An 8-month Fearless Birthing Professional credential for therapists, counsellors, pregnancy and birth coaches, and perinatal mental health professionals delivering structured multi-session work.
This isn't reactive fear clearance in the flow of birth-work practice – that's the Fearless Birthing Practitioner credential. This is the deeper version of the work. You'll design programmes that unfold across months. Map what's going on underneath. Sequence the work. Hold the long arc.
You'll be trained to apply the Head Trash Clearance method to the full landscape of perinatal fear and anxiety – with the RAD framework as your clinical lens, the Birth Readiness Blueprint as your assessment tool, and the depth-work skills to deliver multi-session programmes with clients carrying compounded fear, anxiety, OCD, or complex emotional history.
If any of that lands, you're in the right place.
Up to 35% of women experience tokophobia (severe fear of pregnancy and childbirth). Add the broader landscape of perinatal anxiety, fertility-related anxiety, OCD presentations around motherhood, postnatal mental health complexity, perimenopausal re-emergence of fear, and the prevalence becomes significant across most professional caseloads working with women.
And yet most therapy and coaching training programmes don't include perinatal-specific fear and anxiety work. The clinical literature treats tokophobia as under-researched. Reproductive Anxiety Disorder (RAD) – the framework that names the lifespan-wide pattern of fear and perinatal anxiety – wasn't part of any training programme until this one.
That's the gap this credential fills.
The Head Trash Clearance method is a therapeutic-grade fear-clearance methodology developed over 16+ years. It has three operations: Clearance (the base technique), Absolute Healing (wound-level work, Level 3), and the Ladder of Growth (measurement framework). FB Professional trains you in clearance applied at depth across multi-session programmes.
The RAD framework provides the clinical scaffolding currently missing from mainstream therapy training. The Birth Readiness Blueprint is the assessment tool that translates RAD awareness into structured client work.
In eight months, you'll be certified to deliver this work at depth.
This is depth work. Structured, assessment-led, multi-session – the kind of practice you build a specialism around.
The Fearless Birthing method is powered by Head Trash Clearance (HTC) – the fear-clearance methodology Alexia developed to clear her own tokophobia during her second trimester.
HTC is a complete methodology with three operations:
The method itself is:
Practitioners frequently describe HTC as "the missing piece" their existing modality couldn't reach. Therapists, counsellors, and coaches working with women carrying perinatal anxiety, OCD presentations, or RAD patterns find that HTC clears what cognitive and even somatic interventions can leave intact.
You'll learn the full method in Level 1 (using it on yourself), then refine it for depth client work in Level 2 Advanced.
There's a structural feature of HTC that practitioners notice within weeks of training: the work flow reverses.
In most therapeutic or coaching work, you spend sessions waiting for the real material to surface. You sense there's more underneath your client's stated issue. You can't get to it directly. You wait, you ask, you push gently. You go around in circles. That's the part that wears you out – the dragging.
HTC reverses that. The material comes up quickly – at the start of the work, not buried under weeks of careful excavation. Once it's there, your training does what it's good at: your reading, your clinical judgement, your relational fluency, your strategic frame.
That single change – material reliably arriving rather than having to be excavated – is what makes FB Professionals describe their sessions as leaving them lighter, not drained.
This credential is structured as two sequential phases.
The work you do on yourself first.
You apply the Head Trash Clearance method to your own emotional material – your own fears, anxieties, and patterns. Bi-weekly live training calls with Alexia. This isn't optional self-help. It's professional foundation work.
Why this matters for therapists, counsellors, and coaches specifically: Working with reproductive fear, perinatal anxiety, and tokophobia surfaces practitioner material. Your own reproductive history, fertility journey, birth experiences, hormonal transitions, and intergenerational pattern shape how you hold this work. Level 1 surfaces and clears what you're carrying – before you do this work at depth with clients.
You'll also learn what it feels like to shift stuff. When you tell a client "yes, this works; yes, your fear can clear; yes, it can happen this fast," you're saying it from firsthand experience. Not repeating someone else's claim. You can describe what you noticed before, what you noticed after, what the shift felt like. That's the kind of integrity-proof that lands with clients in a way nothing else does.
Required to progress to Level 2 Advanced: 20 clearances completed during the two months. This is the threshold of fluency required before moving into the practitioner-skills training of Level 2.
You emerge from Level 1 with:
The depth work. Long-term programmes with clients.
Six months of bi-weekly 2-hour live training calls with Alexia. This is where the specialist Professional skills are built:
Two parallel credentials for two different ways of working. Equal weight – not junior/senior.
