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The Baby Calmer Infant & Early Years Somatic Sleep Therapist; Nutritionist - Mental Health; Counsellor - Birth Trauma

Anne Thistleton: The Baby Calmer holds a Bachelor of Education, Master of Education, Master of Counselling, Grad Dip Nutritional Medicine - Mental Health, and is also a qualified Play Therapist, Sandplay Therapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Pre Peri and Postnatal Trauma and Attachment Therapist, Brainspotting Practitioner, Craniosacral Practitioner, Interactive Drawing Therapist, Nutritionist - Mental Health and Certified Clinical Aromatherapist. Other qualifications include: Qualified Mediator; Registered Circle of Security Educator; Bringing Baby Home Certified Educator; HUG Your Baby Educator; Certified Infant Massage Educator; Certified Dunstan Baby Language Educator; Certified Happiest Baby on the Block Educator

Anne Thistleton is a clinical member of PACFA, and is a registered teacher in Queensland.

16/11/2025

🌿 SELLING FAST ... ONLY A FEW SESSIONS STILL AVAILABLE: NURTURE HER - Black Friday Special - Limited Availability
Weaving together the Therapeutic Art of Somatic Touch Therapy and the Sacred Ritual of Aromatherapy Anointing … 3-Hour Somatic Touch & Aromatherapy Session ...

This 3-hour session offers a quiet, restorative landing place for your nervous system to pause, unwind, and gently find its way back to ease. Delivering a deeply attuned therapeutic experience, crafted to dissolve tension and restore a sense of inner quiet - a nurturing reset to bring you home to yourself again.

If what you need most is to settle into stillness and be exquisitely held and supported, this session will gently invite your nervous system into profound rest and nurtured restoration.

🌿 Session Intention

During your 3-hour session, you’ll be welcomed into a quiet, restful space and guided through a series of deeply therapeutic experiences - curated with your individual nervous system needs in mind.

We begin with a personalised Aromatherapy Anointing Ritual, placing supportive oils where your body is most longing for nourishment.

This is followed by an unhurried Somatic Touch Therapy session, offering attuned contact to ease tension, soften overwhelm, and support your nervous system toward restoring regulation. This may include nurturing support through the head, neck, shoulders, back, chest, diaphragm, sacrum, kidneys/adrenals, limbs, feet - or wherever your body is calling for supportive and attuned presence.

We finish with a soft integrative rest, allowing your body to digest, deepen, and settle into the shift - leaving you grounded, quieter inside, and more connected to yourself.

💰 Black Friday Pricing — Save $70

✨ Weekday sessions:
$330 → $260

✨ Saturday sessions:
$370 → $300

A rare opportunity to receive a 3-hour therapeutic session at a significantly reduced rate at the end of the year.

If your private health insurance includes counselling, you may be able to claim the counselling component of this session with your provider.

📍 Location

Sessions are held in my private therapy rooms in Sadliers Crossing, Ipswich, QLD. As this is a private, home-based practice, the full practice address is provided upon confirmation of your booking with the receipt of your non-refundable prepayment.

Availability:

Saturday 29 November
🕗 8:00am – 11:00am — $300 SOLD
🕚 11:30am – 2:30pm — $300 SOLD
🕒 3:00pm – 6:00pm — $300 SOLD

Saturday 6 December
🕗 8:00am – 11:00am — $300 SOLD
🕚 11:30am – 2:30pm — $300 SOLD
🕒 3:00pm – 6:00pm — $300 SOLD

Monday 8 December
🕗 8:00am – 11:00am — $260
🕚 11:30am – 2:30pm — $260
🕚 3:00pm – 6:00pm — $260 SOLD

Monday 15 December
🕗 8:00am – 11:00am — $260 SOLD
🕚 11:30am – 2:30pm — $260 SOLD
🕒 3:00pm – 6:00pm — $260 SOLD

✨ To book your session

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📞 Phone/Text: 0420 942 256

07/11/2025
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This Easter ... Jesus is with all mothers in their silent suffering ... especially through birth trauma and the overwhel...
21/04/2025

This Easter ... Jesus is with all mothers in their silent suffering ... especially through birth trauma and the overwhelming, disorienting early days of motherhood.

He Is With Her

She doesn't feel like a mother.
She feels like a wound.
Split open too fast, too far,
Left with a baby and no one to carry her.

The nights are long.
The cries are sharp.
Her body aches in places she can't name.
Her soul does too.

They told her this was joy.
But she feels only the weight.
Of milk. Of blood. Of pressure. Of grief.
Of everyone else’s expectations.

And when she says nothing,
Jesus does not fill the silence with shame.
He sits with her there—
In the stillness between sobs,
In the rocking chair that squeaks in the dark.

He remembers a mother,
Who bled in a barn.
He remembers being born into sweat and pain.
He remembers the cry of a baby,
And the emptiness that follows a sacrifice.

He does not stand above her suffering.
He enters it.

He is there
In the moment she doubts her worth.
In the scream she swallows so her baby won't startle.
In the shower where she cries with the water running.
In the frozen gaze when someone asks,
"Isn't it just the best?"

He touches the places no one sees—
Not to fix, but to witness.
To hold.
To honour.

Because this is sacred ground.
Even here—especially here—
He is not waiting for her to "come back to life."

He is already in the grave with her.
Keeping watch.
And when she is ready—
Not a moment before—
He will rise with her, too.

Special Offer:  Month of April 2025FIVE WEEK CONTAINERWednesdays ONLY3 Sessions – usually $495 … only $435 ($145 per ses...
27/03/2025

Special Offer: Month of April 2025

FIVE WEEK CONTAINER

Wednesdays ONLY

3 Sessions – usually $495 … only $435 ($145 per session) AUD
6 Sessions - usually $990 … only $750 ($120 per session) AUD
9 Sessions - usually $1485 … only $945 ($105 per session) AUD
12 Sessions - usually $1980 … only $1085 ($90 per session) AUD

You can book as single sessions, double sessions, or intensives (ie half day – 3 sessions or full day – 6 sessions).

All sessions must be fully pre-paid and are non-refundable. Should illness or an emergency situation arise, sessions are transferable but will not be refundable. Transferred sessions must be completed within 7 days. Credit card fees will apply.

Available session times (Brisbane, Australia time zone) are:

8.00 am - 9.15 am Face to Face and Zoom available
9.30 am - 10.45 am Face to Face and Zoom available
11.00 am - 12.15 pm Face to Face and Zoom available
12.30 pm - 1.15 pm Face to Face and Zoom available
2.00 pm - 3.15 pm Face to Face and Zoom available
3.30 pm – 4.45 pm Face to Face and Zoom available
5.00 pm – 6.15 pm Face to Face and Zoom available
6.30 pm – 7.45 pm Zoom only
8.00 pm – 9.15 pm Zoom only

All published appointment times are subject to availability and offered on a first come, first served basis.

Please email - info@thebabycalmer.com.au to enquire or book.

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