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Erika's Personal Profile


“I’d rather see my world with infinite possibilities and discover the limits, than set up limits and then never find out what else was possible”.  Erika

I am a mother of 2 lively boys, a qualified doula, childbirth educator and life coach, peer group facilitator and have completed my NLP practitioner training.  I have attended around 150 births in Australia and U.S.A for over 12 years and am based in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne.  I have worked with people from varying cultures, lifestyles, family dynamics and values.

I have personally experienced both labour with a breech baby resulting in a c-section and then a water birth with my second at a free standing birth centre with one-to-one midwifery care.

With my life partner of 20yrs I have traveled and worked abroad, owner built our strawbale home in Ringwood and for 10 years home educated our boys.  

I am a flexible, open minded, curious person; eager to learn and understand people, enjoy life and work on making the best of life's experiences.

Training

  • Birth Attendant/Doula training at Santa Rosa Womens Health and Birth Centre  California 1999
  • Rhea Dempsey’s Birthing Wisdom’s Birth Attendants Course 2001
  • Basic Childbirth Education Training Course for Health Professionals 2003 (National Association of Childbirth Educators)
  • Hypnobirthing workshop – 3 days with Denise Love Nov 2004
  • Qualified Life Coach – Cert IV 2006 at Life Coach Institute Australia
  • National coordinator and group facilitator of BaBs - Birthing and Babies Suppot groups
  • Accredited N.A.C.E Childbirth Educator 2008
  • Qualified N.L.P practitioner - With James Tsakalos 2009
  • Regular attendance at Professional development conferences
  • Currently doing further training for a diploma of Chilbirth Education with Childbirth International CBI
  • Refresher NLP practitioner training with James Tsakalos 2011
  • Birthing with Hypnosis training for doulas - Open to Life (Anna Urbanski)
  • Motherhood – giving birth and raising my 2 sons

“For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of love, power, and self discipline”



To find out more information please Contact Me