Over mij

As a doula, I am happy to come to your home.
You are also welcome in my practice for individual sessions.

Besides, I work 24 hours a week as a clinical doula at the Amsterdam UMC.

In my practice, I treat adults (16+) with various mental and/or physical complaints. Together we determine the course of treatment and intervention methods. The mix used works powerfully, gives quick insight and is often fun to do.

With great pleasure I practice the beautiful profession of doula.
A beautiful combination with my work as a holistic psychosocial therapist.

In 2008 I started my practice in Leiden. From 2013 until spring 2022 I was founder/owner of Holistic Centre Lelystad, where a group of independent therapists, coaches, trainers and yoga teachers worked. We still seek each other out for peer consultation, inspiration and intervision.
Our family has returned to the Randstad where I partly practice (doula) and partly work in the AMC as a clinical doula.

Warm greetings, Miriam
MAMADOULA
Praktijk Beker

Birth care related education & training

2021 - Doula Academie

Professional Doula - basic knowledge & practical training, additional clinical knowledge training.

Internship Amsterdam UMC under the guidance of former clinical doula Catharina Ooijens.

From 2021

The Spinning Babies® Workshop - Spinning Babies®.
Holding Space for Trauma (trauma informed care) - BiA Doula Training.
Perinatal Anxiety Counselor - Mind in Birth.
Pain in Childbirth from the neuroscience perspective - Mind in Birth.
Maternal Mental Health - Beval Beter.
Evidence-based birth plan - Beval Beter.
Pregnant after previous trauma - Beval Beter.
Rebozo massage - Rebozo NL.
Pregnancy massage - Mami in balance.
Psychiatry and Pregnancy - SCEM.
Covid-19 : pregnancy, young children, vaccination and infection - SCEM.

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I work from a holistic vision, which means that I see the human being as a unity of body and mind. This unity has physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual facets that continuously interact with each other. By working this way, both your head and the rest of your body are involved in the process.

When I had my children: what a different time that was!

It was a different time, there was less information available, no internet and whatsapp groups with pregnant women where you could chat together about experiences. Now there is so much information, you can look everything up and know in advance in text, pictures and videos. Women know that they can have their voices heard, that nothing has to happen without their consent, informed consent that is. What a different time, and how happy I am for my own children and everyone who is expecting a child at this time. And what a beautiful profession I have now. Had I had a doula by my side all those years ago, it would have been so nice.