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MENTAL HEALTH MIDWIFE
Courses & Resources
Everything you need to feel ready
Free tools, practical guides, and a course designed specifically for people navigating pregnancy after trauma.
You don't have to piece this together alone. Whether you're looking for a free starting point or something deeper, everything here was created by an NHS mental health midwife who genuinely understands where you are.
Free
STARTING POINT - ALWAYS
NHS
CLINICALLY INFORMED RESOURCES
You
DESERVE SUPPORT THAT UNDERSTANDS
FREE RESOURCES
Free tools to build your birth confidence
Because support shouldn't have to wait, and it shouldn't have to cost anything to begin. These free resources are a genuine starting point, created from over 10 years of NHS clinical experience with people navigating exactly what you're navigating now.
How to Write
Your Birth Plan
WORKBOOK
Daily mindset shifts · 30 days
PODCAST
A trauma-informed guide and template for writing a birth plan that communicates your needs, your fears, and your previous experience, so your care team truly understands you this time.
Thirty days of gentle, evidence-informed mindset prompts to help you move from fear towards calm, at your own pace, with no pressure and no false positivity.
FREE PODCAST
Episodes covering everything from understanding why you feel scared, to preparing your birth preferences, managing anxiety in labour, and finding your voice with your care team.
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Birth Without Fear
Essentials for a Better Birth
A complete, self-paced course for anyone pregnant again after a difficult or traumatic pregnancy, birth or postnatal experience.
Created by an NHS Mental Health Midwife, this course combines CBT, Compassion Focused Therapy and hypnobirthing, adapted specifically for pregnancy after trauma. Practical, effective tools designed to work with your nervous system rather than against it.
4 modules · 17 video lessons - self-paced, lifetime access
20 worksheets - including trauma-informed birth plan template
9 guided meditations - for vaginal and caesarean birth
Early access price - £147 or 3 × £52
Early access · £147
WHATS INSIDE
Four Modules
Everything you need
1
Finding Safety Within
Understanding fear after trauma and how to start building calm
2
Reframe & Cope Ahead
Break the fear cycle and build a flexible plan for any birth
3
Your Birth Toolkit
Breathing, meditations, anchors and your safe birth space
4
Your Birth, Your Way
Rights, communication and your trauma-informed birth plan
17
Lessons
20
WORKSHEETS
9
MEDITATIONS
DIGITAL PRODUCT
A gentle guide to feeling
calmer in pregnancy
For when the anxiety is louder than everything else, and you need something you can do right now.
The Better Birth Anxiety Workbook is a compassionate, evidence-informed toolkit that helps you ease anxious thoughts, settle your nervous system, and feel more grounded and supported throughout this pregnancy and into birth.
No waiting list. No appointments needed. Something you can open tonight.
Reframe anxious thoughts - evidence-informed exercises drawn from CBT and CFT to help quiet the spiral
Settle your nervous system - breathing techniques and grounding practices you can use anywhere, anytime
Build genuine confidence - not by ignoring your fears, but by understanding and working with them
Prepare for birth thoughtfully - space to explore your feelings, your wishes, and what you need from your care team
Digital Workbook
A gentle guide to feeling calmer in pregnancy
For when the anxiety is louder than everything else, and you need something you can do right now.
The Better Birth Anxiety Workbook is a compassionate, evidence-informed toolkit to help you ease anxious thoughts, settle your nervous system, and feel more grounded throughout this pregnancy.
No waiting list. No appointments needed. Something you can open tonight.
Understand your anxious thoughts - and why they make complete sense given what you've been through
Reframe - not bypass - evidence-based exercises drawn from CBT to help quiet the spiral
Settle your nervous system - grounding techniques and breathing practices with an explanation of why they actually work
Manage acute anxiety and panic - practical tools you can reach for anywhere, anytime
This workbook is also included as a bonus inside Birth Without Fear, the complete course for pregnancy after trauma.
FREE RESOURCES
Two free resources to start with.
Written by an NHS Mental Health Midwife. Yours instantly.
How to Write Your
Birth Plan
A free 16-page trauma-informed workbook with a printable template you can hand directly to your care team. Simple, guided steps, written by someone who knows exactly what your midwife needs to see.
The Calm & Confident
Birth Mindset Challenge
A free 30-day challenge with five gentle daily practices and a tracker to help you notice the small shifts. Starting wherever you are, one small step at a time.
FREE PODCAST
Building Birth Confidence
Episodes for anyone who has ever dreaded what's coming, and needed someone to say: you're not alone in this.
Each episode is short, direct, and written for one person: you. No cheerleading. No pretending everything will be perfect, or telling you to not worry, it will all be fine. Just honest, trauma-informed support from an NHS midwife who has sat with thousands of people feeling exactly what you're feeling.
BIRTHCARE WITH KATIE
Building Birth Confidence
For people navigating pregnancy after a difficult or frightening birth experience.
01
COPING TOOLS
A compassionate introduction to managing pregnancy anxiety and birth fear after trauma, packed with practical psychological and physical tools, from breathing techniques to visualisation, to help you feel calm, grounded, and confident.
04
PLANNING TOOLS
Creating a Birth Plan That Empowers You
A practical guide to creating an empowering birth plan after trauma, covering everything from environment and pain management to advocating for yourself with your care team.
14
BODY TRUST & EDUCATION
A gentle, informative exploration of how the uterus works during labour, why fear disrupts it, and how to rebuild body trust after trauma, including a short guided visualisation to reconnect with your body.
06
BIRTH TOOLS
A reassuring deep-dive into labour pain that reframes it as purposeful rather than frightening, breaking down the fear-tension-pain cycle and offering practical tools to help you feel calm and in control.
05
COPING TOOLS
A reassuring guide to navigating the uncertainty of birth after trauma, offering practical psychological tools, from reframing thoughts to mindfulness, to help you build resilience and feel more at ease with the unknown.
"You don't need to be fixed. You need someone who understands why you feel the way you do, and knows what to do about it."
Katie · NHS Mental Health Midwife · Perinatal Trauma Specialist
NOT SURE WHERE TO START?
Start with something free.
Start where you are.
Let's start The birth plan guide takes less than five minutes to download. It's a gentle first step, and you don't need to be ready for anything more than that right now.!
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