience that left me feeling completely powerless and like I had no say in my birthing journey. Thanks to hypnobirthing, my next two births were the complete opposite. It was this transformation that has led me here, and my goal is to now help you approach your birth with the same knowledge and confidence, knowing that you are making the best decisions for yourself and your baby.

As a birth and postpartum doula I have seen the difference your birthing experience can make and how it can affect your parenting journey. You (and your baby) deserve an incredible experience – one you will remember for the rest of your life, for all the right reasons.

My Hypnobirthing Australia classes will give you everything you need to have a positive birth experience – regardless of the circumstances of your birth.

If you want to know more about how I can support you to feel confident and empowered to give birth on your own terms, head to my website or come and say hi on Instagram

Practice Name: Buddha Babies – Enlightened Births

Location of classes: Avalon Beach (NSW)

My name is Stacey and I’m a multi-tasking mum, Childbirth Educator & Pregnancy Yoga teacher.

I’ve always been fascinated by the mind-body connection, but it wasn’t until the Hypnobirth of my own son that I realised just how much influence we can actually have on our experience of birth.

I truly believe that childbirth can be one of the most positive, empowering and inspiring moments of our lives. It just takes the right education, a practitioner you can trust and a bit of practice – all of which I aim to provide in my classes.

I love helping women discover just how incredible their body really is, and watching their fears disappear as their confidence grows.

Our classes are fun, supportive and extremely practical. Most couples leave feeling excited and pumped for the challenge ahead.

From my own experience, I know that Hypnobirthing works. Let me show you how. 🙂

Practice Name: Mesmerised Mamas

Location of Service: Ballan (Victoria)

Hi All. My name is Margaret Sommeling.

I am a mother of four, a grandmother to one, I have an amazing husband who has been a fantastic support to me, and who made sacrifices to stay home to raise our children.

I am a practicing midwife; I have been working in a Midwifery Group Practice model since 2011 providing continuity of care to many women.

I had been intuitively working with visualisation and meditation techniques with labouring women within my own practice, therefore I sought out the Hypnobirthing Australia program to help build on my working foundations in turn using this proven program to educate women and their partners, who are committed to birthing together, who wish to take control and who seek the emancipation to birth without fear. I promote a holistic approach to birth. I support the belief that labour and birth can be positive and strive to ensure you achieve a positive, satisfying and supported birth, whatever the outcome!!

Practice Name: Focus Osteopathy

Location of Service: Mount Waverley (VIC)

Lorrae is an experienced osteopath, certified hypnobirthing practitioner and co-founder of Focus Osteopathy. Lorrae is passionate about healthcare. She believes health care is a team effort between practitioner and client, striving to enable people to take the driver’s seat in their own health, inclusive of pregnancy.

As an osteopath, she has a keen interest and years of experience treating and supporting women through their pregnancy journey from pre-conception to post-natal care. She believes a woman’s body throughout pregnancy is incredible. It’s capability to grow, protect and nurture a baby is inspiring. Even more, so is the intuitive nature of a women’s body through childbirth.

Lorrae hopes for all women to feel empowered throughout their pregnancy journey, inclusive of childbirth. It’s this passion that lead Lorrae to become a certified hypnobirthing practitioner. Lorrae used hypnobirthing techniques for the birth of both her children and with such a positive experience, believed hypnobirthing is the perfect accompaniment to her osteopathic skills to assist her pregnant clients achieve a positive pregnancy and birth. Lorrae wants to see all women make educated decisions about childbirth and bring their babies into the world feeling relaxed, confident, strong and inspired.

Practice Name: Camilla Duncan

Location of Service: Mullumbimby

Camilla qualified as a Registered Midwife in 2015 and has worked all over Australia since then.

After working within the public and private maternity systems, she discovered a lack of education provided to women and their families during their pregnancy – which often negatively affected their birthing experience.

Camilla found Hypnobirthing Australia™ and qualified as a Hypnobirthing Practitioner Childbirth Educator in 2017. She has experienced the powerful effect a good education has on a woman’s birth experience and cannot recommend the course enough.

On a mission to educate & empower as many mothers and their families as she can. Changing one birth at a time.

Practice Name: The Birth Space

Location of Service: Perth (WA) Cockburn

Renee is a Mum of two young children, Hypnobirthing Practitioner and has an interest in the antenatal and postnatal wellbeing of new Mums.

When Renee was planning a vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC) for her second pregnancy, she became passionate about positive Childbirth Education and is a firm believer that knowledge is power. Using our Hypnobirthing techniques, you will feel empowered, educated and confident for your birth. Renee can work with you to release any fears you have and prepare for a calm birthing experience, no matter which direction it may take.

Renee run’s her group and private classes anywhere in Perth, visit her website or Facebook page to enquire now.

Practice Name: Your Best Birth

Location of Service: Frankston, VIC

Hello, I’m Megan. I am a qualified Hypnobirthing Australia practitioner, a midwife and a mother of one. I have recently completed my hypnobirthing training and have been a qualified midwife for 3 years. Congratulations on your pregnancy! As a midwife, I have looked after women and their partners through the antenatal, birthing and postnatal period. I understand that this can be an overwhelming experience and so I am extremely passionate about antenatal education and birth preparation as I believe the birth of your baby is the most important, and best day of your life.

Hypnobirthing classes will prepare you to understand labour and birth as a normal physiological event and will equip you with practical, evidence based tools and techniques to approach your birth with confidence and positivity.

