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, 'In Good Hands' Doula practice has evolved and Kate continues to work closely with pregnant and birthing women and their families, whilst facilitating holistic pregancy and childbirth workshops and retreats for groups.
She continues to study and to date has studied with Michel Odent, Ina May Gaskin, the Holistic Childbirth Educator Foundation, the Active Birth Centre, Suzanne Yates at Well Mother (Shiatsu for Labour). Kate is a registered member of both Doula UK and the British Doula Association and a qualified Holistic Childbirth Educator.
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 and works in Glastonbury, Somerset.
"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
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