Who we are
A collective of experts who bring together lived experience and extensive professional knowledge of birth trauma and vicarious trauma.
Our Founders
The dream team who brought Make Birth Better to life.
Dr Rebecca Moore, Founder & Perinatal Psychiatrist
Rebecca works as a Perinatal Psychiatrist in London, dealing with infertility, pregnancy loss, anxiety, depression, OCD and trauma. She’s got experience spanning over twenty years. She developed a particular interest in birth trauma, which led to founding the annual Birth Trauma Conference and Make Birth Better with Emma in 2018.
Dr Emma Svanberg, Founder & Clinical Psychologist
Emma is a Clinical Psychologist, writer, speaker and campaigner. She supports parents(-to-be) and professionals throughout pregnancy, birth and early parenthood. She’s also known as Mumologist and founded The Psychology Collective – a network of psychologists who offer whole-family support. She started Make Birth Better with Rebecca in 2018.
Our Core Team
Together with our founders, we lead on the strategy, planning and delivery of all of key areas of work.
Nikki Wilson, CEO
Nikki has a strong passion for driving social change. Her third sector career has focused on solving strategic challenges and building organisations from scratch including Make Birth Better, 10 of zen, Wings for Life UK and Read International. Nikki runs the ship and shapes the strategy for Make Birth Better and her deep drive comes from her lived experience of birth trauma.
Trudi Webber, Training Lead
Trudi has over 15 years of project management experience, particularly in charity/corporate relationships in maternal health and education sectors. She has also worked as a childbirth educator, yoga for pregnancy teacher and doula for the last 17 years. She uses her extensive skillset to facilitate and improve our (bespoke) training and its effectiveness.
Lauren Parr - Community & Business Development Lead
Lauren is a business development and support expert with a strong passion for perinatal wellness. She’s a trained doula, yoga teacher, retreat leader and book worm! She leads on the development of our online training products and support for our much-loved champions and organisation partners.
Sakina Ballard, Director
Sakina is a therapeutic coach & mentor, antenatal hypnobirthing educator, and Advanced Lived Experience Practitioner for an NHS Trust. She is especially interested trauma-informed person-centred care and Equity Diversity Inclusion & Anti-racism (EDI&A). She works with Nikki and Becca on leading the direction of MBB and focuses on champions and support.
Evelien Docherty, Campaigning & Comms Lead
Evelien brings a broad communications mix to the table with a background in senior editing, PR and writing – focussing on maternity issues. She is the mastermind behind our communications strategy and leads on the activation of our signature campaigns including Think Trauma Now. She covered as Interim CEO during Nikki’s maternity leave.
Our champions volunteer their time and share their voice so we can make birth better for all
This is a volunteer position and it’s flexible to suit the amount of time you have available, as well as your interests e.g. co-producing Make Birth Better work, local flyering, writing a blog, sharing lived experience, promoting @birthbetter online. To become a champion, a short on-boarding online training session must be completed. We then meet half termly online and provide bespoke resources to supprt the role.
If you’re interested in becoming a Make Birth Better Champion - please contact us - we’d love to have you.
Our partners advocate for trauma-informed ways of working, represent parents or professionals affected by birth trauma or vicarious trauma and we collaborate wherever possible.
Our partners include:
If you’re interested in becoming a partner, please contact us. We’re always been to work in collaboration with others.