Counsellor | Author | Consumer | Advocate | Birth Trauma consultantLeanne has a Counselling private practice in Diamond Creek VIC, is a passionate advocate for women’s health, birth injuries and birth trauma (incl PTSD), is a consumer at Northern Health and Western Health hospitals and an Author of a Children’s book “When Mummy went to hospital”. Proudly her children Connor and Molly are the illustrators of that book.Leanne suffered a catastrophic birth injury in 2011 which required 6 operations including an ileostomy bag, later it’s reversal and spent over 50 days in and out of hospital over that time. This injury resulted in her being fecally incontinent for many years. Leanne is a guest speaker about her birthing experience sharing to hospitals, universities and at professional development panels. She is also a consultant for maternity services and is called upon as a consumer for input representing both, and/or the mother and the child.She is a avid traveller having been to over 30 countries, most recently taking a 3 month backpacking trip with her family in 2023 for 80 days in Europe, including walking the Camino Santiago de Compostella in Spain. She lived in Ireland and London for 8 years before returning home to Melbourne in 2007.