Sophie Fletcher

Mindful Hypnobirthing (Vermilion / Penguin, 2014, revised 2019). Hypnosis and mindfulness techniques for a calm and confident birth. A global bestseller, also available as an audiobook narrated by Sophie.

Mindful Mamma. A practical guide to the life-changing first year of motherhood.

Mindful Menopause (2021). Mindset and practical tools for perimenopause and menopause, with ten accompanying audio downloads.

Sophie's books have sold over 100,000 copies collectively. All three books, with their accompanying audio tracks, are here.

Contributing author

The Here and Now (Penguin Random House Audio, 2020). An audio anthology bringing together some of Penguin's most trusted authors on staying calm and grounded in uncertain times. Sophie contributed and narrated the section on keeping families connected and calm, alongside Oliver Burkeman, Chloe Madeley, Dr Amir Khan, Rukmini Iyer, Chloe Brotheridge, Sara Milne Rowe, Helen Tupper, Sarah Ellis and The Mindfulness Project.

The Positive Birth Book by Milli Hill. Sophie wrote the section on hypnobirthing for this bestselling guide to pregnancy, birth and the early weeks.

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UK Hypnosis Convention. Sophie has presented at the UK's largest hypnosis conference across multiple years:

• 2024, The Teenager's Toolkit: Exam Success
• 2023 What happened to the Hypno in Hypnobirthing?
• 2022, The Alchemy of Language and Hypnosis, drawing on her Masters dissertation on alchemical symbolism in German and English literature
• 2019, Challenging Beliefs Around Menopause
• Hypnosis for Menopause

Association of Radical Midwives. Hypnobirthing seminar, and conference speaker.

Universities. Sophie lectures on hypnosis at universities across the UK, which have included the University of York, the University of Nottingham (Guest Lecturer), De Montfort University,  Nottingham Trent University and the University of Southampton.

Royal College of Midwives accreditation. The Mindful Mamma® Hypnobirthing Practitioner Training was accredited by the Royal College of Midwives in 2018, following a review of teaching materials, learning objectives, resources and outcomes. The RCM has since stopped accrediting external training organisations.

National Council for Hypnotherapy. Sophie is a Fellow of the NCH, an accredited member, and an NCH supervisor. She has also served on the NCH board.

Sophie holds an advanced DBS check and works within a professional code of conduct, with safeguarding and insurance in place for hypnosis across pregnancy, birth and beyond.

"I recommend Sophie Fletcher's hypnobirthing course to all my independent midwifery clients because I love Sophie's calm, kind and evidence-based approach. I have witnessed many instances where Sophie's methods have been helpful for women, in the hospital and home birth settings." Independent midwife.

Read Sophie's comparison of the main UK hypnobirthing methods and how to choose a course.

National Council for Hypnotherapy Podcast, Sophie Fletcher on Pregnancy, Pain Management, and Mental Release. Sophie discusses her route into hypnotherapy following a traumatic first birth, the role of belief systems in pain management, and why the quality of training matters so much in perinatal work.

Midwife Pip Podcast - Mindfulness for Pregnancy and Motherhood  tackling overwhelm, uncertainty and anxiety in pregnancy

Solutions for the Mind - Menopause and Hypnosis with the Association for Solution Focussed Therapy 

The Menopause Coach, Adele Johnston - Why hypnotherapy is vital for menopause 

Fear Free Childbirth with Alexia Leachman, Preparing for a positive birth. On what actually makes the difference in birth preparation, and how to get your head in the right place before labour.

Real Menopause Talk - It's an opportunity to share and hear more stories about real life experience of menopause 

Fear Free Childbirth with Alexia Leachman, Childbirth self-efficacy. A deeper look at the psychology of birth: what self-efficacy is, why it shapes whether women seek out information at all, and how it can be built.

The Positive Perimenopause Podcast - A podcast for creating practical calm in the messy middle of midlife. 

The Midlife Whisperer with Ellen Albertson, Making Menopause Mainstream: From Taboo to Hot Topic. A joint conversation with menopause coach Adele Johnston, covering hormonal transitions, workplace menopause policy, and practical mindset tools.

Life: An Inside Job with Kate Codrington, The Sandwich Generation one of three episodes that Sophie appears on in this show. 

Middling Along / The Triple Shift, Hypnosis and a more mindful menopause. Covering the pathologisation of menopause, intuitive eating, shame and body image.

The Merry Menopause Bookclub, Sophie Fletcher on Mindful Menopause. On the cultural narrative around menopause and how changing perception changes experience.

menoPAUSE: Real & Raw Stories of Midlife & Mental Health, a long-form conversation on midlife, mindset and mental health.

Sophie also hosts her own podcast, Hypnobirthing: Twenty Questions with Sophie Fletcher, answering the twenty questions most commonly asked about hypnobirthing online, from whether you can use it with an epidural to whether hypnobirthing courses are worth it.