Erika's Personal Profile I am a mother of 2 lively boys, a qualified doula, childbirth educator and life coach, peer group facilitator and more recently completed my NLP practitioner training.  I have attended births in Australia and U.S.A for over 10 years and worked with many different people over that time in their journey through parenthood. I have personally experienced both labour with a breech baby resulting in a c-section and then a water birth with my second at a free standing birth centre with one-to-one midwifery care. With my partner of 20yrs I have traveled and worked abroad, owner built our strawbale home in Ringwood and for 10 years home educated our boys.   I am a flexible, open minded, curious person; eager to learn and understand people, enjoy life and work on making the best of our life experiences . Training Birth Attendant/Doula training at Santa Rosa Womens Health and Birth Centre  California 1999 Rhea Dempsey’s Birthing Wisdom’s Birth Attendants Course 2001 Basic Childbirth Education Training Course for Health Professionals 2003 (National Association of Childbirth Educators) Hypnobirthing workshop – 3 days with Denise Love Nov 2004 Qualified Life Coach – Cert IV 2006 at Life Coach Institute Australia National coordinator and group facilitator of BaBs - Birthing and Babies Suppot groups Accredited N.A.C.E Childbirth Educator 2008 Qualified N.L.P practitioner - With James Tsakalos 2009 Regular attendance at Professional development conferences Currently doing further training for a diploma of Chilbirth Education with Childbirth International CBI Motherhood – giving birth and raising my 2 sons “For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but a spirit of love, power, and self discipline”