Client Testimonial

“During our birth reflection, Catherine was attentive, kind and present. A birth story can carry such a mixture of emotions, and Catherine made us feel safe and light as we told ours, as well as treating everything we said with the utmost importance. She had a powerful attention to detail that brought out aspects of our birth that we hadn't realised, and the impact of these revelations will go with us into our family life, potential future pregnancies, and emotional healing from the roller-coaster that is pregnancy and birth! I cannot recommend her services any higher.”

“We both really appreciated your kindness and how you listened so well, as well as the reassurance you gave and the different aspects you drew out from our experiences for further discussion. We both found it so valuable and have had a few good follow up conversations ourselves afterwards. I think the timing was really great too as we’ve just had [our child’s] birthday and I felt much lighter as we remembered her birth last year than I have done previously …thank you very much, you are providing an invaluable service! We will definitely be recommending you to others.” 

“I have to be (sheepish) and honest and say I wasn’t sure of the point of ‘birthing reflections’ in any format before using Catherine’s service. I was offered them by the hospital initially and declined, unsure of how they could help me and hesitant to trust my emotions to medical experts. However, after speaking to Catherine and partaking in her birthing reflection session, I can’t recommend her more thoroughly. She was absolutely brilliant. It was so indescribably helpful not only to have an empathetic human who listened well and could feed back, but her capacity to draw out certain themes and her insight as a trained midwife was so invaluable. Just being honest about my whole story and all my feelings in it was releasing in itself, but her medical knowledge also enabled me to fill in certain gaps and to understand why I had some of the troubles and worries I did. It helped my understanding of what happened massively, and gave me such a sense of relief. Knowing even just the basics of your body’s response helped me extend such grace to myself, and embrace the journey I went on in a whole new way. Getting to ask questions that maybe you weren’t mentally present enough to ask at the time just brings a certain closure that I needed so badly.

She emails you feedback after your session to put those themes and insights down on paper, and after having time to reflect on the session myself, to see those things written down was a new wave of helpfulness and closing certain mental loops that I’d been mulling over for a year. I can’t honestly describe how helpful it has been, my brain and my body feel at rest now. I’ve been able to rewrite my birth story in my own head and heart, interrupt the “failure” narrative I was living in emotionally and give myself, my body and my experience such grace and peace for what it accomplished in bringing my beautiful boy into the world. I can’t recommend Catherine’s service enough; in a world of Instagram and experts all clamouring to tell you the “right” way to show up in your story, Catherine was unbiased, un-pushy, and just there to help. It’s changed my history and I can’t thank her enough.”