This is the biggest and best moment of your life, and I can’t wait to help you achieve the positive, gentle and empowered birth experience you want.

Practice Name: Connected Hypnobirthing

Location of Service: Port Adelaide (SA)

I’m Nikki Jones, a Registered Midwife, Hypnobirthing Australia Certified Practitioner, Birth Story Listener.

I am passionate about empowering women and their birth partners, educating and sharing knowledge, to support women so they know they have choice and feel safe, secure and supported when giving birth. I love sharing up-to-date, evidence-based education and information that helps couples to make informed decisions so they can achieve a positive, calm, safe and beautiful birth experience no matter what turns the birthing journey may take.

A midwife for 10 years; having had worked in Midwifery Group Practice providing women centred continuity of care before having my first baby. Returning to work, teaching childbirth education in a public hospital before having my second baby – my own Hypnobub.

Being a hypnobirthing mum myself, knowing the tools & techniques, that they work, helping me have a positive, empowering and enjoyable birth. I want to share those techniques and connect with each couple that I teach, my goal is for you to leave feeling confident, relaxed, supported with a positive mindset, abundance of knowledge and tools to achieve your own unique positive and empowering pregnancy, birth and start to parenting.

I offer regular group classes in Port Adelaide, SA. I also offer private in-home classes and postnatal education classes, if you’re keen to know more please contact me.

Practice Name: Positively Hypnobirthing

Location of Service: Gold Coast (QLD)

Kate is a warm, compassionate person who is truly dedicated to empowering birth couples and supporting them so they may have the positive birth that they deserve. Kate is passionate about teaching the Hypnobirthing Australia™ course, because she believes this course gives you the knowledge, tools, support and preparation to achieve this goal.

Kate originally used hypnobirthing to birth her daughter in 2011 and knew then, this was a course all birthing couples should experience. However, it wasn’t until 2 years later, when Kate experienced an accidental unassisted breech homebirth that she realised to what extent the Hypnobirthing Australia™ course helps birthing couples. Kate comments on how amazing the birth of her son was and she credits hypnobirthing techniques and tools to how well the birth went and how well she and her husband were able to cope with the pressure of these special circumstances in the lead up to the birth. It was this turn of events that persuaded Kate to become a Hypnobirthing Australia™ Practitioner, so she could educate and support other couples so they too could be informed and understand their rights as birthing parents to have a wonderful birth experience with no regrets. Click here to view Kate’s birth story.

Along with being a Certified Hypnobirthing Australia™ practitioner, Kate is also a Childbirth Educator (HPCE), trained in the basics of Hypnotherapy, professionally voice trained and… of course, a 2 times hypnobirthing mum : )

Kate offers the Hypnobirthing Australia™ course to couples on the Gold Coast in a group setting or private one-on-one setting in the comfort of your own home, if you choose. She also offers support as a skype practitioner for our Hypnobubs® online courses. So if you would like to join Kate’s course please contact her on 0407 999 620 or visit https://positivelyhypnobirthing.com.au

Practice Name: Happy Birth Day 

Location of Service: Torrensville (SA)

I am a registered nurse working in Paediatrics and Women’s Health. When I kept hearing about ‘Hypnobirthing’ from my friends and family members that had been using it for their births, I had to know more! I did my research and was blown away with how Hypnobirthing was positively influencing birthing experiences all over the world.

I came across the Hypnobirthing Australia™ course and I was absolutely ecstatic! It was exactly what I had been missing within my education- a little something special to be able to incorporate into my future midwifery practice. It offered such a fresh perspective on birth how I could assist expectant mothers by offering techniques and knowledge that allowed them to make informed and most importantly, empowered decisions.

I am so thrilled that I am apart of such a wonderful group of people striving to educate and inspire pregnant women and their partners. My Hypnobirthing and Childbirth Education business ‘Happy Birth Day’ is a project that is very close to my heart and one that I plan to continually expand over the next few years, incorporating different aspects to offer antenatal, birth and postnatal holistic care.  

I look forward to meeting inspirational women from all walks of life and sharing their birth experience.

Practice Name: Peaceful Birthing

Location of Service: Noosaville, Sunshine Coast (QLD)

Hello, I’m Simone Hackett. I am a qualified Hypnobirthing Australia™ practitioner and a mother of two who used these techniques to peacefully birth my daughters. Click here to read the amazing peaceful birth story of my own second daughter.

I am incredibly passionate about empowering women to have a positive birthing journey, as I know first hand how it can impact your mothering journey and overall health and happiness.

As both a keen meditator and a Science graduate from The University of Melbourne, I’m delighted to say I’ve found a blend of intuitive wisdom and logic present in Hypnobirthing Australia’s course. It just makes sense on so many levels.

Birthing a child is arguably one of the biggest moments in a mother’s life. I strongly encourage every woman to take the time to consider what a positive birth might look like for you. If you don’t know your options, you may not have any – one day you may wish you’d educated yourself to allow for a different outcome.

Simply click here to view my upcoming course dates and to book a class or phone me on 0407 139 886 to discuss your alternative course options.

Simone

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Practice Name: Bump 2 Babe

Location of Service: Malvern (VIC)

Hi! My name is Dahlia Lipson. I am a practicing Registered Nurse/Midwife with 7+ years’ experience and have loved everything about my job including meeting new people and making a positive difference in their lives.

I have always had a particular love for women’s health and childbirth but I must have always had a calling towards education. Classmates used to tell me “you’d make a great teacher Dahlia”. Well, they were right! Here I am now, a passionate Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner!

