I have been serving families as a birth & postpartum doula since 2014

when my own daughter was just 6 months old. I have always known that I wanted to be a midwife, I just didn’t know how to get there! I started off by working as a birth doula attending births at nearly every hospital in the bay area between 2014 and 2017, and then enrolled in midwifery school in May of 2015. After 6 years in clinical apprenticeships being on-call 24/7, I am currently on a break from midwifery as I raise my own small children. In no particular order, these are the trainings and certifications I have completed.

  • Twin Lakes College of Healing Arts- Certified Massage Practitioner-Santa Cruz, CA- 2011

  • Yoga Alliance 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher-Boulder, Colorado- 2009

  • DONA Doula Training- Boulder, Colorado- 2010

  • Heart and Hands Midwifery Workshop & Doula Training- Fairfax, CA-2014

  • The Matrona School of Quantum Midwifery- Certified Holistic Doula- Santa Cruz, CA - 2016

  • Integrative Resuscitation of the Newborn with Karen Strange- NRP/AAP- Los Gatos, CA-2015 and 2017

  • Basic Life Support & CPR certification- renewed as needed

  • Spinning Babies with Gail Tully- San Jose, CA- 2015

  • Herbal Medicine for the Childbearing Years, Clinical & Advanced Herbalism- MCU 2016-17

  • Intensive study in Cultural Competency, Systems of Privilege & Oppression and Evidence Informed Practice with Courtney L. Everson, Ph.D- 2015

  • Midwives College of Utah- courses in Homeopathy, Acupressure, Lactation & Breastfeeding, Nutrition and many more- academic requirements satisfied December 2019, pending Bachelor’s of Science in Midwifery upon completion of clinical requirements.

  • Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist- 2018

  • Mount Madonna Prenatal/Postnatal Yoga Teacher with Hannah Muse- Spring 2018

  • Apprenticeship- Rogue Birth Center, Oregon - Summer of 2016

  • Apprenticeship- Bend Birth Center, Oregon- Summer of 2018

  • Apprenticeship- Two Leaves Midwifery, Utah- Spring of 2019

  • Apprenticeship- Sacred Cycles Midwifery, Santa Cruz - 2018-2021

I want every soul coming into earth to have the possibility of a gentle, compassionate and beautiful entrance so that their brains are hardwired for love and connection, and their families experience the maximum amount of bonding possible so that we can grow happier and healthier communities with each birth, generation by generation. Peace on earth starts *before* birth, maybe even before conception, by educating and empowering women to own their bodies and trust themselves, so that they can carry the new generation with presence and love.  Birth is a rite of passage and a spiritual experience and should be revered as such! 

My first daughter was born November 2nd, 2013 after 22 hours of intense posterior labor on a new moon and solar eclipse. My second daughter was born June 12, 2020 after 3 hours of active labor and 15 minutes of pushing—direct posterior, into the water and caught by myself, my husband and my beloved midwife. In December 2018 I became bonus-mother to my partner’s two teenager daughters, and together we have a blended family of 6 daughters! My 3rd daughter was born October 2021 in a swift peaceful homebirth and my 4th daughter was born in under 2 hours caught entirely by myself at home on a normal rainy Saturday afternoon. I have had my roots planted in Santa Cruz for 16 years and originally came here on a whim after pointing at it on a paper map on a road trip! I live with my family in Aptos and love walking along the ocean in the morning, pilates and working out. meeting up with my friends and all our kids at the park, reading and going on outdoor adventures with my children.