Nina Isabella

Holistic Women’s Health Counsellor, Childbirth Educator & Somatic Psychotherapist

Biography

Nina Isabella is a holistic women’s health counsellor, childbirth educator and somatic psychotherapist. Nina’s practice is warmly inclusive, trauma informed and person-centred. This means she regards you as sovereign – the expert in your life and your unique circumstances. Nina meets you where you are with empathy; offering wholehearted connection; supported by evidence based, culturally sensitive counselling and body-based psychotherapies of mindfulness, breathwork and therapeutic yoga.

This approach is what Nina calls – Womanly Counselling.

The seeds of Womanly Counselling were planted in 2005 when Nina founded her specialist perinatal yoga practice – mamashanti. Growing and learning with her clients, Nina has been moving and breathing with hundreds of women and gender diverse folk seeking enhanced fertility; peaceful pregnancy; positive birth; nourished postpartum; inspired parenting; healthful and vital menopause.

SUPPORT AREAS

Nina offers person-centred counselling seamlessly entwined with nervous system nourishing somatic psychotherapies for compassionate explorations of contemporary womanly themes.

Fertility, Pregnancy and Birth Counselling

• fertility, pregnancy, birth preparation, exploring birth choices and birth debriefing
• pregnancy loss
• reproductive choices: unexpected pregnancy, non-judgemental abortion, contraception and sexual health counselling

Relationships & Parenting

• relationship counselling
• parenting counselling

Menopause & Midlife Transitions

• harnessing the transformative momentum of menopause
• navigating the often-confounding intersection of matrescence and perimenopause
• creating a unique road map through stages of menopause from appreciating the full emotional and energetic dimensions of the end of reproductive phase of life to vital and radical acceptance of new possibilities
• integrating the onset of early on-set menopause, medical menopause and
• further intersections of menopause with gender diversity, chronic health conditions, neurodivergence

Living with Chronic Health Conditions

• polycystic ovarian syndrome, endometriosis, fibroids, inflammatory conditions, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, autoimmune conditions and chronic pain

Exploring Identity & Purpose

• honouring shifts in identity and orientation across the life span
• exploring career changes

Mental Health: Anxiety, depression

• contextualising feelings of sadness, worry, distress and anger

Integrating Loss and Grief

• emotional issues of sadness and emotional pain, finding acceptance, navigating complex and confusing feelings, loneliness and hopelessness
• sleep disturbances, changes in appetite, fatigue and body felt pain pains
• social withdrawal, difficulty concentrating, challenges to core beliefs and values
• relationship strain
• finding ways to make meaning and sustain continuing bonds

NINA’S UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE

A constant gardener to her personal and professional growth, Nina has immersed in birth attendant training with Rhea Dempsey; psoas-savvy somatic awareness practitioner training with Liz Koch of Core Awareness; perinatal mental health – COPE and PANDA; trauma focussed acceptance and commitment therapy (TFACT); polyvagal therapy; Traditional Chinenese Medicine and acupressure; and grief and family work.

Soulful, empathic and collaborative, Nina brings grounded, warmth of intuitive therapeutic presence to every session. Having experienced the ache of thwarted fertility; the anguish of prolonged misdiagnosed conditions Nina has mined the gold hiding in the depths to bring breadth of professional perspective and depth of lived experience to be of service to women navigating their own life-altering conditions.

Compassionate care for every chapter of your life
Schedule time with Nina Isabella and begin the process of gentle, transformative support.