After the birth of my first daughter, I left my master’s program in Clinical Mental Health Counseling. Something had changed in me and it wasn’t until a few months into my postpartum journey that I understood my true calling. Instead of counseling families AFTER, I realized I wanted to work with families BEFORE. Specifically, I wanted to be right alongside families during their pregnancies and transitions into parenthood. I sought new education and became certified in lactation, doula support, and perinatal nutrition. I’ve been supporting families in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum for a few years now.

In all my education and experience, I started noticing a pattern in the challenges affecting families, particularly mothers. There is so much “noise” from all these “experts” that drowns out a woman’s ability to listen to her instincts and trust herself. Women begin doubting themselves and handing over their autonomy and decisions to all these “experts” who are not equipped to safeguard and embrace an individual’s preferences and experience. From my own journey with motherhood and my education, I’ve learned about and experienced embracing one’s individual experience. After experiencing and processing my own birth trauma, I’ve learned just how vital preparing and supporting someone’s autonomy, embracing their individuality, and trusting their instincts allows families, especially mothers to transform and thrive.

I believe in a mother’s ability to make the best decisions for herself and her baby. As a doula, my job is to support my clients, help them get all the information, feel confident, work with them to address their fears, and ultimately be their biggest cheerleader (after their partner) in motherhood!