As a midwife and mother of two and having experienced such wonderful labours and births, I know the importance of feeling positive about pregnancy, labour and birth whether completely natural or not. Drawing on years of techniques and philosophies, current evidence-based research and effective relaxation techniques, mothers, partners and their babies can all benefit from the hypnobirthing approach to childbirth.

It is my mission and absolute privilege to help equip women and their birth partners with the knowledge, tools and support to feel prepared for a calm, empowered, safe and positive birth experience no matter what turn their journey may take.

Head to my website to book a class and I look forward to meeting you!

Dahlia Lipson

BNurs, PGDipMid, HPCE

Practice Name: Cloud Nine Hypnosis & Hypnobirthing

Location of Service: Gladstone, Rockhampton

I am the textbook example of how the Hypnobirthing Australia™ course can transform birth. Having experienced a traumatic emergency Caesarean with my first child, my partner and I found the Hypnobirthing Australia toolkit to be life-changing for the birth of our second child. In fact, I was so inspired by my healing, hypno-birth I became a trained hypnotist and certified Hypnobirthing Australia practitioner.

It is my mission to share this incredible program with my community and beyond. How we birth matters. The birth of a child is also the birth of parents, and this momentous event should be one of peace and joy. The education, tips, tools and techniques taught in this program allow families to remove uncertainty, fear and worry and install confidence, joy and excitement.  These skills are applicable for pregnancy, birth and beyond- investing in this course is making an investment in life-long tools.

I am proof the Hypnobirthing Australia program works and I would love to share this amazing, practical course with you and your birth partner.

Practice Name: Hypnobirth Tribe

Location of Service: Hampton (VIC)

My name is Julie and I am blessed to say I am a wife and hypnobirthing mother.  I was reborn the day my first son was born.  I have become more aware of who I am and what legacy I want to leave behind.  And so begins the story of me.  Once a corporate racegoer qualified in business and technology and now a passionate and full-time advocate for birth with one goal – to share positive birth and help parents realise their birth potential.

I believe it takes one generation to make the world a better place and so I dedicate my time to help facilitate empowered and calm birth, remind mothers that they are made to birth, encourage birth support and connection and help parents appreciate that if their minds and bodies are prepared, fear and tension has no home.

If this is the experience you are after and you are unsure of how to navigate the birthing world, please reach out.  I have been there before and can assure you that you have already made a huge leap in positive birthing by just visiting.  So, thank you for being part of the change!

Practice Name: Birthing Essentials

Location of Service: Mandurah (WA)

Hello, my name is Rebecca and I am a Registered Nurse, having been nursing for 13 years and mum to 3. I am also completely obsessed with all things pregnancy and birth!

I first became aware of the Hypnobirthing Australia programme several years ago. After learning more about the programme & reflecting on my own 3 births, I quickly realised that this was THE piece of the puzzle that is missing for all expectant mothers. This programme provides you with the tools necessary to enable you to confidently, calmly and positively navigate any situation that may arise in your pregnancy and birth.

I am extremely passionate about birthing being a positive, uplifting experience. Over many years of nursing, I have been privileged to meet so many families postnatally & have seen the impact both positive and negative birthing experiences can have. I want positive birthing stories to be the norm.

You only get one opportunity to birth your baby, my wish is for women to look forward to birth with excitement, knowledge and confidence and for each & every woman to have their BEST birth.

I draw on my knowledge of the health care system and my many years of clinical experience to offer women choice in accessing an independent, evidence-based and a truly comprehensive antenatal programme.

I am based in the Mandurah/Peel area in WA & offer both small group and individual classes. I invite you to contact me and I look forward to working with you to help you achieve a calm, positive birth.

Practice Name: Soul Women Tribe

Location of Service: Nambour (QLD)

Nikita is a loving mother of two beautiful boys. After using hypnobirthing for her second birth and being so amazed fell in love and decided that this was a path she wanted to go down to help empower other mothers to have a calm empowered birth.

Nikita is also a hypnotherapist and empowering coach and practices kinesiology. Her passion is empowering  “Women”.

After training with Hypnobirthing  Australia™ she knew it was her passion working with mums and their family’s to guide support and empower then before birth during and after.

Practice Name: Anne Carstairs – Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner

Location of Service: Mollymook (NSW)

My name is Anne and I am a practising Midwife in a small hospital and as midwife support during homebirths.

I teach the Hypnobirthing Australia™ Course in small groups from my peaceful lounge room, overlooking the gumtrees and abundance of wildlife.

My passion is creating positive lasting change for birthing women and their families on a deep subconscious level. Where birth is viewed as sacred and all mothers see themselves as powerful shape shifting, life giving and life nurturing beings.

I teach forgotten primal birthing wisdom with a modern twist; by sharing with woman how she is PERFECTLY designed for birth. And supporting women to release fear-based associations of childbirth; transforming it into remembered knowledge and awakened power from within.

I have witnessed just how transformative and powerful the Hypnobirthing Australia™ Course is with my own eyes. I want to continue to share this wisdom, so women and their birth-partners have effective tools and knowledge to feel prepared and excited to surrender to the magic of childbirth from within.

As a midwife that has supported many women during pregnancy, labour, birth and postpartum; my drive is for mothers to confidently believe in themselves and trust their incredible bodies with self-determination and self-amazement that will last lifetime’s.

