I provide comprehensive doula support to guide you through every stage of labor with care and confidence. My support includes:

• Holistic comfort measures: techniques like massage, counter-pressure, acupressure, birthing positions, rhythmic movement, and breath guidance help you stay grounded, ease discomfort, and connect deeply with your body.

• Bodily awareness and empowerment: I help you understand your body during labour, fostering trust in your body’s natural capabilities and supporting informed decision-making.

• Guidance on choices and preferences: Together, we explore your options and create birth preferences that reflect your values and needs.

• Partner support and empowerment: I assist your partner, giving them confidence and an extra pair of hands, so they can remain engaged and supportive throughout labor.

• Emotional safety and reassurance: I hold space for fears or uncertainties, guiding you back to calm and connection, and offering rituals or grounding exercises if needed.

• Continuous, steady companionship: I am present with you through every wave of labor, offering reassurance, encouragement, and celebration of each small and powerful moment.

With this approach, you get hands-on physical support, emotional guidance, and partner empowerment, ensuring a safe and positive birth experience.

What does my support for you look like?

I provide personalised doula support throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period, helping you feel calm, confident, embodied, and fully supported.

My services include:

• Physical comfort: massage, birthing positions, breathing, movement, and acupressure

• Emotional support: holding space, reassurance, and coping guidance

• Partner guidance: helping them feel confident and included

• Birth planning support: exploring options and creating preferences that reflect your values

I offer these services in Bussum, Hilversum, Naarden, Amsterdam, Almere, and Utrecht, usually within a 30 km radius of Bussum.

You can see the full details of my doula support packages below

Want to feel fully prepared — but also excited — for your birth? Having a doula by your side offers continuous emotional and physical support, helping to ease pain, reduce interventions, and encourage a greater sense of empowerment.

You might consider a doula if you want:

• Deeper support during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum

• A familiar, experienced presence who helps you stay focused and empowered

• Guidance with tools like breathing, positions, movement, or mindfulness

• Someone to hold space without judgment, fully focused on your needs

• A consistent companion who centers your voice and helps you make informed choices

Why choose me specifically?
The most important aspect of choosing a doula, is the connection you feel when you’re with them - do you feel like you can be yourself with them? Do you feel safe and seen?

How past clients have highlighted my approach:

• Grounded, loving, human presence in the birth space

• Ability to read the energy of the room and respond intuitively

• Knowing when to step in to create support or let the moment naturally unfold

• Providing calm and confidence, helping both parents feel reassured and empowered

I work in harmony alongside your midwife and other medical practitioners to support your birth.

A midwife provides expert medical care during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, ensuring the health of you and your baby.

A doula offers emotional, physical, and informational support throughout pregnancy and labor, but does not perform clinical tasks or have direct responsibility for medical care.

Typically, a doula arrives earlier in labour and stays by your side continuously, while a midwife may join when labour is more established. In hospital births under second-line care, midwives and nurses may change shifts — this is where a familiar doula can provide stability, reassurance, and grounding.

My approach empowers you to make informed decisions and fosters a healthy collaboration between your entire care team.

• Certified Birth Doula, Birth in Action (BiA), 2025

• Advanced Birth Doula Training, BiA, 2024

• Foundational Birth Doula Training, BiA, 2023

• RYT200 Vinyasa Yoga Teacher, 2019

I bring this training to provide holistic support for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, including emotional guidance, physical comfort, and mindful movement.

You can find the details of my doula packages below under My Doula Packages.

I also offer private yoga classes at home for €50 (ex VAT), providing personalised guidance in breathing, movement, and mindfulness to support pregnancy, birth, or postpartum wellbeing.

I typically serve Amsterdam and the surrounding area, including Amstelveen, Diemen, Almere, Hoofddorp, and Weesp, as well as Het Gooi, including Bussum, Hilversum, Naarden, Huizen, Blaricum, and Muiden. I also serve Utrecht.

I usually operate within a 30 km radius of Bussum.

I am a native English speaker and have a strong understanding of Dutch, allowing me to provide clear and personalised birth support for English-speaking clients in the Netherlands. My language skills help ensure effective communication with you, your partner, and your care team throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

Yes! I offer remote doula support, tailored to your needs. This includes online consultations, birth planning guidance, emotional support, and partner coaching, so you can feel confident and supported no matter where you are.