1:1 Support

Pregnancy has taught me that becoming a mother is not something we perform. It is something we listen into. 

In my own pregnancies — across countries, far from my family of origin in Brazil, learning to mother in a new land — I discovered that safety does not come from doing more. It comes from slowing enough to hear what is already there.

My background in psychology gave me language. My training in trauma-sensitive yoga and pre- and postnatal practice gave me tools.

But pregnancy asked for something deeper than knowledge. It asked for attunement.

This might mean pausing to notice the difference between anxiety and intuition. Or gently working with a memory that arises during this sensitive time. Or recognising when your nervous system is bracing — not because something is wrong, but because it has learned to protect.

I learned that the body does not respond well to urgency.  Pregnancy became, for me, a practice of presence, listening and choice. A practice of noticing. A practice of returning — again and again — to enough steadiness in my own nervous system so that I could attune not only to myself, but to my babies.

There were days that felt expansive. And days that felt shadowed. Hope and fear. Gratitude and grief. Strength and vulnerability — living side by side. I learned not to push the shadows away. But to meet them gently. With compassion. With kindness.

There is a time to thrive. And there is a time to soften. Here, we can explore both.

This work was born from witnessing how pregnancy is one of the great thresholds of a woman’s life — not yet the rite of passage itself, but the sacred growing and nourishing before it.

Birth is the crossing — the rite of passage. Pregnancy is the ground we prepare to cross. And yet, so often, pregnancy is treated only as preparation in a practical sense — appointments, checklists, measurements, plans. This is something different.

Held Within Pregnancy is relational, healing work. It welcomes pregnancy as the visceral, creative, deeply intelligent process that it is. It is a space to lay a steadier foundation — within your body and around you — so that safety, agency, inner resources, outer support, and love have room to blossom, to be fully felt.

We tend the nervous system. We strengthen your inner anchoring. We explore what support looks like beyond you. We allow duality rather than silencing it.

This is preparation — not performance. Preparation as resourcing. Preparation as connection. Preparation as attunement to yourself before you cross the threshold of birth.

We move slowly. We work within what feels possible. We honour what is already wise in you.

From this steadier ground, I offer different ways to be supported — whether you are longing for a practice to return to in quiet moments, a single conversation to steady the ground, or a deeper container to walk with you across the unfolding months of pregnancy.

You are welcome to begin where it feels right.