I assisted my first home birth in 2001. I took the DONA birth and postpartum certification and learned assistant midwifery skills under the renowned midwives as Ina May Gaskin and Pamela Hunt at The Farm in Tennessee, and with Orgasmic Birth author Elizabeth Davis in California. I am trained in Childbirth Education through DTI as well as through Hypnobabies, and am also a certified Hypnobabies doula. I completed the Echo Parenting 10-week trauma informed parenting workshop in 2018 and again in 2020. Recently, I began an apprenticeship with Transformed by Birth author Britta Bushnell in Los Angeles, and have incorporated some of her teachings into my work in childbirth education. The most intense training I’ve undertaken was birthing my own daughter in 2013 and parenting her. I’m still learning every day.