Kortney Lapeyrolerie (they/them) – Iselin, NJ
Kortney Lapeyrolerie is the founder of the Queer Doula Network and a birth worker based in Iselin, NJ.
Their mission is to help clients feel empowered at any stage of decision making around reproductive health, labor, and early infant care. They established Prism Doula Services specifically with marginalized communities in mind.
Kalayha (she/her) – Blackwood, NJ
Kalayha’s Doulavotions
Kalayha is a birth doula and soon to be postpartum doula who will give you love, loyalty, and enthusiasm during your birth!
Sierra Holland (she/her) – Portland, ME
All Bodies Birth
Sierra Holland walks alongside people at every stage of the reproductive journey. She specializes in helping queer, trans, and nb people build their families through fertility planning and cycle wellness, evidence-based birth education, trauma-informed labor support, compassionate fourth trimester support, and placenta encapsulation.
She also loves coaching junior roller derby, bouldering with her wife, and re-reading Harry Potter.
Samara Stern (they/them) – NYC, NY
From Seed To Sequoia
Samara Stern was born a caretaker and human uplifter. Their services are varied and will be different for each individual person. Along with their services as a doula, they are also a body and energy worker.
Maggie Larkin (she/her) – NYC, NY
Doula by Design
Maggie Larkin is a new postpartum doula specializing in providing parenting plans to help parents achieve their vision of their family’s flow.
Charlie Monlouis (they/them) – Brooklyn, NY
Nourishing Seeds
Charlie is a Queer and non-binary doula based in Brooklyn. They empower their clients to cross a full spectrum of reproductive and parenting thresholds–supporting with information, advocacy, dignity, and humanity.
They also work professionally as a chef and offer home-cooked meal prep for their postpartum clients! Their model of care is to facilitate ease and only ask the questions that are necessary. They often say that their education is never over. They continue to prepare themself for any possible outcome of pregnancy, so that their support for you is resilient and grounded when you need it the most.
Whether that is in advocating for your right to trial of labor after cesarean, or helping you to digest an unexpected complication, or cheering you on as you become the first in generations of your family to breast/chestfeed–you deserve to feel respected and empowered through any reproductive and/or parenting experience. Their services are available for a sliding scale fee. (Services également disponibles aux familles francophones!)
They also teach workshops to birth workers and reproductive health providers to improve transgender access to care. Follow them @Nourishing.Seeds.Doula for updates on upcoming workshop offerings!
Jay (they/them/she/her) – Bronx, NYC
Jay Energia
Jay, Jota (“J” in Spanish pronunciation) and J (English pronunciation). Mixed PoC Latine/x/a Gender Queer person, womxn, femme and connector that goes by they, she, and any pronouns except “he” interchangeably.
Offering services to everyone but centering and prioritizing QTPoC, People of Color in general and low incomes folxs. NYC doula, based in the Bronx that provides mental, emotional, spiritual support and assistance through abortion or childbirth including prenatal and/or postpartum.
Their services include providing resources for natural alternatives, community support/services catered to your specific needs and background and sliding scale pricing based on your income.
Vicki Bloom (she/her) – NYC and Westchester County, NY
Whole Self Doula
Vicki Bloom believes that you don’t become a different person when you become pregnant, begin labor, enter your birthing space, or bring your baby home for the first time. As your doula, Vicki takes the time to learn who you are and what will help you and your family to feel comfortable, informed, prepared, and ready to engage with your birth, both in advance and through the ever-changing moments of the birth process. She is passionate, flexible, and comforting, but also grounded, no-nonsense, and strongly evidence-based.
Her clients come from all walks of life, but she is especially drawn to support people who can fall through the cracks of the medical system or feel unheard through the process of standardized birth, such as younger and older parents, single parents, LGBTQIA+ parents, people in non-traditional careers, families in transition, and parents of size. She also specializes in supporting alternative parents who want a professional with whom they can share their family dynamics openly, such as polyamorous families and people in power-dynamic relationships.
Vicki also provide nonjudgemental, compassionate support for clients experiencing abortion, miscarriage, and fetal loss.
Jacks Overstreet (she/her) – Philadelphia, PA
Two Rivers Doula
Jacks (she/her) is a white, queer, trauma sensitive birthworker who is passionate about co-creating expansive, competent, and celebratory spaces for queer and trans birthing people here on occupied Lenape land (Philadelphia). Utilizing a holistic approach to her work as a birth and postpartum doula, Jacks integrates evidence based education, mindfulness practices, and nutritional guidance. She merges these offerings with a commitment to center and uplift the personal stories, desires, and experiences of the people she works with. Jacks is trained as a trauma-informed practitioner, and as such, is a strong advocate for survivors of sexual violence. With more than 20 years in study and practice as a community herbalist, she brings a wealth of knowledge of plant medicine, offering greater support and well-being to her clients and their families. Jacks loves to help facilitate a sense of meaning, confidence, connection, and self determination with her clients through every stage of their unique reproductive journeys.
