The Supporting Village
Anouska, FounderParent Baby Spaces was never designed to be built by one person.
It is a growing village of trusted professionals, organisations, educators, and experienced practitioners who share a commitment to creating safer, more compassionate spaces for parents and babies.
Our Supporting Village helps strengthen the community through learning, signposting, shared wisdom, specialist knowledge, and reflective support. Together, we recognise that no practitioner should have to hold everything alone.
We hold the belief that when practitioners are supported, parents are supported too.
Our village is always growing.
Every individual within the Supporting Village has been personally selected by Anouska. These are professionals she has met, worked alongside, trained with, learned from, or developed trusted professional relationships with. They have been invited into the village because of their commitment to supporting families with compassion, integrity, and care.
If you know a professional, organisation, or educator whose work could help support parents, families, or practitioners, we would love to hear about them here.
Many of the relationships within Parent Baby Spaces begin through recommendations from the community, and we are always open to meaningful connections that align with our values and vision.
Emma Sails
Neurodiversity Support & Signposting
Emma brings knowledge and lived experience around neurodiversity and inclusive practice. She helps us think about how parent-baby spaces can feel safer, more welcoming, and more accessible for neurodivergent parents, babies, and families.
Emma supports late-diagnosed neurodivergent adults and parents of neurodivergent children to better understand themselves and their families.
Tom – Outward Found
Supporting Fathers
Helping people reconnect with themselves through nature-based coaching and outdoor conversations
Tom will be a trusted signpost within Parent Baby Spaces and a valuable resource for dads and those who identify as dads.
If you feel Tom’s support may be helpful to you, please reach out directly and mention Parent Baby Spaces when you get in touch.
Mendara
Birth Experience Support & Signposting
Birth Trauma & Difficult Birth Experiences
Mendara runs small, anonymous, facilitated group sessions for women who have had a difficult birth experience. Sessions are text-based, completely anonymous, and led by a trained facilitator with lived experience of a difficult birth. Developed in partnership with the Birth Trauma Association.
If you feel their support may be helpful to you, please reach out directly and mention Parent Baby Spaces when you get in touch.
Further Baby Training
Prema & Blossom & Berry – Birth Trauma Awareness
Prema and the team at Blossom & Berry provide valuable education and learning for parents and babies. For over 20 years Blossom & Berry has championed nurturing touch, connection and emotional well being for babies and families.
Prema has gifted a trauma-informed awareness training to Parent Baby Spaces.
If you feel their support may be helpful to you, please reach out directly and mention Parent Baby Spaces when you get in touch.
Well Being Champions
Josie -Divine Mother Circles
Creates safe spaces for women through nature, ceremony, reflection and sisterhood.
Josie will be supporting Parent Baby Spaces through seasonal reflection circles and practitioner well being.
If you feel their support may be helpful to you, please reach out directly and mention Parent Baby Spaces when you get in touch.
A note from the founder
Whilst Parent Baby Spaces does not oversee or take responsibility for the services provided by Supporting Village members, we are proud to signpost families and practitioners towards professionals we know and trust.