Doula

Wellness support for conception, pregnancy, birth, and beyond

At each session we discover or review your challenges and issues and create a plan to optimize your wellbeing and possibly triage you to resources in the community for holistic health care or medical caregivers. The amount of time spent in each part of the visit is adapted to fit your needs.

Postpartum Doula Care

  • Breast feeding support
  • Baby care, including bathing, diapering, soothing
  • Creating a relaxed atmosphere in which parents may eat, shower and nap
  • Help with coping strategies to support parenting
  • Chores and errands as needed
  • Referrals to related experts, as needed
  • Experience with multiples

Art Play

Art Play is a guided process in the session which elicits self awareness and better understanding of your emotional body, and gives you ideas for your emotional maturation and or resolution of conflict in your life.

Reiki

Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki is a Japanese Healing Art, which i have practiced since 1983.

  • It is a hands on treatment for the clothed recipient.
  • It is a holistic method for stress and anxiety reduction and relaxation, that may also promote improved wellness.
  • It may open energy blockages and provide new vitality in the form of “universal life energy”.
  • In the childbearing year, receiving Reiki may boost your confidence in your ability to give birth, grow towards parenthood, and to become rejuvenated after you give birth.
  • Reiki treatment may reduce the discomforts commonly experienced in the childbearing year.
  • Reiki treatment can also be a valuable support in the postpartum period if there is tissue trauma, exhaustion, and anxiety.