Manisha Sheth - Baby Loss & Perinatal Counsellor

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Manisha Sheth - Baby Loss & Perinatal Counsellor

Counsellor & trainer supporting parents and professionals with baby loss, perinatal mental health, and culturally aligned care.

09/08/2026

World Breastfeeding Week may be drawing to a close, but this conversation doesn’t belong to one week.

Because feeding struggles don’t just affect the person feeding. They move through the relationship too. And that part rarely gets named.

It can look like this:

🍂 One person is exhausted, in pain, grieving the feeding experience they hoped for, and feeling like their body has let them down. The other doesn’t know how to help, is scared of saying the wrong thing, and starts going quiet to avoid making it worse.

🍂 The silence that grows in that space isn’t distance. It’s two people who love each other not knowing how to reach each other across something really hard.

🍂 And underneath it all there’s often so much that goes unsaid. The guilt of stopping. The resentment of pressure, from health professionals, from family, from a culture that has very loud opinions about how babies should be fed. The grief of it not going the way you planned. The exhaustion of holding all of that while also keeping a tiny human alive.

Partners, this is for you too. Your person doesn’t always need you to fix it. Sometimes they need you to sit with them in it. To say: I know this is really hard. I’m not going anywhere.

And if feeding has become something that’s sitting between you and your partner, quietly, heavily, that’s worth talking about. With each other first. And with someone who can help, if you need it.

~ Manisha 🦋

08/08/2026

Rainbow Baby Week 2026 is 16th–22nd August, and I’m honoured to be joining Willow’s Rainbow Box on Monday 17th for their Perinatal Mental Health in Pregnancy After Loss panel event.

It’s a free online event and I’d love for you to join us. Whether you’re navigating a rainbow pregnancy yourself, supporting someone who is, or working in this space, this week has something for everyone.

Link in bio to book your free space for the 17th!

~ Manisha 🦋

06/08/2026

I’m pleased to share that counselling appointments are now open through Islamic Marriage Solutions.

As the counsellor providing this service, I’ll be working with Muslim couples and individuals who are looking for professional support that holds their faith and cultural values at the centre, not as a footnote, but as a foundation.

Services available include Marriage Readiness Reviews, Premarital Counselling, Parenthood Preparation and Ongoing Couples Counselling. All sessions are held online via Zoom.

New clients are welcome to book a free 15-minute discovery call to find out more and explore whether this is the right fit. DM me to learn more.

For general inquiries, feel free to email [email protected] or leave a voice message at 0115 8248786 for a callback.

~ Manisha 🦋

31/07/2026

This one is for the partners.

Because I sit with couples where one person is visibly carrying a traumatic birth experience, and the other is carrying something too, quietly, guiltily, convinced that their distress doesn’t count or isn’t appropriate to name.

They were there. They witnessed something frightening. They may have felt completely helpless. And then they went home, got on with things, and told themselves that what they felt didn’t matter because they weren’t the one it happened to.

That silence has consequences. For the individual. And for the relationship.

Partners can develop trauma responses after a difficult birth. That is real, it is recognised, and it deserves support, not as an afterthought, but in its own right.

~ Manisha 🦋

29/07/2026

July is Minority Mental Health Month, and I don’t want it to pass without talking about what actually gets in the way.

Because it’s not enough to say “seek help” without acknowledging how complicated that can be for global majority communities. The stigma is real. The fear of what family or community will think is real. The experience of reaching out and finding a service that doesn’t understand your world, and coming away feeling more alone than before, is real.

These barriers don’t exist because global majority communities don’t care about mental health. They exist because of a complex mix of cultural values, community structures, generational silence, and services that were not designed with us in mind.

Naming them isn’t criticism. It’s the beginning of something.

If any of this resonates, if you’ve been sitting with something and haven’t known how to take the first step, my link in bio has details on how we can work together. A free 15-minute call is always where we start.

~ Manisha 🦋

26/07/2026

Enmeshment is a clinical term, But in culturally diverse families, it can show up in ways that are much more nuanced than a textbook definition captures.

It’s not about families being toxic or parents being controlling, though sometimes those things are present too. It’s about what happens when the boundary between self and family becomes so thin that it’s hard to know where one ends and the other begins.

