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.
Doulas are listed alphabetically by business name or first name.
Doulas are listed alphabetically by business name or first name.
Carry, LLC
Xena Mackwood
thebabywearingdoula@gmail.com
802-281-3425
Services offered: postpartum doula care and babywearing education
Xena comes to this work with a passion for social justice and firsthand knowledge of the lack of structures in place to support birthing people and new families. They have completed postpartum doula training from DONA international, and are in the process of certifying with Birthing From Within as a birth doula and childbirth mentor. Additionally, they are a babywearing educator trained by the Center for Babywearing Studies.
A self-proclaimed research nerd (INTJ for those folks who know MBTI) they are constantly acquiring more knowledge, completing more training, and expanding understanding of tools to work within the systems around birth and parenting. An integrative and sustainable approach to care is crucial. Growing the family is a tender time for all.
Xena is strongly committed to equality around access to care and operates with a sliding scale for all, with particular interest in serving BIPOC, LQBTQIA+, polyamorous and single persons, and other marginalized populations in and around the upper valley.
Xena Mackwood
thebabywearingdoula@gmail.com
802-281-3425
Services offered: postpartum doula care and babywearing education
Xena comes to this work with a passion for social justice and firsthand knowledge of the lack of structures in place to support birthing people and new families. They have completed postpartum doula training from DONA international, and are in the process of certifying with Birthing From Within as a birth doula and childbirth mentor. Additionally, they are a babywearing educator trained by the Center for Babywearing Studies.
A self-proclaimed research nerd (INTJ for those folks who know MBTI) they are constantly acquiring more knowledge, completing more training, and expanding understanding of tools to work within the systems around birth and parenting. An integrative and sustainable approach to care is crucial. Growing the family is a tender time for all.
Xena is strongly committed to equality around access to care and operates with a sliding scale for all, with particular interest in serving BIPOC, LQBTQIA+, polyamorous and single persons, and other marginalized populations in and around the upper valley.
Iris Mok
irisfmok@hotmail.com
(310)384-8272
Services offered: Postpartum Care, Lactation Stimulation and Belly Binding
My name is Iris Mok and I am a postpartum doula. I immigrated from Hong Kong to the US 30 years ago and I have been living with my husband and two daughters in West Lebanon since 1996. Swimming and yoga are my favorite hobbies and I adore working with children. My career began when I worked for School Administrative District #88 in Lebanon in the Beginning Preschool Program as a Paraprofessional & Chinese International Student Interpreter from 2001 to 2016.
After spending the past 10 years supporting many Chinese immigrants and Dartmouth College Chinese International students after they gave birth, I realized that postpartum support is desperately needed for new parents. After my daughters left for college and I became an empty nester, I traveled back to Hong Kong frequently to visit my relatives. While I was there, I noticed a huge demand for postpartum care and enrolled in the Postpartum Doula certification course. I decided to get certified and began my professional career as a postpartum doula. I also received my certifications in Lactation Stimulation, Herbal Healing Nutrition and Abdomen Binding, which are very beneficial for postpartum moms. After completing the certifications, I began my professional career with my first client in Los Angeles two years ago and returned to the Upper Valley in May 2020 to continue my journey as a postpartum doula.
I believe that with my wealth of knowledge, compassion, thoughtfulness, experience and care, I am able to wholeheartedly support all moms and their partners as they welcome their beautiful newborn babies into their lives.
irisfmok@hotmail.com
(310)384-8272
Services offered: Postpartum Care, Lactation Stimulation and Belly Binding
My name is Iris Mok and I am a postpartum doula. I immigrated from Hong Kong to the US 30 years ago and I have been living with my husband and two daughters in West Lebanon since 1996. Swimming and yoga are my favorite hobbies and I adore working with children. My career began when I worked for School Administrative District #88 in Lebanon in the Beginning Preschool Program as a Paraprofessional & Chinese International Student Interpreter from 2001 to 2016.
After spending the past 10 years supporting many Chinese immigrants and Dartmouth College Chinese International students after they gave birth, I realized that postpartum support is desperately needed for new parents. After my daughters left for college and I became an empty nester, I traveled back to Hong Kong frequently to visit my relatives. While I was there, I noticed a huge demand for postpartum care and enrolled in the Postpartum Doula certification course. I decided to get certified and began my professional career as a postpartum doula. I also received my certifications in Lactation Stimulation, Herbal Healing Nutrition and Abdomen Binding, which are very beneficial for postpartum moms. After completing the certifications, I began my professional career with my first client in Los Angeles two years ago and returned to the Upper Valley in May 2020 to continue my journey as a postpartum doula.
