susancrowther
susancrowther
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Susan has worked in health care practice since 1983. For 30 years she has practised as a midwife in a variety of settings, home, birth centres and hospitals in several countries such as UK, Sub-Saharan Africa, Armenia, Russia, NZ and France. Susan helped set up a south London group practice in the mid 90s and then went into self employed independent midwifery practice serving London and southern counties. Then she went onto to take up post as one of the first UK NHS consultant midwives. Susan was the first consultant midwife in Cambridge UK where she set up a birth centre and organised the provision for a waterbirth service. She immigrated to NZ in the mid 2000s where she set up a remote self employed independent rural midwifery service on the Kaipara. She is now a Professor of Midwifery at AUT University Auckland NZ. Susan completed her Honours degree at University London in the early 90s, and her Masters at Surrey University was in 2000. Her PhD completed in 2013, examined lived-experiences and revealed meanings of the phenomenon ‘joy at the moment of birth’ that surfaced the rich felt-time at birth that was named Kairos- a time of profound insight about our shared natality. Susan continues to be proactive both internationally and internationally. Her recent professional and research interests are spirituality and childbirth, joy and fear cultures in and around childbirth, rural maternity experiences, psycho-emotional care and trauma. She is keen to connect with others who seek deeper knowing about meaning, life's purpose and the depth of relational complexity that makes midwifery, childbirth and life inspiring. She is also a Certified Havening Techniques Practitioner, a form of trauma resolution work that also helps build resilience and wellbeing. In her Havening practice she works with many types of clients including many women working through Birth Trauma, fears related to childbirth, hospitals, healthcare, needles....
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