OUR TEAM

Kate has been working with women, families and healthcare professionals for over 30 years as a Doula, Mentor, and Doula educator.

During this time, Kate has been actively supporting human/women's rights within the childbearing year and has a deep understanding of how continuous support, informed decision making and education are pivotal in improving birth outcomes.
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Kate founded Doulas Without Borders in May 2019 and is excited to have grown the organisation to over 190 volunteers across the U.K and to include in-house departments of Language Support, Infant Feeding and Therapies. Kate has enjoyed founding our values of reflective practice, feedback and continuous learning towards improved outcomes for our client base.

Grace started her career as a primary teacher, working in disadvantaged communities where building relationships with children and families was central to her approach. After having her own children and learning the power of companionship and community during pregnancy and early parenthood, she trained as a trauma informed Doula.

Since joining Doulas Without Borders in 2021 Grace has worked in the volunteers and referrals departments. Now, as Operations Director and Chair of the Board, she supports and leads aspects of work across the organisation. She believes wholeheartedly in connecting communities, empowering vulnerable people, and preventing future generational trauma through advocacy, kindness and compassion.

Alongside her work at DWB, Grace works for a number of campaigns, charities and advocacy groups working in the areas of climate and social justice.

Maryam is a Birth and Postnatal Doula, educator, and mother of four. With over two decades of experience in parenting and education, Maryam brings a wealth of knowledge including child development, family support, cultural understanding and inclusive practice. As a qualified Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCo), she has worked extensively with individuals with diverse and complex needs, ensuring every voice is heard and valued.
Her passion for empowering families through education and compassionate care led Maryam to her work as a doula. Grounded in a belief that informed choice and emotional safety are at the heart of positive birth experiences, Maryam advocates for women and birthing people to trust their intuition and exercise autonomy over their pregnancy and birth journeys. Her approach is warm, nurturing, and grounded in deep listening — creating a safe and inclusive space for all families, particularly those who are vulnerable or marginalised.
Maryam focuses on developing and enhancing educational pathways within the organisation, supporting doulas to work confidently and sensitively with families facing social, emotional, and systemic barriers.
She believes that education is key — empowering clients to make informed choices from a place of knowledge, and enabling doulas to offer not only emotional and practical care, but also strong informational support. Maryam’s work is guided by a belief that every woman and birthing person deserves to feel informed, respected, and cared for — and that birth has the power to transform not only families, but whole communities.

Amina is a midwife working currently in both the NHS and charity sector, having been involved in midwifery care since 2005.

Working with refugees and those seeking asylum as well as those with various additional needs, Amina has experience of supporting many intersectional issues within the childbearing year. Amina works as a research midwife at Imperial College alongside Human Milk Foundation and is also the Midwifery Manager at Tommy’s, the charity supporting infant loss.
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Amina is a passionate advocate for women and families achieving the best birth experience for them, using knowledge and empowerment gained from women-centred education, support and care, believing that the core of midwifery is embedded in kindness and support.
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Amina also teaches on our Mother Tongue project.

Philippa has worked as a social worker and manager since 2008; in child protection, child sexual exploitation, youth offending and leaving care, meaning safeguarding will always be the foundation of her practice. Whilst working as a birth doula, she practices social work independently, offering assessments for parents, young people, those who wish to care for children and those seeking asylum. Through this work she has witnessed pregnancy, birth, and parenthood at its most challenging and traumatic.

The systems that these families often find themselves in can often feel oppressive and complex; Phillipa aims to provide transparent and honest information to enable people to navigate them feeling informed and in control. Through transformational births and holding space for families as they forge new paths, we can build strong foundations for positive generational cycles.

Phillipa is a birth doula, breastfeeding peer supporter and Mum of two small children.

With some 50 years’ experience as an international teacher, Peter pioneered Developmental Baby Massage, integrating motor milestone support into traditional baby massage. As an author, educator, and yoga practitioner, his work promotes baby massage, early intervention and milestone enablement from birth to walking, for all babies. Peter has trained over 25,000 teachers worldwide. His books, published in 22+ countries, include Developmental Baby Massage and Your Resilient Child. Media features include the BBC, The Guardian, and Cosmopolitan and many others. His teacher training programs, endorsed by The Japanese Ministry of Health, have advanced early intervention in health and parenting education globally.

Rosie is a birth and postnatal doula with a special interest and training in birth trauma. Her background is in forensic psychology, working with people experiencing mental health difficulties alongside criminal offences. The therapeutic ways in which trauma was resolved—through compassion-focused therapy and mindfulness—inspired her work. After the birth of her daughter, she was drawn to supporting families through pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period, and her passion for trauma-informed care naturally became part of her practice. She later trained as a birth trauma therapist and now offers this work alongside her birth-keeping services, including supporting referrals at Doulas Without Borders.

