An image of Zan Maeder, perinatal counsellor and doula smiling in front of a leafy background.

Welcome!

Are you interested in having conversations about things you’re up against without being made to feel like there’s something wrong with you?

Do you feel like things are pulling you away from being who you want to be?

Are you unsure about what steps to take next on a journey that matters to you?

What I do

I am a counsellor and doula living and working on Kaurna country. I want to create spaces where struggles you are facing or difficult experiences can be deeply heard and where your values, beliefs, hopes, skills and knowledges become more visible to you, illuminating possibilities for the future.

I especially love speaking to people in the perinatal period- all the way from the planning stages of making babies and conception, through pregnancy, birth and into the early years of parenting.

I also often speak to people about experiences of loss, trauma, depression, anxiety, challenges and hopes in relationships and sex and all sorts of other themes of surviving racism, abelism, anti-queer and trans forces and fatphobia.

You don’t have to be struggling or “struggling enough” to access counselling - you may want a space to unpack dilemmas in your life or map out how to get closer to living the way you want to.