Experience: I have been a birthworker, advanced birth and postpartum doula, clinical homebirth assistant, placenta encapsulator and herbalist for over 18 years, serving over 275 families.

  • 2022 graduate of the first cohort of the Traditional Birth Companion course by Billie Harrigan, a TBC of 40 years located in Ontario, Canada

  • Graduate of the Trauma Informed Professional Course for perinatal providers

  • Student in the 2025 Matrona Birthkeeper Midwifery Cohort in training as a Certified Monitrice

  • Neonatal Resuscitation and S.T.A.B.L.E training

  • Neonatal Resuscitation with Karen Strange

  • Member of Rachel Reed’s Reclaiming Childbirth Collective

  • Trained Home Birth Midwifery Assistant in a local homebirth practice, which I consider an apprenticeship in physiological birth, what birth looks like in an out of hospital experience and how to support women who choose this.

  • Calm Birth Facilitator - 2010, a mindfulness meditation technique specially created for women in childbirth. I have led dozens of families in Calm Birth, a technique of mindful awareness meditation for childbirth, both in Indianapolis and New York. These meditations and relaxation techniques allow women and birthing people to birth in a state of calm, as proved by Harvard Medical School, giving them a way to deal with stress, anxiety and fear. Meditation is proven to lower stress hormones and in childbirth, enable the hormones of birth to work to their greatest potential.

  • Training in Placenta Encapsulation: The human placenta contains a variety of maternal health-supporting nutrients and hormones for new mothers. If any of my clients wish to practice placentophagy (the consumption of one’s placenta), I’m trained to safely prepare placental tissue for easy, capsule-form consumption.

  • Clinical Aromatherapy: I am thoroughly trained under the first and only evidenced-based obstetrics aromatherapy course in the United States - Clinical Aromatherapy for Women’s Health taught by Pam Conrad, RN, BSN, CCAP. Through this training, I have the right to practice under the American Holistic Nurses Association in the safe use of essential oils for comfort during labor and birth.  

  • Birth Doula through Childbirth International (CBI) in 2007, after the births of my own two sons

  • Advanced Doula Training, 2008 with Debra Pascali-Bonaro

  • Childbirth Educator - CBI 2009

  • Postpartum Doula - CBI 2019

  • Belly Wrap Specialist and Sacred Postpartum Services Provider - 2016

  • Trainer at Childbirth International 2011-2017, assisting student Doulas from around the world reach their goals in certifying as Birth and Postpartum Doulas, as well as Childbirth Educators

  • Aromatherapy for Women's Health 2016, with Pam Conrad BSN, RN, CCAP

  • Herbal Therapies for Women's Health 2017, through Indigenous Remedies, adding her love of herbalism to my skill set. 

  • Spinning Babies Workshop 2019, with Tammy Ryan in Indianapolis, IN.

  • Birth Monopoly - Know Your Rights course, helping to educate clients on their rights when birthing in Indiana hospitals

  • Perinatal mood disorders awareness training through the Suffolk County Perinatal Coalition, 2009