When she is not supporting her clients, Jacks can be found cooking for her gorgeous queer family, being blown away that it took her 40+ years to realize that she actually likes exercise, walking her naughty (but charming) dogs in the woods, dreaming and scheming on how to best organize her apothecary, and wondering if she’ll ever get to grow the peonies of her dreams.
Jamie Frazier – (he/him/they/them) – New York, NY
Seahorse Doula NYC
Jamie Frazier is a queer and transgender Birth Doula. After numerous experiences with medical discrimination, Jamie realized that having just one person in the room who was there to support them would have radically altered if not avoided the incidents entirely. They are now committed to being that person and providing that support for others.
Combining their background in anthropology and advocacy with a lifelong commitment to service, Jamie uses a holistic, evidence based approach to ensure that all birthing people can feel seen, heard and respected. Whether you choose a hospital or home, a planned C-section or physiological birth, Jamie will support you as you choose what is best for you.
Luar Adonis Wolf (they/them/she/her) – New York, NY
Little Moonlight Doula
Luar Adonis Wolf is a full spectrum doula serving all pregnant people in their pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience. Their practice, Little Moonlight Doula, serves all gender identities and bodies, as well as utilizes gender inclusive language/care/support for all clients, while operating in the framework of reproductive and birthing justice. As a trans and non-binary person of color, it is very important for them to reflect who they are in their business and practice.
They welcome folks who are on the QTGNC+ spectrum to have access to a doula who will advocate and offer support centered around clients’ identities. Little Moonlight Doula provides advocacy, support, and care for ALL pregnant people to better navigate and make informed decisions regarding their pregnancy, birth and postpartum journey as well as services for abortion care, reproductive health, and trans affirming support.
Julie Fleur Morel (they/she) – Brooklyn, NY
Honeysuckle Doula
Julie is a full-spectrum doula keen on prioritizing care work that centers being an advocate, joy-seeker, and companion for families and individuals desiring community support during periods of great transition.
As a full-spectrum doula, they offer their services of care for a range of experiences within the perinatal lifecycle: pregnancy, birth, postpartum, abortion, loss, and beyond. And above all – she aspires to connect pregnant and birthing people with themselves and their communities so that family networks can thrive during these liminal spaces and incredible rites of passage – however they may unfold. Whatever your personal story is, Julie hopes to uplift and embrace it, non-judgmentally supporting families and providing a tailored alchemy of emotional, educational, logistical, and advocacy support in planning and preparing for the journey you are about to embark on. They will be there to hold space for the experience and process that feels most in tune with your needs, whatever your preferences are. Together, you can figure it out. All families deserve to be held with care during these transitions, and they look forward to welcoming all the emotions that come up to help you find the most powerful, informed, safe, loving experience you can imagine.
Her approach to and interest in working within birth work and care work spaces acknowledges the necessity in being radical – specifically, radical in the ways we frame our community-building to be explicitly anti-racist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonialist, abolitionist, and trauma-informed. After all, as Angela Davis says, “radical simply means grasping things at the root,” and birth work grasps at the very roots of our societal and familial structures and questions how we can better uplift not only ourselves, but our entire communities. There is no self-care without community care, and I hope to show up for families in the unique ways they are called to receive support. By nurturing the roots of a new life or a new transitional moment, doula work plants the seeds for new worlds that we can imagine together. Well-supported children, parents, families, and communities are the revolution.
As a queer and non-binary person themself, they have had lived experience with the importance of — as doula and advocate Chanel Porchia-Albert says — “centering the center.” Rather than pushing out those on the margins, their practice aims to “center the center” and prioritizes frameworks that are inclusive, accessible, and equitable. There is no alternative. As she continues in this work for decades to come as an aspiring midwife, she is committed to continuing these efforts by forever connecting, collaborating, and learning with their revolutionary birthwork comrades.
Natalia Krichten, CLC (they/them) – Pittsburgh, PA
Growing Love Birth Services
Natalia Krichten is a queer, non-binary doula and home birth assistant. They offer full spectrum doula and lactation services as well as education, centering LGBTQIA+ and trans/non-binary/GNC folx.
Alexandra Blogier (she/her) – Boston, MA
Alexandra Blogier Doula
Alexandra Blogier is a DONA-trained postpartum doula and certified lactation counselor, which she came to through 10 years of infant nanny work. She’s compassionate, nurturing and grounded, and believe in meeting families where they are to support them in whatever they may need during such an incredible transition in their lives. She loves to support families through the 4th trimester and help them feel supported, calm and educated about infant care, feeding and family wellbeing. She trusts in the innate ability that each new parent finds within. For Alexandra, it is an honor to hold space for parents as they bring new life in the world.
Bilen Berhanu (she/her) – Brooklyn, NY
Doula Bilen
Bilen Berhanu offers full spectrum doula services, including but not limited to birth and postpartum. She also offers lactation support. She provides private instruction for HypnoBirthing and New Parent education.
Kim Barstow (they/them/she/her) – Putney, VT
Wildflower Midwifery
Kim Barstow offers midwifery care, doula care, home birth, hospital birth, and postpartum-only care. They also offer abortion support as a midwife or a doula, fertility and conception care including inseminations/IUIs.
