I believe you are the expert on your own body.

I am not here to sway your decisions, I am here to support you. My approach to doula work is guided by the knowledge that my clients are, ultimately, the experts on their own bodies and experiences. Through integrated emotional, physical, educational and advocacy support, I work alongside my clients to honor their experiences, identities, bodies, and choices. I support all birth choices, including epidural and non-epidural options, hospital births, home births. Whatever your preferences, I will advocate for you, listen to you, respect every decision you make, provide unbiased information to facilitate informed consent, and support you every step of the way.

My doula practice is centered around a feminist framework of Reproductive Justice.

Indigenous women, women of color, and trans people have always fought for Reproductive Justice, but the term was invented in 1994 by a group of Black women who would eventually become the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. SisterSong defines Reproductive Justice as the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities. I acknowledge that many of the injustices within reproductive healthcare disproportionately impact Black and Brown bodies. My work strives to shine light on these injustices and confront the ways in which I am complicit in upholding these systems of oppression. 

I work from a Person-Centered, Identity Affirming lens.

As a proudly queer doula, I am committed to providing compassionate and inclusive support to LGBTQ+ families throughout their pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journeys. I work to create spaces where every family is joyfully witnessed and celebrated in their pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journeys; and that explicitly includes queer families, trans families, and families with expanded or non-traditional partnership structures.

I believe in the power of community.

I believe in vibrant and generous interdependence and community care. Whether your “village” already exists or you are working towards building it, my role as a doula is to supplement and help you strengthen those bonds which are so essential during times of pregnancy and postpartum. As a doula, I help my clients build a circle of support that surrounds them throughout their reproductive journey and early family life. My commitment to community care includes a commitment to offering sliding scale and payment plans as compatible with my sustainability. I am working through the requirements necessary to be qualified to accept Medicare clients: please reach out if this applies to you.