Meet The FLY Mama Team

Michelle Norton-Hughes

Co-founder

Michelle is a Chartered Physiotherapist specialising in Women's Pelvic and Hormonal Health. She supports women through their childbearing years, and beyond, to optimise their musculoskeletal and hormonal health. She is particularly passionate about self empowerment through education and wants to help more women gain a better understanding of their bodies to heal from and prevent pelvic floor dysfunction.

Michelle is also a certified Mummy MOT™ practitioner and trauma informed physiotherapist with experience in providing care following perinatal trauma and loss. She combines this with her clinical pilates and lifestyle medicine training throughout her practice.

Kelly Thistlethwaite

Co-founder

Kelly is a specialist Trauma Informed Yoga and Breath Work instructor,  Matrescence Coach and Mama Rising™ facilitator experienced in supporting women and birthing people following birth trauma and perinatal trauma and loss. 

Her passion comes from her own and her clients pain and has led her to become dedicated to supporting women whilst they heal from their perinatal experiences.

Kelly's healing methods are trauma informed and she understands the toll that high levels of stress and trauma can place on the body and nervous system. She can help you to understand how and why the way you think, act and feel has been impacted by your trauma.

Laura Greenwood

Laura is a Psychotherapist and Maternal Mental Health Coach who has been working within the mental health and wellbeing field for over 14 years.  Laura supports people to live a life that they love and to love themselves, something she believes that we are all capable of, and deserving of.  

Laura specialises in overcoming trauma, emotional regulation, perinatal and maternal mental health.  She stepped into working with mothers at all points of their journey into and through motherhood, due to seeing the huge gap in current support for this client group.

Hannah Poulton

Hannah is a Women's Health Physiotherapist and started her career within Physiotherapy in 2002. Hannah owns HLP Therapy. The Positive-C-Section and is the Co-Founder of Everything Natal. 

She is the UK's leading C-section scar specialist, acupuncturist, educator and author. In her content, she covers what to expect before a c-section, during and after it in the recovery period.

On a personal level, Hannah has two beautiful (and energetic) boys, one of whom was born via c-section birth.

She says "It is an honour to be part of the Expert Panel for FLY Mama – talking about all things c-section and recovery."

Sammy Murrell

Sammy is an ICF accredited life coach, Mama Rising (TM) Facilitator and Podcaster.

The Mothers’ Hood Podcast supports mothers trying to move from a place of  overwhelm and exhaustion to a position of empowerment and thriving in motherhood.

Sammy's content in the FLY Mama expert program is focussed on supporting those who have experienced baby loss, and specifically mothers who have had to terminate a pregnancy for medical reasons.

She says "today we mother largely in isolation, away from our families, friends, and communities. But it was never meant to be this way."