Carolyn Cowan is a Psychosexual and Relationship Psychotherapist with further specialisms in Trauma, Maternal Perversion and Violence, and Body Dysmorphia.
She has over 20 years of teaching and mentoring experience in the pre-and-postnatal period. Carolyn initially trained as a pregnancy yoga teacher, doula, and yoga therapist. After 10 years running pre-and-postnatal classes in yoga and working as a doula around Camberwell and Peckham, Carolyn began training as a psychotherapist, gaining a London Diploma in Psychosexual Relationship Therapy, a Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Couples Work, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Trauma Therapy, both with NAOS.
For 15 years (1999-2014) Carolyn worked with two NHS midwives training yoga teachers to work with pre-and-postnatal women. She herself experienced six pregnancies that resulted in two children, both born naturally at home. Over the last two years, she has started training yoga teachers again, to offer spaces/classes that help with both the physical and mental un-containment of the postnatal woman.
In her private practice she works regularly with sexual dysfunctions within couples that arise from the perinatal experience. She also works with birth trauma, and a huge assortment of other issues that regularly land in the room with her clients.