Resources for Birth & Mental Health Professionals

Tokophobia, the extreme fear of pregnancy and birth that affects millions of women, yet it’s often misunderstood or overlooked.

These resources were written to help midwives, doulas, therapists, and birth professionals understand tokophobia, recognise its impact, and learn how to better support your clients.

Start exploring now and deepen your knowledge!

My Tokophobia Story

People sometimes assume I do this work from the outside, as an expert who studied the fear. I did not. I do it because I lived it. This is my tokophobia story: where it began, the years I spent not understanding it, the shock that forced me to face it, and how I came out…

Using the PIRP With Perinatal Clients

If you support women around pregnancy, birth and motherhood, one of the hardest parts of the work is simply knowing where to start. A woman arrives frightened, often unable to articulate what she is most afraid of, and you have limited time. The Perinatal Inner Readiness Profile, the PIRP, is a perinatal assessment tool I…

Tokophobia and Mental Health

When my tokophobia was at its worst, I was also wrestling with anxiety and depression, and I treated them as separate problems. They were not. Once I cleared the reproductive fear at the root, a surprising amount of the rest came with it. That experience, repeated again and again in my clients, completely changed how…

Why Fearless Birthing Is a Game-Changer for Birth Professionals

Most professional development teaches you about a problem. What practitioners actually want is to be able to do something about it, in the room, with a real client in front of them. That is the difference Fearless Birthing makes, and it is why tokophobia training for professionals works differently here: you leave able to clear…

Can You Overcome Tokophobia? (Yes – Here’s How)

This is the question I am asked more than any other, usually with a held breath behind it. And it is the one I most love to answer, because the answer is a big, clear yes. I know that for certain, not just because I overcame my own tokophobia, but because I have watched hundreds…

Why Tokophobia Belongs in Mental Health, Not Maternity

Where a condition lives determines who looks for it, who is trained in it, and who gets helped. And tokophobia lives in the wrong place. We have filed it under maternity, when it is, at its core, a mental health condition. That single misfiling explains a great deal of why so many women fall through…