Hi there, I’m Lara- a mentored doula by conscious birthing, I have had the privilege of training with Kate Woods of Conscious birthing and with Evony Lynch of Holistic Doula School. My background is in Psychology and I feel along with being trauma informed that both of these skills can really help break trauma cycles. I currently reside in Redruth and cover all of Cornwall as well as online support.
I really feel that this work has been a calling, and something I feel very impassioned about because I know this sacred rite of passage is often not built on the wisdom women hold, but on one of fear and doubts. Physiological birth needs to be retained, protected and respected. I feel more women are feeling this call to come back to themselves- their instinct, maybe this is you. I am here to support and walk alongside women and their birthing partners through the childbearing year.
Advocating your decisions with a deep trust in physiological birth and women’s intuition in their own body throughout this transition. I hope to bridge the gap between mainstream maternity services/systems through to free-birth. A mother for mothers with an aim to restore trust in the innate wisdom women hold- a witness and protector of undisturbed birth.
I support birthing women by providing evidence-based knowledge, herstory wisdom, and help to identify and reflect on fears, conditioning, and trauma with the aim of deepening your own trust in your own body and baby. Some call this intuition, and I am a strong believer in this knowingness within all of us, we just have to practise and strengthen this skill, I hope to help and guide women to have a stronger connection to themselves and their baby through spiritual practises.
I hold a pregnancy circle just on the outskirts of Newquay with a fellow doula, if you would like to know more, you can contact me for an informal chat, whether it is concerning prenatal, birth, and/or post-natal support.
