Experience

BEST Doula Training

• Wellness and Fitness Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder and Owner

  • Jan 2017 - Present

  BEST Doula Training provides training and certification to equip doulas to be the BEST they can be so that families can have the BEST birth they can have. We focus on teaching Business skills, strong Ethics, Sustainability and the art of working Together. We believe doulas change the world! BEST Doula Training provides training and certification to equip doulas to be the BEST they can be so that families can have the BEST birth they can have. We focus on teaching Business skills, strong Ethics, Sustainability and the art of working Together. We believe doulas change the world!



Great Expectations Birth

• Wellness and Fitness Services

• Business Owner

  • Jan 2007 - Present

  Great Expectations Birth is a full service professional doula agency matching expecting families in the Dallas and Fort Worth area with the perfect doula. Great Expectations has a group of dynamic and diverse doulas who all provide exceptional doula care. I love using my vast experience and professional network to match up families with a doula that they are going to love and that will help them have an amazing birth...no matter what that looks like for them.Other services offered are postpartum doulas, placenta encapsulation and bengkung wrapping.Great Expectations is a concierge pregnancy service - If an expecting couple need anything...Great Expectations Birth can make it happen. We aim to delight with our service and we love offering a modern spin to the age old act of giving birth. Show less



Dallas Ft.Worth Placenta

• Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Co Owner

  • Oct 2015 - Present

  DFW Placenta provides professional placenta processing services to women in the Dallas and Fort Worth area. We do the processing in our private commercial facility so that we can offer the highest level of safety and quality control. (If our clients prefer, we will also provide services in their home.) As of the summer of 2019, over 1000 families have trusted have trusted DFW Placenta with their placenta making us the number one choice in placenta processing in the Dallas and Ft. Worth area. You can also find our encapsulators partnering with Great Expectations Birth. Same safety and services from either company! We also offer products such as placenta pills, tinctures, body butter, salve, smoothie drops and more. www.dfwplacenta.com Show less



Shop Birth

• United States

• Co Owner

  • Oct 2015 - Nov 2018

  ShopBirth provided business consulting for birth related businesses and specialized in early start up goals,website development, social media marketing and building a unique online presence with on going brand management. We worked with our clients to create sustainable paths for growth and with ongoing support to make it happen at every step along the way. We also offered the tangible tools used by midwives, doulas and childbirth educators such as rebozos, birth related apparel, diffusers, basic supplies and more. Shopbirth services were officially rolled in BEST Doula Training in 2018 - same great design options, consulting and tools, just under a different name and company umbrella! Show less



Birth Boot Camp

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Creator/Program Development and Trainer of Birth Boot Camp DOULA

  • Jan 2013 - Jan 2017

  I am the co-creater the Birth Boot Camp DOULA certification program, and co-author of the book Supporting Arms. Amanda Devereux, of Nola Nesting, and I led doula training and during our tenure with this company, we built a reputation for high engagement and vibrant workshops earning consistent 10 out 10 reviews from participants. Amanda and I now teach and write with BEST Doula Training. At BEST, you can find our almost 40 combined years of doula wisdom and business savvy (as well as more of the same style of dynamic training we are known for) along with our new award winning materials, consulting options and website design. Show less



Great Expectations®

• Retail Apparel and Fashion
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Labor Doula and Childbirth Educator

  • 2007 - Jan 2015

  I help expecting families have happy BIRTH days in the Dallas and Fort Worth area. By providing relational, physical and informational support I am able to help women and their partners experience pregnancy and birth as an amazing event. I am one of the most experienced doulas in the Dallas and Fort Worth area and have attended more VBACs than any other doula in the metroplex. I love helping families plan and achieve all kinds of births....unmedicated births, births with epidurals, water birth, births taking place both in hospitals and in homes,, twins, planned Cesareans, assisting in surrogate arrangements...basically supporting women in all their birth choices. . Show less



Gentle Beginnings Birth Center

• Post Partum Clinician

  • Sep 2010 - Aug 2013

  Providing both clinical care to moms and babies who deliver at Gentle Beginnings Birth Center during the immediate post partum time. This includeds assesment of vitals and other health concerns as well as breastfeeding support and providing discharge information. Providing both clinical care to moms and babies who deliver at Gentle Beginnings Birth Center during the immediate post partum time. This includeds assesment of vitals and other health concerns as well as breastfeeding support and providing discharge information.