Midwife-Led Therapy
Tailored therapy for fertility, pregnancy, birth and postnatal experiences
Fertility, pregnancy, birth and early parenthood can bring up far more than people expect. For some, the impact is immediate. For others, it builds quietly over time, showing up as anxiety, feeling distant from yourself or others, intrusive thoughts, or a sense of being stuck and unable to move forward.
We offer midwife-led birth and reproductive therapy in Huddersfield. This is tailored emotional support for women, men and birth partners who are struggling with the impact of fertility, pregnancy or birth experiences. You do not need to carry this alone. With the right support, things can begin to feel lighter, and over time, more manageable.
How this service can support you
Everyone who comes to our midwife-led therapy brings their own story and individual needs. Together, you and Tanya will work through three key stages: trauma resolution, emotional regulation and positive future creation.
The work combines therapeutic conversation with relaxation-based approaches that support emotional release. This helps reduce emotional intensity and gently process persistent feelings such as fear, guilt, anger or shame, helping you feel more like yourself again.
This tailored therapy supports a wide range of situations …
Session details
Midwife-led birth and reproductive therapy sessions are delivered by Tanya Wardle at Therapy Huddersfield, in a private and supportive setting designed to help you feel at ease.
While every journey is different, many clients experience meaningful progress within around three sessions, with a focus on making each session feel worthwhile, while still going at your pace.
Sessions last 60 minutes and are offered in person at our Huddersfield practice.
Please contact us for current session fees and availability.
Meet Tanya Wardle
Tailored service from a NMC-registered midwife.
This service is led by Tanya Wardle, a holistic therapist and NMC-registered midwife with extensive academic and clinical training in midwifery. Her background allows her to work with both emotional depth and a strong understanding of reproductive and maternity care, supporting people through experiences that can feel overwhelming or difficult to put into words.
Tanya’s work is shaped by years of supporting women through fertility challenges, pregnancy, birth, loss and the postnatal period. She brings a calm, thoughtful presence to therapy, helping people feel met, understood and taken seriously. Many women, birth partners and family members find comfort in knowing they do not need to explain medical terminology or justify how an experience affected them. Sessions can instead focus on emotional impact, meaning and recovery, and on what you need now in order to feel steadier, and more supported moving forward.
Common experiences in Midwife-Led Therapy
Many people seek midwife-led therapy because something continues to affect how they feel, think or respond, even when life has moved on around them. These sessions offer a gentle space to begin making sense of these experiences and to process emotions in a way that feels supportive and manageable.
If you are experiencing any of the feelings below, you are not alone.
Avoidance of people, places or conversations connected to the experience
Intrusive memories or distressing thoughts
Irritability, anger or sudden emotional reactions
Feeling left behind while others move on
Feeling emotionally numb, detached or unlike yourself
Ongoing anxiety, low mood or emotional overwhelm
Specific areas of focus
If you feel that talking through your experiences could be helpful, we are here to listen and guide you through the next steps. You are welcome to get in touch to discuss anything you may have experienced.
Infertility, IVF, miscarriage
Sessions provide a compassionate space to navigate infertility, emotions around IVF treatment and miscarriage. A space to talk through grief, sadness, uncertainty and emotional exhaustion, at your own pace. Support focuses on helping you process your experiences and regaining emotional strength and peace.
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Midwife-led therapy offers emotional support during infertility and IVF by creating space to process the uncertainty, disappointment and emotional strain that often comes with treatment. Sessions help you gently work through ongoing stress, regain a sense of control and feel more emotionally supported throughout your journey.
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Yes. Many people find that the emotional impact of miscarriage can surface months or even years later. Therapy provides a safe, understanding space to process grief, loss and unanswered questions at your own pace, helping you move forward without dismissing your experience.
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It is common to experience sadness, anger, guilt, anxiety or emotional exhaustion. Midwife-led therapy helps you make sense of these feelings without judgement, supporting emotional regulation and helping you feel less alone in what you are going through.
Antenatal support
These sessions offer women support with anxiety in pregnancy, emotional overwhelm and fear surrounding complex pregnancy and birthing your baby. Sessions for antenatal support are centred around overcoming fears, emotional regulation and moving forward positively.
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Yes. Antenatal therapy is designed to support anxiety in pregnancy, including fears about birth, health concerns or feeling overwhelmed. Sessions focus on calming the nervous system, building emotional resilience and helping you feel more prepared and reassured.
