Meet the Doulas of the Upper Valley
We work as independent, professional entities, each managing our own business practices to serve the Upper Valley. For more information about an individual doula's services or fees, please use her contact information below. If you have a general question or would like to become part of our referral network, please use our contact form. Upper Valley Doulas kindly requests that the referred doulas abide by the DONA Standards of Practice, but is not responsible for the conduct of individual doulas.
Katie Williams, RN-BSN, CLC
doulasnurturingway@gmail.com
802-281-2381
Katie’s foundation in the healing arts started in nursing. She graduated with her BSN from Simmons College in 2008 and worked for ten years as a Registered Nurse in Maternal-Child Health throughout the Upper Valley, in both hospital and community based settings.
It was her own journey through pregnancy, cesarean birth and the postpartum time that she found her passion for doula work. She completed the DONA training in 2011 and the Birthing From Within training in 2015. In 2016, she received her certification as a lactation counselor and became certified with DANCE, a tool kit to support maternal-infant bonding. Throughout all of this time, Katie has tended to many women in and out of the birth room. They have all been integral to her learning process.
Beyond a clinical practice, Katie is passionate about growing food as medicine with her family at Wild Water Farm, has studied herbalism intensively and has trained in mind, body, spirit practices with various teachers. All of these modalities are woven into her practice throughout the full spectrum of doula care. She values a traditional medical foundation in birth education as she responds to her client’s learning needs and also takes a holistic approach by using tools like nutritional and herbal healing, meditation and creativity exercises.
Katie is a resource to you for all questions and concerns throughout your pregnancy, birth and postpartum time. Please do not hesitate to reach out. Referrals to community partners will be made appropriately.
Katie is currently offering: Birth Doula Care, Postpartum Doula Care, Pregnancy Loss Doula Care.
doulasnurturingway@gmail.com
802-281-2381
Katie’s foundation in the healing arts started in nursing. She graduated with her BSN from Simmons College in 2008 and worked for ten years as a Registered Nurse in Maternal-Child Health throughout the Upper Valley, in both hospital and community based settings.
It was her own journey through pregnancy, cesarean birth and the postpartum time that she found her passion for doula work. She completed the DONA training in 2011 and the Birthing From Within training in 2015. In 2016, she received her certification as a lactation counselor and became certified with DANCE, a tool kit to support maternal-infant bonding. Throughout all of this time, Katie has tended to many women in and out of the birth room. They have all been integral to her learning process.
Beyond a clinical practice, Katie is passionate about growing food as medicine with her family at Wild Water Farm, has studied herbalism intensively and has trained in mind, body, spirit practices with various teachers. All of these modalities are woven into her practice throughout the full spectrum of doula care. She values a traditional medical foundation in birth education as she responds to her client’s learning needs and also takes a holistic approach by using tools like nutritional and herbal healing, meditation and creativity exercises.
Katie is a resource to you for all questions and concerns throughout your pregnancy, birth and postpartum time. Please do not hesitate to reach out. Referrals to community partners will be made appropriately.
Katie is currently offering: Birth Doula Care, Postpartum Doula Care, Pregnancy Loss Doula Care.
Kathy Wohlfort, MS, CD(DONA), HCHD
Peregine Doula Services, contracting under LifeTree Birth Care
kathydoulanh@gmail.com
Kathy believes that all women and their partners should have the care they want during their pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. As your birth doula, she will help you identify the type of support you want, from educational resources to physical comfort measures during labor. Kathy will protect the space and time you may need to make medical decisions that are right for you and then support the direction you choose. Empowering her clients is the base of her practice.
Kathy has a master’s degree in conservation biology from Antioch University and comes to doula work after 22 years of wildlife behavior research. In addition to her required DONA training, Kathy gained invaluable experience, insight, and mentors after attending a two-week doula internship at a Utah midwifery center in 2017.
Kathy lives in Lyme with her husband, cat, bee hives and expansive garden, and loves just about anything that involves swimming in New England’s waters.
Kathy currently offers: Birth Doula Care.
Peregine Doula Services, contracting under LifeTree Birth Care
kathydoulanh@gmail.com
Kathy believes that all women and their partners should have the care they want during their pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. As your birth doula, she will help you identify the type of support you want, from educational resources to physical comfort measures during labor. Kathy will protect the space and time you may need to make medical decisions that are right for you and then support the direction you choose. Empowering her clients is the base of her practice.
Kathy has a master’s degree in conservation biology from Antioch University and comes to doula work after 22 years of wildlife behavior research. In addition to her required DONA training, Kathy gained invaluable experience, insight, and mentors after attending a two-week doula internship at a Utah midwifery center in 2017.
Kathy lives in Lyme with her husband, cat, bee hives and expansive garden, and loves just about anything that involves swimming in New England’s waters.
Kathy currently offers: Birth Doula Care.