Michele James-Parham (they/them) – Pittsburgh, PA
Amethyst Midwitchery & Womancraft
Michele James-Parham provides full spectrum midwifery and herbalist care in Pittsburgh, PA. Their practice primarily focuses on queer, transgender, IBPOC, low-income, and teen folks.
They are currently only taking on well care (PAPs) and herbalist clients because they are busy with school to become a family physician.
Amber Matteson (she/her) – Weymouth, MA
Intimate Connections doula services
Amber Matteson believe that everyone deserves to have the birth of their dreams. All who are pregnant should be treated with the utmost respect, dignity, and autonomy.
Reproductive and social justice are near and dear to her heart, and integral to her work as a doula. As a queer woman, who is a member of various other communities, it is important for her to support other marginalized and underserved communities.
Outside of birth work, she loves spending time with her partner and four cats! She loves to dance, read, and spend time outdoors.
Kelly Kolb (she/her) – Glenside, PA
Joyful Start Family Support, LLC
Kelly Kolb is a certified birth and postpartum doula and childbirth educator providing caring, professional, non-judgmental doula support and childbirth education for individuals and families of all kinds and birth of all kinds in Montgomery County, Bucks County, Philadelphia, and the Main Line.
She offers online support meetings for expectant parents and new parents as well as group and individual classes to meet a variety of needs.
She lives with her husband, daughter, and their two feline overlords in Glenside, Pennsylvania.
Patricia (she/her) – West New York, New Jersey
Inara’s Passage
Patricia provides prenatal, lactation, and developmental support to pregnant and parenting people. She does this through childbirth education classes, lactation visits, and in person doula support.
Vivian Ewing (she/her) – Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Foxglove Doula
Vivian Ewing is a body-positive, sex-positive, gender-affirming, full-spectrum birth doula trained by DONA International. She serves pregnant people by providing continuous support throughout their pregnancy, labor and birth. Wherever someone decides to give birth, her responsibility is to help them achieve their goals. She values and honors each of her clients’ births as sacred and unique.
Megan Mauger (she/her) – Philadelphia, PA
Nested Birth Doula
Megan is a queer birth and postpartum doula based out of West Philly. She is dedicated to providing affirming, compassionate and nonjudgmental care for LGBTQ+ folks on their parenting journeys. She believes that the postpartum period is not ‘over’ at 3 months. To support her families in this way she offers extended postpartum care and virtual parenting support sessions. All of her services are offered at a sliding scale.
Building community around parenthood is central to her work. She loves facilitating connections among her clients through events and referrals because this work is not meant to be done alone. In fact, Megan is personally exploring nonnuclear family structures and bought a home with her partner and another couple in hopes of creating their very own queer parenting community!
Ray Rachlin (they/them/she/her) – Philadelphia, PA
Refuge Midwifery
Refuge Midwifery is an inclusive fertility and home birth midwifery practice serving Philadelphia, South Jersey, and Southeastern Pennsylvania. They provide preconception care, home IUI, home birth midwifery care, community education on queer conception and provider education on trans-inclusive reproductive care.
Jeanne Marie Mirabella (she/her) – New Jersey
Jeanne Marie Mirabella is a counselor, in private practice. She has years of experience seeing clients in individual and group settings. Her services include (but are not limited to) grief and bereavement, including pregnancy, infant and child loss. She also works with people experiencing issues related to parenting, pregnancy, perinatal mental health. She see clients virtually and out of her NJ office. She also offers workshop and consultation services across the Northeast.
Jeanne is also a doula (birth, postpartum, end of life), and a certified lactation counselor (CLC).
Cory Bush (she/her/they/them) – Brooklyn, NY
Cory Bush Doula
Cory Bush is a queer, non-binary full spectrum doula based in New York City. Their practice as a doula revolves around the principles of radical empathy, consent, advocacy, and sex positivity.
They began their journey into the birth world as a sex educator, helping folks continue their knowledge and understanding of sexuality and relationships into adulthood. Now, as a doula, it is their goal to make sure that every person who works with them feels seen, heard, and supported going into birth and the postpartum period. Through open and ongoing communication, Cory strives to instill as much confidence in their clients as possible while offering gentle, affirming, and consistent support. They are also proud to offer specialized doula support to members of the sex-positive, kink, or non-monogamous communities.
Cory offers birth doula support, postpartum support, as well as support during other reproductive health events including but not limited to abortion, fertility treatment, hormone therapy, and miscarriage/loss.
Alexandra Sterling (she/her/they/them) – Fairfax, VT
Life Cycle Doula Care
Alexandra Sterling’s philosophy as a certified birth worker and abortion support doula is centered around the belief that all bodies and minds are different, have value, and deserve respect.
They believe people have the ability to make healthy decisions for themselves and that judgement-free support can help ease the process.
They provide compassionate, emotional, physical, and informational support across the spectrum of reproductive experiences. Their services are trauma-informed, confidential, and queer and trans-affirming + centered.
