Support that meets you where you are.

Whether you're navigating pelvic floor symptoms, processing a birth experience you're still carrying, or preparing to bring a baby into the world — there's a place for you here.

Sessions are available in-person in Darwin, serving women across Darwin, Palmerston, and Katherine, and online across Australia.

treatment room at Held to Heal Darwin

Women’s Health Physiotherapy

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Birthing Debrief

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Birth Preparation

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Women’s Health Physiotherapy ✳︎ Birthing Debrief ✳︎ Birth Preparation ✳︎

Women’s Health Physiotherapy

Honouring what your body has been through

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Illustration of a pregnant woman seated on a pouf, with another woman standing behind her, gently holding her shoulders in a supportive manner.
Illustration of two women practicing yoga, kneeling face-to-face, with one woman wearing a green top and the other a brown top, both raising one arm to touch palms.

Pregnancy changes everything. Birth changes everything again. And the postpartum body deserves far more attention than a six-week clearance and a list of kegel exercises.

If you're leaking, experiencing pelvic pain or pressure, dealing with abdominal separation, or simply don't feel at home in your body anymore — this is where we start.

In a Women's Health Physiotherapy session, I take time to understand what's actually happening in your body. Not just the symptoms on the surface, but the whole picture — how you're moving, what you're holding, and what your body needs to find its way back to you.

Sessions draw on hands-on therapy, tailored exercise programs, and therapeutic tools — combined in a way that's personalised to you, not a generic protocol. My approach is trauma-informed and holistic: I look at the whole body, listen to the whole person, and bring the full scope of my clinical experience to help you find lasting relief — not just temporary management.

This service supports:

Bladder leakage · Pelvic organ prolapse · Pelvic pain · Abdominal separation (DRAM) · Pregnancy-related pain · Postpartum recovery · Bowel concerns

Available in-person in Darwin and online.

You've told the story before. Maybe many times. But something about it still doesn't feel resolved — a feeling you can't quite name, a moment that keeps coming back, a weight you're still carrying that talk alone hasn't shifted.

That's because birth lives in the body, not just the memory.

A birth debrief with me is a safe, unhurried space to share your story — your journey to conception, pregnancy, labour, birth, or the early days of new motherhood. Whatever you're carrying, all of it is welcome here.

Together, we explore not just what happened, but what your body is still holding. Using somatic (body and breath) and systemic (role play and visualisation) tools, I gently guide you beneath the retelling — to the feelings that haven't yet had space to move through.

My trauma-informed approach means the pace is always yours. Nothing is pushed, nothing is rushed. I completed almost a year of training and mentorship through Core and Floor Restore to offer this work — bringing a depth of skill to birth debriefing that goes well beyond what standard physiotherapy or talk therapy provides.

You don't need to arrive knowing what you need to process.
You just need to show up.

Available in-person in Darwin and online.

Birth Debriefing

For the birth that’s still living in your body.

new mum and baby at physio consult
  • "Laura really listened. She led with meaningful questioning but then gave me space to talk through whatever came to mind. I realised some things for the very first time."

    — A

  • "Despite having had many psychology sessions, I couldn’t come to terms with it. It has been life changing being able to connect with my body, not just my brain." 

    — M

Laura Justin, women's health physiotherapist in Darwin

Birth Preparation

Step into birth feeling informed, grounded, and ready.

Birth preparation isn't about controlling what happens. It's about understanding what could happen so that whatever unfolds on the day, you feel oriented, resourced, and ready to meet it.

In a birth preparation session, we map out the different pathways birth can take. We explore what's happening in your body and mind throughout labour, and connect with what you personally need to feel truly ready — not just intellectually informed, but settled in your body.

If you're holding fears, anxieties, or uncertainties about birth, we'll make space for those too. Using somatic and systemic tools, I'll help you move from anxiety into readiness, so you can step into the experience with confidence rather than dread.

Available in-person in Darwin and online.

Not sure which service is right for you?

Reach out and tell me what’s going on.

We’ll make a plan together.