Natural Fertility Specialist and emotional coach. An ambassador for natural fertility and reproductive wellbeing — twenty years of bringing women back to their bodies.
I'm a speaker and annual exhibitor at the Fertility Show in London, a regular BBC Radio guest, and creator of the Mama Be Natural Fertility methodology. The IVF Coach is the online, group version of the work I've done one-on-one for two decades — and fertility education has been my life's mission ever since.
For most of my professional life, I've worked with couples who were told there was no other way. That IVF was the only option. That their age, their AMH, their endometriosis, their unexplained results — all closed doors.
I never quite believed that. And the more couples I worked with — using the 360° approach I've spent twenty years refining — the more I saw it confirmed: the body is not a static thing. It can be prepared. It can be restored. And what determines whether IVF works, more than the procedure itself, is the condition of the body and the mind that walks into the clinic.
Then, at 44, I followed my own plan. And I fell pregnant with my son.
His name is Mandela. He's the reason I now know, with complete trust, that what I teach works. Not just in theory, not just for someone else's body. For mine.
It changed something fundamental in me. I had spent years guiding women through what felt impossible — and then I stood inside it myself. That experience is what The IVF Coach is built on.
Many of the women I work with have been told IVF is their only option. Some are told that even IVF may not work for them — because of their age, their AMH, their previous results, or "unexplained" findings. And yet many of them have gone on to create families anyway. Some through IVF that finally worked. Some through natural conception nobody expected.
When the body is properly prepared, what was once considered unlikely can quietly become possible again. That, more than anything, is the work.
I started working in natural fertility in 2007 because I saw something the medical world was missing. Clinics weren't preparing the body. They weren't asking why the body wasn't conceiving — they were trying to work around it.
What I built instead looks at everything: hormones, egg and sperm quality, nutrition, the nervous system, the relationship between partners, the emotional weight of years of trying. None of it lives in isolation. All of it together is what restores fertility.
The IVF Coach takes that same approach, adapted into a 6-week group programme for women preparing for IVF, or recovering from a cycle that didn't work.
About the awarding body — IIHHT (VTCT) is the International Institute of Health and Holistic Therapies, a government-regulated, Ofqual-approved awarding body. It provides formal, internationally recognised qualifications assessed to rigorous National Occupational Standards.
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Mama Be is Katharine's signature one-to-one practice. Where The IVF Coach prepares the body in a focused group setting, Mama Be works one-to-one over months with couples who need a deeper, more personalised journey.
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