Doula Support is a unique service. When you hire a doula, you are hiring someone who you can feel comfortable with during your most vulnerable moments. Someone you can call if doubts or questions creep in. When you hire me as your doula, you also get someone who has 10+ years and 300+ births of experience in all settings with all different types of care providers (including traditional birth keepers and unassisted births). I am a fully trained and very experienced doula, originally certified through DONA International, though I have since left that organization and am currently both certified and a doula educator through Birth Becomes You. I have been through both the Basics and Integration workshops through Spinning Babies. I am also highly experienced in VBAC and HBAC and am a Certified VBAC Pro with VBAC Academy. 

There’s a lot of great reasons to hire someone like myself with a decade of experience and training. I’ve seen it all! I’ve worked in every possible setting with every possible type of care provider and know how to navigate all these systems. From super straight forward and “easy” births to ones with multiple complications and a varied medical history, I’ve held the hands of these women and helped them through it all. Collaboration with your team to support you fully is always my goal. 

I’ve had trainings in breech birth, shoulder dystocia, and PPH and while I’m not a midwife, these skills allow me to be an integral part of your care team in the case of an emergency as I know how to help you and your care team in the moment. I can anticipate the needs of your care providers in these situations and communicate to you and your partner efficiently in lay-mans terms about things that may be happening. I am a Professional member of Evidence Based Birth and utilize their research to stay up to date on all things concerning birth and babies. I was a licensed massage therapist for almost a decade and a certified yoga teacher for 18 years. I bring a whole wealth of knowledge, skills, and techniques to each and every birth I attend. 

I strive with every birth to offer deeply intuitive, whole-person doula support built on the foundation of experience and training with the held-fast belief that every person deserves a safe, unique and beautiful birth experience. All of my doula clients also get a full gallery of incredible birth photography to remember their unique stories by. Even if you are thinking that you don’t need a doula who does birth photography, I can tell you right now, that birth photography is the biggest gift you can give yourself as a birthing person as well as the baby you are bringing into the world. You and they deserve to have their stories told and memorialized.