The MindfulMammaâ„¢ one day express class is run by the following course leaders. If you are interested in becoming a course leader then please contact us to find out more.
| Sophie Fletcher |
Region Surrey/Lincolnshire/ Nottinghamshire |
Sophie is a Clinical Hypnotherapist and HypnoBirthing practitioner. She is trained in the Mongan and Leclaire methods of hypnobirthing and has had extensive experience working with hypnosis for fertility, pregnancy and birth.
Sophie first trained as a hypnotherapist in 2006 after experiencing the
difference of using hypnosis during the birth of her second son and hasn't looked back. She loves working with women and empowering them to have a positive experience, however they want to birth.
As well as advising and teaching extensively on the use of hypnosis for birth, she runs a general hypnotherapy practice in Grantham and acts as an Executive Director at the National Council for Hypnotherapy.
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| Guinevere Webster |
Region Oxford |
I’m a clinical
psychologist and worked in the NHS for nine years at the National Spinal
Injuries Centre, where I became interested in how mindfulness meditation could
help people find acceptance and manage chronic pain. More recently, I trained
as a birth and postnatal doula, and am completing studies with the NCT as a
postnatal leader, and with the Tavistock in infant development. I am also a
babywearing consultant, co-leading Oxford Sling Meet since 2008, and a
voluntary lay breastfeeding counsellor.
In 2009 I completed
Mark Williams’ mindfulness programme at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, which opened
my eyes to the benefits of mindfulness for birthing women and new parents. When
in 2011 I came across Mindful Mamma online everything suddenly fell into place.
I am really excited to be able to offer the benefits of mindfulness and
self-hypnosis to expectant parents and new families in such an accessible and
enjoyable form.
I have two young
children who are truly my best teachers in cultivating mindfulness!
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| Diane Laird |
Region Dorset |
Diane is a qualified
Cognitive Hypnotherapist working in Wimborne, Dorset. She has been working with
children and families for over 20 years. For the last 7 years she has worked
primarily within early years, recognising the importance of early attachments
in promoting positive family relationships. She is still working within a large
children’s charity delivering training to both staff and parents on attachment
and parenting.
Diane is particularly interested in supporting the couple
relationship to enable both parents to be supported and supportive within their
parenting role, beginning in pregnancy. Diane is delighted to be
delivering the Mindful Mamma material and to see the positive benefits in the
men and women that attend.
“This course gives parents to be an excellent foundation in
how they get work together to support their baby’s arrival, increasing their
sense of control and confidence to have the birth they want.”
Diane has 3 children aged 15, 12 and 4 who are the
source of great joy. However Diane is grateful to the mindful techniques she
has learnt, to help her with some of the challenges that present!
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| Caroline Baddiley |
Region Dorset |
Hello, my name is Caroline and I have been happily married for nearly 40
years and we have a grown up son and daughter and two lovely little
grandsons.
I have been a midwife for 17 years, working as an Independent
midwife for the past 12 years. I chose to go Independent so that I could
work fully and autonomously with my clients and build a trusting,
caring professional relationship with them.
I have seen how fear has crept even further in to birth, even during my time as a midwife.
I
wanted to find a way to help women and their partners to step away from
these crippling fears about birth and show them how they could start to
see birth in a different light, as a truly amazing and empowering
experience, whatever the kind of birth they may have.
So I trained to be a Natal Hypnotherapy Practitioner and later a
HypnoBirth Practitioner . Since then I have helped lots of couples to
change their view point and to feel excited and look forward to the
birth. Many former clients have experienced wonderful, manageable births
and all the couples, even when interventions were need, felt in control
and were able to use the deep relaxation and visualisation techniques
they had learned in our sessions to make the birth the best one
possible.
However, the courses I was running still did not feel like the
perfect recipe to me even though the couples benefited greatly from
them. Then I found out about Mindful Mama from a friend who is a
Cognitive Hypnotherapist and we both decided to Train as Mindful Mamma.
Practiitoners.
To me, it is the perfect course , short, sweet and affordable yet
containing many important layers of knowledge and techniques which the
couples then go away to practise at home. A perfectly condensed package
which is great value for money and delivered by experts!
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| Annika Tavilampi |
Region Chelsea and Westminster |
Annika is employed full-time as a midwife in one of the major teaching hospitals in London, and runs antenatal classes as her main duty. She was led to becoming a clinical hypnotherapist with LCCH in search of the perfect ‘thing’ to teach her mothers to enable them to have the best possible birth. Inspired by her experiences working and training in smaller units in Finland and Sweden she knew how peaceful and empowering a good birth can be. Annika also runs a VBAC clinic which she feels very passionate about. With Mindful Mamma Annika feels she has found the best of the methods available to make real difference to the expectant parents to take charge of their birth.
