Become a founding member
Become a founding member of Mendara
Mendara is currently open to a small group of founding members. Your membership unlocks:
Founding members get 50% off their first month
A community that gets it
You are not alone in this. Mendara connects you with a growing community of women who have been through the same thing. Share, listen, and feel less alone with people who truly understand.
200+ women
in our community
Unlimited guided group sessions
When you are ready, join a live session. We match you with a small group of women who have been through similar experiences, led by a trained, trauma-informed facilitator with lived experience of birth trauma. The sessions are text-based, completely anonymous, 60 minutes long, and fit around your schedule - all within the app.
80+
session run
4
facilitators
9.8/10
rating
Daily exercises
Start processing your experience at your own pace. Mendara gives you guided, science-backed exercises and content to help you make sense of what happened, whenever you need it. All included in our app.
20+ guided moments
journalling, reframing, mantras and more.
As a founding member, you also get to shape the future of Mendara
Women who have experienced a difficult or traumatic birth have been massively underserved by conventional support. The women who join Mendara now have a real opportunity to shape the future of guided peer support and to help us build something that can help even more people.
You’ll have the opportunity to provide feedback directly to our founder and be part of campaigns, events, and community moments as they happen. The women who join now are not just members. They are part of changing what support looks like for every woman who comes after them.
What our community says:
Women who attend 3+ guided Mendara sessions report feeling better day-to-day, more confident in caring for themselves and their baby, and less alone in their experience.
Join the waitlist
Join the founding member community
After you sign up, we will send you a short onboarding form so we can understand your experience and find the right group for you.
How it works
Meet your facilitators
Each Mendara session is held by trained facilitators who bring professional care, lived understanding, and a steady group presence.
Rachael
Chair of the Birth Trauma Association
I came to the role of BTA chair and volunteer manager due to my own experience of a twin pregnancy which was complicated by a life-changing placental abruption, emergency caesarean birth, and severe postpartum complications.
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Leone
Session Facilitator
With my third pregnancy I was hospitalised at 20 weeks with sepsis, and spent time in intensive care. I first realised I had postnatal depression four months after, but it took a further year before I reached out and was, gently, told I had PTSD. I ultimately credit EMDR therapy with saving my life, as well as the Birth Trauma Association, who provided a space for me to tell my story. I want to help create a space for others to feel less alone and tell their story. There's power in taking back our stories but healing is possible.
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Colleen
Session Facilitator
I experienced a difficult lead up to my first birth, including a severe PUPPP rash, multiple ‘stretch & sweeps’ which I experienced as extremely painful and violating, and fourth degree tears. I didn't realise for some time that I was experiencing birth trauma. It is important for me to be able to offer support to others in a similar situation as it's an area where gratitude and grief, delight and devastation can sit all at once, which can feel very overwhelming when navigating parenthood. A little support can go a long way.
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Our Story
Delivering a safe space for processing a difficult or traumatic birth
1 in 3 women describe their birth as traumatic. Many never get the chance to process what happened. Mendara started because we believe this needs to change.
About the Birth Trauma Association
Visit: birthtraumaassociation.org
Email: support@birthtraumaassociation.org.uk
Phone: 0203 621 6338 (peer support) or 07779 275032 for admin enquiries, Monday to Friday 10am to 1pm