Their services are available on a sliding scale, and to all people regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, incarceration, disabilities, or substance use. They believe that everybody deserves access to unconditional support and care.
They provide services independently and as a per diem LDA (labor & delivery assistant) at UVM Medical Center.
Ada Johnson (she/her) – Providence, RI
Hawthorn Grief Care
Ada Johnson offers full spectrum doula services. She mostly sees abortion and bereavement doula clients, but occasionally has space for birth doula clients who have experienced previous pregnancy or infant loss or who are looking for a trauma-informed doula.
Cedar Hayes (she/her/they/them) – Boston, Massachusetts
Support By Cedar
Cedar Hayes, MPH is a queer, trauma-informed, pleasure-positive, full-spectrum birthworker in the ancestral and unceded lands of the Massachusett people, otherwise known as Boston. They are a survivor, a sex worker, a sex & sexuality educator and a community organizer.
Their background is in public health, gender studies, sex/health education, sexual violence prevention, and advocacy for people who are housing insecure, LGBTQ+ communities, and young people.
Their identity as a queer, white, femme and their personal experiences with sex work, trauma, pregnancy & abortion fuel their passion for/dedication to inclusive care with a trauma-informed, anti-racist and social justice framework. Their work in all areas centers community care, advocacy, destigmatization, and justice.
Cedar offers full-spectrum birthwork services as well as sex, sexuality + sexual health education. All services are offered on a sliding scale.
Isabella (they/them) – Brooklyn, NY
the enby doula
Isabella is a genderqueer birth doula based out of Brooklyn, New York. They approach birth work with inclusive language, and their focus is to empower parents and families with gentle and unwavering support, loyalty, and humor. They offer birth doula services on a sliding scale.
Sasha Chapple (she/they) – Jersey City, NJ
Conscious Comfort Doula Services
Sasha Chapple is a queer Full Spectrum birth and End of Life doula whose earthly offerings include supporting people during major transitions. She ensures populations have voices in conversations, issues, and policies that affect them through advocacy, empowered by compassion. She believes in upholding the bookends of life, and everything in between.
Growing up in the diverse, and often under served, neighborhoods of Jersey City allowed her to identify a need for advocacy for marginalized people. With a strong foundational belief in evidence based work, reproductive rights, she is dedicated to reclaiming and rewriting individual narratives centered around bringing a great comfort to a time that can feel out of control.
Sasha serves all people, with focus on people of color, LGBTQ+, and gender non conforming identities. Along with being a doula, she is Reiki practitioner, childbirth educator and a PAIL advocate. In her spare time she enjoys stanning Beyonce and finding ways to dismantle the patriarchy.
Jennifer Molina (she/her) – New York, NY
United in Birth LLC
Jennifer Molina is a queer, full spectrum birth worker from NYC. She is the founder of United in Birth, a birth worker collective that centers queer, trans, and non-binary BIPOC folx. As a middle child she often felt forgotten or misunderstood by her family. Writing became a way for her to feel heard and process hard emotions and it is a crucial part of her birth work. It is a practice that has gotten her through tough times and helps her be resilient in a place that is not always safe for queer, brown people. Jennifer believes everyone has a story to tell and spreads the gospel of poetry and journaling as radical self care. Writing and storytelling are her resistance. She would love to help you write your birth story. When she’s not writing or doula-ing, you can find her cuddling with her two cats, Brooklyn and Pablo, and loving on her partner, Goose.
Jenn (she/her) – Brooklyn, NY/Washington, DC
Akoma Doula Services
Jenn’s passion for birthing services started when she became aware of the birthing mortality rate in the United States, especially for Black birthing people. She’s a full time social worker and uses her skills as a therapist to listen, empathize, and validate clients throughout their entire journey. Akoma Doula Services offers abortion, fertility, and birthing support to queer Black and brown folk looking for support on their family planning journey.
Samantha Harris (she/her) – West Plains, NY
The Budding Belly, LLC.
Samantha Harris provides holistic prenatal, birth, and postpartum doula services. She comes to birth work through the lens of mental health, so ensuring the wellbeing of her clients is of utmost importance to me. Samantha is also a Certified Lactation Support Counselor so she can assist parents in their lactating journeys. In addition to birth work services, Samantha is also a Registered Yoga Teacher and do some private chef work.
Julia (she/her) – Brooklyn, NY
Julia Morrow Doula
Julia is honored to be your doula no matter who you are. She is dedicated to providing support to all individuals and families. Julia is committed to providing nonjudgmental, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, pro-Black, pro-fat, trans affirming, LGBTQIA+ affirming, and accessible services to everyone, because she believes fervently that every person deserves advocacy, unconditional support, and comfort during times of transition.
Marlee (she/her) & Megan Malone-Franklin (she/they) – Pittsburg, PA
Riverbend Birth
Marlee & Megan Malone-Franklin are a wife-and-wife team supporting growing families in Pittsburgh, PA and beyond. Practicing since 2014, they offer nonjudgmental support to each person they work with, offering space to experience and express the full range of emotions that this time of life can bring. Having stable, skilled support during a time of so many unknowns and transitions can help you have the most positive experience possible.
