As a Perinatal Patient Advocate, I provide empowering strategy plans and professional advocacy services to support my client’s values & choices in their reproductive journeys. Centering my client’s personal values & informed choices is the guiding principle of my work.

As a physiology-first doula, I encourage my client’s instinctual flow and wise intuition in their birthing journeys. I bring patience and trust toward my client’s birthing process, and physiologically supportive tools when needed. Prenatally, I offer a variety of physiology assessments (alignment, core, pelvic floor), and personalized functional movement training, in order to support comfort in pregnancy, efficiency in birth, and a smoother postpartum recovery.

You will rarely hear me call the birth journey by its colloquial name of ‘labor’. ‘Labor’ might be one aspect of the journey, but it will be so much more than that. I see my clients have a variety of experiences during their birth journeys: excitement, challenge, introspection, pain, painlessness, catharsis, pleasure, ecstasy, fear, courage, levity, connection, surrender, rest, quietude, gateways, acts of will, relief, revelation, transformation, spiritual experience, personal power, and so much more. When the journey proves to be many things, ‘labor’ sells a profound journey short. That’s why I call it ‘the birth journey’.

I believe birth is a rite of passage, and that only Mom can know how to best navigate her passage. I trust and support Mom to the moon and back, no matter where and how she takes course. I am there every step of the way (both prenatally, and in the birth journey) to point the power back to her, to ensure she has the information, tools, and time to make her decisions genuinely, to encourage her team in being on board to support her and her decisions, to tend to her birthing environment, to ensure her comfort and strength, and to encourage her - or simply witness her - on her incredible journey.

I love the alpine in bloom, the bliss of a wild waters plunge, and dancing with abandon. I live in the White Oak woodlands of White Salmon, with the love of my life, and our frisky feline friend.

• Certified Birth Doula, DONA International, CD(DONA)

• Certified Perinatal Patient Advocate, PPA(PPAC)

• Certified Body Ready Method Practitioner

• AMI-certified Montessori Educator, early childhood

• Spinning Babies trained professional

• Evidence Based Birth professional member

• Trauma-informed healthcare trained professional

• Birthing Rights and Advocacy trained professional

• Physiology-first trained professional

I look forward to getting to know you, and joyfully supporting you in meeting your reproductive and family goals.

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