Rosie was involved with the Mother Tongue project due to being trilingual in Swedish, Arabic, and English, and her interest in supporting vulnerable people, such as refugee families, as a doula. As a former refugee herself, she feels deeply connected to the families she works with through shared experiences and familiarity. Her early life experiences, combined with her professional background, have nurtured her strong empathy and dedication to helping families with Doulas Without Borders, where she now also supports the organisation by managing its social media presence.

Loretta has been working with women, families, young people and multi disciplinary teams for over 30 years.

She has a wide range of experience of working in child protection and safeguarding from policy writing to multi disciplinary meetings. Her role has also been to work in partnership and provide support to families where there have been concerns and work with their strengths in gaining a good, strong parenting foundation.
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Loretta is a Doula and prior to this was working in a busy obstetric led hospital within the NHS
as a Midwife. She is also trained and has volunteered as a feeding peer support worker.

Genevieve is a specialised educator by background with a passion for supporting and advocating for vulnerable children and families, particularly within Inuit communities in Canada where she spent much of her early career.

Since moving to the UK, her focus has shifted towards women’s health and family support. She has trained in nutrition, become a pre- and post-natal coach, and qualified as a doula with a strong commitment to trauma-informed care.

More recently, Genevieve has channelled her passion for helping others into opening a gym that focuses on supporting people to build strength, confidence, and long-term health in a welcoming and empowering environment.

Sam started her career as an office manager but has worked with families since the birth of her first child. Initially she volunteered with the NCT in their local fundraising committee running events for new parents. She then trained with the NCT and worked as a postnatal leader for 11 years, running weaning workshops, the NCT postnatal helpline, hosting class reunions and listening to many birth stories.

During this time she trained as a doula with British Doulas and split her time between being a postnatal doula and NCT teaching while bringing up her children.

She now works as a postnatal doula in South West London as well as lots of volunteering. What really makes her happy is doing something to improve new families' lives! She also volunteers with HomeStart, Little Village and Learn to Love to Read.

She lives in London with her husband and two grown up children.

As a Referral Coordinator with Doulas Without Borders, Vicki helps connect women and birthing people with the support they need. Having completed a doula training course, she brings a deeper understanding of the perinatal journey and the challenges people may face. Vicki has experience in holding space for women and supporting them through vulnerable times.

In another role, Vicki led the creation of her company's Domestic Violence and vulnerable policy training guides, an initiative that stemmed from her deep commitment to ensuring that people experiencing trauma or instability are met with the understanding, care, and protection they deserve. This work gave her the opportunity to raise awareness within her organisation and promote a culture of safety and compassion

Vicki sees her role as being to help make the referral process as smooth and respectful as possible, ensuring people feel listened to and supported from the very beginning.

Thereasa is a mother of 3 and a Virtual Assistant with over 15 years of admin experience.

Due to her great passion for helping women to achieve a positive birthing experience, Thereasa has tailored her Virtual Assistant business to assist those in the birthing world.

Thereasa has trained as a Breastfeeding Peer Support worker and is a member of her local Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership.

Georgiana is our in-house Psychotherapist and offers sessions for our volunteers as well
as our clients.

Georgiana’s background is in working with with traumatised children and adults with challenging behaviour, attachment disorder, ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, Phobia, Obsessive-Compulsive disorder, Eating disorders, learning difficulties, family relationship problems; adjustment to physical illness and chronic diseases; neurological disorders;
addictive behaviours.

Undertaking assessments, analysing information, drawing up psychological profiles for the assessed people and organising and developing complex and integrated therapy activities (either client centred or group centred) for both children and adult clients.

Georgiana is also a Trauma Informed Doula.

Erin McGuigan is an IBCLC, Birth and Postnatal Doula, Doula Mentor and teacher, and Early Years professional. She is also an Infant Feeding Supporter at a London hospital. Since 2009 when her career interests pivoted after having her children, her profession has been all about birth, babies, children, and families. She is dedicated to helping families thrive.

She focuses on communication skills to help a family self-reflect on their own strengths, building trust in themselves, and finding their inner voice. She offers compassionate, professional and nurturing support to all who come her way.

She will help you troubleshoot any breastfeeding issues you may have, and give you tools to improve and meet your goals.

Charlotte is a Consultant Obstetrician at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, London. She was appointed in 2012 after completing her specialist training across the northwest London region and Australia.

She is the obstetric lead for the perinatal mental health services and runs a weekly joint antenatal clinic with the specialist midwives. She is also the link consultant for the Poppy team of midwives who care for vulnerable women in pregnancy including refugees, women with drug and alcohol dependency and survivors of abuse.

She is keen to highlight the challenges facing women who enter pregnancy and motherhood with mental health issues or previous trauma, and to work to change the systems to allow all women to have choice in their births and to feel safe and supported.
She is delighted to support the work of Doulas Without Borders.