I work with mothers who feel that something has been left unresolved in their birth, in their postpartum period, or in the version of themselves that motherhood was supposed to bring. Women who have already sought help and found that the support didn't quite fit. Women whose nervous systems process the world with more intensity, more depth, and more sensitivity than the standard frameworks account for.

Whether you identify as neurodivergent: ADHD, Autistic, or AuDHD, as a Highly Sensitive Person, or simply as someone who has always felt things more acutely than those around you, this practice was built with your brain and your body in mind.

If you have ever left a support session feeling that you adjusted yourself to fit the help, rather than the other way around, you are in exactly the right place.

My Story

I became a mother for the first time at 29. I was living in London, working long hours in an environment that overwhelmed my senses every single day: the open-plan office, the noise, the lights, the relentless proximity of other people. I didn't have a name for any of it then. I only knew that the world felt louder and faster than it seemed to for everyone around me, and that I was working very hard to keep up.

When I became pregnant with twins, I moved back to Portugal at 25 weeks, alone for much of the pregnancy while my husband commuted between countries. I attended birth preparation classes, but no one spoke to me about consent, about my options, or about the physiology of what was about to happen. I came from a background where you trusted the doctor and didn't ask questions. So I didn't.

What happened in that operating theatre took me seven years to begin to understand.

My hands were tied to the bed. My glasses were removed. My husband was not allowed to be present. The twins arrived and were taken before I could see them clearly, before I could touch them, before I could take in that they were mine. I had a severe postpartum haemorrhage. I was told later that it had been "touch and go." No one explained what had happened. No one asked how I was.

In the weeks that followed, I kept the house tidy, I fed and dressed the babies, I did what was expected of me, and I cried in the shower where no one could see me.

Recovery from postnatal PTSD was long and slow. I treated the symptoms, depression, burnout, and panic attacks. Then I cycled through them again, because what was needed was something deeper: the courage to go back into the experience itself, from a place of safety, and finally make sense of it.

That process only became possible when, years later, I received my AuDHD diagnosis. It gave me the framework I had been missing my entire life. It explained the sensory overwhelm that had characterised every environment I'd ever worked in. It explained why the birth had shattered my system so completely. It explained why I had spent years feeling like too much and not enough at the same time, and why I had never been able to simply file the experience away and move on.

The failure had never been mine. It was systemic.

When I became pregnant again with my youngest daughter, I was determined to do things differently. I hired a doula. I advocated fiercely for myself. I tried for a home birth and was refused due to my haemorrhage history. I spent three days in the hospital attempting induction before, exhausted and clear-eyed, I accepted a caesarean.

As I was being rolled into the theatre, tears falling down my face, a nurse looked directly at me and said: I know you are scared. I know what happened to you was frightening. But we will do everything possible to keep you safe.

In that moment, I felt something release in my body that had been held for years.

That experience, the contrast between those two births, the seven years between them, the long road of training, therapy, and self-understanding that made the second one possible, is the foundation of everything I now offer.

Today I live in Málaga with my three daughters and the warmth of all the animals we have loved. It is full and sometimes chaotic, and exactly where I am meant to be.

Training & Credentials

My practice is grounded in specialist clinical training across perinatal mental health, birth trauma, neurodivergent support, and counselling. I hold:

• Bachelor's in Counselling — Academie voor Coaching en Counselling, Netherlands (2024)

• Doula Certification — BIA Doula Training, Amsterdam (2018)

• 3 Steps Rewind Practitioner — birth trauma resolution (2022)

• Anxiety in the Perinatal Period — TBR College of Perinatal Emotional Health (2021)

• Supporting Survivors in the Perinatal Period — Resilient Birth (2021)

• Supporting Neurodiverse Birth — Neurodivergent Birth UK (2024)