Consultations for Professionals
Partnering with maternity professionals who are turning their trauma into their triumph.
As a birth professional it is my job to provide support to women and their families through pregnancy and birth and that means from time to time I also find myself needing support - both professionally and emotionally. I love knowing how easy it is for me to receive this help from Billie. A few times a year, Billie will find me in her inbox booking a session (or often a double session!). She listens, she affirms, she validates and she teaches. All with a wisdom unmatched. I continue to be able to do this wonderful, yet sometimes challenging work because I am supported so well and I am so grateful that Billie is one of those people I can turn to. Thank you Billie, I can't recommend your professional support more highly. - Leisa Masters, Earthside Birth Services, Australia
It doesn’t need to be said. Today’s technocratic medicalised birth services industry is harming more mothers and babies than it is saving. And it’s burning out their hard-working members.
Midwives, nurses, doulas, lactation counsellors, chiropractors, osteopaths, naturopaths, childbirth educators, and more are seeing the fallout from this industry and are feeling like collateral damage.
They try to advocate, educate, support, and mentor, but the industry is a well-oiled, perfectly functioning system where women’s physiology is controlled and co-opted for power and profit. While at the same time delivering some much-needed medical care for those very few who need it. Very well-intentioned people enter this system thinking they can effect change from within. Only to find out you can’t fix what ain’t broke.
Doulas tend to burn out within 3 years due to vicarious trauma. Midwives tend to have a burnout rate of about 5 years. And nurses often suffer from the very well-documented ‘compassion fatigue’ from caring more than the industry does. The result is an ever-cycling rotation of new and inexperienced workers or those who become numb and carry on.
Added to this mix of vicariously traumatised maternity workers are complementary health care practitioners who are caring for the women who are broken from their in-system births. They want to know how to do more before women enter the medical system for their births and have less damage to care for when they come out.
A professional consultation with Billie is your opportunity to talk about what you are experiencing, how it’s impacting you, and what you can do to begin the healing process. There are many strategies that can expedite your healing from vicarious trauma.
You may be looking for evidence-based and researched strategies for working with clients who have experienced obstetric violence and are sufering from birth-related trauma.
Perhaps you’d like to discuss new directions for working with clients outside the medicalised birth services industry and how that might look for you.
Now is the time for perinatal professionals to recognise the impact of birth-related trauma and to accept that they have a key role in reversing this global pandemic. Billie is the author of the world’s first and only certification course for becoming a trauma-informed perinatal professional that was accredited with distinction. You will receive a kind, trauma-informed, targeted consultation that will help you to move forward in your professional skills. No issue is too minor or too major to begin exploring the research and science.
Virtual consultations on a secure and encrypted platform.
$250 per hour.
“Billie is a legend in the making. Never before have I had the privilege to cross paths with someone who is not only incredibly inspiring, but loaded with endless knowledge. Many times since being certified as a birth doula I’ve found myself dumbfounded by hospital birth experiences. Billie has made herself available to me as a consultant and guide. Her knowledge has shone light on many a situation. So blessed are those of you who have this incredible woman in your community.” ~ Jodi Queensland, Australia