If you are looking for a media spokesperson or a comment on lived experience of birth trauma, perinatal mental health, PTSD or having a baby in neonatal. Someone to be your conference speaker to help raise awareness or help educate your audience. If you need information on ways to support parenting, improve maternity or maternal/perinatal mental health. If you would like a guest post about issues relating to birth trauma, premature birth, perinatal mental health, or maternity care.
Please get in touch.

A Lived Experience Perspective

My experiences in life of healing and personal growth means that I understand what it means to struggle, to want to look for answers to life’s challenges and seek inner healing.

My experiences can be used as education to help raise awareness and understanding of birth trauma and perinatal PTSD. This can provide valuable insight that can help improve care given women and their families, help reduce trauma during birth but also the services in place to support families with perinatal mental health.

I offer consultation to help develop and support the development of new pathways, policies or toolkits that support families and the care they receive in maternity or perinatal mental health services.

Working in the NHS but also having lived experience gives me a unique insight into the challenges of both those who need care, but also those who are responsible to deliver services.

If I can support you in the quality improvement or development of your services please get in touch.

Change Agent

I believe change is possible, and no matter who you are, you can be that small link that drives innovation and change. I graduated from the NHS improving quality School of Healthcare Radicals as a Change Agent and strive to make a difference to services both nationally and locally. I engage in various campaigns during the year and if you have a campaign you feel I could bring value to please get in touch.

Workshops and Training

I have experience of supporting and organising study days, training sessions, workshops and conferences. So if you would like help with a workshop you are organising, or would like me to attend to share my story/experiences or run a workshop/awareness training session please get in touch.

Author

One of the things that I always dreamed about was writing a book Beyond Birth Trauma about my journey to healing from birth trauma and perinatal PTSD. Achieving this has been a huge personal accomplishment that has taken time and dedication. My hope is to write more about supporting emotional wellbeing as well as a little more creative content too!

Why should you think about working with me?

I am passionate and dedicated to making a difference to the lives of others. 

 I have embraced my experiences and understand they can be used to help others, improve services and bring about change.

‘My experiences of how I needed to nurture myself in order to grow my life helped me to understand how our stories can be a foundation on which we can build a future that embraces our hopes, goals and aspirations.’ 

What qualifies me to work with you?

Training I have undertaken;

• QCF level 3 qualification in Maternity and Paediatric care
• Life Coaching Practitioner (Advanced Diploma) 
• CBT for Pregnancy Specific Anxiety and Tokophobia
• Mindfulness Practitioner (Master)
• Hypnotherapy
• Birth Buddy 
• MHFA mental health first aid qualification
• IHV training in perinatal mental health
• Supporting Babyloss (SANDS)
• Five ways to wellbeing
• CONI training
• Drugs, smoking and Alcohol in pregnancy
• Perinatal Mental Health Maudsley Simulation Training
• Solihull Approach, including trauma.
• Mellow Bumps
• Breastfeeding management and introduction to solids and much more!

If like me you believe that together we are stronger, that we can all make a difference, that every small act can be the making of big changes to the lives of others, then we have much work that can be done.

I give my all to projects to make sure they become a reality. You can read about the projects I have supported here.

So please get in touch, I love to hear new ideas.

You can email me at emmajcushnan@gmail.com