I feel honoured to share such a beautiful gift of wisdom with mothers and their partners on the south coast

Practice Name: Karmaura

Location of Service: Cairns, Weipa and Yungaburra (QLD)

Hypnobirthing I believe has the power to transform Maiden into Mother in the most empowering way.

Harnessing ancient wisdom with modern science is something that has always gripped me and I feel compelled to spread and share true wisdom when I hear it. Through my yoga teachings I have done just this, a couple of years after returning from India from my initial yoga training, I ventured to Byron Bay during my first pregnancy to become a fully certified Pre/ Postnatal Yoga Teacher (RPYT).

I found working with women at this beautiful stage in their lives was a desire unearthed within me and I was compelled to grow and share more after my first beautiful birth.

Now having just completed my Hypnobirthing certification with my second pregnancy I cannot wait to teach and share this amazing course from a place of true authenticity.

I run courses in my isolated community Weipa, Cape York and host courses where I grew up on the Atherton Tablelands FNQ.

I believe spreading this fantastic knowledge, to create the calmest energy during this sacred time of transition for all, has the power to transform future generations.

Namaste Alana

Practice Name: Sacred Space Hypnobirthing and Hypnotherapy

Location of Service: Birkdale (QLD)

I would like to embark on this journey with you.

To provide a safe space to replace any fears of birth with confidence, not just for you, but for your birth partner too.

Help you to achieve your hopes and dreams for your birth, regardless of what course your labour may take.

Offering ongoing support after the course and if you have any residual fears, which I doubt you will, I will gladly come to your home and do a one on one fear release with you and/or your birthing partner.

After having two hypno bubs myself and a background in hypnotherapy, I have been constantly drawn back to hypnobirthing over the last five years. It is something I am deeply passionate about and I am so excited to be part of this birthing evolution. Women need to hear amazing birth stories when pregnant, not the war stories that so many women seem to have.

We need to spread the word that birth is a beautiful and powerful experience, which can be embraced wholeheartedly.

You will become an advocate for Hypnobirthing for years to come. You will be able to pass on the skills you have learnt to friends and family, and even one day, to your own children.

Offering small group classes and private classes in your own home if preferred. Contact me today to discuss payment plans and course options.

Practice Name: Your Body Births

Location of Classes: Westmead (NSW)

“The birth of your child should be a beautiful, empowering experience. I believe that all people have the right to knowledge about all avenues and options to enable them to make the decisions that are right for them and their babies.” – Claire’s vision.

Claire is a maternity nurse, caring for new parents and their babies in the first few days after birth, and a Hypnobirthing Australia™ Practitioner/Childbirth Educator. She is also a mum of one. After completing the Hypnobirthing Australia™ course with her husband, they went on to have an amazing birth of their first child.

Claire often gets asked the story of the birth and is passionate about sharing what hypnobirthing helped her and her husband achieve – a beautiful, serene, empowered birth. Claire believes in walking alongside you on your journey, sharing knowledge and tools, with the desire that you achieve the positive and empowering birth we all deserve.

The day you meet your baby should be beautiful. Claire would love to help you have a birth to remember.

Practice Name: MamaBe

Location of Service: Wagga Wagga (NSW)

I believe every woman has an untapped reservoir of inner strength and calm within her that deserves to be discovered. I believe that the magic of positive birth lies in the discovery of her own personal courage and power. When a woman steps into this power it informs every aspect of her life from this point on.

I take women from fear to empowerment, from stressed to confident, from anxious to excited. I help women discover their own inner strength and wisdom through the Hypnobirthing Australia program and my experience as a prenatal yoga teacher.

As a hypnobirthing mama myself I know first-hand the advantages of these techniques. I am driven to share the best of evidenced-based knowledge and ancient wisdom to prepare women and their partners for their best birth. I am passionate about the lasting impact that an empowered birth experience can have on women and their families.

My hope is that all women are changed positively by their experience of pregnancy and birth, entering into motherhood with a sense of awe, wonder and pride. Carrying with them a quiet confidence, trusting in their own intuition and inner strength.

Practice Name: Fertility Tasmania

Practitioner Name: Dr Erin Kelly – BA (Hons) PhD (Clinical Psychology) & HPCE (Hypnobirthing Practitioner Chilbirth Educator)

Location of Service: Hobart CBD (TAS)

Practice Name: The Birth Collective

Practitioner Name: Tina Pullen – Certified Practising Speech Pathologist, B. App. Sc. (Speech Pathology), Hypnobirthing Practitioner Certified Educator (HPCE)

Location of Service: Western Sydney, Wetherill Park (NSW)

Tina Pullen is a Certified Hypnobirthing Australia™ Practitioner based in Western Sydney.

Tina’s love of childbirth began following the beautiful birth of her own little Hypnobub. After a difficult first birth, she completed the Hypnobirthing Australia™ classes during her second pregnancy. Tina and her husband were blown away by how easy and calm the birth was and give full credit to the course for helping them achieve this.

Tina understands how amazing and life-changing the birth experience can be once a couple has access to the right support and education. She strongly believes that ALL women deserve to feel empowered, confident and safe during birth. She is passionate about providing expectant mothers and their birth partners with the knowledge and tools to have a positive and enjoyable birth!

Tina is also a Certified Practising Speech Pathologist. She has a strong background in health sciences and understands the importance of evidence-based practice. This is why she loves the Hypnobirthing Australia™ course. She is able to share current research with parents, allowing them to make their own informed choices.

