About Me

When I work with you my focus is on you, but I want to share on this page about where I’m coming from, to support our connection. I lived off grid, trying and learning to homestead on the Olympic Peninsula in the temperate rainforest for 11 years. This was a humbling, profound experience for me. I have a deep connection with and respect for nature, and our bodies as part of nature. I moved to Portland in the Spring of 2024 with my family and I am so excited to be attending births and supporting families here!

In 2018 I attended a Dona Certified Birth Doula Skills workshop at Bastyr University. I began serving as a doula on a gift economy basis at that time, offering my services as a labor of love. A client of mine tragically lost her baby, and I found myself serving as her bereavement doula. Soon after that the pandemic began, and then I became pregnant myself. I took time away from my doula practice to grow my family and my skills.

In 2022 I attended another course at Bastyr to become a childbirth educator and went on to become an Internationally Certified Childbirth Educator. Then I took a course on Holding Space for Abortion through the Center for Birth, Breath, and Death. I certified as a full spectrum doula through Cornerstone Doula Trainings, and took another doula skills workshop through the Center for Indigenous Midwifery. Now I am honored to begin offering my support to people on their fertility journeys, in pregnancy and labor, post- partum, adoption, and through abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth.

In 2023 I began attending classes at the Midwives College of Utah online to become a Certified Professional Midwife, and in 2024 I picked my doula practice back up and became a member of Gateway Doula Group.

In my spare time I enjoy reading, journaling, yoga, meditation, and gardening. I have an incredible toddler, and partner. I’m a queer, nonbinary parent.