Katorah (they/them/she/her) – Portland, OR
Revolution Doula
Katorah offers in-person childbirth education, as well as support for labor/birth, abortion care, postpartum, death, and grief.
Jeremy Bowen (he/him) – Seattle, WA
Jeremy Bowen, Full-Spectrum Doula
Jeremy Bowen is a caring and compassionate transmasculine full-spectrum doula who offers support to people terminating a pregnancy, trying to conceive, experiencing the loss of a pregnancy, preparing for labor, or adjusting to life postpartum.
Jessi Vining (she/her) – Salem, OR
Currently offering placenta encapsulation and LGBTQ+ positive childbirth classes in the Pacific Northwest. Also serving as a midwife at WHA’s Midwifery Birth Center in Portland, Oregon.
Summer Roger (she/her) – Phoenix, AZ
Birth + Fire Doula Services
Summer is a badass and bold doula caring for parents as they harness their strength during pregnancy, birth and beyond.
Meredith Mance, CPM, LDM, IBCLC (she/her/they/them) – McMinnville, OR
Wilder Midwifery
Wilder Midwifery offers gender-inclusive and LGBTQ+ positive home birth midwifery services to the upper Wilamette Valley and Oregon Coast. Their services include: preconception and fertility visits, prenatal care, home birth, postpartum and newborn care, and lactation support. Meredith speaks both Spanish and English and accepts most insurance, including OHP (Medicaid).
Kim Knapp (she/her) – San Francisco, CA
Bundles Of Joy Doula Services
Kim is a certified labor and birth doula, lactation educator, childbirth educator, and baby wearing consultant. She is also trained as a postpartum doula and happy to help you plan for your immediate postpartum preparation. She is trained and certified through DONA and had the privilege to be part of the UCSF doula program where she has participated in countless unique birth settings. She is a lifelong learner and both honored and grateful to have worked alongside many other amazing birth workers during this extraordinary, enriching experience. She also brings her personal life experience of at-home insemination and understand the challenges and complexity of this broad spectrum of options in family planning.
When she is not helping families prepare for the arrival of their baby, she enjoys traveling with my partner and making life long memories with her own family.
Jaelyn Rose (she/her/they/them) – Portland, OR
Heart To Heart Doula
Jaelyn Rose is a postpartum doula and birth photographer serving the Portland, Oregon area. They provide non biased support to all families, with priority given to QPOC families.
Aimee Barrett (she/her) – Monterey, CA
Doula Aimee
Aimee Barrett is a full spectrum doula specializing in prenatal, birth, and fertility. She’s also a photographer capturing birth and lifestyle portraits.
She offers a variety of childbirth education options. Services can be booked individually or in packages. Remote services are offered via FaceTime.
Heron Alicia Paulson-Quick (they/them) – Ferndale, WA
Onward Love Care Collective
Caring for families through transition and exploring sustainable methods of communal care that create space for everyone to thrive is central to the world that Heron envisions. Their offerings include full-spectrum doula support/birth work, family care, sibling support, and dance and movement for whole-body healing. Through affirming care and intentional movement, they believe that we can nourish ourselves, our families, our communities, and our world.
Felecia Graham (she/her) – Portland, OR
Genesis Afrocentric Wellness House
Felecia Graham offers doula services (in person or virtual), placenta encapsulation, belly binding, and a selection of wellness products.
JD (they/he) – Los Angeles, CA
JD The Queer Doula
JD is a queer and trans full-spectrum doula based in Los Angeles. They offer support for birth, childbirth education, postpartum, abortion, and infant sleep coaching. He provides gender-affirming advocacy and support for gender-expansive and trans families. They are dedicated to helping clients feel informed, empowered, and comfortable.
Amy Moy (she/her) – San Diego, CA
Anchoring Families Postpartum Support
Amy Moy identifies as a queer, fluffy femme and is a certified postpartum care expert (also known as a postpartum doula) and childbirth educator – serving a wide variety of wonderful families in the greater San Diego area. She provides in-home inclusive, skilled, and compassionate support to families that are preparing to welcome a baby(ies) and throughout their 4th trimester (0 – 3 months after birth).
Natasha Weiss (she/her/they/them) – San Diego, CA
Spectrum of Love Doula
Natasha is a full spectrum doula whose practice is rooted in inclusivity, autonomy, intuition, and evidence based knowledge.
They offer doula support to all people and families through pregnancy + birth, postpartum, pregnancy loss + abortion + grief, and more.
They strive to provide judgement free care and meet people where they’re at, so that they can create a unique support plan for each individual client. Nothing fills their heart more than supporting people through their most tender, transformational, and raw human moments.
