Meet the Team
Arleen Cameron
Co-Founder and Trustee
Safeguarding Lead Grampian
Arleen trained as a doula in 2019 following the birth of her first child. In the following years she volunteered with a birth companion organisation before moving to Aberdeen in 2021 and setting up Aberdeen Birth Collective CIC, which continues to provide free support for people birthing in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.
Along the way she has added training in breastfeeding peer support, hypnobirthing, movement for birth, 3 Step Rewind technique and traditional Chinese mediciine, though her passion for human rights in pregnancy and childbirth and helping people to advocate for those rights has always remained her main motivation.
An activist to her core, Grampian and Tayside Birth Partners is the culmination of many years working with people navigating the maternity system and a long-held desire to help provide inclusive birth support to those who need it most, no matter their circumstances.
Arleen is also a Co-Chair of Grampian Maternity Voices Partnership, and admin for the group Scottish Doulas and Friends.
Cassie Lawrence
Co-Founder and Trustee
Safeguarding Lead Tayside
Cassie is a doula, hypnobirthing practitioner, antenatal educator and activist.
Mother to two humans, a wife, lover of cult 80s and early 90s movies. Cat fan, birth rights enthusiast and plant collector.
Cassie trained to be a doula after the birth of her first child. The rest fell into place and before long she had added training in hypnobirthing, breast and chest feeding peer support, and the 3 Step Rewind technique.
Cassie is based in Perthshire, and as well as her work with Grampian and Tayside Birth Partners she offers in person birth support within Perth, Tayside, Angus, virtual doula support, baby massage, journalling circles and group hypnobirthing classes.
Nicola Goodall
Training Facilitator
Cultural Safety Lead
Nicola grew up in South London from a deeply rooted South London Irish heritage amongst hip hop culture and became a Muslim and then a mama all by the age of 24.
In 2002 Nicola trained alongside Liliana Lammers and world-renowned obstetrician Michel Odent, becoming one of the first Paramana Doulas.
Nicola has a Dip Ed in Antenatal Education from Luton University and the National Childbirth Trust and spent many years facilitating antenatal courses for the NCT.
20 years' experience culminated in the 2014 launch of Red Tent Doulas, a preparation programme for women who support new families around birth focussing on self-development as well as education. It is this programme which forms the core of training for Grampian and Tayside Birth Partners.
Nicola is a mentor for Doula UK and was a member of Lothian Maternity Voices Partnership for many years. As well as continuing to support births in Edinburgh and London, Nicola also trains the next generation of birth workers in various locations around the world!
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