Megan Dubuque, IBCD
Megan Dubuque - Birth Doula
megandubuque@hotmail.com
Megan is the mother to two amazing boys. It wasn't until she had them that she realized her passion for birth. She is a teacher by day but the rest of her time and energy is spent with her family and with expecting and laboring families. She has a B.S. degree in Elementary Education from Lyndon State College. She also have a M.ed. from Antioch University. Megan certified as a birth doula through Indigo Doulas. She lives in Thetford, Vermont which is 40 minutes from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital. It's 45 minutes from Gifford Memorial Hospital and Central Vermont Medical Center. She has attended many births, including VBACs, and learned something new in each amazing birth journey. She looks forward to many more in 2018.
This is your birth and your journey to meet your baby. As your doula, Megan would support you in the journey that you choose. This is a beautiful time in your life and it is an honor to be a part of it. She will work to help you accomplish whatever goals you set forth and help empower you through information, education, and support. Your birth has the potential to be a magical experience. It is your right to have the birth that you want and to make choices that are best for you, your baby, and your family.
Megan currently offers: Birth Doula Care.
Megan Dubuque - Birth Doula
megandubuque@hotmail.com
Megan is the mother to two amazing boys. It wasn't until she had them that she realized her passion for birth. She is a teacher by day but the rest of her time and energy is spent with her family and with expecting and laboring families. She has a B.S. degree in Elementary Education from Lyndon State College. She also have a M.ed. from Antioch University. Megan certified as a birth doula through Indigo Doulas. She lives in Thetford, Vermont which is 40 minutes from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital. It's 45 minutes from Gifford Memorial Hospital and Central Vermont Medical Center. She has attended many births, including VBACs, and learned something new in each amazing birth journey. She looks forward to many more in 2018.
This is your birth and your journey to meet your baby. As your doula, Megan would support you in the journey that you choose. This is a beautiful time in your life and it is an honor to be a part of it. She will work to help you accomplish whatever goals you set forth and help empower you through information, education, and support. Your birth has the potential to be a magical experience. It is your right to have the birth that you want and to make choices that are best for you, your baby, and your family.
Megan currently offers: Birth Doula Care.
Sarah Emily Allen
www.SarahEmilyDoula.com
sarahemilydoula@gmail.com
Sarah is a new doula in the Upper Valley and is excited to begin her doula practice in such a supportive and birth positive area. Born in Colorado, raised in Vermont, and many years spent in the Pacific Northwest have given Sarah an appreciation for the Upper Valley and all that it has to offer. She relocated back to Vermont with her husband and two young children in 2014 and has been working as an independent graphic designer.
As a mother, Sarah believes birthing a child is one of the most profound and life changing events in a person’s life, and as a doula her goal is to come alongside and partner with women to help them voice their preferences and have the birth experience that is most rewarding and empowering for them.
Sarah recently completed her birth doula training and she is thrilled to begin accepting doula clients.
Sarah currently offers: Birth Doula Care
www.SarahEmilyDoula.com
sarahemilydoula@gmail.com
Sarah is a new doula in the Upper Valley and is excited to begin her doula practice in such a supportive and birth positive area. Born in Colorado, raised in Vermont, and many years spent in the Pacific Northwest have given Sarah an appreciation for the Upper Valley and all that it has to offer. She relocated back to Vermont with her husband and two young children in 2014 and has been working as an independent graphic designer.
As a mother, Sarah believes birthing a child is one of the most profound and life changing events in a person’s life, and as a doula her goal is to come alongside and partner with women to help them voice their preferences and have the birth experience that is most rewarding and empowering for them.
Sarah recently completed her birth doula training and she is thrilled to begin accepting doula clients.
Sarah currently offers: Birth Doula Care
Jess Kimball
sunflowerdoula1@gmail.com
I have felt called to work with mothers from a young age. My older brother was delivered by my grandmother on the side of the road. My younger brother was a home birth in the middle of a blizzard. My life has been filled with amazing mothers with amazing stories. I became a doula nearly a year ago and have been photographing births for 2 years. I love working with mothers and newborns. Being one of seven kids has given me a lot of experience in a field like this. I support mothers through births of any kind; home, hospital, or birth center. I look forward to meeting more mothers and helping them through this amazing time in their life.
Jess currently offers: postpartum doula care, birth doula care, photography, and prenatal yoga
sunflowerdoula1@gmail.com
I have felt called to work with mothers from a young age. My older brother was delivered by my grandmother on the side of the road. My younger brother was a home birth in the middle of a blizzard. My life has been filled with amazing mothers with amazing stories. I became a doula nearly a year ago and have been photographing births for 2 years. I love working with mothers and newborns. Being one of seven kids has given me a lot of experience in a field like this. I support mothers through births of any kind; home, hospital, or birth center. I look forward to meeting more mothers and helping them through this amazing time in their life.