Jamie Oller (they/them) and Whitney Wolfe (she/her) – Astoria, OR
Harbor Midwifery
Parenthood is a lifelong journey Harbor Midwifery is a practice that honors all the ways families grow. They know that having a baby on the way changes the relationships among all the people who are welcoming them. Every baby is a new experience and their care is tailored to every client, every baby, every pregnancy. They offer pre conception, pregnancy and postpartum services.
Rachelle (she/her) – San Diego, CA
Rachelle Markham & Associates
Nonjudgmental Infant Feeding support. Specializing in induced lactation, oral function concerns, low milk production, and bottle feeding.
Berenice Dimas (she/her/ella) – South Gate, CA
HOOD HERBALISM
Berenice Dimas offers full- spectrum birth support, herbal consultations, herbal classes, Limpias, and energy healing for BIPOC.
Cristina Hernandez (she/her) – Las Vegas, NV
VIDA FULL SPECTRUM BIRTH SERVICES
Birth can be transformative, liberating, and healing. As a trauma-informed birth worker, Cristina Hernandez’s mission is to provide evidence based education, options, and a safe space to create the birthing experience you desire. She seeks to support queer and communities of color in creating familia.
Cristina Hernandez has been a birth worker for the past three years. She is native to Las Vegas, Nevada but her people are from Mexico and Cuba. She has been in the anti-violence movement for the past 16 years and is currently completing my Master’s in Public Health. She felt called to birth work after the births of her children, Sofia and Joseph, and as a result of the lack of representation of queer and people of color birth workers in her community.
Ashley Woods (they/them) – Seattle, WA
Ashley Woods Doula
Ashley Woods offers full spectrum services including birth, postpartum, abortion, and miscarriage. They believe in doulas for all, and that there should be no barriers to care. Services provided are trauma informed, and can include substance use support (harm reduction).
Knox Rath-González (they/them) – Los Angeles, CA
TheyDoula
Knox Rath-González is a a queer, trauma-informed, sex worker-centered, full spectrum doula. They are a sex worker of 15 years and a survivor. This has led them to build ever-evolving practices of care through action and education.
As a sex worker-centered doula, they approach their work and relationships with the foundational value that people of all genders, sexualities and lifestyles experience the desire for gestational / loss / parental planning support. Their role is to—without assumptions—provide affirming care during the full spectrum of experiences of pregnancy / gestation.
They value continuous education through actively anti-racist practice. They believe to have a decolonial practice their education must come from those that have the historical and generational knowledge. They strive to be an accomplice to marginalized folks who may feel intimidated / not represented and uplift silenced narratives around reproductive justice and care.
In addition to full spectrum birth doula services, they also offer grief & loss support, abortion support, queer & trans family planning / support, and placenta encapsulation services. They are not an expert, but rather, they are committed to a process of continued education and the deconstruction of hierarchies to promote healing.
Cherie Seah (they/they/she/her) – Oakland, CA
Earthshine Doula + Photography
As a Queer & genderqueer parent of two kickass kids, birth work has become Cherie Seah’s life’s calling. Providing services that support inclusivity and diversity is crucial to their practice as a birth worker and as an immigrant. They believe in supporting birthing people of all genders & backgrounds, no matter where they are in their pregnancy journey, and strive to hold a judgment free space that can also be a safer space for them. Cherie’s hope is to be an affirmative and informative voice for birthing people and their partners, and support them regardless of their choices.
Andrea Welty (she/her) – Huntington Beach, CA
Doula Drea
The birth of Andrea’s son started a wild yet beautiful soul-expansive journey. She currently lives in Orange County, CA. She had a wonderful birth with an amazing doula. However, she did not think she needed a postpartum doula. She was totally wrong. Her biggest regret is not having a postpartum doula, and that’s why she became one. She’s a trained herbalist and postpartum doula. She’s also completing her training to become a full-spectrum doula with BADT.
Louise Powers (they/she) – Pasco, WA
My Queer Doula
Louise Powers is a queer full spectrum doula, providing emotional, educational and physical support during pregnancy, labor and beyond. Whether you’re interested in a birthing class, labor support, postpartum support, or lactation advice, they’re there for you virtually or in person.
Sneha (she/her) – Castro Valley, CA/Oakland, CA
Sneha the Doula
Sneha is a full-spectrum gestational worker in the East SF Bay Area, CA. She came into this field through first working as a sexual health educator. She trained with Sumi’s Touch in Oakland because she wanted her work to not just be explicitly anti-racist, but to center the consent and desires of queer, trans, and BIPOC people who have been historically left out of pregnancy/sexual health narratives and harmed by capitalist medical systems. Sneha’s goal is to co-create a container that centers consent and pleasure, and allows you to feel empowered, seen, and held.