If you would like to book a course with Tina, visit http://www.thebirthcollective.com.au or call her on 0421 999 405.

Practice Name: Deep Blue Birth

Location of Service: Lucas (VIC)

My name is Annie Tayleur and I am a Mum, Wife, Doula, Writer, Teacher, Women’s Worker and Perpetual Learner.

In my life I have been a storyteller, a self-professed birth addict, an experienced Early Childhood and Primary teacher and a woman who has built her whole world around the pursuit of Motherhood in all its beauty, chaos and imperfection.

I’m here to bring my honesty, open heart and humour to the work that I do and the art that I create.

I have learnt a lot about power, consent, love and joy through my work with women, children and families. I firmly believe in setting my own values and judgments aside for the benefit of those I am working with.

Practice Name: Lillian Beth

Location of Service: Brisbane, Newstead (QLD)

Lillian is a determined young woman and registered midwife with a love of supporting women and their families throughout their pregnancy, birth and into the journey of parenthood.

Lilly is deeply passionate about creating space for women to feel into their own power, abilities and intuition. She weaves her midwifery knowledge with her skills as a pilates instructor to infuse her education as a Hypnobirthing practitioner with a holistic and health-conscious mindset.

Lilly hopes to guide her clients with love and encourage our society to bring back the ritual of birth.

“My name is Kelly and I am a Naturopath with a strong focus in preconception, pregnancy and post-partum care. My passion is helping to build healthy mums, babies and families.

I believe women deserve the right to feel empowered no matter what their birthing outcome. Giving birth is one of the most miraculous things we can experience, and it is a rite of passage for all mothers to be.

I attended this training to help spread this message. I have had two very different births, neither of which were “normal” in any way. My first labour and birth was traumatic both physically and mentally. My second birth was a beautiful water birth that left me a little stunned as our baby was born with a disability. I believe our hypnobirthing practices really helped my partner and I through this unexpected and challenging time. It helped us to release a lot of the fear of the unknown and what the future held for us and our baby girl.

Hypnobirthing Australia is about giving the power back to the birthing mother and embracing the significance that birth plays within our culture and a woman’s life. Giving birth it is empowerment, certainty, bonding and love. It gives you and your baby the best start to the next chapter of your lives together. No matter what start you may have.”

Practice Name: Illoura Birth

Location of Service: Melton (VIC)

Hi, I’m Vanessa; I am a registered Paediatric nurse and I teach undergraduate nursing students. I am also a first time mum to my very own hypnobub!

I remember feeling so excited about my baby’s arrival but I had these internal fears that kept popping up. Throughout my pregnancy, all I heard were horror stories of birth and was recommend to opt for an epidural or elective c-section to save me from what sounded like trauma I was about to endure!

I had a wonderful Obstetrician who recommended hypnobirthing to me and it was absolutely life changing for me and my husband! I went on to have a beautiful, calm and positive birthing experience that left me feeling on top of the world and so empowered.

I am very passionate about women’s health and preparing expectant mothers and their partners for birth. Every woman deserves to feel empowered to make informed decisions, remain positive before, during and after the birth of her baby.

I am so excited to be a Hypnobirthing Australia practitioner and be a part of the incredible hypnobirthing world. I cannot wait to teach you the tools, knowledge, preparation and support to bring your beautiful baby earthside.

Practice Name: Avocado Baby

Location of Service: Mount Martha (VIC)

Felicity is a mother of three. Having experienced different journeys with each of her previous births, she and her husband reflect upon these moments with a smile, feeling very fortunate for the way they arrived into the world. Discovering hypnobirthing with her first pregnancy, Felicity is a true believer of its ethos and approach in giving mums and birth partners the knowledge and confidence towards a positive and enriching experience.

Felicity is a qualified and registered yoga and pre/post natal instructor. She offers a pregnancy yoga course for mums-to-be to come together in a safe and warm environment, empowering women through the pregnancy journey. In the course, Felicity helps prepare women mentally and physically for the stages of pregnancy and birth, as well as restoring and nurturing body and mind. Pregnancy yoga in addition to hypnobirthing was Felicity’s outlet in each of her pregnancies, creating a special time for herself, her husband and their babies before they were born. Now it is her passion to help others in these precious moments.

Practice Name: In Birth & Beyond

Location of Service: Belmont (NSW)

Practice Name: Michelle Whitaker

Location of Service: Private and Group classes are available in the Perth Hills area and also at East Meets West Chinese Medicine in Tuart Hill

Michelle is a certified Hypnobirthing Australia childbirth educator and has over 15 years experience as an Acupuncturist and Chinese Medicine Practitioner, supporting women in pre-conception care, during pregnancy and post-natally. She also completed training with Australian Doulas in 2009.

As a mother of two, Michelle chose to learn the hypnobirthing techniques during her pregnancies and was able to utilise the amazing benefits during her births.

Her passion is supporting women to understand the physiological changes occurring in their bodies, and arming them with tools to feel confident and competent in their abilities to have a positive birthing experience, no matter what circumstances may arise.

Practice Name: Samantha Lancaster

Location of Service: Joondalup, Perth, WA

I am a Hypnobirthing mother of 2 young children, Hypnobirthing Practitioner and passionate advocate for positive birth. When I was pregnant with my first child I was labelled high risk and it seemed I was only being prepared for interventions. I realised that I needed to regain control and bring the joy back into my pregnancy!

