Awareness-level certification for those supporting women through fertility, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, hormonal health, trauma, and reproductive wellbeing.
A clear, trauma-aware training that finally explains why so many women feel unsafe in their bodies – and what professionals can do to support them.
Created by the leading voice in tokophobia and Reproductive Anxiety Disorder.
Become a RAD-Aware Professional.
Access the training and certification today.
Reproductive fear has been quietly shaping women's lives for generations. Most professionals have never been taught how to recognise it – until now.
Women experience twice the levels of anxiety that men do – across every life stage. But the part we rarely talk about is this: A significant portion of that anxiety is reproductive in nature.
Not the "head" kind of anxiety. The embodied kind.
The kind that shows up as:
This is not "just stress" or "just hormones." It's fear woven into the body – shaped by cultural conditioning, medical experiences, puberty imprinting, hormonal change, identity shifts, reproductive trauma… and yes, pregnancy and birth.
And most professionals have never been given the frameworks to understand any of this.
That's why this training matters.
The Hidden Reality of Women's Reproductive Anxiety
These are the invisible realities that sit beneath tokophobia, and at the heart of Reproductive Anxiety Disorder (RAD).
Tokophobia – the extreme fear of pregnancy and birth – affects an estimated 5% to 35% of women. And yet most people – including professionals – have never heard of it.
But tokophobia is just the tip of the iceberg. Beneath it is something much bigger, more patterned, and more clinically meaningful: Reproductive Anxiety Disorder (RAD).
A trauma-linked, culturally conditioned nervous-system pattern that affects women:
Most professionals don't know how to spot it. Even fewer know how to talk about it. And almost no one knows how to support it safely.
This tokophobia awareness training changes that.
Read about Reproductive Anxiety DisorderTokophobia has been misunderstood for decades.
It's not a simple phobia.
It's not cognitive.
It's not irrational.
Tokophobia is an embodied anxiety disorder shaped by:
Once you understand it through the RAD lens, everything changes:
Your assessments change.
Your questions change.
Your care changes.
Your clients feel safer, sooner.
If your work touches any part of a woman's reproductive, hormonal, emotional or embodied life – RAD is already part of your world.
This training simply gives you the language for it.
This isn't just a course. It's the new professional language that finally explains what women have been experiencing for decades.
You are already working with women who carry RAD – they just don't have the language for what they're feeling.
Women don't always say "I'm afraid." But their bodies do.
The client who freezes when pregnancy is mentioned.
The fertility client overwhelmed by fear they can't explain.
The pregnant woman who seems "fine" one minute and panicked the next.
The new mother drowning in intrusive thoughts and shame.
The perimenopausal woman whose anxiety suddenly spikes out of nowhere.
RAD is not a niche problem.
It is a lifespan issue.
This training gives you the clarity and confidence to finally understand what's really going on – and how to respond safely.
This training helps professionals see what has been missed, misnamed or misunderstood – often for a woman's entire life.
What you'll learn
This is not a surface-level tour of "fear in pregnancy."
It is a deep, robust, trauma-aware professional training grounded in:
This training gives you the clarity professionals tell me they wished they'd had years ago.
The developmental threads most professionals never connect:
You will finally understand why women feel what they feel.
How fear becomes embodied, and why the body speaks before the mind:
This helps you recognise when a nervous system is overwhelmed – and how to respond safely.
This is where the "fear story" becomes a life story:
This goes far beyond pregnancy.
Across all life stages:
You'll gain the clarity to recognise what's really happening behind the words.
The questions that reveal more than questionnaires ever could. You'll learn:
This alone is worth the training.
You'll learn:
This is not about fixing women. It's about understanding them – safely, ethically, and without bypassing the body.
The Blueprint is the perinatal-specific assessment tool I developed to translate RAD awareness into structured client work. In this training, you'll be introduced to:
You'll learn enough to recognise the tool, refer clients toward it, and understand what its output signals. Deeper training in administering and integrating the Blueprint into your own client work is covered in the Fearless Birthing Practitioner Pathways.
This training helps professionals see what has been missed, misnamed or misunderstood – often for a woman's entire life.