It is Sneha’s strongest belief that everyone deserves a doula for all transitions in life regardless of their ability to pay. She is more than happy to provide free, last-minute support in the San Francisco Bay Area if she is available. Please reach out via the “Contact” page on her site!
Hayley McKie (she/they) – Seattle, WA
Resiliency Birthwork
Hayley McKie is a full spectrum birth worker passionate about supporting people as they build family in the way that’s best for them. Everyone deserves to feel cared for during the transitional and impactful moments in their life. They believe that those positive feelings can resonate throughout a lifetime, building resiliency and transmuting trauma. As a queer person, they came to birth work to advocate for birthing people of all genders and celebrate the expansiveness of what family can look like. You are the expert in yourself – their role as a birth worker is to support you physically, emotionally, and in advocating for your wants and needs.
Hayley’s practice is rooted in reproductive justice – the right to maintain bodily autonomy, to have children, to not have children, and to parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities (SisterSong). It is framed with the knowledge that our bodies and reproductive lives are deeply intertwined with systems of power and oppression – anti-Blackness, racism, classism, ableism, and anti-queerness – in the United States.
Sally Maxwell (she/her) – Santa Fe, NM
Magpie Doula
Sally is a community doula living on unceded Tewa lands in Santa Fe, NM. Sally is a white, cis, queer and polyamorous person providing full spectrum doula support and advocacy to families in northern New Mexico. Sally’s doula practice is queer-centered and supports families through all reproductive experiences, including pre-conception, fertility, abortion, infant loss, prenatal, birth, postpartum, and early parenting.
Sally’s care is gender affirming, person-centred, trauma-informed, sex-positive, and inclusive. She strives to work through a reproductive justice framework by providing accessible care in her own practice and as a contracted doula with local community organization, Tewa Women United. Sally believes in the power of community, and that when we create a circle of support around pregnant and birthing people, healing happens. As your doula, Sally will support you in making informed decisions for your body and your experience.
Kate (she/her) – Olympia, WA
Opal Doula Care
Kate helps people tap into and claim their intuition, power and purpose during times of transition. She is passionate about reproductive justice and serving/centering those with identities often ignored/excluded in mainstream birth work and healthcare spaces—namely, BIPOC, queer & trans folks. She is currently offering birth, postpartum, and abortion/loss doula services virtually and in-person!
Thea Lemaster (she/her) – Oakland, CA
All Encompassing Doula Services
Thea is a queer, mixed race birth worker who centers her trauma-informed approach to each family’s unique needs. Through the transformative experiences that come with every reproductive choice, Thea stands beside her clients with an empathetic ear and tender heart. Her work is steeped in advocacy and authenticity.
Based in Oakland, AEDS serves the entire San Francisco Bay Area. Thea provides full spectrum doula support, with services including: birth and postpartum doula care, abortion/pregnancy loss services, lactation education, herbal support, rights informed advocacy, and virtual education/mentoring sessions.
Everyone deserves a doula! Sliding scale options and payment plans are available for those in need. Please contact Thea through the inquiry form on the All Encompassing Doula Services website.
Rachel “Rach” Flatt RN, BSN, IBCLC (she/her) Denver, CO
Wholesome Transitions LLC
Rach provides pregnancy, birth and postpartum support for the LGBTQ community in the Denver metro area. She worked as a registered nurse for four years in labor and delivery, mother baby, and lactation. During her time working at the hospital she saw a need for patients to speak up and out for themselves, their bodies, and the way they choose to give birth. She knew that there was a better way this could be done. She set out on my journey to uplift and empower others to speak their needs, bridging the gap between patient and provider. Wholesome Transitions is what she hopes for each of her clients. She wants them to be able to enjoy this precious time with their babes and feel nourished in their transition.
Beth Hardy (she/her) – Salt Lake City, UT
Heart Tones Birth Services
Beth Hardy is a queer birth doula, postpartum doula, and childbirth educator working in Salt Lake City, UT. Her passion is helping expecting parents find their strength, power and voice so they can rock their birth. She loves working with all families, including first-time parents, VBAC parents, LGBTQIA+ parents, adoptive parents, surrogate parents, single parents, and parents from marginalized communities. She’s been a doula since 2011, and has attended births at home, in birth centers, in hospitals. She loves seeing her clients learn about their birthing options, grow into their confident selves, and step into their power and strength in the birth space.
She has two kids, and went through quite a few twists and turns in her own birth experiences. She knows that birth doesn’t always go as planned, and as your doula she helps you navigate the changes and uncertainties, and makes sure you’re always the one in the driver’s seat.