Hypnobirthing gave me all the tools I needed to ensure a calm, positive birth – knowledge, breath, partner support and belief. My passion for Hypnobirthing grew during my second pregnancy, and amazing birth, and I knew then that I had to share Hypnobirthing with as many couples as possible. As a Hypnobirthing Practitioner, I am driven to make sure mothers understand their choices and feel empowered to make those choices. I also want birthing partners to feel confident and calm in the birthing process so that they can be a strong advocate and support for the mother. I run regular classes out of Wellness on Whatley in Maylands, and can do Private or Group classes by request in the Joondalup area.

Practice Name: Mindful Birthing Sydney

Location of Service: St Peters (NSW)

After a lifetime of being fed visions of Hollywood-style birth, and having many friends face traumatic experiences when they had their babies, Kate was apprehensive about birth to say the least. She started asking around, and on recommendation from a friend, completed the Hypnobirthing Australia course before the birth of her daughter in late 2017. It was a beautiful, unmedicated, natural birth (as was her preference) and the most incredible, empowering experience of her life. It had such a profound effect on her that she knew she had to train so that she could, in turn, help other mothers and couples have the positive, empowering birth that they too deserve to have.

With a background in Psychology and Performance, Kate’s interests and skills marry perfectly for delivering this up to date, evidence-based Australian course. She is incredibly excited to be helping parents and birth partners in Sydney achieve a calm, positive, informed birth experience.

Practice Name: Stephanie Davey Hypnobirthing

Location of Service: Brunswick (VIC)

Stephanie Davey is a Registered Nurse, Registered Midwife, and Maternal & Child Health Nurse with over 12 years of experience in the pregnancy, birth and parenting space. Stephanie is passionate about birth and the health and well-being of women and families, and has been privileged to support countless women during birth, throughout her career as a midwife.

Stephanie is down-to-earth and enjoys getting to know people along their birthing journeys.  Stephanie is passionate and committed to sharing her knowledge with women and their partners about what is actually happening during labour and birth. Stephanie assists women to gain skills and tools to use during their birth, and prepares women and their partners for a positive birth experience, that they can be truly proud of!

Stephanie is driven by the ‘ah-ha’ moments she sees in her clients when things start to make sense, and most importantly, the changes this can make to women’s birthing attitudes and their belief in themselves!  Every woman deserves a positive birth experience and Stephanie is a skilled practitioner to guide you there, the Hypnobirthing way!

Practice Name: The Centre Midwifery Services

Location of Service: Dubbo (NSW)

Hi, my name is Rachel. I am a Nurse, Midwife, and Childbirth Educator, who is passionate about empowering and supporting women during their pregnancy, birth, and beyond. I believe in birth and I believe in women, in their power, strength and abilities. I have the privilege to witness this every day.

I discovered the tool of Hypnobirthing in 2017 and have supported women who have used Hypnobirthing for a positive and empowering birth experience. The power of the mind and body connection during birth is strong. Understanding this and incorporating the tools learnt during Hypnobirthing classes aids for a calm and relaxed birth experience. Skills learnt can be used not only in birth, but in all areas of life that we may feel fear or apprehension towards.

My desire is for women to be well equipped with the knowledge and understanding of their birthing options, be involved in the decisions regarding their care and make informed choices based on current evidence. Creating positive and empowering birth experiences, so that we may have positive and empowering parents, partners, family and friends.

Practice Name: Trudy Vains Birth Doula 

Location of Service: Burpengary (QLD)

Trudy Vains from Burpengary is dedicated to pregnancy, birth and postpartum in many ways.  Her yoga studio is filled with all things pregnancy, and this is where she holds four classes for Pregnancy Yoga per week, (15 classes of other style classes per week) two Mums and Bubs classes per week, Hypnobirthing, Child Birth Education, Spinning Babies Parent Class as well as Doula information sessions.

Trudy attends four births per month as a Birth Doula and offers Hypnobirthing Australia™ classes in her packages, as well as offering in small group sessions.  Her toolkit for birth is full and can help you in many ways.   Trudy attends hospital births only that range in distance from South Brisbane to Sunshine Coast.

Birth is amazing in every way, no matter how it plays out, you are a birthing goddess and that’s really important for you to know and understand.  I look forward to hearing from you soon. Trudy

Practice Name: Birthing for You

Location of Service: Subiaco (WA)

I am a nurse midwife with a passion for education. I feel strongly that women should be knowledgable and prepared for birth. I have seen the fear and misinformation that exists around birth and want women to reconnect with the knowledge and understanding that birth is normal and have confidence that their body can birth their baby. I believe birth is transformative and want to prepare women to embrace their transformation to motherhood in the most positive way possible. I believe that no matter how women birth it can be empowering and positive. As a Hypnobirthing Australia™ Practitioner I want to assist women and their birth partners to achieve the positive birth they desire, whatever that may be.

Practice Name: Sarah Searle

Location of Service: Warrnambool and the South West area (VIC)

Sarah is a registered midwife and nurse who has a passion for pregnancy, birth and beyond.  She has been working as a midwife for 8 years now and through various hospitals realised there was a vast lack of additional education to help prepare women and their partners for birth.  She started researching some alternates to help guide women and discovered Hypnobirthing Australia.  She then witnessed a couple practising Hypnobirthing and was in awe and knew she had to take this further.

She and her husband decided to do a Hypnobirthing Australia course with their first pregnancy and were amazed at the positive and calm effects it had on their birth.  Sarah went on to have 2 hypnobirthing bubs, one very calm and serene natural birth and the 2nd a very precipitate natural birth outside the hospital front doors.  It was then she decided she needed to become a practitioner and share this amazing education with the world.