Sarah E. Serrano (she/her) – Boston, MA
bibi and ni
Sarah has five years of experience in urban farming and herbalism as well as one-on-one and group birthkeeping care, with a specialty in teenage and young adult pregnancies, poor and working class pregnancies, womb wellness, postpartum care, and nutrition. She also offers placenta services, including placenta tree planting.
Coral Dowsland (she/her) – Hamilton, NY
Divine Dandelion
Divine Dandelion was started in 2017 with the intention of offering household herbal medicine to the local community. In 2018, Coral was certified as a birth doula and it changed the course of the entire business. Now, almost five years later, Divine Dandelion offers birth and postpartum doula services, herbal medicine for the entire family and reproductive education for anyone ready to start making a family. In Spring 2022, Divine Dandelion will be releasing an entirely new botanical medicine line catered toward folks with estrogen dominance life cycle health. Offering medicinal products that range from puberty all the way to menopause and everything in between.
Murphy (she/her) – Brooklyn, NY
Muungas Doula Services
Muungas Doula Services was founded by Murphy, a full spectrum doula (supporting folx through abortion, prenatal, childbirth, and postpartum). Murphy got her Masters of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and was trained by Ancient Song Doula Services and Zaagi’idiwin Indigenous Birth Workers.
The name Muungas comes from her family tradition of calling her grandmothers Muungas. The Muungas are what brought Murphy to this work.
Please reach out to learn more about working with a doula. All people giving birth should be supported, and Murphy would be honored to be a part of your support system.
Elanor Gabriela Jarque-Deakin (she/her) – Hoboken, NJ
Doulanor
After working as a nanny for the past decade, Elanor Gabriela Jarque-Deakin decided to continue her education and get certified as a doula. As your doula she will provide evidence-based information, 24/7 text/phone/email communication, two prenatal visits, birth support, and a postpartum visit to review your birth story.
Harley McKenna (they/them) – Central VT
Constellation Doula Care
Harley is a full-spectrum doula and childbirth educator who offers emotional, physical, and informational support to people experiencing pregnancy, birth, postpartum, abortion and loss. They support clients in Central Vermont and beyond through their practice, Constellation Doula Care, and through The Doula Project of Washington County Mental Health.
Shannon Brenner (she/they) – Casco, ME
VESSEL doula service
Shannon works in a partnership with Hannah Lord at Peony Doula Co, another queer doula, to provide the full spectrum of care for all pregnancy experiences and outcomes including birth and labor support, postpartum care, as well as abortion and bereavement support. They provide services rooted in reproductive justice that center trauma informed, evidence based practices while ensuring gender and body affirming care for all individuals and families.
They are proud to serve Western and Southern Maine as a team of compassionate, queer doulas who believe in making doula care as accessible as possible with a sliding fee scale.
Sammy Stephen (she/her) – Philadelphia, PA
The Gentle Doula
Sammy is a pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum doula located in West Philadelphia. She is passionate about creating and fostering empowering and safe pregnancies and birth environments. She strongly believes that birthing people can have their values, wishes, and traditions honored during pregnancy and childbirth. Sammy is here to encourage your choices, help soothe anxiety, and help you strive for the birth you want to have. As the body holds trauma, it is so important to her to advocate for safety and tenderness towards birthing people. Whether the choice is to be in a hospital, at home, medicated, or in a birthing pool, her goal is to provide information, emotional support, and gentle touch/movements in order to empower families to make informed and consensual decisions for the birth.
As your doula, Sammy will work with you to create a birth plan and be an advocate for your comfort, safety and consent during the birthing process. Sammy can provide support for home, birthing centers, hospital births, and from online. She will provide grounding emotional support for the pregnant person, partners, and family, and she will also guide through physical touch for pain relief and for guiding the baby. Sammy also provide postpartum check-ins and a home visit after the birth takes place.
Kaeleigh Terrill (she/they) – Brooklyn, NY
Generative Bodies
Kaeleigh is a queer full-spectrum doula, community herbalist, feeding counselor, and body literacy & sexual health educator.
Kaeleigh began her work as a doula in 2014, and has supported over one hundred births in homes, hospitals, and birthing centers. She provides non-judgmental support, resources, & a safe container for you to feel held & empowered through your birth and postpartum experiences.
Sexual health education in this country is rooted in systemic oppression and is actively disempowering & disembodying. Kaeleigh believes that everyone deserves access to comprehensive non-judgmental sexual health education and informed consent. Her goal is for everyone to be resourced in making fully informed choices about their bodies & health- to feel safe, held & heard the whole way through.
Kaeleigh has taught classes for cycling folks since 2018, and has since certified as a Fertility Awareness Educator with Sarah Bly of The Well. She is currently supporting folks navigating their fertility and paths towards embodiment through zines and a semi-regular podcast. You can always find her amongst the trees, in whichever city they’ve landed.
