Doula Care for Birth, Death and Grief

You Deserve Care

There are many moments and times in your life when you cease to be one thing and begin to be another, either gradually or suddenly. As a doula care companion, my goal is to be with you and hold space for those times of sudden or gradual transition as you come into a new way of being (or ceasing to be) in the world. While I support folks experiencing various kinds of transitions, my values and approach to care companionship stay the same; my practice is rooted in holding space for your inner (emotional, mental, spiritual) experience, planning for the decisions and circumstances you are navigating, and archiving to connect with your experience as a part of your broader story and create a space for remembrance.

What is a Doula?

A doula is a nonmedical support person who provides physical, logistical, educational and/or emotional support to someone in transition. While the role of doula is most recognized in birth and perinatal contexts, it exists in many other contexts of transition in which someone might need care specifically around that transition, such as death, divorce or relationship shifts, gender journeys, moving, job changes, and grief.

My Doula Practice

My practice is rooted in 3 practices:

  • Holding Space: being present to your emotional, mental, somatic and spiritual experiences and creating containers to honor your need to be seen, heard and held.

  • Planning: Planning for the time ahead, considering the logistical and practical changes that are coming and preparing for the decisions you’ll have to make.

  • Archiving: Creating or continuing a practice of documenting your experiences and building an archive to pass down to those that come after you.

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, 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.

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