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PODCAST
Compassionate Perinatal Care
Compassionate Perinatal Care is a podcast about how perinatal care is actually experienced - by those who provide it, and by those who live it
Hosted by Clinical Psychologist Dr Jenna Brough, the series features conversations with experts by profession and by experience. Together, we explore perinatal care honestly and compassionately, making space for the good, the bad, and the mixed. Each guest is invited to name one key thing they would want to see change in perinatal care.
At the heart of the podcast is a recognition that perinatal care does not exist in neat compartments. Too often, care is delivered in silos - physical health here, mental health there; pregnancy over here, “postnatal” over there - with little attention paid to the longer-term impact of how care is experienced.
As a perinatal clinical psychologist, Dr Jenna brings a lens that joins these dots. Conversations explore how perinatal experiences shape mental health and emotional wellbeing, bonding and attachment, ongoing health-related behaviours, and decisions about future pregnancies.
We talk about what happens after the appointment ends, after the birth, and sometimes years later - and how care can better reflect that reality.
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This podcast is a space for:
Sharing lived and professional experience
Reflecting honestly on current practice
Naming gaps, tensions, and unintended harms
Imagining kinder, safer, more joined-up care
Curious, compassionate, and unflinching at times,
Working with me
If listening to Compassionate Perinatal Care has prompted reflection about your own practice or service - what you want to do more of, what feels misaligned, or what might need to change - I work with services, organisations, and professionals to improve perinatal care.
I offer training, supervision, and consultancy to help teams to develop more compassionate, psychologically informed, and joined-up approaches.
This work is collaborative, grounded in clinical psychology and perinatal trauma expertise, and shaped by real-world experience of working within healthcare systems. It is designed to support safer care, staff wellbeing, and sustainable improvements in practice.