Olivia Hartvig (she/they) – Espanola, New Mexico
Bloom in Alchemy
Olivia Hartvig practices as a trauma-informed postpartum and bereavement doula and lactation counselor, incorporating her art as an herbalist, cook and licensed massage therapist (LMT). Olivia’s specialty is to helping people identify and build confidence in communicating their needs. As a result we are able to build stronger relationships and skills to move through life transitions embracing the most joyful and difficult aspects of them.
All of Olivia’s services are highly individualized based on the desires, visions and capacities of those she works with. Olivia also ensures she works with the entire family/close support network so that everyone is involved and heard through the process.
Services: Full-Spectrum Birth Doula, Postpartum Doula, Bereavement Doula, Postpartum Meals, Prenatal Massage*, Labor Massage*, & Postpartum Massage*
Teachers: Haize Hawke Rosen, Chanel Porchia, Karen Rose, Tamara Lea Spira, Lea Rivera, Keira Nagle
Kelly Flanary (she/her) – Los Angeles, CA
Season of Support
Kelly Flanary is a queer full-spectrum doula in training, community herbalist, and visual + healing artist in Los Angeles, CA. She is currently providing postpartum, abortion, and food support services.
Dana Caston (she/her) – Oakland, CA
Moon River Doula Care
Dana is a queer Full Spectrum Birth and Postpartum Doula based in Oakland CA (Ohlone land). She trained through DONA international and Birthing Advocacy and is also a Lactation Education Counselor, Placenta Encapsulator, and Massage Therapist in training. Dana provides patient-centered care and is honored to support people through the profound and tender perinatal and postpartum times. She strives to give people empowered experiences by fostering self awareness, autonomy, and advocating for her clients wishes. Dana works to normalize all birth and postpartum experiences by sharing evidence based education and providing an empathetic, calm and nonjudgmental presence during birth and the postpartum recovery.
Josephine Raye Kelly (they/them) – Richmond, CA
Full Cup Care
Josephine is a full spectrum birth worker based on occupied Ohlone land, aka the Bay Area in California. They support people through the life transitions of birth, loss, and gender affirmation. They offer holistic support, trauma-informed care, and collective liberation practices to the community. Josephine is also a community mental health social work student and a therapeutic yoga teacher. They work with people virtually and locally.
Momo Yamamoto (she/her) – Portland, OR
Mahina Doula Services
Momo is a queer, multiracial birth doula and aspiring postpartum doula serving the Portland, OR Metro Area. She is dedicated to making sure birthing people and their families feel heard, respected, and empowered. Utilizing techniques such as comforting touch, breathing exercises, and visualization, she helps families have peaceful birthing experiences. Providing trauma-informed care to her clients is a top priority.
A lifelong radical, intersectional feminist, Momo felt called to birth work for several years before finally taking the leap and completing her birth doula training through DONA. She is currently completing her postpartum doula training with Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings. She also provides abortion support and reiki services. She works on a sliding scale based on need.
In her free time, Momo enjoys writing, beachcombing, walking in the woods, traveling, baking legendary banana bread, and making art of all kinds. She lives with her rescue pup, Pepe, and her partner, Sara, on Clackamas land, otherwise known as Portland, OR.
Cara Lee Kiggins (she/her) – Phoenix, AZ
Brave Journey
Cara Lee Kiggins offers online childbirth preparation, both go-at-your-own pace and live. She has had the opportunity to work with hundreds of pregnant people as a Birth Doula, Childbirth Educator, and Prenatal Yoga Teacher. With a background in leading social change programs, I’ve been helping people prepare for and navigate deeply transformative and unfamiliar experiences for nearly two decades.
The births of her two kids as well as the births of those she’s been honored enough to attend as a doula solidified her commitment to ensuring birthing people are prepared to navigate the transformation and surprises of birth with knowledge, coping strategies, bravery, and resilience.
She believes there is no one “right” way to give birth, and she is fiercely committed to body autonomy & judgement-free birth education where expectant parents build the knowledge and tools to seek information and practice clarifying what feels right FOR YOU.
Born and raised in Arizona, she recently returned to Phoenix but in her adult-life she’s called Cairo, Egypt, San Diego, Seattle, and the Bay Area home.
Lydia-Carlie B Tilus (she/her) – San Mateo, CA
SageFemme Wellness
Lydia-Carlie is a queer, Black Haitian birth worker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her journey as birth worker began very early on; she was raised in a multi-generational Haitian household where she was immersed in the births around her, fascinated with caring for her younger sibling and cousins. She is a certified Birth & Postpartum Doula, a Reiki Master/Teacher, and a certified Neuromuscular Massage Therapist specializing in prenatal, perinatal, and postpartum recovery massage. Her practice, SageFemme Wellness supports families through their pregnancy and birth journeys.