It can look like:

🍂 Not being able to make a decision, about your relationship, your career, where you live, without it first going through the family.
🍂 Feeling responsible for your parents’ emotional state.
🍂 Guilt that arrives the moment you prioritise your own needs.
🍂 A partner who comes second to the family, not because you don’t love them, but because that’s the water you’ve always swum in.

And here’s the part that matters most: these patterns make sense. They developed in families where interdependence was survival, where community and reputation were genuinely important, where love and duty were the same thing.

Understanding enmeshment isn’t about rejecting your family or your culture. It’s about developing enough clarity to make choices, real ones, rather than just repeating patterns without knowing you’re doing it.

That’s work I find genuinely meaningful to do alongside people.

~ Manisha 🦋

24/07/2026

I want to name something that doesn’t get talked about enough.

For many Black, Asian and global majority couples, the fear of counselling isn’t just about stigma. It’s about what might happen in the room. Whether the counsellor will understand. Whether the family will be framed as the villain. Whether faith will be dismissed. Whether one partner will walk out feeling like the session was quietly stacked against them.

Those fears aren’t irrational. They come from real experiences, of services that weren’t built with us in mind, and frameworks that don’t always translate across cultures without care.

Culturally aligned couples counselling isn’t about having a counsellor who shares your background. It’s about being in a room where your whole life is taken seriously. Where the complexity is held, not flattened.

If you’ve been putting off counselling because you weren’t sure it would feel safe, I want you to know that that matters. And that the right space exists. Check out the link in bio to learn more.

~ Manisha 🦋

21/07/2026

🦋 Being a doula is one of the most quietly powerful things a person can do.

You’re not the clinician. You’re not the family. You’re the consistent, calm, informed presence that helps someone feel less alone during something enormous.

That’s where my journey to what I do now started.

I’m so proud that at Support ME CIC, we train doulas to do that with cultural safety and trauma-informed care at the centre. Not as an afterthought.

If you’ve been thinking about this kind of work, or know someone who has, our September 2026 cohort is now open. Funded places are available.

Link in bio.

~ Manisha 🦋

19/07/2026

🦋 If you’ve spent your life being told you’re too sensitive, too emotional, too much, this one is for you.

Because what gets labelled as oversensitivity is very often dysregulation, which are not the same thing. This is something that’s taken me my whole life to understand this and it’s still something I’m learning to recognise and accept.

Dysregulation is what happens when your nervous system, shaped by everything you’ve experienced, everything you’ve survived, responds to the present as if it’s the past.

An interaction that feels disproportionately intense. An emotional response that seems to come from nowhere. A shutdown that happens before you’ve even consciously registered the trigger.

It’s physiology. Not weakness or character.

For so many South Asian women, the “too sensitive” message arrived early. From family, from community, from a culture that often prizes composure above most other things. Learning to minimise your own experience becomes survival.

But in reality, minimising just buries it, it doesn’t regulate and leads to severe burnout and overwhelm.

Understanding your nervous system, learning to recognise what dysregulation feels like in your body, what triggers it, and what actually helps it settle is some of the most useful work I do alongside clients. It’s something I’ve had to do for myself.

Please know, if this resonates, YOU were never too much but instead you were CARRYING too much, without enough support. There’s a difference.

~ Manisha 🦋

16/07/2026

This week is South Asian Baby Loss Awareness Week. Only its second year, but a space that has felt necessary for too long.

Baby loss in South Asian communities has so often been surrounded by silence. The language for it, the permission to grieve privately and openly, to name what happened, to say “I am not okay,” hasn’t always existed within our communities.

The cost of that silence is devastating. It lives in the bodies of women who recovered alone. In relationships that couldn’t hold the weight of grief together. In families who didn’t know how to express their loss.

As a South Asian woman, a counsellor and a perinatal mental health advocate, this week is important to me. The women and families I support, work alongside and learn from carry these experiences into every space they enter, and they deserve to be held, fully, in all of it.

If you have experienced baby loss and have never had space to grieve it properly, with someone who understands what that means within your community, your family, your faith, I want you to know that space exists.

You do not have to carry this alone.

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https://nurturingmama.co.uk/

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