I'm so excited that you are reading this because your search for a course that's right for you can end right here! You can stop searching and start looking forward to your baby's birth.
A Focused Birth is a comprehensive program of antenatal classes designed to fully prepare you to have a positive birth experience.
It's a truly unique course created by me, Justine, a Registered Midwife, Experienced Childbirth Educator and Clinical Hypnotherapist.
This program is perfect for parents to be.
You can choose an online self-paced course, or live classes in Williamstown Melbourne with extra content provided as online learning. Whichever course you choose all the information is included.
You’ll learn invaluable skills and techniques to help you; work with contractions, feel relaxed, empowered and confident leading up to your baby’s birth and into parenthood.
You will have the best elements of standard Australian hospital antenatal classes - including evidence-based, practical and up-to-date information given by a Registered Midwife, and also many of the fundamental elements of other approaches that are more focused on being relaxed such as in Calmbirth and Hypnobirthing. The combination of the theory, with practical skills and techniques for feeling calm and in control will ensure you can enjoy the rest of your pregnancy feeling confident about your ability to labour.
These classes on their own are packed full of extra hints and tips for labour and birth and feeding your baby and also caring for a newborn. And you might decide that's enough for you. But you also have the option to upgrade your experience, to add individual hypnotherapy sessions, to target any specific fears or issues you may have regarding your pregnancy or birth.
You will love A Focused Birth if you are:
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As a Clinical Hypnotherapist I help people deal with many of life's challenges.
Hypnotherapy can provide rapid and effective help without the added concern of taking medication.
Common issues I can help with are; existing anxiety, dealing with previous loss, birth trauma, concern about coping with lack of sleep, handling changing relationships, loss of identity when taking a career break, as well as handling the uncertainty that birth entails.
I have over 20 years experience as a midwife in the UK and Australia, working in both private and public hospitals. I have helped thousands of women in every scenario, from homebirths and water-births, births with complex issues, intervention, and caesarean births.
I am passionate about supporting women and families to be as relaxed and confident as they can be, whatever the circumstances. I have spent 20 years working in the Birth Centre and for the past few years have been an educator as part of the Child Birth Education Team. This means I am up to date with current research, policies and procedures when it comes to all things birth related.
In addition, I am a government accredited Clinical Hypnotherapist, with an Honours degree in Psychology. In my private practice I specialise in treating anxiety, trauma, fertility issues, pain management and phobias, as well as hypnobirthing techniques.
Bringing together these sets of skills, knowledge, and experience I can guide and prepare you to have the positive birth experience that you desire.
Next live course in Williamstown Melbourne starts Saturday Oct 19