What you do: Programmatic clearance – design and deliver structured multi-session healing and coaching programmes
What you do: Reactive clearance – fear clearance in the moment, in the flow of birth-work practice
These aren't two tiers of the same thing. Reactive clearance and programmatic clearance are two different professional skills for two different working contexts. Choose by what you actually do with clients – not which credential sounds more impressive.
If you're running structured weekly or bi-weekly sessions across 8+ weeks with clients who carry anxiety, OCD, or compounded emotional history alongside their reproductive fear – you want this credential.
If you're integrating fear clearance into hours-long antenatal sessions, birth-prep packages, or live birth support – you want FB Practitioner.
The Blueprint is the perinatal-specific assessment tool Alexia developed to translate RAD awareness into structured client work. In this credential, you're trained to deliver it.
Baseline assessment + healing direction for the work that follows
Session planning informed by the Blueprint output – which themes to address, in what sequence
Outcome measurement – what's shifted, what's resolved, what remains
The Blueprint informs your work, it doesn't replace your modality – it tells you WHAT to work on, your existing skills tell you HOW
Baked into your credential. You don't pay extra. You don't add it on. From the day you complete Level 2 Advanced, you have Blueprint capability and a starter bundle ready to use.
The integrity-proof point: This is the same tool Alexia uses in her own 1:1 work. What you'll be trained to deliver is what's practised in the field.
For some practitioners – particularly results-led ones – HTC ends up becoming the primary method.
Leah King is HTC's Therapeutic Lead. She trained as a clinical social worker in the US (significant investment in licensed therapy training) and now uses HTC almost exclusively because it produces what her therapy training was reaching for, faster. Alexia herself stopped actively using NLP and Thought Field Therapy when she found HTC produced what those modalities were aiming at, faster.
For other practitioners, HTC slots in alongside existing modalities and the toolkit broadens rather than narrows.
Either way: your existing training never goes to waste. The attachment theory, the developmental psychology, the trauma frameworks, the coaching frameworks (GROW, GROW-UP), the somatic awareness – all of it powers your HTC practice. The active toolkit you reach for may narrow over time. That's a choice each practitioner makes based on what's producing results.
There's a part of FB Professional training most credentials don't include. It changes whether you'll still be doing this work in ten years.
HTC is self-led. The method is structured so you can use it on yourself. By the time you've finished Level 1, you have a tool you can use on yourself for the rest of your working life. Level 2 Advanced deepens your fluency with that tool.
The mental health crisis means practitioners are carrying enormous loads right now. Clients arrive with heavier material than most training prepared anyone for. Caseloads are full. Supervision is patchy. The residue accumulates.
Practitioners trained in HTC don't carry it home. You hear the client's material, help them clear it, and don't take any of it with you. You're holding space – not absorbing it.
If something does land – a session where you've been triggered, where a client's material has hooked into something of yours – you do a clearance on it the same day. The hook clears. You don't go home with it. You don't bring it to supervision twelve weeks later still carrying the weight.
This isn't theoretical wellness language. It's structural. The method is designed so you can process the cost of the work in real-time, on yourself, with the same tool you're delivering to clients.
When you're not carrying client material, your boundaries get cleaner without you having to manage them effortfully. You stop being porous. You start being able to leave the work at the door because there's nothing of the client in you to leave with.
For therapists, counsellors, and coaches working with heavy material – tokophobia, perinatal anxiety, complex emotional history – this matters more than it sounds.
Clients sense what the practitioner is carrying – even when the practitioner is holding a perfectly professional stance, even when nothing visible is being communicated. The client feels what the practitioner hasn't processed, and that signal tells them what they can and can't bring into the room.
So clients censor themselves around practitioners who haven't done the work. They protect the practitioner from material the practitioner isn't equipped to hear. The work stays at the surface.
FB Professionals who've done the personal work properly – twenty clearances at Level 1, ongoing self-clearance through Level 2 and beyond – develop a field that clients experience as safe. The client knows they can say anything. And they do.
A practitioner who isn't burning out, who holds space cleanly, who clears her own material in real-time, becomes a different practitioner over the years than one who carries it. The career arc is different. The relationships with clients are different. The longevity is different.
This is part of what FB Professional training delivers that most credentials don't. Not just a method to use with clients – a method that maintains you across a long career.
FB Professional is positioned as Level 2 parallel within the broader Head Trash Clearance credential architecture. This matters because it gives you portability if your practice expands beyond the perinatal niche later.
The credential map:
Honest answer.
And you're not specifically working with women in pregnancy, postnatal, perimenopause, or fertility contexts – go HT. You'll get the HT Practitioner credential directly. You save fifty quid.