Her mission with SageFemme is to fill the gaps in prenatal care and postpartum recovery through therapeutic massage therapy services and comprehensive birth support services. She believes that the journey to pregnancy through birth is a marathon that requires a support team! She offers the guidance, emotional support, and physical support needed during this time so that every birthing experience is safe, positive, and empowering.
Shelby Jawer (she/her) – Tacoma, WA
Calathea Postpartum
Shelby offers virtual + in-person postpartum planning and all things postpartum doula care (far beyond just the fourth trimester).
Tianna Bratcher (they/she) – Los Angeles, CA
Tianna comes into birth work as a Black, queer, gender fluid sister, auntie and full spectrum doula. As a doula, they are committed to reproductive justice which means she is dedicated to supporting Black, queer and trans families, honoring the needs and desires of working class birthing people, and showing up for all their clients as an advocate. They are based in Los Angeles, CA and she supports families with births at home, hospitals or birthing centers.
Kelsey Leach (she/they) – Roseburg, Oregon
Calendula Doula
Kelsey is a community care provider in Oregon providing doula services, massage therapy and childbirth education. They are passionate about helping people learn about all their birthing options so they can make informed choices for themselves. She also loves giving prenatal massages as it is a great way to connect to yourself, your inner knowledge and the life inside you.
Alice Arden (he/him) – Seattle, WA
Alice Arden Doula Services
Alice provides trauma-informed, relational support for families with newborn(s) and people in the postpartum period as well as education regarding birth and parenting. His work is largely focus on mental health and emotional wellness. His goal is to support new parents in navigating this transitional time and building greater connection to themselves, their child(ren) and partner(s).
Tess Mueske (she/they) – Los Angeles, CA
sacred sun doula services
Tess is a postpartum doula based in the Echo Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, CA (occupied Tongva land), originally from Minneapolis, MN (occupied Wahpekute land). They are a white queer, genderqueer, femme lesbian, and use she or they pronouns. Her doula practice centers community and future-building. In what ways can we reimagine family structures, access to information and knowledge, and being in community with one another, outside of oppressive structures? They are passionate about providing consent-focused, informative care to all bodies, which comes from their own experiences with queerness and bodily autonomy. She strives to provide all clients from all walks of life the informative, empowering care they deserve. They were diagnosed with vaginismus, a pelvic floor disorder, at the age of eighteen. In their quest to find information and treatment options, she was met with a significant lack of knowledge and consent-informed care by various providers, leaving her with feelings of shame, inadequacy, frustration, and isolation. Their doula practice is also informed by these experiences.
Keli Schurman-Darby (she/her) – Seattle, WA
YourWholeLifeDoula LLC
Keli provides full-spectrum doula services including birth, postpartum, bereavement and death, termination and loss, and HAES. She also offers doula support and spiritual life coaching.
Jin Moon (they/them) – Tacoma, WA
Grounded Hearts LLC
Jin Moon is a birth and postpartum doula based in Puyallup lands (Tacoma, WA) and serving the South Puget Sound. They are a queer and trans Korean person and believe deeply that all BIPOC, and queer and trans families, should have access to trauma-informed, culturally humble, and heart-centered care that centers the needs of their family. Birth work is deep heart work, spirit work, and medicine, and it is from that space that they enter into their work with community. They offer herbal consultations (not just pertaining to birth work), placenta encapsulation, and have a background and a love for supporting survivors of violence.
McKenna Tiland (she/they) – Seattle, WA
McKenna Tiland Doula Services
McKenna is a full spectrum doula offering a range of support for folks in the Greater Seattle area!
Quin Saunders (she/her) – Portland, OR
Doula Quin
Quin 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 Chinook land (Portland). Utilizing a holistic approach to her work as a birth doula, Quin 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. Quin is trained as a trauma-informed practitioner, and as such, is a strong advocate for survivors of sexual violence. Quin 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, Quin can be found cooking for her gorgeous family, being blown away that it took her 20+ years to realize that she actually likes exercise, playing onstage with her band, and wondering if she’ll ever get to grow the peonies of her dreams.
Marty (she/they) – Menlo Park, CA
On Point Doula
Marty provides full spectrum support in-person from San Francisco to Los Gatos, for folks growing their families from fertility journeys through first year of baby’s life, and those who’ve just lost an infant. They attend home births, birthing center births and hospital births. She also provides postpartum in-home support.
