I'm a Clinical Psychologist on a mission to help parents who love work and their families to stop apologising and start enjoying life more. Therapy. Consultancy.
I can support your mental wellbeing through pregnancy and back into work. Hypnobirthing.
03/12/2025
I asked if I could sit near the stage in case my undiagnosed, anxious daughter needed me.
The school said no.
They said: “We just leave them.”
Excuse me? Since when is ignoring a terrified child a festive tradition? 🎄🫠
So when she froze. When the terror tears started. My husband didn’t wait. He didn’t care about the 60 parents staring. He walked onto that stage, picked her up, and walked out.
Best. Nativity. Ever.
If your school tells you your child has to “tough it out”, they are wrong. You are allowed to rescue them.
Read the full story of our Nativity Rescue Mission and my top tips for an enjoyable nativity for neurodivergent kids (or any kids who might hate it) over at my link in bio.
02/12/2025
Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt like a complete monster because you tried to impose a “Magic Christmas” on your family? 🙋♀️🎄
I used to think my job was to “engrottofy” the house until it looked like Santa threw up in the living room. Then the “dark year” happened. My son took one look at the flashing lights and hid under a blanket.
It turns out, for us, magic doesn’t look like a John Lewis advert. It looks like: ✨ Slow transitions (no big “reveal”) ✨ Letting them choose what goes up and where (even if it’s weird) ✨ No surprises that disrupt the safe space
If you’re staring at a box of baubles dreading the meltdown. Stop. You have permission to do less. You have permission to do it differently.
Read the full story of how I learned to calm down and create an Autism friendly Christmas in our house.
Link in bio
02/12/2024
What is it about infantilising women’s health? Mental and physical? Morning sickness sounds small, inconsequential. Baby blues sounds like a toddler that dropped their ice cream. If we want women’s health to be taken seriously we’ve got to watch our language. Double tap if you agree ❤️❤️
31/10/2024
What scared/scares you most about being a new parent? Head to my substack for ideas and practical audios to help ❤️
03/06/2023
New episode of Dr Tara Quinn-Cirillo’s podcast the adversity psychologist and it’s me talking about severe pregnancy sickness!
25/04/2023
Because sometimes our minds make the sickness worse... Share with anyone you know who is pregnant and sick...
Intrusive thoughts, what they mean (and what they don't mean) and how to deal with them when you are pregnant and sick.
14/11/2022
Do your thoughts scare you sometimes??
Me. Too. It’s normal.
Read this if you’ve ever felt scared by the dark thoughts your mind can throw at us during pregnancy and when we are looking after a tiny baby. Save and follow as I’ve got more coming this week on dealing with dark/intrusive thoughts.
07/11/2022
Sick, exhausted or in pain? Try this exercise when you feel like you can’t function. It helped me claim just a little bit of my self back (link in bio)
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Hypnobirthing, Psychological Therapy and Mindful Parenting
My blog started after I had my daughter, Robyn, in December 2016. At first I was just blogging about my attempts to parent her mindfully through some fairly difficult times. As I met more new mums and heard their (often horrendous) birth stories I was also inspired to start writing about birth and the positive impact hypnobirthing had on my life. As a Clinical Psychologist and a friend I was upset to see the impact difficult births were having on my friend’s experiences of parenthood.
When Robyn was ten months I went back to work in the NHS as a Clinical Psychologist. I was already pregnant with Leo and my husband was deployed overseas for seven months. Robyn got sick and with no family to look after her and no partner to support me I rarely made it to work. Mindful parenting and my mental health took a nose dive. I quickly realised that something had to change.
At Christmas I had a light bulb moment! My heart was telling me that I wanted to help women like the ones I was having coffee with on a regular basis. The women who had been robbed of the empowering experience of birth. I also wanted to help those who might be struggling to enjoy parenthood for other reasons or who, like me, found themselves struggling to be the parent they want to be due to difficult circumstances.
So Mind, Body and Baby was born! I battled the beast from the East to get up to Solihull and train as a hypnobirthing teacher with the Calm Birth School and I began seeing clients for psychological therapy where we were living in North London.
Then this happened...
And we also moved to Plymouth for my husband’s work. So I went back to just blogging for awhile, this time about everything birth, parenting and mental health. Writing is therapy for me and I love it. You can read the blog here.
I wanted to get to know the pregnant ladies and other baby businesses in the area so in December I co-hosted a pregnancy pamper afternoon with Nick from Blossoming Bumps and Babies. It was amazing so we will do it again. I also had the pleasure to introduce 20 couples to hypnobirthing at a taster session and to work with three couples who have all now brought their beautiful babies into the world. It was a pretty awesome month...
And now I’m fully back! Offering psychological therapy and hypnobirthing online and in person from my consulting room in Mutley, Plymouth. I’m continuing my mission to help all new mums enjoy pregnancy, birth and parenthood and I especially want to help those who had a difficult birth the first time round.
This year I am going to I’m planning to set up a facebook community and a podcast specifically to help those who have suffered birth trauma. I’m revamping my instagram as a place to inspire women to celebrate their power (@mindful.rosie). I’m also planning big things for 2019 around mindful parenting and more events to pamper pregnant ladies and new mums. So watch this space!
