Recommended practitioners
Through her work, Rebecca has established a wonderful network of experienced practitioners and knowledgeable experts in women’s health, fitness and movement. She wholeheartedly recommends each of these practitioners.
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Mother Matters
Your community of trusted local specialists.
Supporting you through a better pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
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WE OFFER
Hypnobirthing Masterclasses
Acupuncture
Massage
Reflexology
Yoga + Women’s Circles
Osteopathy
Physiotherapy
Independent Midwifery
Doula Services
Placenta Encapsulation
Lactation Consultant
Tongue Tie Specialist
Naturopathy
Sling Consultant
Sleep Consultant
Psychotherapy + Counselling
Mental Health Peer Support
Family Photography
Baby Massage
Hypnobirthing
Anthonissa Moger
Anthonissa Moger (Nissa to her friends and clients) founded The Hypnobirthing Midwife in 2015, combining complementary therapies (hypnobirthing, yoga, aromatherapy, mindfulness, rebozo) and modern midwifery to offer complete holistic birth preparation.
She runs group and private antenatal classes, supports a thriving online community with her popular Youtube channel ‘The Hypnobirthing Midwife’ and is passionate about providing free evidence-based information for women and their families all around the world. You can find lots of free resources on her website www.thehypnobirthingmidwife.com
Nissa felt the calling to be a midwife while pregnant with her first child in 2008 after which she gained a first-class degree in midwifery from Kings College London. Supporting thousands of women in many areas of midwifery care including antenatal appointments, homebirths, postnatal community visits, births on the midwifery-led unit, labour ward and cesarean births. She currently works part-time as an NHS midwife in a busy central London hospital.
She wrote her first book Holistic Hypnobirthing while pregnant with her second baby and lives in East London with her partner, two children and beloved cat and dog.
Independent midwife & LACTATION CONSULTANT
Barbara Hanachova
Empowering birth, supporting you on your journey from conception to postpartum
Barbara offer respectful personalised support and guidance throughout your pregnancy, birth and postnatal journey. Your choices are at the heart of her practice and she’s dedicated to ensuring you have empowering experience. She can provide comprehensive health assessments, evidence based unbiased education, emotional guidance and advocacy.
Barbara is a certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), based in East London, covering surrounding areas as well.
Doula
Tracey Louis Fernand
Tracey provides a caring, calm, confidential and non judgemental service.
Mothering the Mother offers a selection of support packages covering conception, birth, partner support, breastfeeding, infant feeding and the perinatal period.
Doula & COACH
Naomi Tolson
“I am committed to providing a safe and loving space in which you can connect more deeply with your body and your baby, explore your fears and anxieties in-depth, and experience a more transcendental journey to motherhood.” Naomi Tolson
Naomi Tolson is a radical doula and coach in Brighton and Hove.
In these roles she supports your spiritual, emotional and physical journey into motherhood via energy and core wound healing, earth medicines, education, journalling, meditation and somatic practices
Naomi is passionate about supporting those who wish to birth outside the medical paradigm. She also offers mother blessing ceremonies, placental remedies and closing the bones postnatal recovery massage.
- Doula UK Doula and founder of Nurtured Mother and Psychedelic Doula
- Coach with The Microdosing Institute
DOULA / BIrth keeper / yoga
Jimena Tascon
“MY BIRTH BELONGS TO ME was once the foremost affirmation that held me through pregnancy and free birth. I want to share it with you! “ Jimena Tascon
Welcoming a child into your family can be both beautiful and overwhelming. As a doula and birthkeeper Jimena Tascon works with women and families during one of the most important times of their lives. She helps them make informed and intuitive choices; offering holistic support and encouraging a mind-body-soul connection through yoga, breathwork, coaching techniques for mindset and evidence-based knowledge.
Jimena has helped many mothers and families have healthy pregnancies, navigate the NHS system, achieve their dream birth and have a smooth and nourished postnatal recovery. Her experience, passion and love for her work transcend into everything she does.
She also offers yoga and breathwork for fertility, pregnancy and post-natal recovery, menarche (first period), Mother blessing and Closing the Bones ceremonies, and Holistic Parenthood consultations.
Jimena is based in East London and she works across North, West, East London and Essex, as well as virtually.
Contact her via her website, or connect with her on Instagram.
doula
Caron Smith
“I feel honoured to be able to offer individualised practical and emotional support through pregnancy, birth and those irreplaceable first days and weeks as families learn to care for and bond with their precious new arrival(s), and settle into their new identities as parents.”
Caron Smith is a proud mother of three young adults, living together with our boxer puppy in Essex. She originally qualified as a midwife, having trained at Kings College University and previously worked at St Thomas’ Hospital, London.
However, for more than ten years she has offered her services as a Doula, supporting over 200 families to date. In this role – whilst she no longer provides any clinical care – she is delighted to be able to utilise her extensive experience and absolute passion.
BIRTH & POSTNATAL DOULA
Stephanie Pochet
“Pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period is a transformational experience. My role is to support, guide, and advocate for you and your family throughout this journey.“ Stephanie Pochet
Stephanie’s aim is to empower you to find strength and joy in this incredible rite of passage, helping you trust your instincts and enable you to have a positive birth experience.