Willbliss Kim (they/them) – Phoenix, AZ
Willbliss Arts
Willbliss is a queer full circle birth worker, artist, inclusivity consultant, and repro justice activist in Phoenix. They do placenta crafting, belly henna, and also make easy postpartum foods. They host gatherings, workshops, and make and sell their art. They’d love to walk you through experiences they’ve found transformative including adoption, gender transformation, abortion, birth, postpartum, and death. They use guided imagery meditation, fascia juggling techniques, and art to help clients process transformative experiences. They are blessed with two children who make them a better person every day. They love to sleep and be in loving relationship. Email them to schedule a free consult today!
Caro McGuire (she/her) – Oakland, CA
Cocooned by Caro
Caro is a birth and postpartum doula working in the Bay Area. She approaches this work with an open mind and works to cultivate and protect a safe environment for birthers to just be. With a background in biology and public health, as well as her own experiences navigating a premenstrual mood disorder, she is called to break down misconceptions about reproductive health with evidence-based information.
Caro’s labor and birth support includes 4 prenatal visits, 2 postpartum visits, and drop-in visits as needed. She goes on call starting 3 weeks before the estimated due date for urgent calls and to assist in labor & birth. Her postpartum support focuses on healing the birther, whatever that may look like. She typically provides daytime support and is sometimes available for nights.
Ariana Micek (they/she) – Fairview, OR
Lunation Full Circle Care
Ari offers gender inclusive and body positive full spectrum reproductive services for people and families of all kinds. This list includes (but is certainly not limited to!) those that identify as LGBTQIA2+, polyamorous folks, people of the global majority, those of varying abilities and those who are on the neurodivergent spectrum. While they believe every person deserves a doula if they want one, she really enjoys supporting folks who are in need of local in-person community and those who don’t have financial access to birth support. They are registered as a Traditional Health Worker. So she is able to bill Medicaid for clients who have OHP insurance in the state of Oregon. They offer the following services: birth support, postpartum care, abortion support, placenta encapsulation, placenta art, Bengkung belly binding and herbal support. They look forward to connecting with you soon!
Elsie Walles-McConaughey (she/her) – Bothell, WA
Elsie is a queer birth doula in the Seattle area. She is excited about working with LGBTQ+ birthing folks and families. Her practice is grounded in reproductive justice, trauma-informed care, equity, and community. She is currently working with Seattle Doulas, and her birth package provides two prenatal appointments, unlimited phone/text support, on-call from 38 weeks, birth and labor support, and a postpartum appointment. Elsie believes that everyone deserves to have a birth experience that feels authentic, grounded, safe, and joyful.
Bethany Griffin-Shetler (she/they) – Silverton, OR
Silver Falls Family Support
Bethany is part of a full spectrum doula partnership in the Salem, Oregon area. We provide birth and postpartum doula support, private and group childbirth education, lactation counseling, and holistic parenting education and coaching. We work very closely as a seamless team, often co-hosting classes and meeting with clients together, so that each client feels fully supported during this exciting, yet vulnerable, time.
Together, we have 20 years of combined experience in birth work, with training from Childbirth International, Cornerstone, Stillbirthday, DONA, Breastfeeding USA, the Consciously Parenting Project, Postpartum Support International, Spinning Babies, and more. We offer economic justice pricing, payment plans, and happily accept OHP for birth doula services.
We view our work through an evidence-informed & trauma-informed lens and aim to practice as anti-racist and pro-LGBTQIAS2+ birth workers. We will honor and uphold your own birth and postpartum goals, and encourage you to trust your own parenting intuition.
Mariah Bloom (they/them) – Seattle, WA
Mariah Bloom Doula
They are a queer and nonbinary postpartum doula offering both daytime and overnight support. Their services are rooted in the idea that every birthing person and their family deserves an abundance of care. They hope to create a sense of ease that supports the healing, connection, and rest that is so essential during the postpartum period. Their practice is trauma-informed and fat-positive, and they offer sliding scale for 2SLGBTQIA+ and BIPOC folks.
Sabrina Ortolano (she/her) – Los Angeles, CA
Moon Cycle Arts
Sabrina identifies as a queer and is honored to hold space for members of her community as they move through the process of building a family. She offers non judgmental support and bodywork, supporting the birthing person and their partners in creating a safe space to shift into parenthood. She has been a bodyworker and birth support professional since the early 2000s, she owns IPSB, the massage school she trained at and works as a teacher in, with her wife.
She offers pre and post natal bodywork, placenta encapsulation, and labor support for hospital, birth center and home births. Hiring her as a doula includes two pre birth meetings that includes education and support in planning your birth plan, she will be on call and available for questions from the time you hire her through postpartum, when you go into labor she is there continuously from the time your labor starts to after the baby comes. She is also available for c-section support to ensure that the birth parent is not alone should the partner need to go with the baby to the NICU.
