Birth Doula Support

The time has come to welcome a new person into the world—and to prepare for all the work that entails. As a doula I can hold space for all that this deep change brings up in you—the joy, the fear, the doubt, the excitement—as well as help you plan for labor, birth, and the postpartum days that follow.

My goal as your doula is to ensure you are educated and informed before the big day, open space to honor your emotional experience, and prepare you for the postpartum days that lie ahead.

What My Birth Support Includes

  • Creating containers to be with your emotional, mental, somatic and spiritual experiences.

  • Providing education around the process of labor and birth, pain management options, comfort measures, and other areas of interest.

  • Exploring your preferences for your labor and for your postpartum experience; assistance with helping to communicate your preferences to your care and support teams.

  • Affirming your basic right to informed consent and full choice; reviewing your wishes for advocacy and practicing advocacy beforehand.

  • Creating or continuing a practice of documenting yourself and your pregnancy journey; photographing you throughout your pregnancy and birth if desired.

  • Providing educational resources in physical and digital formats; providing referrals to relevant birthwork professionals or organizations.

  • Attendance at your birth, providing emotional support and physical support with comfort measures.

August 2025 | Available

September 2025 | Available

October 2025 | Full

November 2025 | Available

December 2025 | Available

January 2026 | Available

February 2026 | Available

Current Availability By Due Date

 FAQs

  • For private pay clients, my rate is as follows:

    • $200 per prenatal session

    • $900 for support during birth

    I require a minimum of one prenatal session to be booked in addition to your birth so that I can understand your needs, desires and birth plan before labor begins. Sessions are between 1.5-3 hours long.

    Sliding scale spots are available as capacity allows. Please indicate on the consultation form if you are seeking a sliding scale spot.

  • Yes. At this time I accept the following private insurances:

    • Health Net

    • Kaiser Permanante Northern California

  • I do take Medi-Cal insurance! I currently take straight Medi-Cal (for folks who have Medi-Cal but do not have a managed health care plan such as Kaiser or Partnership). I will soon be able to take Kaiser and Partnership Medi-Cal insurances.

  • I do not currently offer extended postpartum support. Each client receives two free 1-hour postpartum check ins (in person or virtually) to review the birth experience and assess if additional support or referrals are needed.

    If you are interested in a postpartum doula, I recommend Imani Lopez of Now You Know a Doula.

  • I serve the following Northern California counties: Alameda, Solano, Contra Costa, Napa.

Things to Know About Me and My Practice

I am a mixed Black and white, trans nonbinary, queer, neurodivergent human who moves through the world with a combination of privileged identities and marginalized identities. My pronouns are they and he; if you work with me please be comfortable honoring pronouns (or actively learning how to do so).

Some of my core values are anti-oppression, decolonization, connection, accountability, consent, curiosity, joy and radical imagination. I support local and global movements for liberation—including a Free Palestine, Sudan, Congo, and liberation for all oppressed peoples. While I do not need to share exact political beliefs with folks I work with, I do ask that you are sensitive to issues of oppression and are at minimum open to (if not already actively) addressing internalized oppression you hold (such as racism, anti-blackness, transphobia, ableism, classism, etc.).

I am an atheist and I am spiritual, with a focus on connection to land and nature (including honoring the folks Indigenous to the land I am on). I am happy to work with folks of different religious and spiritual contexts.

I believe in the healing power of generative conflict, accountability and transparency. For folks I do end up working with, I invite you to call me in or out if/when you witness me carry out oppressive or interpersonal harms, and I request that it is ok for me to do the same.

I share this in large part to be transparent about who will be showing up to support you, and to request that my personhood is respected in the same way that I will respect yours. In our current world care is commodified and professionalized in a way that forces people to shrink their whole personhood into something palatable and presentable—both the provider of care and the receiver of it. The containers of care I hope to hold with folks I work with are spaces where we can meet each other as we are with no expectations to mask, dilute our experiences, or perform in any way. In this way I see these spaces as having the potential to be connective, healing, and possibly even liberating.

Want to see if we’re a good fit? Schedule a consultation!

I will reach out via email within 1 business day to confirm our consultation date and time. All consultations take place on Zoom.