I have a passion for working with women and helping them feel empowered. I have been interested in helping people from a young age.  In 2011 I graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univeristy with my B.S. in Human Development and Family Services. Over the course of my college career I developed a passion for working with women, specifically those who had been impacted by domestic violence and sexual assault. I worked for years as a crisis intervention worker on hotlines, then as a first responder in hospitals and police stations and finally as a children's counselor in a domestic violence shelter.  My work was meaningful and rewarding and I loved it but I knew that working in such an intense profession was not going to work well for me and my family in the long run. I decided to attend NC State for graduate school in clinical mental health counseling, but was quickly introduced to the world of natural child birth and doulas by some friends.

 

As soon as I leraned what a doula did I knew it was the profession for me. My experience in child developement and child care paired with my passion and experience working with and empowering women who are in life changing and potentionally vulnerable states collided and ignited my passion for working as a doula.

 

In 2013 I began the process of becoming a certified doula with DONA International, a process that I completed in early 2015. I have had experiences working with women in every context from home births, to medicated hospital births, to natural hospital births to birth center births and without fail every single birth I have had the honor of witnessing has been an event filled with unexplainable joy and love. 

 

My philosophy is that birth involves much more than just a baby being born, birth is the making of mothers and families. I believe that birth is a normal physiological process. I believe that women have been giving birth for thousands of years and that our bodies are capable of giving birth. As a doula my job is to support you and whatever your desires are for your birth. I do not take over the role of the mother's partner and I do not tell you what decisions to make. The support of a doula helps women and their partners become educated and empowered through this remarkably transformational process.

 

I am currently taking clients who are planning to give birth in the Greensboro, Winston Salem, High Point or Chapel Hill areas of North Carolina.