After birth body care includes gentle bodywork to address the healing body and any discomfort that comes from carrying and feeding the newborn, kinesio-taping to help support recovery and support the core as an adjunct to braces or binding.
Sabrina believes that birth support is vital and that everyone should have access to it. She works on a sliding scale and offers payment plans.
Emmi (they/them) – Portland, OR
Emmi is a postpartum doula in the Portland, Oregon area! They finished training in Spring of 2023 with Cornerstone Birthwork and have been working with an agency part-time since. Their focus is on newborn Care and education, empowering parents in their care-taking skills. They love supporting LGBTQ and other marginalized families and communities.
Emily Mattson (she/her) – Bend, Oregon
Hand on Heart Doula Services
Emily, a full spectrum doula, is based in Bend, Oregon, where she lives with her wife and their two rescue pups. With a heart for compassionate care, Emily serves all birthers in central Oregon, offering trauma-informed, judgment-free support.
Emily creates a safe space for individuals navigating any path to parenthood, whether through conception, assisted reproduction, or adoption. Her training in bereavement and loss equips her to support those facing difficult decisions or unexpected outcomes with empathy and understanding.
Emily empowers individuals to feel comfortable and confident throughout their pregnancy and birth experience, honoring their choices and providing steadfast support every step of the way. She will navigate the complexities of parenthood with you, celebrating the joys and offering support through the challenges, fostering a community of inclusivity and love.
Emily looks forward to meeting you and finding out more about how she can be of service.
Misty Penman (they/she) – Salt Lake City, UT
Revolution Doula, Utah Community Care Collective
Misty is queer, disabled, and neurodivergent. Their actions and beliefs are based in connection and caring for each other. They officially started this work in 2020, though they’ve been passionate about advocacy, trauma-informed care, anti-racism, transformative justice, and community care for much longer. They provide full-spectrum reproductive support (including any pregnancy outcome), postpartum support, childcare, and gender support.
Misty ultimately wants their clients to feel safe, empowered, and prepared for the transitions they’re navigating. This of course means something different for everyone! Misty helps make this happen by holding judgment-free space for their clients’ fears and joys, connecting them with a variety of resources, and advocating with and for them throughout the process.
Sarah Folch (she/her) – Santa Fe, NM (virtual services only)
The Birth Prism
Sarah provides inclusive and trauma-informed care to empower others. From preconception to postpartum, every person deserves access and affirmations to a supportive experience. Becoming a parent is a rebirth of an individual. She will hold space for you during these times and provide you with information so you can make decisions that you feel are best.
Services are offered only virtually. The call for greater access and inclusivity will help support those in reproductive-exclusive isolated locations. A great many of these exist and everyone has the right to be cared for and informed.
Sarah has a Masters level counseling and a Bachelors in Human Development and Family Studies. She has also trained in Birthing Advocacy Doula Training’s Full Spectrum Doula program and their Queer and Trans Reproductive Support continuing education. She resides on the land of the Six Northern Pueblos, and is a trauma survivor and parent to two beautiful and fiery kiddos.
Elissa Robinson (she/her) – Denver, CO
Elissa Robinson Massage Therapy
Elissa is a postpartum doula and licensed massage therapist. She offers in-home mobile massage services and postpartum help with household tasks and childcare. She specializes in prenatal, labor induction, labor support, and postpartum massage that addresses individual and pregnancy specific discomforts to help prepare the body for childbirth and recovery afterwards. She offers clients a relaxing and enjoyable experience while simultaneously addressing areas of need that benefit client goals. She tailors each massage to the client by drawing from techniques learned in a variety of settings.
Zaba Angel (he/they) – Santa Fe, NM
Zaba Daba Doula
I am in the process of obtaining my certification. Last year I completed the doula training through Our Earth and currently I am doing the doula mentorship at the Birthing Tree. I am open to all and willing to learn! Some work & training related experience include early childhood education, farming/gardening, yoga teacher training, massage, & curanderismo. I am mixed race and identify as two-spirit and transgender.
Dannah (she/her) – Seattle, WA
Every birth is as unique as the pregnant person and baby experiencing it and we should honor that by staying present, mindful, and aware of the pregnant person desires. Dannah’s guiding philosophy in working with pregnant people and families is in discovering what a sense of safety looks like for them and reclaiming this connection to comfort and support that has been a principle in the childbearing process for all. She is committed to supporting parents throughout their birthing experience whilst empowering the entire family through the journey into parenthood. She believes that if every pregnant person has a supportive, safe, and empowering birth and early parenthood experience — it will be a positive result/catalyst towards deeply generational healing and transformation. Making mindful choices during pregnancy inspires empowered births, which encourages confidence at the onset of the parenting journey allowing children an empowering, loving and supportive entrance into the world.