Martha Hoffman (they/she) – Northampton, MA
Martha is a white, queer, gender-expansive full-spectrum doula, massage therapist, and fertility awareness counselor. Their ancestors traveled from Northeast Europe to settle on Turtle Island generations ago. They offer compassionate and consensual care, filled with gratitude to support client empowerment and agency. Martha offers free consultation calls and sliding scale pricing on all services.
Ruthie (she/they) – Rochester, NY
Dawn to Dusk Doula
Virtual and in person doula support services! Here to empower and transform your mindset on all things pregnancy, perinatal, reproductive health and parenthood related.
Emily Fiorentino (she/her) – Greenwich, CT
Emily Anne Doula
Emily is a queer birth, abortion, & soon-to-be postpartum doula currently based in Connecticut, who offers non-judgemental, dignified, and empathetic care. She believes that birth is a joyful and mystical experience that cannot be defined, controlled, or fully understood by medical intervention. She believes her role is to be a support person who can relieve stress, create a safe environment, and encourage the power of the birthing person.
She is also passionate about improving access to empathetic and equitable care, support, information, and freedom, and conducts qualitative research on vulvovaginal pain conditions.
Akua Carson (she/her) – Providence, RI
Akua is the founder of Caring In Color – a Full Spectrum Doula Service and Childbirth Education platform providing affirming, evidence-based and trauma-informed support to people navigating their reproductive journeys.
Caring in Color practices an ethic of care that is grounded in bodily autonomy and human dignity. While she aims to serve people of all ages, body-sizes, races, abilities and genders, my practice is especially-committed to improving and expanding reproductive care for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ folks.
She is passionate about knowledge-sharing and connecting with both families and other birth workers, so please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Ari Eisen (she/they) – Philadelphia, PA
Hearth Doula Support
Ari is a queer, full-spectrum doula dedicated to providing trauma-informed, patient-centered, and gender-affirming care for all. Their background in art and passion for research motivate them to provide imaginative and evidence-based education and support. They embrace collaboration with clients to meet their specific needs through holistic healing.
As a birth doula, she is committed to transforming the birth experience through emotionally intelligent advocacy. The bodymind is vulnerable and reactive to regimes of oppression. Their goal is to help the innate beauty and strength of all bodies permeate through these systems, with a focus in supporting LGBTQIA+, BIPOC, and other folks. She is sensitive to the institutions and practices that continue to harm marginalized folks and she maintains that anti-racism is essential to holistic carework.
For years, they have engaged in embodiment practices including yoga, meditation, and acupuncture to become more connected with my bodymind intelligence and to move through their chronic pain with grace. Throughout her various doula trainings, they had held onto my values that they hope to share with you. It would be an honor to be your guide and provide you with an enduring, radically inclusive infrastructure of support.
Zoë Kosovic (she/they) – New York, NY
Zoë is devoted to guiding individuals through complex, life-changing journeys. She is passionate about the transformative nature of care that centers respect, self-determination, and cultural humility and responsiveness. With a focus on the experiences that connect us, they believe that nurturing individual flourishing has the potential to transform and beautify the world.
Zoë serves the wild realms of fertility, conception, abortion, pregnancy, labor, birth, postpartum, adoption, new parenthood, and pregnancy loss. With warmth, compassion, and humor, she guides individuals and families in cultivating the wisdom and resilience required to navigate the dynamic terrain of their journey. They are dedicated to nurturing the intuition of their clients, developing embodied self-trust that will serve you throughout your life. Zoë works with individuals and families to co-create tailored strategies for your care and nourishment, inside and out. They will be in your corner and by your side as your devoted advocate, guide, and cheerleader.
Sophia Phillips (they/she) – Brooklyn, NYC
Lemon Blossom Birth Yoga
Sophia is a certified birth doula CD(DONA) and yoga instructor (E-RYT 230), with a bachelors in Health & Wellness + a minor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality studies from the University of North Carolina Asheville. Sophia has a background in teaching yoga for people with eating disorders, and passions for queer reproductive health + justice, HAES (health at every size), fat liberation, and guiding people towards reclaiming their relationship with movement and their bodies. They took their doula training with Chama Woydak through UNCA and quickly fell in love with studying birth and the ways in which doula’s can enhance and support birthing experiences for all. Sophia is a compassionate and loving force who believes that birth support is potent and vital. She fiercely believes in the inherent strength, power, and resilience of birthing people and feels honored to be in service to them, as pregnancy and birth is such an intimate and transformative experience.
Rupa Patel-Nikovic (she) – Freehold, NJ
ONE HONEST DOULA LLC
Our team consists of highly skilled and qualified individuals . We provide complete support and education through pregnancy and birthing. We believe that preparation is key. You wouldn’t run a marathon without months of training…so why should a birth be any different?
All classes and prenatal appts.are in our Freehold office. We also provide placenta encapsulation, done in our office premises. In a clean environment with sterile technique. Our team provides service throughout NJ, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island. At One Honest Doula…everyone is welcome! We are all inclusive and respectful of everyone. All births in hospitals, birthing centers and home are supported and without judgement!
