I’m a Fertility UK practitioner, which means I teach the double-check symptom-thermal method and I’m one of the practitioners recommended by the NHS website.

I learned the basics of the method from a friend, and a borrowed book, and used it successfully for over 10 years. We have one child, on purpose, and I’ve not had any unplanned pregnancies.

After hearing “it doesn’t work” for the zillionth time, I decided to train with Fertility UK. Since qualifying I have taught many women, and their partners, about fertility awareness and contributed to national guidelines, various journals, and women’s health projects. I’ve worked with religious couples, single women, women who’ve had abortions, and women with tricky cycles thanks to health issues.

I believe learning how to tell when we are fertile, and working with our cycles rather than against them, can be a powerful, liberating, and often quite healing thing. At the same time, I love keeping things as simple as possible and I know fertility awareness is not right for everyone. Your contraception should fit with your life, not the other way around.

I offer individual sessions with email follow-up and have a sliding scale.