An 8-month Fearless Birthing Professional training 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 training. 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 Perinatal Inner 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.
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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 training 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 Perinatal Inner 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.
This training is built on Head Trash Clearance (HTC) – a fast, non-invasive, trauma-aware methodology that works at the subconscious level. Alexia developed it to clear her own tokophobia, and it’s since been used by therapists, counsellors, and coaches across the perinatal space.
HTC integrates with your existing modality – CBT, somatic therapy, IFS, parts work. Practitioners frequently describe it as the piece that reaches what their existing tools can’t. It’s method-driven, goal-oriented by design, and structurally compatible with how you already work.
You’ll learn the full method in HTC Level 1 (using it on yourself), then refine it for depth client work in FB Professional.
Read more about the Fearless Birthing approachThere'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 Fearless Birthing Professionals describe their sessions as leaving them lighter, not drained.
This training 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 FB Professional: 20 clearances completed during the two months. This is the threshold of fluency required before moving into the practitioner-skills training.
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 training programmes for two different ways of working.
What you do: Long term intervention work, design and deliver structured multi-session therapy, healing or coaching programmes
What you do: Reactive clearance – fear clearance in the moment, in the flow of birth-work practice
These trainings differ in how the FB Methodology is applied. Reactive clearance and long-term clearance are two different professional skills for two different working contexts. Choose the programme that best reflects how you work with clients.
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 training.
If you're integrating fear clearance into hours-long antenatal sessions, birth-prep packages, or live birth support – you want FB Practitioner.
The Perinatal Inner Readiness Blueprint is the perinatal-specific assessment tool Alexia developed to translate RAD awareness into structured client work. In this training, 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
Included in your training. From the day you complete Fearless Birthing Professional training, you have Blueprint capability and a starter bundle ready to use.
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.
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 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.
Here’s what makes Fearless Birthing training worth its weight in gold.
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. Fearless Birthing Professional 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.
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.
Certified Fearless Birthing Professionals 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 their 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 what makes FB Professional training stand apart. It’s not just a method to use with clients; it’s a method that supports you across a long career.
FB Professional is a Level 2 training in the broader Head Trash Clearance training ecosystem. This means it gives you portability if your practice expands beyond the perinatal population later.
If you later want to migrate to the HTC Practitioner certification, get in touch and we’ll help you.
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:
Once certified, FB Professionals go on to:
This is a training pathway with built-in growth options. You’re not locked in to one place.
Get a free guide covering exactly what the training is, what you’ll learn, how it applies to your work, and how other professionals are using it.
A structured overview of what the training covers, how the Head Trash Clearance method fits into therapeutic-grade practice, and what professionals are doing with it. You’ll get a PDF and a video from Alexia – so you can learn in the way that suits you.
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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.
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“I’m trained in NLP, Hypnosis, EMDR, EFT, TLT – none of them produced the results I’m getting with Head Trash.”
“I’ve had OCD for 40 years. Medications, psychiatrists, CBT, hypnotherapy, neurofeedback – nothing really helped. Head Trash Clearance is the only thing that’s made a difference. My OCD has reduced by 80%.”
“I’m a licensed psychotherapist specialising in trauma. I’ve worked with mindfulness, Havening, EFT, EMDR, and sensorimotor psychotherapy. And yet Head Trash Clearance is just… working. I love that I can just do it myself.”
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.
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No – the training is explicitly designed for coaches as well as therapists and counsellors. Pregnancy coaches, birth coaches, therapeutic coaches all fit. The FB Professional 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 professional 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. 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. 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: HTC Level 1 Group training – Learn HTC for personal use (live group calls every 2 weeks). Months 3–8: FB Professional – 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 certified 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), 6-month plan, or 12-month plan. 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 certification can convert to the HTC Practitioner certification. Because the training you’ve completed delivers the same core Level 2 content, only the perinatal application layer is FB-specific. Get in touch and we’ll help you.
HTC Level 1 Group programme starts late June / early July 2026. FB Professional (Level 2) starts September 2026. Current pricing held for this cohort – prices increase from the following cohort.
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