Meg Paceley (they/them) – Hartford, CT
Willow Wisdom
At Willow Wisdom, Meg centers the needs, strengths, and capacities of LGBTQIA+ people while working toward social change to advance LGBTQIA+ equity and justice. Services offered through Willow Wisdom reflect their goal to advance equity and justice for LGBTQIA+ people through individual, family, organizational, community, and societal levels. Reproductive justice services include: pre-natal doula, fertility doula, postpartum doula, abortion doula, childbirth education, and gender affirming care doula and support.
DaVona Pacley (she/they) – Erie, PA
Flow Freely
DaVona Pacley is a certified birth, postpartum and bereavement doula and the owner of Flow Freely; a holistic wellness business based in Erie, Pennsylvania offering doula support, reiki energy healing and meditation services.
As a Black, queer person, it was imperative that DaVona provided a safe, intentional healing space that prioritized our Black and queer community. From their personal experience, DaVona believes the wellness community in Erie and beyond has work to do as far as being intentional about expanding to create an inclusive, diverse environment that supports QTPOC.
At Flow Freely, we honor the healing power of transformation. We believe there’s a personal and collective desire for people to grow, authentically express themselves and to be at home within. Flow Freely is that brave space.
Through our philosophy of respect, compassion, sisterly support, and inclusive care for all human beings we provide services, comprehensive knowledge and resources in doula care, reiki energy healing and meditation. Let us guide you to unearth a renewed confidence in your birth journey.
Lindsay McDonough (she/her) – Biddeford, ME
Your yoga your birth
Lindsay offers education support and resources for families in the perinatal time in their lives.
She teaches queer friendly classes and teach other teachers how to improve language surrounding sex, gender, and sexual orientation particularly in the birth world.
Vanessa (she/they) – Brooklyn, NY
Vidas Sagradas
Vanessa is a queer first generation Ecuadorian. They’ve spent most of their life in NYC and my mission is to bring their ancestral birth practices to this land. She is called to defend marginalized people in a traumatic system, through advocating and healing the wounds sterilization and white supremacy have had on the sacred practices of bringing new life to this world.
Elizabeth Thompson (she/her) – Pelham, MA
Process Birthwork
As a doula with Process Birthwork, Elizabeth Thompson understands that pregnancy and birth are processes to which we surrender, whose steps are only so much in our control. She strives to approach them with awe, curiosity and focus in order to cultivate connection with her clients and promote self-trust for birthing people, their partners, and support team. She’s got you. You’ve got this. She offers virtual and in-person birthwork services in western Massachusetts and California’s East Bay Area. She completed training in August 2024 and am working toward birth doula certification. She is looking to volunteer as a birth doula as she works toward certification.
Siena Vaccara (she/her) – Brooklyn, NJ
DOULA Siena
As a Childbirth Doula & Reproductive Well-Being Counselor – Siena offers continuous perinatal support through information, holistic pain management, communication facilitation & emotional comfort. Her aim to empower birthing people & their families with resources to help them understand their options and rights to make autonomous decisions during periods of immense physical and interpersonal change. Siena believes that clients are experts in their own experiences and understand the importance of collaborative, nonjudgemental, unbiased, strength-driven care. She received my Ed.M, M.A & AdvCert in Mental Health, Psychological Counseling & Reproductive Well-Being from Columbia University. She is a NY state Licensed Mental Health counselor in private practice, when she is not attending births. Inspired by my studies and experiences working with children & families in mental healthcare settings, she trained as a Childbirth Doula through DONA International. She is a queer provider with expertise in LGBTQIA+ affirming care. Her goal is always to build a safe, inclusive healing environment where individuals can nurture their identities and build community with consistent advocacy that is whole-person focused. Her Doula Services include a Prenatal Visit- to discuss pregnancy story, fears, concerns, and birth planning; Continuous Phone Support – to provide emotional and informational attending; Birth Assistance – to integrate pain management techniques, comfort and communication advocacy; and a Postpartum Visit – to assess recovery, referral needs, and mental status. Her Mental Health Counseling services are separate from her Doula Services to avoid dual relationships.
Brianna Torres (she/her) – Brooklyn, NY
Birthroot
Brianna Torres is a Boricua yoga teacher, movement artist, educator, and birth worker based in Lenapehoking (New York). Through my doula company, Birthroot, she provides virtual and in-person abortion, birth, and postpartum support, centering BIPOC, LGBTQ, and disabled individuals within a reproductive justice framework.
Her practice blends yoga, movement, herbalism, and trauma-informed care to offer holistic support that empowers and nurtures. She is committed to honoring all birthing experiences with inclusive, compassionate, and culturally attuned care.