Steph began her doula journey after realising how challenging it can be to navigate the conflicting advice we are often given while also trusting our intuition.
Whether you’re planning a home or hospital birth, medicated or unmedicated, she can help you create a birth and postpartum plan that uplifts both your body and mind.
Stephanie offers evidence-based information and heart-centred care to guide you in making informed decisions that align with your personal values and feelings. You can expect warm, intuitive, and dedicated support no matter how your birth unfolds.
Fluent in French, English, and Indonesian, and her multicultural background shapes her inclusive approach to care. She also works with Happy Baby Community, providing doula services to asylum-seeking women who have fled trafficking and violence.
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doula
Romy Finbow
Romy Finbow offers antenatal birth preparation, birth support, and postnatal care. She trained under Dr Gowri Motha as a Gentle Birth Method Practitioner, incorporating self-hypnosis, visualisations and Creative Healing massage fear-releasing techniques into her practise. Romy is also a Birthlight-trained perinatal yoga teacher and an Ecstatic Birth practitioner.
LACTATION CONSULTANT
Petra Hoehfurtner
“I am happy to walk alongside you for a while either as a Gestalt Counsellor or as a Lactation Consultant. I am there to support you either short or long-term with whatever it is you want to explore.”
As a Lactation Consultant Petra offers Antenatal courses and home visits, or online consults (if preferred) for parents as well as supervision and training for health professionals.
She is also a Stillbirthday Birth and Bereavement Doula.
Nutrition & Hypnotherapy
Nicola Shubrook
“The gut and the brain are inextricably linked. What we eat and how we think can therefore affect us physically, physiologically and emotionally.”
Nicola Shubrook is a clinical hypnotherapist and a registered nutritional therapist with over 10 years of experience.
She uses a blend of nutrition, functional medicine and hypnotherapy with her clients to get to the root of their health while creating personalised programmes to help across a range of health concerns including anxiety, depression, digestive issues and hormone imbalances.
hormonal health & nutritional therapist
Katy Bradbury
“ Every person has the potential to feel attuned to their cycles, resolve infertility, and navigate the menopause with ease.“ Katy Bradbury
Katy is a registered nurse and nutritional therapist who helps people struggling with their fertility or other reproductive health concerns (from prenatal to perimenopause) get to the root cause of their issues and address them using nutrition, lifestyle and tailored supplement protocols.
She is passionate about educating on the underlying drivers of women‘s health issues, helping people to understand their bodies, and providing comprehensive emotional support for her clients.
Katy also offers clinical mentorship and specialist practitioner training in the fields of fertility, women’s health and maternal and infant health.
Acupuncture & Placenta Encapsulation
Tara Rivero Zea
Tara Rivero Zea provides acupuncture and massage from her acupuncture clinic in Hackney as well as from an acupuncture clinic in Leyton. Her pricing reflects the different communities in the area, with private acupuncture and a multi-bed clinic for differing budgets.
Her practice specialises in fertility, pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal care and she is a qualified doula, recommended by her clients.
breastfeeding specialist
Karen Shah
Home visits to get breastfeeding established and help with all your breast-feeding needs.
Meet Karen – a super proud mother of two gorgeous girls and has been a breastfeeding counsellor since 2003.
Karen began her training in 1999 with La Leche League Leader and best selling author Naomi Stradlen.
Karen has been supporting new mums to breastfeed in the community for over 20 years. In that time she has set up, produced and delivered breastfeeding programs for Coram Fields Children Centre, The Baby Cafe and University College Hospital, London.
Karen finds most joy in helping new mothers begun their breastfeeding journeys on the hospital wards. Once discharged, she continues to help them thrive in their breastfeeding relationships at home with their babies.
Pregnancy & Postpartum Fitness
Melissa Gaul
“I’m a Holistic Core Restore® Coach & soft tissue professional and I have experience working with hundreds of women of various ages and fitness levels since 2009.”
After I had my second child I found out I had Diastasis Recti (abdominal separation), I needed to go back to square one, re-train my core & pelvic floor and deepen my knowledge to better serve myself and my clients.
I truly empathise with everyone I work with because I’ve had to slow down and listen to my body. I’ll find something that works for you, whatever level you’re at… I’ll challenge you and help you strengthen from the inside out.
I don’t just train you… I learned that introducing self-care by teaching you breathing techniques and self-massage, gave far better results with both weight-loss and healing after childbirth. Please join my free facebook group
ACUPUNCTURIST
Sue Bailes
”My ideal client would come to me trying to get pregnant and I would continue to treat them throughout pregnancy, and then postnatally. From 35 weeks, I can “ripen the cervix” to get their body ready for labour.”
Sue Bailes is a women’s health acupuncture specialist with over twenty years’ experience, based in Walthamstow. Sue practises Traditional Chinese Medicine which treats the body as a whole; mind, body and spirit.
Sue offers individual sessions or treatment packages to suit your need. She also teaches couples about acupressure points for pain in labour, a lovely way for partners to get involved to help the mum transition from stage one to stage two in labour.