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It is tailored therapy delivered by a qualified midwife who understands both the emotional and medical aspects of pregnancy. This allows you to explore fears and concerns without needing to explain clinical details, making support feel more relevant and grounded.
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You can seek support at any stage of pregnancy. Whether anxiety has just started or has been building over time, early support can help you feel more settled and confident as your pregnancy progresses.
Birthing Trauma
A trauma-informed, sensitive process to rapidly regain emotional wellbeing. Sessions are focused on reducing distressing symptoms, processing feelings and moving forward in strength.
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Birth trauma therapy supports people who feel distressed, overwhelmed or affected by their birth experience. It focuses on gently processing what happened, reducing emotional intensity and helping you feel more in control of your thoughts and feelings.
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You may notice intrusive memories, avoidance, anxiety or strong emotional reactions when thinking about the birth. Even if others describe the birth as “fine”, your experience is valid and therapy can help you work through how it affected you personally.
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Yes. Many people seek therapy because they feel different after birth. Sessions support emotional recovery, helping you reconnect with yourself and move forward with greater clarity and steadiness.
Postnatal mental health
Postnatal sessions support you through anxiety, depression and feelings of emotional instability. Giving you space to talk openly, alongside practical tools to help you move forward and begin to feel more like yourself again.
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Yes. Postnatal mental health support focuses on helping you manage anxiety, low mood and emotional overwhelm after having a baby. Sessions provide a safe space to talk openly, alongside practical tools to support emotional balance.
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Yes, but that does not mean you have to cope alone. Many new parents experience emotional challenges. Therapy helps you understand what you are feeling and supports you in finding steadiness and confidence again.
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Working with a midwife means your therapist understands both the emotional and physical realities of the postnatal period. This can help you feel more understood and allows sessions to focus fully on your emotional wellbeing.
Pregnancy or infant loss
Therapy sessions that honour your grief, your love and your baby, offering a compassionate and understanding space to process your experience. Sessions are gentle and restorative, supporting you to navigate complex emotions at your own pace, including treatment to relieve trauma where appropriate.
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Therapy can offer a gentle space to process grief, shock, trauma and the complex emotions that can follow pregnancy or infant loss. Sessions focus on helping you feel emotionally supported, reducing distressing thoughts or memories, and gently supporting your nervous system as you begin to move forward at your own pace.
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There is no right timeline. Some people seek support soon after loss, while others come much later. Midwife-led therapy meets you where you are, whenever you feel ready.
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That is completely understandable. Sessions are guided sensitively, allowing you to express yourself in a way that feels manageable. You are never expected to share more than you feel ready to.
Birth partner trauma
These sessions provide a safe space to resolve trauma, explore difficult feelings such as shock, helplessness and ongoing distress. They provide a safe space for birth partners, who are often life partners of the birthing woman, to share their experiences, recover emotionally and strengthen their family.
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Yes. Birth partners can feel shock, fear or helplessness during difficult experiences. These feelings can stay with you long after the birth, and therapy provides a space to process them safely.
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Yes. These sessions are designed to support birth partners, offering a space where your experience is recognised and taken seriously, without feeling overlooked.
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Therapy helps you process what happened, reduce distressing symptoms and regain emotional balance. It can also support you in feeling more present and connected within your family moving forward.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Birth, reproductive and perinatal therapy is tailored emotional support for people affected by experiences around fertility, pregnancy, birth, loss and early parenthood. It focuses on how these experiences are held emotionally and how they continue to affect you now.
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Yes. Many women find that emotional responses surface later, once life has moved on or expectations have changed. If an experience continues to affect your emotions, relationships or sense of self, It may be helpful to seek Midwife-led, birth and reproductive therapy.
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There is no single definition. What matters is how you experienced it. If something around fertility, pregnancy, birth or the postnatal period continues to affect you, your experience is enough, and you do not have to carry it alone. Midwife-led therapy can offer a supportive space to begin working through it.
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No. You do not need a diagnosis or referral. Therapy is based on your lived experience and how it is impacting you now, not on labels or formal assessments.
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No. This service also supports people affected by infertility, IVF, miscarriage, pregnancy loss, traumatic medical experiences, difficult postnatal periods, and those supporting or closely connected to someone who has been through these experiences.
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No. Therapy is led at your pace. The focus is on helping you feel safer, more settled and more able to move forward, not on retelling experiences in ways that feel overwhelming.