Sarah is available to Warrnambool and the South West area of Victoria.  She can be contacted on 0439 345 919 or at sarahsearlehbce@gmail.com

Sara is a wife, mama and professional birth photographer. After the arrival of her second child, she discovered the world of birth photography and decided a career change was calling her. During her time as a birth photographer she learnt of hypnobirthing and has witnessed on several occasions the positive benefits of hypnobirthing for the labouring mother and partner.

Sara is a big believer in the saying ‘knowledge is power’ and is committed to educating families to have a positive birth experience and help improve our birth culture.

Sara runs group classes in the northern suburbs of Perth and can facilitate private classes in the Perth metro area. Please visit her website for more information.

Practice Name: Prepared to Birth

Location of Service: Mona Vale (NSW)

Natalie came across Hypnobirthing Australia by chance after a work colleague told her she, ‘loved giving birth and couldn’t wait to do it again!’. It was the first time Natalie had ever heard birth described so positively and immediately signed up for the course.

In September 2018, Natalie had a life-changing calm and positive birth for her first baby, Freddy. She describes the birth as the proudest moment of her life. Immediately after his birth, she felt an undeniable urge to become a Hypnobirth Childbirth Educator so that she could share the incredible tools and techniques she had learned with as many parents as possible.

Natalie is passionate about preparing women and their birth partners with the tools and knowledge that will allow them to feel prepared and excited for their birth no matter what turn it takes. Natalie believes that a calm and positive birth can be transformational beyond just the birthing day – her hope is that these skills continue to be of use for both the mother and birthing partner throughout the parenting journey.

Natalie offers private and group classes from her home in Mona Vale on Sydney’s Northern Beaches. She is also available to travel for one-on-one sessions and is flexible to work around busy schedules.

Practice Name: Go Yoga

Location of Service: Brighton (SA)

Jackie has been working in the health and wellness industry since 1993 in her roles as a medical scientist, fitness instructor and Yoga teacher. For years she has creatively integrated Yoga’s ancient mind and body wisdom to help women lead a healthy, active and peaceful pregnancy in her antenatal yoga classes. She has literally shared in hundreds of birth stories, including her own to twin daughters.

However, she has also witnessed so much fear, ignorance and confusion surrounding childbirth and the decision-making and organisation of maternity care. Jackie was eager to add hypnobirthing to her qualifications so she can give mothers the essential tools, support and confidence they need to follow their instincts and make conscious choices throughout pregnancy and birth.

Due to her diverse background, Jackie’s classes stem from the unique perspective of integrating age-old holistic birthing knowledge with the advancing science of childbirth. Mothers gain deep understanding of birth physiology plus respect for the hidden powers of their bodies. Her classes provide mothers and partners with an antenatal education program that supports and empowers women to have a positive and sacred birth experience.

Jackie runs hypnobirthing classes in a lovingly-built studio behind her home in Brighton, South Australia.

Practice Name: Little Bird Flies

Location of Service: Surrey Hills, VIC

Melissa is a certified Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner and Childbirth Educator based in the South-Eastern suburbs of Melbourne.  She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing and Midwifery and is currently studying a Bachelor of Naturopathy and Health Sciences.  Having worked for a number of years as a midwife, caring for women throughout all stages of their pregnancy, birth and postnatal periods: She understands the importance of the mind-body connection and the nurturing of a woman’s innate strength to create an empowered and positive birth experience for both the woman and her partner.

Melissa has a passion for women’s health and believes that all women; whether they are first-time mums, LQBTIQ, pregnant with their second child or have just settled in Australia after seeking refuge have access to a space that is safe to learn and to flourish as strong powerful individuals ready to take on childbirth without fear.

Melissa is excited to have the opportunity to teach expectant mothers and their birth partners the incredible benefits of hypnobirthing, arming them with the tools and techniques required so that a calm and positive birth experience can be achieved.

Practice Name: Bear Your Birth

Location of Service: Perth, Booragoon

Kirryn wants to help women feel empowered and confident about their ability to give birth, no matter the path they choose to take.

Kirryn has personally used the Hypnobirthing Australia techniques to birth her daughter in January 2018 and it completely changed her mindset and the outcome of the birth. Being just as fearful of the pain relief options as she was about the actual birth, she knew there must be a better way to get through a process that our bodies are designed to do.

After studying the techniques and having an amazing drug free water birth, she knows these tools really work!

Kirryn is passionate about teaching women that birth does not need to be feared and that all woman can feel empowered throughout pregnancy and birth if they educate themselves and put time into preparing and practising for the outcome they want.

Kirryn offers face to face classes in Booragoon, WA please feel free to contact Kirryn if you have any questions.

Practice Name: Blueberry Yoga & Hypnobirthing

Location of Service: Melbourne, Southbank

Mel Campbell is a Mother of three busy little people, a Prenatal Yoga & Meditation Teacher and a Hypnobirthing Practitioner based in the inner South Eastern suburbs of Melbourne. Mel discovered hypnobirthing when preparing to welcome her first child in 2011 and went on to have three beautiful birth experiences using the techniques she learned. She is excited to now be a Hypnobirthing Practitioner herself and help other women discover the tools that she found to be so invaluable.

In her Prenatal Yoga Classes, Mel strives to empower women to connect with their body and mind to prepare for birth. The Hypnobirthing Australia Course is the perfect extension to that because it allows time to go deeper and get into the detail of how it all works and why.