FB Professional is the right route. For £50 more, you get:
The £50 isn't really where the choice is. It's about which lane your practice sits in.
If you train as an FB Professional and later want to work beyond the perinatal niche, your credential converts to HT Practitioner directly. Because the L2 Advanced training you've completed delivers the same core L2 content as HT L2, only the perinatal application layer is FB-specific. The conversion is a credential recognition step, not additional training. Fee TBC – we'll figure it out in a fit conversation when you're ready.
The point: you can train through Fearless Birthing knowing the credential isn't a dead-end. The pathway out into the broader HT ecosystem is open.
This is depth work with women who often arrive carrying a lot. The method matters – particularly how it holds clients who carry trauma alongside their presenting fears.
The Head Trash Clearance method:
You'll learn how to:
For practitioners wanting deeper wound-level work, Wound Healing Training opens as Level 3 specialist training after FB Professional completion.
Once certified, FB Professionals go on to:
This is a credentialed pathway with built-in growth options. You're not locked in to one place.
Two free resources designed specifically for therapists, counsellors, coaches, and perinatal mental health professionals considering this credential.
Download the Fearless Birthing Professional Programme Guide PDF – a structured overview of the gap this credential fills, the RAD framework, the Head Trash Clearance method, and how perinatal professionals integrate this into existing practice.
Download the PDF →Alexia walks through the same material in a short direct-to-camera explainer (~10 minutes). The PDF gives you the structure; the video gives you Alexia – the practitioner you'd be learning from across eight months.
Watch the Video →Both assets are free. Sign up with your email and you'll receive immediate access to both.
Fearless Birthing is more than a method. It's a 16+ year body of work that includes:
You don't have to build everything from scratch. You're joining an established body of work.
£4,995 PIF / $6,500 USD / €5,845 EUR
Three payment routes:
| Plan | GBP | USD | EUR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay in Full | £4,995 (save £505) | $6,500 (save $650) | €5,845 (save €585) |
| 8-month split | £5,500 | $7,150 | €6,435 |
| 12-month plan (+15%) | £5,745 | $7,469 | €6,719 |
No 6-month plan – FB Professional runs 8 months, so 6-month would be shorter than course duration.
Baked into the £4,995.
Practitioner Network annual licensing – ongoing product after certification. Eligible once you've completed certification. Annual licensing applies from January 2027 (currently planned £500–£1,000 annually).
Current pricing held for this cohort – prices increase from the following cohort.
This is the last intake at current pricing. If you're committed to certification and pricing factors into your decision, this is the cohort to enrol in.
This sits in the middle of the range for professional credential training. Comparable certifications – advanced coaching credentials, specialised trauma trainings, NLP master practitioner – run anywhere from £4,000 to £15,000. What you're getting here for £4,995 includes more ecosystem support than most: the Blueprint package, the Practitioner Network, the books and podcasts as brand authority, and client-ready tools you'd otherwise build from scratch.
Alexia is the most genuine, interested and helpful coach because she cuts right to the heart of the issue to get the best results.— Heather, Psychotherapist
My husband says it's the best money we have ever spent. He has noticed a visible difference in me, I'm so much calmer and sleeping better as a result of the work.
I used to waken in the middle of the night with panic attacks due to how overwhelmed I felt thinking about having children.
I have not felt like this since starting the programme which is a huge relief to me.
I can't put a price on the peace of mind I have gained and the sense of mastery over something I initially thought was incurable.
I wish I had discovered this 10 years ago – I would have saved myself a fortune in therapy training.— Leah, Psychotherapist
HTC is the Carlsberg of therapy – probably the best in the world.— Caroline, Trauma Therapist
Alexia's competence, ability and generosity of spirit is impressive. I practice multiple energy methods specialising in traumatic birth and had long considered my skillset to be complete. Alexia's reported success in clearing anxiety in a hospital corridor intrigued me. Happily, this led me to train with her.— Julie-Anne Mullan, Pregnancy & Birth Therapist, Life Energetics
I could feel changes happening in myself as well as witnessing a softening, an objectivity, neutrality replace concerns and inner conflict, in the space of one short session. Head Trash Clearance has vast potential as a life-changing method.
I've just completed the Head Trash course with Alexia Leachman. For me, as a psychotherapist, it gives me a tool in my bag to work with pre and post natal issues, as well as being used in conjunction with other tools to diminish the impact of emotional issues.— Lesley Carter, Psychotherapist
As someone who has been seeking freedom from my emotional baggage for over 25 years, this is without doubt the jewel in the crown.— Michele Walsh, Success Coach
This isn't a course you can start any time. Each cohort runs together – the bi-weekly live training calls require a defined group moving through the work as one.