Ren Cason (she/her) – Santa Fe, NM
Whiptail Doula
Ren is a queer full-spectrum doula based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the ancestral lands of the Tewa people, O’Ga P’Ogeh. Her care is trauma-informed and encompasses all aspects of reproductive experiences, from birth and postpartum to prenatal care, infant loss, lactation, and abortion. Ren approaches her work with a deep commitment to reproductive justice, as well as gender-affirming, sex-positive, and inclusive practices, ensuring that your care is personalized and compassionate. Her goal is to empower you to make informed decisions about your family, body, and reproductive journey. Ren is here to offer emotional, physical, and advocacy support, walking with you through every step.
Dannika Morrow (she/her) – Seattle , WA
Yoga teacher and Doula
Danika’s goal as a prenatal yoga teacher and doula is to provide holistic and accessible support by working in collaboration with each client and their family’s unique needs. She offers both in-person and virtual offerings for pre-conception, pregnancy and postpartum support
Izzi Ceccanti (ze/zir/he/he/him) – Tacoma, WA
Izzi is a white, trans, neurodivergent, and disabled, full spectrum doula. Who is passionate about making perinatal care accessible for families during their reproductive journeys. Izzi has always been passionate about birth and the reproductive process, and is excited to be able to offer care to families that is accessible, clear, and supportive of your specific health and care needs. Izzi has been trained with BADT (Birth Advocacy Doula Training), and is looking forward to hearing from you!
Rose DeNicola (she/they) – Sebastopol, CA
Wild Rose Wellness
Rose will show up for you as a grounded, kind, and compassionate birth companion throughout your pregnancy, labor, and postpartum. To support you on the birth journey she brings extensive skills and knowledge in bodywork, herbalism and somatic counseling.
Magdalena Eschenberg (she/they) – Penngrove, CA
Magdalena Eschenberg Doula Services
As a queer doula and aspiring certified nurse midwife, she brings a unique blend of personal experience, scientific knowledge, and unwavering support to my birth work. Her journey began at the tender age of 6 when they witnessed their sister’s home birth, a transformative experience that ignited their passion for the birthing process. This early exposure to midwifery care laid the foundation for her current path in nursing and doula work. Currently pursuing a nursing degree with the goal of becoming a certified nurse midwife, she is deeply immersed in the study of human biology and physiology. This scientific background enhances my ability to provide evidence-based support to her clients, bridging the gap between traditional birthing wisdom and modern medical knowledge.
Their approach as a doula is centered on birthing autonomy and informed decision-making. They believe in empowering parents to be active participants in their care, regardless of the birthing environment or unexpected circumstances that may arise. Whether you’re planning a home birth, a hospital delivery, or anything in between, she’s committed to ensuring your voice is heard and your choices are respected. As a proud member of the queer community, They are dedicated to providing inclusive and affirming care to all families, with a particular focus on supporting LGBTQ+ individuals. Her practice extends beyond gender and sexuality to address systemic inequalities in birth work. She is an ally to people of the global majority, actively working to dismantle barriers and protect Black and Brown bodies from obstetric violence and racism in the birth space.
Her services are designed to be accessible, accepting insurance (Medi-Cal and Kaiser Permanente) and focusing on lower-income families to provide equitable care to those who need it most. They offer comprehensive support throughout the birthing journey, including: prenatal visits focused on building confidence, providing education, and exploring birth preferences, labor and birth support, offering advocacy, comfort measures, and emotional reassurance, postpartum care, including processing the birth experience and providing newborn care guidance.
As a postpartum doula, they offer a range of services to support new parents, from emotional support and physical recovery assistance to newborn care education and feeding support. Her goal is to help you be the best parent you can be to your new baby, with services tailored to your family’s unique needs. She firmly believes that birth work is inherently political, and is committed to creating positive change in the field. By focusing on informed consent, birthing autonomy, and inclusive care, they strive to ensure that every family they work with feels empowered, supported, and respected throughout their birthing journey. Whether you’re seeking support for a home birth with midwives, a hospital birth with minimal interventions, or a planned cesarean, she is here to walk alongside you every step of the way. They trust in your ability to know what’s best for you and your baby, and are honored to be a part of your unique and beautiful birth story.
Andrea (she/her) – San Diego, CA
Maternal Haven
Andrea offers birth and postpartum doula services.
Jane Flanagan (they/them) – Portland, OR
shapeSHIFT Tending
Jane offers 1-1 and group support containers for queer people in process of TTC, pregnancy, and parenthood. Parenthood support and identity integration is their specialty, so working with queer folks who have just or are about to go through the portal is sacred to me. They look forward to collaborating with other birthworkers and building their resource and referral network with this beautiful community.