About Us

Our Practice was founded by Kate Woods and over the last 15 years has grown to include the very best Practitioners Kate could find, which includes 3 other Doulas and a great Father's-to-be facilitator too.

Within the Practice, we offer Doula care, Doula Training, Holistic Prenatal Classes, one-to-one sessions, workshops for couples, Herbal care, Shiatsu, Rebirthing and other therapies, all specialising in the Childbearing Year. We also offer a Bellycasting service.

Please have a look at the drop down menu under 'About us' to see each member of the team and contact us for availability and further information.

Kate Woods

Kate has been involved with the process of pregnancy and birth since 1994, when she had her first child. The experience was so immense and utterly life changing that through it, her passion for this phase of life was initiated.

Shortly after, friends began to request Kates' presence at their births, and by the time she qualified as a Doula in 1998 with Michel Odent, she had already attended five home births.

In the years since, Kate began her 'In Good Hands' Doula practice, which has evolved, changed names and grown from a newborn to a busy toddler! Kate continues to work closely with pregnant and birthing women and their families, whilst facilitating holistic pregancy and childbirth workshops and retreats for groups and training the next generation of Doulas.

Kate's continuous studies have been with Michel Odent, Ina May Gaskin, the Holistic Childbirth Educator Foundation, Janet Balaskas at the Active Birth Centre and Suzanne Yates at Well Mother (Shiatsu for Labour). Kate is a registered member of both Doula UK and the British Doulas and is a qualified Holistic Childbirth Educator.

Kate also trains Doulas and Childbirth Educators in Cornwall and Somerset within her practice. For more information on Doula Training please see www.doulatrainingcourses.com

For Kate, pregnancy and birth is a truly bountiful time, which deserves to be reclaimed as the powerful rite of passage which it has always been; learning, honouring and celebrating this with others is her passion and her life’s work.

Kate has two children and lives in Glastonbury, Somerset, working in many neighbouring areas as well as further afield.

To contact one of the team about Doula and postnatal services or for professional training, please contact us.

"She travelled with me every step of the way, enabled me to trust the process of birth, to meet the pain of labour and to experience the profoundness of giving birth." - Natasha