My practice focuses on the child bearing years, specifically pregnancy and during the first few years of a baby’s life. I offer herbal consultations, bodywork, classes and experience as a doula to families.

I have a BA in Psychology. I have been a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist since 1996 and a Labor Doula (DONA trained), since 2001. In the same year, I completed a 250 hours program with The Star Institute, www.rimastar.com. This training allowed me to call myself a Certified Massage Doula.

The doula program opened the world of pre and perinatal psychology to me as I read and learned from authors such as David Chamberlain and Joseph Chilton Pearce about the latest discoveries in understanding babies and how they develop in and out of the womb. The program also offered the spiritual aspects of change that occurs for us women, as we become mothers.

I am an apprentice to Dr. Rosita Arvigo and am honored to continue this line of healing for women and their families. I have been learning about herbal, nutrition and aromatherapies since 1996, and feel it holds a positive place alone or in partnership to Western medicine.

I am a proud homebirth mother of Zane, partner to Brian, and in awe of the remarkable healing capacity we all have within us.