I was raised in Kitsap County, Washington State. I received a B.A. in Environmental Studies & Education in Bellingham, WA, where I also operated my own booking business for local musicians and worked at a non-profit, providing job skills and housing assistance.

By instinct, I moved to San Francisco in 2008, and resided in the Mission District for 18 years, until recently moving to Oakland. Through these years I’ve inextricably woven into the Bay Area community. By becoming a doula I’ve found a vastly meaningful way to be consistently involved, and care for families, while utilizing some of my favorite forms of creativity, knowledge and skill; personal growth encouragement, realization of flexibility & boundaries, herbs, nutrition, and creating peaceful &/ or expressive environments. Community is a core component of health for birthing people in pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Everyone should have access to doula support should they want it; there is work to be done to get to that place!

My big picture priorities are guiding when needed and holding space to allow for families’ intuition to lead changes and transitions inherent in the birth process and after, and birth/ postpartum team dynamics and well being. My practice is unique in that I contract for only up to 2 births with EDDs in a 5-week window. I also offer flexible support for postpartum visits, meaning we do not need to schedule sessions more than one at a time in the first week, and schedule out a week at a time after that. This allows for families to receive care when they need it most, as there are many changes taking place in the initial transition after birth, for the whole family. It also allows me to sustain myself financially and energetically by working with multiple families in postpartum.