Jess currently offers: postpartum doula care, birth doula care, photography, and prenatal yoga
Mary Etna Haac, MPH, PhD, CD(DONA)
LifeTree Birth Care
DoulaMaryEtna@gmail.com
Mary Etna is passionate about all things relating to women's health, nature, and science. Childbirth encompasses all of these things. It is an absolutely amazing natural process that interconnects physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of our human nature. Mary Etna loves supporting and empowering expectant parents as they learn to trust their instincts, and assume an active role in their birth experiences and passages into parenthood.
Mary Etna is the founder of LifeTree birth care, which currently offers birth doula care, childbirth education, and breastfeeding support in the Upper Valley. As a DONA-certified birth doula and Registered Hypnobabies® Hypno-Doula, she provides expectant parents with the balanced information, support, and comfort they need in order to experience a pleasurable and satisfying labor and birth. She is an MPH / PhD trained researcher and strives to remain up to date on key information relating to pregnancy, labor and breastfeeding support. She delivers personalized care in a manner that facilitates open communication between pregnant women, partners and clinical care providers. She has experience working with survivors of trauma, and has lived and worked in several countries. Mary Etna is a native speaker of both English and Spanish. She welcomes the opportunity to work with your unique needs and preferences.
Mary Etna currently offers: childbirth education, breastfeeding support
(She is on extended maternity leave from doula work)
LifeTree Birth Care
DoulaMaryEtna@gmail.com
Mary Etna is passionate about all things relating to women's health, nature, and science. Childbirth encompasses all of these things. It is an absolutely amazing natural process that interconnects physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of our human nature. Mary Etna loves supporting and empowering expectant parents as they learn to trust their instincts, and assume an active role in their birth experiences and passages into parenthood.
Mary Etna is the founder of LifeTree birth care, which currently offers birth doula care, childbirth education, and breastfeeding support in the Upper Valley. As a DONA-certified birth doula and Registered Hypnobabies® Hypno-Doula, she provides expectant parents with the balanced information, support, and comfort they need in order to experience a pleasurable and satisfying labor and birth. She is an MPH / PhD trained researcher and strives to remain up to date on key information relating to pregnancy, labor and breastfeeding support. She delivers personalized care in a manner that facilitates open communication between pregnant women, partners and clinical care providers. She has experience working with survivors of trauma, and has lived and worked in several countries. Mary Etna is a native speaker of both English and Spanish. She welcomes the opportunity to work with your unique needs and preferences.
Mary Etna currently offers: childbirth education, breastfeeding support
(She is on extended maternity leave from doula work)
Liz Kinsley, CLD(CBI), HCHD
Kinsley Birth Services
Liz@kinsleybirthservices.com
Liz Kinsley is a stay at home mom to five wonderful children. Her kids keep her very busy in Central Vermont. The rest of her time and energy is consumed with a strong passion for labor and delivery.
Liz has been blessed to attend and learn from many births. It is a joy for her to experience and assist couples in the transition to parenthood. She also exploited her own births to grow as a doula.
Liz has a B.S. degree in Elementary Education from Messiah College and received a birth doula certification from Childbirth International in 2007. She has experience with sexual abuse victims and how it can affect their pregnancy, labor and delivery. Liz is also a Trained Hypnobabies® Hypno-Doula and is studying miscarriage and stillbirth support. She recently had the pleasure to learn how to use the Rebozo from Gena Kirby. In addition, she is learning Belly Binding and is a volunteer doula with Operation Special Delivery. She is thinking about becoming a Labor and Delivery nurse and maybe even a midwife in the future.
Liz is currently offers: belly casting and belly binding.
(She is on maternity leave from doula work)
Kinsley Birth Services
Liz@kinsleybirthservices.com
Liz Kinsley is a stay at home mom to five wonderful children. Her kids keep her very busy in Central Vermont. The rest of her time and energy is consumed with a strong passion for labor and delivery.
Liz has been blessed to attend and learn from many births. It is a joy for her to experience and assist couples in the transition to parenthood. She also exploited her own births to grow as a doula.
Liz has a B.S. degree in Elementary Education from Messiah College and received a birth doula certification from Childbirth International in 2007. She has experience with sexual abuse victims and how it can affect their pregnancy, labor and delivery. Liz is also a Trained Hypnobabies® Hypno-Doula and is studying miscarriage and stillbirth support. She recently had the pleasure to learn how to use the Rebozo from Gena Kirby. In addition, she is learning Belly Binding and is a volunteer doula with Operation Special Delivery. She is thinking about becoming a Labor and Delivery nurse and maybe even a midwife in the future.
Liz is currently offers: belly casting and belly binding.
(She is on maternity leave from doula work)
Are you a trained doula serving the Upper Valley of VT/NH? Please contact me about adding your bio to this page.