Next cohort: summer 2026 through March 2027. HT L1 Group element starts late June / early July 2026, runs across the summer. L2 Advanced element starts September 2026, runs through March 2027.
When the next cohort opens, the intake list gets first notice.
Join the Next Intake ListNo – the credential is explicitly designed for coaches as well as therapists and counsellors. Pregnancy coaches, birth coaches, therapeutic coaches all fit. The L2 Advanced content assumes you're working therapeutically (delivering structured multi-session programmes), not at regulated-therapy scope specifically. The defining question is whether your work centres on structured programmes you design and deliver – not which credential body recognises you.
The skill, the audience, and the way you'll work with clients. FB Practitioner at £2,497 / 4 months is for birth workers (doulas, midwives, hypnobirthing pros, antenatal educators) delivering reactive fear clearance in the flow of birth-work practice. FB Professional at £4,995 / 8 months is for therapists, counsellors, and coaches delivering programmatic clearance across structured multi-session programmes. These aren't junior/senior versions – they're parallel products for two different ways of working. See /training/fb-pathways/ for the full comparison.
HTC integrates with most therapeutic-grade and coaching modalities – CBT, somatic therapy, IFS, parts work, breathwork, trauma-informed approaches, coaching frameworks (GROW, GROW-UP). Practitioners frequently describe it as adding a layer their existing modality couldn't reach – particularly at the subconscious-level fear work, which cognitive and even somatic interventions can leave intact.
It depends. For results-led practitioners, HTC sometimes becomes the primary method and other tools fall by the wayside. Leah King (HTC's Therapeutic Lead) chose to focus on HTC because the work produces what her clinical training was reaching for, faster. Alexia herself stopped actively using NLP and Thought Field Therapy when HTC matured. For other practitioners, HTC slots in alongside existing work and the toolkit broadens. Either way, your existing training never goes to waste – it powers your FB Professional practice.
The Awareness Training at £495 is recognition-level: how to spot tokophobia and RAD, how it impacts women's mental health and life choices, when to refer. It does NOT certify you in the HTC method or qualify you to deliver fear clearance with clients. For delivery-level training, you need FB Professional (or FB Practitioner for birth workers). Many practitioners take the Awareness Training first as a stepping stone before committing to full certification.
Months 1–2: HT L1 Group – personal foundation work (live group calls + your own 20 clearances). Months 3–8: L2 Advanced – bi-weekly 2-hour live training calls focused on practitioner skills, RAD framework, Blueprint training, and case studies.
Twenty clearances completed during the two months. Live call attendance supports the work. The 20 clearances are evidence of fluency in the method – not just intellectual understanding, but lived familiarity.
Final assessment includes case studies and demonstrated competence in delivering the method with clients at depth. Plus full payment of the agreed fee – certification is held until both assessment and final payment clear. Specific assessment requirements (case study count, supervision hours, additional requirements) confirmed with each cohort opening.
Yes – fully included. £4,995 includes Blueprint Training (£597 standalone value) plus a 10-Blueprint starter bundle (£880 value) for immediate use with clients. Total Blueprint capability included: £1,477 of value.
The Practitioner Network is the post-certification community for FB credentialed practitioners. Includes directory listing, marketing support, Blueprint reorder pricing, ongoing peer community access. Annual licensing applies from January 2027 (currently planned £500–£1,000 annually, with possible monthly option). Eligible once you've completed certification.
Yes – payment plans are available. PIF (best price, discount built in), 8-month standard split (no surcharge), or 12-month extended plan (+15% for spreading payments). All payment plans paid in full before certification is issued.
7-day cooling-off period from enrolment date, provided no live training has been attended and no significant module access has occurred. After 7 days, no refunds – the standard drop-out policy applies: future payments cease, no certification issued, training delivered to date isn't refunded.
Yes. Live call timing accommodates international practitioners where possible. The 8-month duration means the time commitment is significant for international cohort members; consider time zone fit when joining.
Your FB Professional credential converts to the HT Practitioner credential via direct credential conversion. Because the L2 Advanced training you've completed delivers the same core L2 content as HT L2, only the perinatal application layer is FB-specific. The conversion is a credential recognition step, not additional training. Fee structure TBC – discussed in a fit conversation when you're ready to convert.
Summer 2026 through March 2027. HT L1 Group element starts late June / early July 2026. L2 Advanced element starts September 2026, runs to March 2027. Current pricing held for this cohort – prices increase from the following cohort.
This credential is for therapists, counsellors, and coaches doing structured multi-session healing and coaching work with women across the reproductive lifecycle.
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