RAD is not a pregnancy problem. It is a lifespan pattern of safety, fear, and embodiment.
And it expresses differently at every stage:
Puberty is often the first place RAD roots itself. This is where girls absorb messages of shame, danger, and distrust. Body image anxiety, painful periods, medical or procedural trauma, and eating disorders often emerge as early coping mechanisms. For many, this is the moment their body first stops feeling like a safe place to live.
Fear shows up as avoidance, ambivalence, overthinking, and panic. Women may experience disgust, shame, or OCD-style rumination around pregnancy, sex, or bodily change. "I'm just not ready" becomes a protective strategy, not a preference. This is the stage where RAD hides in plain sight.
The body-level fear becomes harder to hide. Panic, dissociation, overwhelm, intrusive thoughts, and anxiety around responsibility or loss of control are common. Women may gravitate toward hyper-medicalised choices, rigid plans, or extreme information-gathering – not out of preference, but survival.
For many women with RAD, birth feels like an uncontrollable event. Fear-driven C-sections, collapse, freeze responses, dissociation, and decision-making overwhelm can dominate the experience. Even medically "straightforward" births can feel terrifying when the underlying anxiety has never been understood.
Postnatal RAD often shows up as bonding anxiety, intrusive thoughts, shame, hypervigilance, or a sense of emotional disconnection. Women may feel stuck between "I should be coping" and "I don't feel safe," with little language to explain what's happening inside.
Hormonal shifts during perimenopause can unmask reproductive fear that has been dormant for decades. Old anxieties resurface, identity feels destabilised, and women often describe an overwhelming sense of "not recognising themselves." It's one of the most misunderstood expressions of RAD – and one of the most important for practitioners to recognise.
The rates of reproductive fear are rising. Birth outcomes are worsening. Anxiety is at an all-time high.
And more women than ever are silently avoiding pregnancy – not because they "don't want kids," but because their bodies have never felt safe.
RAD finally gives us a name for this. And naming it is what changes the trajectory.
Professionals who understand RAD change outcomes. Not by doing more, but by seeing differently.
Professionals who understand RAD are better able to:
This training fills a gap that no other training covers.
RAD is a framework I've developed through research, clinical experience, case studies, and the lived stories shared in my book, Betrayed By Your Biology.
This is original work.
And it's work that professionals worldwide are hungry for.
Author, researcher, practitioner – and the woman who turned her own severe tokophobia into a global body of work.
My work began with my own lived experience. I had severe tokophobia – a level of reproductive fear that shaped every part of my life. When conventional support failed me, I developed my own trauma-informed approach to healing. That process became the foundation of the methodology I now teach – Head Trash Clearance – and the beginning of more than 16 years of exploration into how fear lives in the body.
Since then, I've supported thousands of women through my digital programmes, books, resources, and tools, helping them unravel deep-rooted reproductive anxiety in a way that is gentle, embodied, and non-cognitive.
I am the host of two leading podcasts on this subject – Fear Free Childbirth and Tik-Tokophobia – which together have reached over 1.8 million listeners worldwide. Through these conversations, I've gathered a unique and wide-reaching understanding of women's fear, trauma, and nervous system patterns across every reproductive life stage.
I am the author of Betrayed By Your Biology, the first book to connect tokophobia to a wider, lifelong pattern I named Reproductive Anxiety Disorder (RAD). My white papers – The Case for RAD and Fear Sells (But It Doesn't Serve) – introduce a new, trauma-aware framework that is now shaping professional understanding of reproductive fear.
I developed the RAD Framework, Fearless Birthing, the Birth Readiness Blueprint, and Head Trash Clearance, and I train practitioners, birth workers, therapists, counsellors, and reproductive health specialists worldwide in how to support women safely, ethically, and effectively.
The Blueprint is the same tool I use in my own 1:1 work with women – what I teach practitioners is what I practise.
My mission is simple: to make women feel safe in their bodies again, and to give professionals the clarity and language that has been missing for decades.
After completing the training, you'll receive:
This certification is a marker of integrity, safety, and professional excellence – especially as the RAD movement continues to grow.
After decades working in therapy, education, and ancestral healing, I thought I'd seen it all. Alexia has revealed what every practitioner needs to understand – and what most of us have missed.