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| Natalie Van Rooyen |
Region Surrey and Kent |
Since qualifying as a Midwife in 2003 Natalie has largely worked in an Independent capacity to support women to give birth at home, or in the first private Birth Centre in the UK. Natalie has dedicated her career to supporting families to achieve the experience of their choice by providing unbiased, individualised care that places the family at the centre. Natalie passionately believes that with the appropriate emotional preparation birth can be, and should be, a positive celebration despite the place or type of birth. Natalie relishes the opportunity to facilitate women to draw on their own strengths and innate power to meet the challenges of childbirth and parenthood and never ceases to be amazed by the capacity of women to transform. Natalie has been facilitating women to utilise hypnosis techniques during pregnancy and birth since 2003 and was so inspired by the results that she qualified as a Cognitive Hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner in 2008 with The Quest Institute. Natalie has completed childbirth hypnosis training with HynoBirthing, Natal Hypnotherapy and Confident Childbirth prior to choosing to join Mindful Mamma. Natalie feels privileged to have been able to support women with hypnosis during labour as well as pregnancy. Natalie currently works within the NHS and an Independent Midwifery Practice, Yours Maternally, in addition to providing hypnosis for childbirth. Hypnotherapy techniques and a mindful approach to birth facilitated Natalie to personally experience the joy of pregnancy and birth when her first son was born in 2010. Natalie is registered with The Nursing and Midwifery Council http://www.nmc-uk.org/ The National Council for Hypnotherapy http://www.hypnotherapists.org.uk/ The Quest institute http://www.questinstitute.co.uk/
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| Liz Sargent |
Region Bristol/Bath |
Liz trained as a midwife and works now as a health visitor in the NHS. She is a passionate advocate for good antenatal education that empowers women and their partners to feel confident and enables both partners to feel included as part of the birth.
With a degree in psychology and additional training in community health, Liz had a particular interest in post natal depression and supporting mothers psychologically for birth and parenting.
Liz runs classes across Bristol, Bath and surrounding areas in the South West.
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| Sabrina Gant |
Region Sussex |
As well as being a Mindful Mamma practitioner, Sabrina is also a qualified NCT Advanced Antenatal Teacher and Birth Companion. She has also had additional training around hypnosis for birth. Each of her three births were different experiences and she used mindfulness in labour to make each one the best birth for the baby on the day.
Sabrina believes in women’s innate ability to birth; as a birth companion she has been with many women birthing and these experiences allow Sabrina to enrich her classes with her own experiences of supporting women in labour, especially those where hypnosis and mindfulness for birth has been central.
Having built strong and close relationships with local NHS trusts, Sabrina actively engages in improvements for maternity services across the Surrey and Sussex regions through meeting regularly with maternity staff and through Maternity Services Liaison Committee (MSLC). Having built a good reputation with both local hospital and community midwives, allowing them to trust her to work co-operatively
alongside them, Sabrina has been asked to interview midwives for vacancies and contribute to general maternity improvement programs.
With a firm belief in there being no rights and wrongs within birth and parenting, Sabrina will not 
tell you what or how to do anything. She will instead provide evidence based information and guide you, helping you to make the decisions that are right for you and your unique family.
Sabrina aims to help you to shape your birth making it your best birth for your baby and an experience that enriches your life. A time that you will always remember with a smile.
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| Lesley Carter |
Region Yorkshire |
 Lesley is pleased to be joining Mindful Mamma, bringing with her a belief that women have all the innate resources they need for a calm confident birth. She believes that women can learn to bypass the more conscious processes that suround bith and learn how to trust thier instincts.
Lesley comes from a mental health nursing and psychotherapy background. She retains her NHS work whilst also teaching on the nursing course with the Open University. She also runs a private hypnopsychotherapy practice in Harrogate. Her MSc dissertation looked at mood changes in first time mothers, and learnt that where women were able to manifest changes for themselves and felt empowered in the birthing and prenatal preparation, that this had a postive impact upon how they viewed themselves as mothers. Lesley is also interested in the effect of a mothers wellbeing upon the unborn childs` development.
Lesley is delighted to have discovered Mindful Mamma as she had been thinking about how to teach mindfulness and self hypnosis to women, and is glad to be able to share and work alongside like minded practitioners.