Dana (she/her) – Boston, MA
Doulas of the Diaspora
As a doula, she brings a unique perspective to the birthing experience, shaped by her Honduran roots by way of Staten Island, NY, and her identity as a queer, Black Latina. Growing up in a large family, her journey in birth support began at a young age. She was just eight years old when her witnessed her mother’s navigation of a high-risk pregnancy with my younger brother. This foundational experience ignited her curiosity and commitment to understanding the intricacies of childbirth, from fibroids and breastfeeding to emotional support. Being your doula is not just a profession for her; it is a calling that respects the diverse backgrounds of all birthing people and their families, ensuring culturally competent and compassionate care.
Having birthed two sons aged 23 and 12, she’s experienced the evolution of birthing practices over the years, and she has had the privilege of assisting friends and family throughout their birthing journeys after the birth of her sons. She believes in the innate wisdom of bodies during the birthing process, and she is dedicated to helping you and your baby tune into that knowledge. As your doula, she is here to provide a non-judgmental space for you to discuss your questions, concerns, and hopes while sharing some laughter along the way. Together, you will create a supportive environment where your needs are prioritized, and your unique birth story is honored.
Willa (they/them) – Lancaster, PA
Neighborhood Doula Services LLC
Willa is a birth and postpartum doula based in Lancaster, PA. They see the transition to parenthood as a moment for the whole community to step up and listen for the needs of the family that is being formed—what this support looks like is different for each family. Their approach honors first and foremost the innate knowledge of the birthing person and in this way it becomes personal and unique. Continuity of care and informed consent are central elements of their birth and postpartum services. They bring a calm and thoughtful presence to your care team, however and wherever you birth.
Mateo Uhalde (he/him) – Albany, NY
LIGHTHOUSE DOULA SERVICES
Mateo of Lighthouse Doula Services is a full-spectrum doula, offering support during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum (regardless of outcomes). He also offers gender doula services, supporting trans/GNC folks and their families along their gender journeys. He specializes in working with LGBT+, BIPOC, and disabled folks. As an AuDHD trans man, member of the BIPOC Doula Network, and active participant in the Black Abolitionist Directive, he is passionate about serving marginalized communities and making a direct impact by improving health outcomes for those most impacted by white supremacy.
As a steadfast abolitionist and intersectional feminist Mateo cares deeply about birth, reproductive, and gender justice. He uses trauma-informed care and education on evidence-based practices to empower his clients. His advocacy experience in hospitals and other settings have given him the skills to navigate systems that aren’t built for who they serve. He also has years of experience working in early childhood settings, from infant home care, to toddler classrooms, to special education preschool. Mateo often works with Mask Together Capital Region and is passionate about Covid safety/organizing.
Mateo serves the Capital Region of New York (Albany, Schenectady, Troy, and the surrounding areas) and will soon be able to bill Medicaid. Services are sliding scale based on what clients can afford, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Frankie Williams (they/them) – Northampton, MA
Frankie is a gender queer, non-binary, full-spectrum doula, childcare provider, herbalist, and artist based in the Connecticut/Kwanetekw River valley. They are passionate about serving families, children, and birthing/gestating people with compassion, gentleness, curiosity, and individualized care. They enjoy working with people with diverse backgrounds, identities, experiences, perspectives, and needs. They strive for their work as a doula and care worker to be reproductive justice and liberation centered, trauma informed, gender/sexuality inclusive and affirming, non-monogamy/polyamory affirming, inclusive and affirming of and accessible to all bodies and all forms of family. They are white and identify as chronically ill and neurodivergent.
allie (she/her) – Medfield, MA
BOSTON BIRTH
allie offers perinatal care in the Boston & Providence areas. She works as a fertility, birth and postpartum doula. She accepts Mass Health insurance!
Hannah Everett (she/her) – Brooklyn, NY
QUEER DOULA HANNAH
I am a birth doula! Currently offering in person, virtual and prenatal support for families in Brooklyn and Manhattan. Classic package: Physical, emotional and informational support from time of hiring through birth. Includes:
-Phone, text and email support from time of hiring through birth and initial postpartum
-2 in person prenatal meetings, to talk through birth wishes, options, expectations and preferences. As well as labor positions, pain management and advocacy.
-On call to attend birth from 38 weeks
-1 postpartum meeting to process your birth story and support initial transition
DaVona Pacley (she/they) – Erie, PA
Flow Freely
DaVona L.C. Pacley (she/her/they) is a Black, Queer doula, Reiki practitioner, meditation guide, and community nurturer dedicated to holding space for healing, growth, and self-discovery. Rooted in a deep commitment to holistic wellness, DaVona created Flow Freely LLC as a reflection of her own journey—a space where individuals can access intentional, affirming care that honors the mind, body, and spirit.
With training in birth, postpartum and bereavement support, energy healing, and meditation, DaVona weaves these practices together to provide compassionate, trauma-informed care. She works as both an independent and hospital-based doula, ensuring that all birthing people feel empowered and supported throughout their experiences.
Flow Freely was born out of the need for a nurturing space that truly centers Black, Queer, and marginalized communities. DaVona believes in care that is inclusive, radical, and rooted in love, offering services that honor each individual’s unique journey. Whether through birth support, Reiki, or meditation, she creates a sacred space where people can reconnect with themselves and step into their power.