Alexia's framework connects the dots that every other modality leaves scattered. It's the missing piece – the bridge between emotional healing, body wisdom, and generational trauma.
I would highly recommend Alexia's RAD Awareness training. As a midwife of 35 years, I thought I'd seen most of what affected women in pregnancy and birth. Alexia opened my eyes to patterns I'd been witnessing for years without understanding what they were. The training gave me the framework and language I'd been missing.
Alexia's RAD Awareness course has expanded my view of what's really going on for the women I work with. I came to it with decades of counselling experience and still found I'd been missing something fundamental. The framework changes how I listen, how I ask, and how I respond. It's the most genuinely useful CPD I've done in years.
Ready to See What's Really Driving Women's Anxiety, Avoidance and Overwhelm?
Join the professionals who are transforming their work with the RAD lens.
Enrol TodayYou'll walk away with a radically clearer understanding of reproductive fear, a trauma-informed lens that elevates your entire practice, the ability to identify tokophobia and RAD early, and a gentler, safer way of supporting anxious clients.
You'll gain a language you've never had before, and a skillset that distinguishes your practice in a field that desperately needs more nuance.
Most importantly, you'll gain clarity that helps women feel deeply seen – often for the first time in their lives.
This is not a practitioner-level delivery training.
It is the expert awareness training that every professional needs before deeper work is possible.
If you want to deliver this work yourself with clients – including using the Birth Readiness Blueprint and the full Head Trash Clearance method – the Fearless Birthing Practitioner Pathways is the next step.
Your investment
This includes:
You'll gain a training that continues to grow with the RAD movement – one that will deepen your work for years to come.
If you support women through any part of their reproductive, hormonal or emotional lives, this is not optional knowledge.
It's foundational.
Enrol Now – £495No. RAD affects women across their entire reproductive lifespan – puberty, fertility, pregnancy, birth, postpartum and perimenopause.
If your work touches women's bodies, hormones, anxiety, identity or trauma, this training is for you.
No. This is an awareness-level certification, not a practitioner-level delivery training.
You'll learn how to recognise RAD, respond safely, stay in scope, and know when to refer.
Lifetime access – including future updates as the RAD framework evolves.
Most professionals move through the content in 4–6 hours, but you can go at your own pace. It's designed to integrate easily into a busy practice.
Absolutely.
RAD sits at the intersection of trauma, anxiety, reproductive psychology, and women's identity. Therapists, counsellors and trauma practitioners consistently tell me this training fills gaps they didn't know they had.
No.
This training gives you the awareness-level foundation needed before deeper work is possible. If you want to deliver this work yourself with clients – including using the Birth Readiness Blueprint and the full Head Trash Clearance method – the Fearless Birthing Practitioner Pathways is the next step.
The Blueprint is the perinatal-specific assessment tool I've developed to translate RAD awareness into structured client work.
In this Awareness Training, you'll be introduced to what the Blueprint measures (a 12-category framework with 11 distinct profiles), how it surfaces a woman's specific fear pattern, and how its output sets the healing direction for any follow-on work.
You'll learn enough to recognise the tool and refer clients toward it. If you want to deliver Blueprint-led work in your own practice, the Fearless Birthing Practitioner Pathways covers that in depth.
This Awareness Training is recognition-level: how to spot tokophobia and RAD in client work, how to screen safely, how to respond without overwhelming clients, and when to refer.
The Practitioner Certification is delivery-level: how to do this work with clients yourself, including full training in the Head Trash Clearance method and the Birth Readiness Blueprint.
Most professionals start here and progress to the Practitioner Certification if they want to deliver this work directly. Some stay at the awareness level because it integrates beautifully with their existing modality. Both are valid.
Yes. It's a demonstration of your commitment.
As RAD grows in recognition, this certification signals clarity, safety and excellence in a field that is rapidly evolving.
Yes – access is immediate.
Reproductive fear has shaped women's lives for generations. Not because they're "anxious women," but because no one ever taught professionals what to look for.
RAD is the framework that changes that.
If you want your work to be safer, clearer, more embodied, and more aligned with the real emotional landscape women are navigating…
This is your next step.