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| Rachael Hudson |
Region Central London |
Rachael is a clinical hypnotherapist and NLP (Neuro Linguistic Progamming specialist, to Trainer level) Her backgroundis in stress management and body with within the corporate environment and her hypnotherapy practice specialises in anxiety relief.
Rachael has also delivered Emotional Intelligence and Pivotal Sense workshops to NHS clients in the South West, with Bill Phillps, and is passionate about discovering with clients how they can be the best that is possible for them.
Rachael's extensive experience in stress management body work, hypnotherapy and NLP changework lends itself exactly to the Mindful Mamma ethos.
"Mindful Mamma delivers all that I practice in my general practice in London. It's all about empowering the client with the tools to take responsibility for their body, their feelings and their resultant experience in encouraging, discovering, practicing and preparing, and strengthening their belief in themselves to do something we were designed to do and be."
Prepare, positively and powerfully with Mindful Mamma for the unique birth of your unique baby.
Rachael is registered with the NCH, GHR and CThA and abides by their Codes of Ethics. She's thrilled to be a Mindful Mamma Practitioner
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| Jill Tonks |
Region Surrey |
 To contact Jill go to her website www.jilltonks.com or call 0786 7557477.
Jill qualified as a Cognitive Hypnotherapist with the Quest Institute in 2007 and became a Master Practitioner in NLP the following year. She went onto to complete specialist training in childbirth and has substantial experience of working with women and their partners to achieve the best birth possible using a range of techniques. In her general hypnotherapy practice, Jill has a special interest in working with women to achieve their potential. She has 3 children herself 19, 16 and 11 and experienced post natal depression after her first child. She says "If I'd known about the power of hypnotherapy when I had my children, I would have had a completely different experience of childbirth and early years parenting. I am passionate about supporting women to achieve their maximum potential at key points in their lives because of this". Jill is the Training and Accreditation Officer for the National Council for Hypnotherapy and is a member of the executive committee. She is an accredited hypnotherapy supervisor. She is registered with The Complimentary and National Heath Care Councilnumber 002269-L10 http://www.cnhc.org.uk/ The National Council for Hypnotherapy http://www.hypnotherapists.org.uk/
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| Dominique Koubovec |
Region Bedfordshire/Buckinghamshire |
Dominique has a PhD in Biochemistry with an interest in the effectsofprenatal stress on foetal development. She is also afullytrained Emotional Release Facilitator and has extensive experience in helping individuals identify and heal causes of emotional distress. Dominique is also a proud mother to a little boy who was born using HypnoBirthing techniques. Dominique helps couples prepare for a conscious birth experience – one grounded in present moment awareness. Dominique believes that a good birth requires strong intent and disciplined preparation, and her classes include a focus on the psychological processing of issues that may come in the way of a positive birthing experience. If you are interested in attending one of Dominique's classes please email info@mindfulmamma.co.uk
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| Sheila Barrat-Smith |
Region Birmingham |
 Sheila is an experienced, fully qualified Clinical Hypnotherapist and HypnoBirthing Practitioner and a Member of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis. She studied psychology at Wolverhampton Uni and trained with Marie Mongan on the first of only 2 courses she ran in the UK. She has been working with mums and dads to be for 7 years now and has had many health professionals on her courses - as expectant parents - including GPs, midwives, surgeons and paediatricians.
She has been lecturing student midwives for the last 3 years on HypnoBirthing and the benefits of deep relaxation during pregnancy and birth. She has had many articles on hypnosis and birth published in various magazines including the Human Givens Journal
Sheila Barratt-Smith D.Hyp MBSCH
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| Christine Sullivan |
Region Gloucestershire |
 Christine is a fully trained and qualified Clinical Hypnotherapist, Human Givens Counsellor and Childbirth Educator. Christine trained with Relate in 1991 and worked in Oxford and Cheltenham for 9 years as a Relate counsellor. In 2001 she trained with the London College Of Clinical Hypnosis and gained a diploma and advanced diploma in Clinical Hypnotherapy. In 2002, Christine was one of the original hypnotherapists to train on the first of only two courses actually run in the UK by the founder of HypnoBirthing Marie Mongan. Christine also holds a diploma with the Human Givens Institute. This therapy draws on the elements of cognitive behavioural therapy, interpersonal & neural techniques which international studies have shown to be consistently effective.
Christine lives in Cheltenham with a loving husband, a wayward daughter (who is now at university) and a yappy poodle named Bobby.
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