About me
My name is Aimee Aroha.
I am a Holistic Counsellor, Transpersonal Mentor for the child bearing continuum & a Postpartum Care Provider
I am a (free)birthing Mama of three children.
A woman of Māori and Irish descent who seeks to decolonise modern healing, counselling and the provision of care.
“Peace on Earth begins at Birth” - Jeannine Pavarti Baker
My purpose is to support folks on their healing journeys, however it needs to look for them.
I strive to develop and nurture a decolonized lens through which to support healing; a lens that values slowness, gentleness and the deepest of listening, a lens that values our spiritual experience as human beings and how our wellness intersects with and is affected by systems of oppression.
Decolonising healing is an ongoing personal journey for me that is not linear, it encompasses all aspects of existence from how we birth, how we live, how we interact with the world, how the world interacts with us and even how we die.
As a mixed race woman raising three babies living on unceded Indigenous land further decolonizing my perspective is a sacred responsibility and the beating heart of my life.
I have spent several years studying and working in the Community Development sector with a wide range of people from all backgrounds.
My education includes:
✹ Diploma in Community Services Work and Community Development
✹ Diploma in Counselling
Study in Transpersonal Art Therapy with the College of Complimentary Medicine
✹ Birthing from Within’s Mentor and Doula training
✹ Cornerstone Doula Trainings ‘Homebirth for Doulas’ and
✹ Postpartum care with Centre for Sacred Window studies
I bring somatic aspects into my practice; bringing the memory and power of the body into our healing work. I have studied Integrative Somatic Parts work and the work of Peter Levine.
I am committed to my own healing and self development and have personally utilised all the modalities that cultivate the container of my own practice.
As a Mother of three I have traversed the Rite of Passage that is birth three times, the transition from Maiden to Mother for me has been complex, wild, intuitive, ceremonial, at times traumatic, largely non linear, often joyful and always expansive.
On May 16th of 2019 I experienced the ecstatic unassisted home birth of my second child which lifted the veil on modern birth for me, this was a profound gateway into a deeper layer of healing and propelled me full speed into birth work.
In early 2021 I embarked on the wild pregnancy and (Free)birth of my third child after the at home early loss of a pregnancy. These experiences have been profoundly initiatory, educational and certainly do inform some aspects of my practice.
I am a huge believer in and advocate for the magic and capability of birthing and menstruating women and people. I deeply trust that people innately know what is best for themselves and their families and how vital it is to be supported by someone who believes in them and their autonomy while navigating the child bearing continuum.
I believe we are all our own greatest healers and it is my role as a Holistic Transpersonal Counsellor and Mentor is to simply use the tools and capacity I have to support folks in seeing that within themselves.