Welcome, I’m MItra.
Founder of Empowered Births – HypnoBirthing® Educator & Mum of three beautiful babies.
I’m a passionate HypnoBirthing® educator and a part-time physiotherapist, recently relocated from my hometown of Gisborne to the stunning Lake Hāwea/Wānaka region. Growing up, I developed a deep love for the outdoors—especially snowboarding. School holidays were spent carving up the slopes of Cardrona, and over time, I fell in love with this incredible part of the country. This year, we finally made the move to raise our children here, surrounded by nature and adventure—the perfect backyard.
I’m a proud mum to three beautiful little humans. I gave birth in 2021, 2023 and 2025—three incredible home-birth experiences that I credit to both myself and the power of HypnoBirthing®, with the knowledge I gained through completing an in-person course.
Through my own birthing journey, I became acutely aware of how stretched and under-resourced our maternity system has become. Midwives are often working to their limits, and the system can default to a one-size-fits-all approach. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always support the unique needs of each birthing woman and their whānau.
That’s why I created Empowered Births. I believe every parent deserves to feel informed, confident, and in control of their birthing experience. Through HypnoBirthing® classes (a powerful alternative or alongside to standard antenatal education), I provide tools and knowledge that support you during labour and beyond, alongside helping you ask the right questions, make empowered decisions, and approach your birth with calm and confidence.
Whether you're based locally and wanting to participate in person or you’re anywhere across Aotearoa and wanting to participate online, Empowered Births offers HypnoBirthing® classes NZ-wide—giving you access to this transformative course, no matter where you are on your journey.
What is Hyonobirthing?
HypnoBirthing® is as much a philosophy as it is a technique. It is a rewarding, relaxing, stress-free method of birthing that is based on the belief that all babies should come into the world gently, in an atmosphere of calm and joy. HypnoBirthing prepares a birthing couple – physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually – for an easier, more comfortable and, sometimes, pain-free, birth. Through a well-thought-out program of deep relaxation, self-hypnosis, special breathing techniques, visualisation’s, affirmations, and education, HypnoBirthing® returns to a woman the art of birthing in a way that allows her to summon her natural birthing instincts and to birth her baby safely and with ease. It is a program a that considers the psychological, as well as the physical, well-being of the mother, her birth partner, and the newborn, independent of context, whether that be in the quiet of a home, a hospital, or a birth center.
It all begins with the instinctive natural ability of a women’s body to give birth. By eliminating any fear you may have and empowering you with knowledge and tools. We give you the confidence in your own body to achieve your best birth and give your child the best start to life.
