Erika Munton

Erika (our couples therapist & individual psychotherapist) works with you to create a safe and supportive environment for couples and family members to explore their changing needs, desires, identities, and relationship dynamics for greater mental and emotional well-being. With an extensive background in birth attendance and diverse relationship experiences, she deeply understands the transformative journey of parenthood. Expanding her expertise to psychotherapy across the lifespan, Erika supports individuals and couples in navigating intimacy, parenting, lifestyle, identity, and major life transitions with empathy and understanding.

Whatever shape your family takes, Erika provides a compassionate, trauma-informed space to strengthen connection and build a resilient, fulfilling, and meaningful relationship. She takes an integrative, collaborative, and down-to-earth approach, drawing on both clinical skills and lived experience. Her work incorporates attachment science, mindfulness, embodiment practices, and evidence-based relationship therapy.

Be supported to:

• Explore what a healthy relationship looks like for you
• Strengthen teamwork as partners and parents
• Prepare for childbirth and adapt to parenthood
• Understand and care for anxiety, depression, trauma, PTSD, ADHD
• Express your needs, desires, and boundaries with clarity and consent
• Grow love and intimacy with respect, creativity and care
• Manage conflict, reduce stress, and restore connection
• Improve communication skills and deepen understanding
• Process painful life experiences that continue to affect you
• Navigate cultural and personal expectations in relationships
• Negotiate roles, responsibilities, and the ever-growing “to-do” list
• Maintain your individuality and interests outside of parenting
• Set value-driven goals to bring your shared dreams to life
• Widen your village of support
• Live with grief and loss in a way that honors your experience
• Process betrayals and infidelity.

About Erika

I am a mother and grandmother. Coming from a family of home builders, I designed and owner-built my eco-home from strawbales and reclaimed timbers. Over the years, I have learned to embrace uncertainty and adapt with flexibility—lessons I bring into my work with you. I see you as a whole person, beyond labels, diagnoses, or the history that has shaped you. You are wonderfully unique, with strengths and resources waiting to be discovered. I am honored to support you on your journey.

HypnoBirthing with Erika

Erika brings a truly unique depth of experience to our HypnoBirthing program, combining more than 20 years of experience as a birth doula with her work as a couples therapist.

Having supported women and their partners through pregnancy, labour, birth and the transition into parenthood for two decades, Erika brings a wealth of practical knowledge, calm reassurance and genuine understanding of what birth can look and feel like in the real world.

Her background in couples therapy also allows her to bring an important focus to the role of the birth partner — helping couples feel connected, confident and equipped to work together as a team throughout labour and birth.

Erika is passionate about helping parents approach birth feeling informed, empowered and supported, while understanding that birth does not always unfold exactly as planned. Her warm, grounded teaching style creates space for couples to ask questions, build practical skills and develop confidence in themselves, each other and the birth process.

Learning HypnoBirthing with Erika is about so much more than preparing for labour. It is an opportunity to prepare for birth together, strengthen your partnership and enter this next chapter feeling calm, connected and ready to meet whatever comes. Learn more about HypnoBirthing here.