Mel is passionate about helping women prepare for birth in a non-judgmental way with the aim being for women to feel joyful and positive about their experience no matter the journey birth takes. Mel believes Hypnobirthing is always foremost about Childbirth Education and sharing evidence-based information that helps women make informed decisions. Her motto is ‘When women feel in control, informed and empowered, beautiful birth experiences follow.’

Please CLICK HERE to contact Mel Campbell

Practice Name: Lesley Dempsy Hypnobirthing Australia Practitioner

Location of Service: Port Lincoln, SA

Having trained in Midwifery in the late  80’s , I have sound knowledge,  skills, and experience as a Childbirth Educator,  facilitating antenatal classes, caring for birthing Women, postnatal care including breastfeeding support and home visits.

I have been a Registered Midwife since 2012, currently working in Canberra. I absolutely love being a midwife, there truly is nothing more incredible than seeing a baby coming into the world. It truly is a privilege beyond words.

I have seen how fearful some women can be preparing for birth. This fear makes me really sad for women as I know how incredibly beautiful and empowering birth can be. This is why I became a Hypnobirthing Australia Certified Practitioner. The Positive Birth Program helps women understand that she can have an empowering birthing experience (regardless of the birth outcome).

Pregnancy and childbirth should be a wonderfully memorable experience. I am passionate about educating women and birthing partners to embrace birth and to truly believe in her body’s ability to give birth naturally, calmly and gently.

At Hypnobirthing Canberra, we offer women and their partners the opportunity to embrace birth as a natural life experience, not something to be feared. Taking a relaxed and friendly approach to equip you and your birth partner with information about breathing and massage techniques, normal birth physiology and deep relaxation, to allow parents and their babies to look forward to a safe, positive and gentle birth experience.

Practice Name: Anna Hooper

Location of Service: Gladstone, Central Queensland

Hello and welcome as you embark on one of the most amazing journeys of your life.

My name is Anna, I am a registered nurse and midwife, IMIS trained baby massage instructor and, most importantly, a mother of two. I know what an incredible, life affirming experience childbirth can be under the right conditions. My aim is that all people can experience childbirth in the best way possible.

I am excited to be able to help you to embark on your journey, guide and empower you when it comes to making informed decisions along the way and to welcome your new family member into the world with the minimum of distractions.

Over the past 8yrs I have been privileged to be present at a multitude of hypnobirths and what has always amazed me was how these couples started on their most amazing path together, with excitement and positivity and most importantly, without any fear through the joy of hypnobirthing. This whole experience continues through labour and beyond.

It has become my goal to enable all women and their birth partners to have the same experience, to bring their precious baby earth side in a calm, positive and safe environment with joy and celebration. I look forward to walking along side you through this most magical of times.

Practice Name: Nurture & Embrace – Childbirth Education

Location of Service – South Perth (WA)

Hi, I’m Sarah, Registered Midwife, qualified adult educator, and mother to twin girls. I currently work as a midwife in the public health system and love my job!

Birth is an incredible moment to bear witness to and every birth I am involved with is a privilege, but I know firsthand the difference quality childbirth education makes.

The environment Hypnobirthing creates is positive and serene. It is amazing to be involved in a calm and empowered birth, and this has inspired me to teach Hypnobirthing.

I truly believe Hypnobirthing will transform your experience of labour and birth! In finding the Hypnobirthing Australia program, I felt an instant connection to the methods, resources and tools used and knew I had found something that captured the passion I feel for childbirth education with an integrity that aligns with my own values!

Practice Name: Tree of Life – Nurturing Birth and Beyond

Location of Service: Cronulla, Sydney, NSW

Hello all, so lovely to be here!

Since the birth of my first baby in 2011, I have been supporting couples as a Doula, Childbirth Educator and Placenta Encapsulator, after making the move from my corporate background in IT & Telco to follow my passion and longing to make a difference in the lives of birthing women and their partners, one birth at a time.

I service mainly the Sutherland Shire & St George areas in addition to working with clients in the Eastern Suburbs, the Inner West, North Shore and Northern Beaches.

I would be happy to look after you in the greater Sydney area too on request, so just get in touch.

I am the mother of two, one angel baby by the name of Juniper and a rainbow baby by the name of Mie.  It was through my first pregnancy and birth experience that I decided to train as a Doula and since that time back in 2011 I have been so passionate about the rite of passage that birth can be for a woman and her partner and have to date supported over 50 couples as a Doula and over 1000 as a Placenta Encapsulator.

Having supported a number of Doula couples that had completed the Hypnobirthing Australia training in their pregnancies, I have found their labours to have been the most beautiful, calm and empowering which have inspired me to become an instructor myself.

With the right knowledge, tools, support and preparation gained through the amazing Positive Birth Program, I know you too can have the birth of your dreams, no matter how it unfolds.

I look forward to meeting you and being your guide in one of the most life-changing and magical moments of your lives!

Georgie x

Practice Name: This Is What I Doula

Location of Service: Penrith (NSW)

My name is Jaime! I am a wife. mum, step mum, Doula and self-confessed birth nerd!

I am passionate about educating new and seasoned parents about childbirth in order to empower them to make informed decisions and of course, to have a beautiful birth experience, no matter how that may end up happening.

I feel a deep calling to provide information, tools and support to pregnant women and their partners and to be part of a change in maternity care in this country.