I am a trauma-informed, neuro-affirming perinatal counsellor and coach, and I work with neurodivergent mothers — ADHD, autistic, or both — through pregnancy, birth trauma, the profound shift of becoming a mother, and the early years that follow.

Much of my work sits with women who have spent a lifetime sensing they are somehow too much, or not enough, without ever being given the language for why. I am AuDHD myself, diagnosed as an adult, and a mother of three, including twins. I know what it is to move through birth and early motherhood in a nervous system that feels everything more intensely than most — and to do it far from home. My own experience of birth trauma and burnout is not incidental to this work. It is the reason I do it.

My training is both clinical and practical. I completed my counselling degree in the Netherlands, and I am also a certified doula. So I understand not only the emotional landscape of the perinatal period, but the physiological reality of the birth room, and how clinical environments can land on a body that processes the world differently or carries previous trauma.

My understanding of this is personal as well as professional. I am Portuguese, but I built my adult life abroad — thirteen years in the UK, a year in Canada, five in the Netherlands, and now Málaga. My twins' pregnancy was followed by the NHS; my youngest's in Canada. Both times, I flew home to Portugal to give birth — the first a traumatic birth, the second a healing one. I know maternity care from the inside across several systems, and I know the particular weight of carrying a pregnancy far from family — including the strange ache of returning to your own home country and finding it no longer feels entirely like home.

 My work is to offer a gentle, expert, and unhurried space — to process birth trauma, to think through the realities of ADHD and autism in pregnancy and beyond, and to feel a little more grounded in your own story. It is also there for the harder, quieter work that comes with it: burnout, and the grief of naming things late — a diagnosis of your own, a diagnosis for your child, or the slow letting go of the mother you thought you would be. I work online with women across the world, with birth preparation and doula support offered in person in Málaga.