Below is a list of my relevant education:

• CAPPA Birth Doula

• ProDoula Certified Childbirth Educator

• Power Yoga Canada Mindfulness and Meditation Teacher Certification

• The Farm Midwife Assistant Certification (Midwifery Center former home of Ina May Gaskin)

• Birthpedia Waterbirth Facilitator (Certification in progress)

• Power Yoga Canada Trained Kids Yoga Teacher

• Redcross CPR-C/Standard First Aid Certified (updated Nov. 2024)

  My professional experience includes…

• 15+ years of in-home caregiving experience including childcare and postpartum doula (in over 500 homes)

• Labour & Birth Doula at approx. 60 births/deliveries in Ontario (including home and hospital)

• Au Pair in three European countries and communication in English and French

• Waldorf and Montessori style care and private preschool program development available from a home-school lens

• Running all aspects of a birth and postpartum doula business for 10 years (started in May 2014)

• Teaching Private and group prenatal yoga classes in studios and in homes across Ontario

• Offering private childbirth education workshops online and in-person in Ontario for all kinds of birth preparation including: vbac, home birth, waterbirth, planned cesarean, twins, and more

• One-on-one classroom Aide for children with special needs in an alternative school in Etobicoke and a Forest School near the Blue Mountains

• Waterbirth pool rental business and training to further facilitate safe waterbirth from a fully informed and mindful lens

• So much more….. let’s chat :)

No. A midwife is usually certified and with a science degree in midwifery. They are primary healthcare practitioners for families during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. If you are looking for a midwife in Collingwood or the Blue Mountains you can look here

We work with midwives to provide excellent, top-notch care. Doulas take on a non-medical role of education, emotional support, physical support, and spiritual support. They have evidence-based knowledge to support medical decisions in birth from an unbiased lens. Our guidance is based on up-to-date clinical research and a rich background studying birth and related topics.

I am not a medical practitioner and cannot give medical advice. A midwife or doctor should be consulted in addition to doula care.

Birth doulas have a key role, separate from that of the midwife or doctor, promoting and facilitating safer and more positive birth as well as prenatal care and postpartum care.

Yes, I have extensive experience with VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean) and support HBACs and trials of labour after multiple cesarean sections. I myself was born by VBAC and have a particular interest in supporting VBAC birth.

I began formal singing training when I was 12 years old and have participated in community and chamber choirs ever since. Singing, music, the power of breath, and the link between breath and coping in birth are all significant parts of my doula work.

When I was just two years old, I was swimming unassisted. As an individual with fibromyalgia/chronic pain, water has always been my refuge. From synchronized swimming to water lifesaving practice in my youth, to paddle boarding and cold plunging through my adult years. I have both taught infant and toddler swim lessons and used water as a means of facilitating birth and mindful experience.

Other influences include my own experiences with grief and abuse which have propelled me on my mindfulness journey and encourage me to continue helping babies/families have more mindful starts to life.

At this time in life, my dogs are my children. I have a toy poodle named Everest, and a medium Blonde beauty named Soleil. I would one day love to foster and/or adopt or birth children of my own.

I have looked after infants and young children for as long as I remember, from the young age of 11 years old (when I first certified as a babysitter through St John’s Ambulance), so I’ve always felt very material and nurturing to children, and as if I had pieces of my heart all over the city and work where my client’s lived. When my sister had two children, I also grew to understand the depth of paternal love.

It is my hope to always be actively engaged in prompting mindful parenting practicing, encouraging infant & child mental health, and supporting families in pregnancy and birth (of course!)