Claudia M. Gold, MD is a paediatrician and writer who practiced paediatrics for 20 years and now specializes in early relational health. She has over three decades of clinical experience in a wide variety of communities and currently works in a volunteer clinic for uninsured families and as a consultant to a program for pregnant and parenting women struggling with substance use. She was on the faculty of the UMass fellowship in Early Relational Health for ten years.

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Chris Yelland is a Senior Clinical Psychologist who has worked with the South Australian Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) for 28 years. For the past 18 years she has been a clinician at Helen Mayo House, supporting women in the perinatal period experiencing a range of mental health disorders including Borderline Personality Disorder. Chris has been involved in the development and facilitation of the Mother-Infant Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (MI-DBT) Program since its commencement. She continues to be a group facilitator, as well as providing support and supervision to other staff and services involved in delivering the program across South Australia.

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Amy is an effective advocate for bringing consumers, clinicians and researchers together to support women and families affected by birth-related trauma. In 2016, Amy established Birth Trauma Australia (BTA), a charity focused on the recognition and understanding of birth-related trauma. Even on a tiny budget and an almost entirely volunteer workforce, the BTA delivers national support services for parents who have experienced birth-related trauma. This includes online and face-to-face peer-led support services, antenatal education resources, and a growing body of advocacy work that includes the collection of critical data to shed light on this issue.

Fiona has practised midwifery for over 30 years. She has worked in rural, regional, and metropolitan centres. She has worked in several midwifery roles, including private midwifery practice, birth centres, MGP and overseas in Papua New Guinea and India. She has worked as a Midwifery Clinical Specialist in a Level 6 Maternity Hospital and as a Clinical Midwifery Consultant in a Level 5 Maternity Hospital. In 2018, Fiona initiated and developed a Formal Birth Debriefing Service using Trauma Informed Care principles at a regional hospital, and in that capacity, she has debriefed more than 500 women, families, and practising midwives. She now understands the urgent need for deep, compassion-driven care in maternity services for everyone involved in both receiving care and for those providing care if we are to modify trauma by protecting the ‘humanness’ of expert clinical practice. Fiona has been a member and clinical consultant for ABTA since 2019.