Originally from South Africa, I have been working in the health and wellness industry since 1998, and in private clinics and hospitals since 2009. My path has taken me from London to Dubai and now to Switzerland, where I support families from many cultural backgrounds.
Having lived and worked internationally, I understand the tenderness of finding your way through pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood while far from familiar support. My early work in health led me through body therapies, aromatherapy, and nutrition, with a focus on digestive and functional health. Over the years, this evolved into a more integrated understanding of the human being, where physical wellbeing is inseparable from emotional and inner life.
Motherhood gently transformed the direction of my work. The birth of my two daughters, and the steady presence of a doula beside me, revealed how deeply nourishing it is for a woman to feel held, informed, and accompanied. This experience led me to train as a Doula in both London and Glastonbury in England, so that I may offer this same quality of care to others.
I understand that giving birth away from your home country, especially as an expat, can feel both vulnerable and overwhelming. My role is to offer a calm, grounded presence, walking beside you without judgement, so that you may feel safe, confident, and connected to your own inner knowing throughout pregnancy, birth, and the early postpartum time.
To continue supporting families beyond birth, I trained as a Sleep Consultant with the Institute of Paediatric Sleep and Parenting in the United States. I hold a deep sense that womb beginnings, nourishment, and sleep are intimately connected, and that gentle early support lays the foundation for lifelong wellbeing.
Today, I offer holistic care based in Lugano, Switzerland; bringing together birth preparation, postpartum support, nourishment/nutrition, and infant and child sleep guidance. My intention is to create a warm and welcoming space where you feel supported, gently guided, and at home, wherever you come from.
Email: kay@gentle-rhythms.ch
Website: www.gentle-rhythms.ch
I work online Internationally but for birth and postpartum support specifically I only serve the wider Lugano city area in Canton Ticino, Switzerland
