Service details

We are a community-based psychological therapy service. We support people experiencing fear, trauma or loss arising from fertility, pregnancy or birth-related difficulties as well as the loss of a baby.

The North London Partners Maple Service is a dedicated team of clinical/counselling psychologists and a peer support worker (someone with lived experience of birth-related trauma).

We offer comprehensive assessment and therapeutic support to people whose level of distress is significantly interfering with their quality of life. Distress may be related to the following areas:

• Fear of childbirth (tokophobia)
• Birth trauma: this may be directly experienced or witnessed
• Pregnancy loss: associated with fertility treatment, miscarriage, termination or due to a serious medical condition
• Stillbirth or death of a baby
• Loss of a child due to social care proceedings: This includes working with parents whose babies under 18 months have gone into care or when an unborn child may go into care at birth.

For people who have experienced a perinatal loss or loss of a baby due to social care procedures, it doesn’t matter how long ago the loss occurred, they can still access Maple if they are currently experiencing difficulties primarily related to it.