Other common pregnancy-related symptoms seen in her clinic are morning sickness, SPD, itchy skin, stress and anxiety, breech positioning and routine birth treatment.
Sue offers a 15-minute discovery call to see if she can help you or not. To book please visit Sue’s website
PREGNANCY YOGA
Sarah Rush
“I’m a senior yoga teacher based in London and Southampton, and despite having thirty years experience of practising yoga I’m as passionate and enthusiastic about yoga as I ever have been.”
Sarah teaches yoga and meditation to everyone – including pregnant women, athletes, seniors, people with disabilities, children and to women approaching menopause and beyond. Her classes are refreshingly accessible, as she teaches people with varying abilities. She teaches group classes and individual one-to-one classes in person and online.
PERSONAL TRAINER / MASSAGE THERAPIST
Nicola Brown
Nicki B Fitness is here to give you the tools you need to become a fitter stronger and healthier version of you.
Specialising in:
Functional fitness, Strength and conditioning, TRX, Kettlebells, Animal flow.
Based in Walthamstow, East London.
Sex, pleasure & intimacy coach
Sarah Rose Bright
Sarah is a leading Sex Coach, Intimacy Coach and Sexologist on a mission to inspire women to discover your sexual pleasure and understand what it is to feel sexually confident, so that you truly enjoy sex, create healthy relationships, and ensure that your life can fully blossom into the incredible potential you deserve.
Sarah is a pioneer as the UK’s first certified Sex Coach and has over 15 years of extensive training and personal exploration in the fields of sex and sexology , intimacy and healing and over a decade of working with 1000s of students and clients.
Sarah has developed a unique system of sex coaching, intimacy coaching and practical sex and relationship education that supports you to awaken and transform your sexual pleasure, confidence and intimate relationships.
Yoga Facilitator
Cheralynn Brighton
Cher actively runs unique women’s and mother sharing circles in Walthamstow and Leyton. The circles invite women to explore seasonal ritual, lunar cycles and connect to their own deep feminine wisdom. Babies and children are welcome.
She began holding these much needed sharing circles during the pandemic to help support women, build community and restore connection.
Cher also teaches regular Pregnancy & Post-natal yoga at Pause Studio in Leyton and provides private yoga and post-natal support to parents on request.
Becoming a mother blew her consciousness wide open and deeply influenced her style of teaching that is focused on the physical and spiritual journey of motherhood.
Cher began meditating back in Canada at the age of five with her mother. Her yogic journey started with Hatha as a teenager but she always found dance as a way of freeing the mind throughout her growing years.
Later living in London she often encountered stress and the negative effects it had on her and her colleagues. Fascinated by the healing effects of yoga she went on to study mindfulness for mental health, Ashtanga Vinyasa, Restorative, Pre and Post-natal yoga.
Postnatal strength & Fitness
Move Strong London
Move Strong London has recently opened a specialist Personal Training Studio near Blackhorse Road, offering one to one and group sessions.
By focusing on the process rather than the outcome we can help you find joy in training and leading a healthy lifestyle. Think less ‘beach ready’ (whatever that means) and more ‘life ready’ as we focus on building functional strength and bulletproof joints that will see you well into your later years and running rings around any little people in your life!
HERBALIST
Sarah Gray
“I am passionate about reconnecting people; to the living medicine growing all around us and to the healing capacity in each and every one of us. Work with me and the herbs to bring the change you need in your life and live the life you know is possible.”
Sarah Gray encourages a deepening into the physical, spiritual and emotional self, to strengthen the path to good health.
Sarah believes that the body fundamentally has the capacity to heal itself and the answers you are looking for can be found inside you. She will support you through deep listening combined with medical and herbal knowledge.
o' baby! ecstatic birth training
Sheila Kamara Hay
In O BABY! our attention and INTENTION will be on:
* Practices that feel GREAT in your body and support you in labor and delivery
* Disarming your fears so they don’t disrupt the flow of your labor and trigger interventions
* Consciously creating your birth to align with your deepest desires so that you remember this profound moment with awe and celebration
* Tapping into your primal wisdom & following its lead for an optimal birth experienc
O Baby is a lot of power packed in a deliciously digestible package:
5 seminars in 5 days
HOMEOPATH
Corinne Dowd
“I am interested especially in conditions that are difficult to treat conventionally.
It seems to me that the human body is highly dynamic and strives towards self-healing. Whilst no-one knows the exact mechanism by which homeopathy works it is believed to be an energy medicine that helps the body heal itself.”
Corinne trained at the London School of Classical Homeopathy and Westminster University. As a mother of three, she is sensitive and empathetic when meeting worried parents with their children. She understands that sometimes people need to take medication and may feel isolated and unsupported. Thankfully, homoeopathy can be used alongside conventional medicine.
Her prescriptions are based on detailed case history and are directly related to the signals the body sends out, such as physical symptoms or emotional responses, including how the patient expresses themselves.
Consultations are friendly, empathetic and patient-centred. For those who have little or no knowledge of homoeopathy, she offers a free initial phone call. For those who would like to learn more about how they can use remedies at home, for themselves, she organises classes along with colleagues for small local groups.