About Samantha

For three decades, I’ve walked alongside people through some of life’s most tender, transformative and powerful moments.

My journey has taken me across the world into homes, hospitals and communities, and also deeply inward, through my own thresholds of motherhood, loss, healing and growth.

I’m a nurse, a postpartum midwife, a researcher and educator, and a mother of three. I’ve experienced three home births, each unique, and three very different postpartum seasons. I’ve also known the quiet sorrow, shame & guilt of pregnancy loss and infertility.

These experiences, both personal and professional, shape how I show up in this work: with reverence, skill, compassion and a deep respect for the complexities of each story.

A Grounded and Soulful Approach

My academic path includes a Master’s Degree in Public Health (specialising in maternal health), postgraduate studies with the Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath and Death, and traditional postpartum care training through Innate Traditions.

Alongside the clinical and academic, I’ve spent two and a half decades immersed in yoga and ancient wisdom practices. This blend of the sacred and the scientific brings a grounded, soulful and embodied depth to my approach.

What Guides My Work

Over the years, I’ve become less interested in having the right answers, and more interested in asking better questions.

What does it mean to care well?

How do we support people through experiences that can’t be fixed?

What helps someone feel seen, heard, and understood during times of profound vulnerability?

Again and again, I find myself returning to the same belief: how we show up matters as much as what we know.

Knowledge, evidence, and clinical skill are important. But they’re only part of the picture. The quality of our presence, our capacity to listen, our willingness to stay with uncertainty, and our commitment to our own ongoing development all shape the care we provide.

I’m guided by my own experiences of loss, by the stories women and families entrust me with, and by the growing body of evidence that informs best practice.

Some of the most meaningful learning happens where lived experience and research meet.

Putting Vision Into Practice

My work sits at the intersection of perinatal bereavement care, maternal mental health, reflective practice, and practitioner sustainability.

I work directly with women and families experiencing pregnancy loss, stillbirth, and neonatal death, while also supporting the practitioners, organisations, and communities who care for them.

A particular area of interest is the intersection of bereavement and postpartum care, recognising that grief and physical recovery often unfold side by side and both deserve thoughtful, compassionate support.

Through education, training, consultancy, writing, and reflective learning opportunities, I help translate research, lived experience, and professional wisdom into compassionate and meaningful care.

At the heart of my work is a belief that professional development is about more than acquiring knowledge. It is also about cultivating the self-awareness, reflective skills, and sustainable ways of working needed to remain present in work that asks so much of us.

A Little More About Me

I’m someone who notices the small things – the smell of freshly brewed coffee, the quiet of early mornings, the way light filters through leaves.

I love lists, deep conversations, big earrings, and dancing in my kitchen. I’m a hugger, a deep listener, and a grounded dreamer who believes in the power of everyday rituals to hold us steady through life’s many transitions.

An Invitation

If this speaks to you, I warmly invite you to explore what’s on offer, or simply get in touch. You are welcome here, just as you are.