Lina Nowak

More about me

For so long, the maternity world was not built for brains like ours. Appointments that moved too fast. Information delivered in ways that didn’t stick. Birth spaces that felt overwhelming before the first contraction even began. And afterwards — the exhaustion, the sensory overload, the invisible weight of a system that assumed you would simply cope.

I know this not only because I have studied it, but because I have lived it.

I am Lina — a doula, holistic health coach, and mother who received my ADHD diagnosis as an adult. That diagnosis reframed everything. It explained the overwhelm, the masking, the moments where I held it together on the outside while falling apart within. And it raised a question I could not let go of: what would have been different if someone had known how to support me?

That question became my purpose.

I trained as a doula with a specialisation in neurodivergent-inclusive perinatal care, graduating from the ND Birth Course and continuing to deepen my knowledge through ongoing study, research, and volunteering with ND Birth UK. I bring to this work not only professional training but an engineering background that means I think in systems, in structures, in how things can be built better — and a mother’s understanding of what it truly costs to navigate new parenthood without the right support.

I work with neurodivergent birthing people and their families — those with a diagnosis, those on a waiting list, those who have always known something was different but never had a name for it, and those who are not ready to name it at all. You do not need a label to deserve care that actually fits you.

My support is built around your brain, not the system’s expectations. That means communication adapted to how you process best. Birth planning that anticipates your sensory and emotional needs before they become a crisis. A presence in the room that knows when to speak, when to advocate, and when to simply hold the space steady. And postpartum support that understands that the fourth trimester can hit neurodivergent mothers harder — and that asking for help is not failure, it is wisdom.

I am based in Luxembourg and offer support in Polish, German, and French, with online support available for families wherever they are. I also offer one-time workshops for individuals, families, and professionals who want to understand neurodivergent-inclusive birth practice better.

If you have spent your life feeling like you were too much, too sensitive, too difficult — you were not too much. You were simply in the wrong room.

Welcome to the right one.