I believe that with my wealth of knowledge, compassion, thoughtfulness, experience and care, I am able to wholeheartedly support all moms and their partners as they welcome their beautiful newborn babies into their lives.
Kinsley Birth Services
Liz Kinsley, CMA(BAI), CLD(CBI), HCHD
Liz@kinsleybirthservices.com
Services offered: birth doula care, birth assistant, birth photos, belly casting & belly binding
Liz Kinsley has been a doula in the Upper Valley since 2007, and is now a Certified Midwife Assistant. She has a strong passion for pregnancy and birth and believes in the natural process. Liz has been blessed to attend and learn from births as well as exploit her own six births to grow as a doula. It is a joy for her to experience and assist couples in the transition to parenthood.
Liz has a B.S. degree in Elementary Education from Messiah College and received a birth doula certification from Childbirth International in 2007. Liz is also the first Trained Hypnobabies Childbirth Hypnodoula in Vermont. She received training in using the Rebozo from Gena Kirby. She has experience with sexual abuse victims and how it can affect their pregnancy, labor and delivery. She attended a two day conference "When Survivors Give Birth" with author and birth advocate Penny Simkin. In addition, she has learned Belly Binding and is currently studying to be a midwife's assistant. She is certified in CPR, AED use and Neonatal Resuscitation. She is constantly expanding her knowledge and experience of pregnancy and childbirth.
Liz lives in Bethel, Vermont with her husband and six children. She enjoys staying healthy by working out and playing basketball and softball in her free time.
Liz Kinsley, CMA(BAI), CLD(CBI), HCHD
Liz@kinsleybirthservices.com
Services offered: birth doula care, birth assistant, birth photos, belly casting & belly binding
Liz Kinsley has been a doula in the Upper Valley since 2007, and is now a Certified Midwife Assistant. She has a strong passion for pregnancy and birth and believes in the natural process. Liz has been blessed to attend and learn from births as well as exploit her own six births to grow as a doula. It is a joy for her to experience and assist couples in the transition to parenthood.
Liz has a B.S. degree in Elementary Education from Messiah College and received a birth doula certification from Childbirth International in 2007. Liz is also the first Trained Hypnobabies Childbirth Hypnodoula in Vermont. She received training in using the Rebozo from Gena Kirby. She has experience with sexual abuse victims and how it can affect their pregnancy, labor and delivery. She attended a two day conference "When Survivors Give Birth" with author and birth advocate Penny Simkin. In addition, she has learned Belly Binding and is currently studying to be a midwife's assistant. She is certified in CPR, AED use and Neonatal Resuscitation. She is constantly expanding her knowledge and experience of pregnancy and childbirth.
Liz lives in Bethel, Vermont with her husband and six children. She enjoys staying healthy by working out and playing basketball and softball in her free time.
LifeTree Birth Care
Services offered: prenatal consults, birth doula care, postpartum doula care, childbirth classes, breastfeeding support
Mary Etna, Kathy, and Luci work as as team to provide compassionate, evidence-based care to families throughout the Upper Valley. Under LifeTree Birth Care's model of care, you will receive the personalized attention of the doula you hire, while the others are also supporting behind the scenes to ensure you get the best care. We welcome ALL people, including LGBTQIA families.
Services offered: prenatal consults, birth doula care, postpartum doula care, childbirth classes, breastfeeding support
Mary Etna, Kathy, and Luci work as as team to provide compassionate, evidence-based care to families throughout the Upper Valley. Under LifeTree Birth Care's model of care, you will receive the personalized attention of the doula you hire, while the others are also supporting behind the scenes to ensure you get the best care. We welcome ALL people, including LGBTQIA families.
Mary Etna Haac, MPH, PhD, CD(DONA), ICCE
Childbirth Educator, Evidence Based Birth® Instructor DoulaMaryEtna@gmail.com Mary Etna is the founder of LifeTree Birth Care, and works together with Kathy and Lucy to bring compassionate, knowledgeable perinatal care to families in the Upper Valley. Mary Etna is passionate about all things relating to women's health, nature, and science. Childbirth encompasses all of these things. It is an 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 a DONA-certified birth doula, ICEA-Certified Childbirth Educator, and Evidence Based Birth Instructor. She provides expectant parents with balanced information, support, and comfort to promote 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. Please note that Mary Etna is currently not attending births, but is now enrolling Evidenced Base Birth® Childbirth Classes! 
Kathy Wohlfort, MS, CD(DONA), HCHD
Birth Doula 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 DONA training, Kathy gained invaluable experience, insight, and mentors after attending a two-week doula internship at a Utah midwifery center in 2017. Kathy has also trained with Spinning Babies and is a Registered HypnoBabies Hypno-doula. 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. 
Luci Tarr
Birth and Postpartum Doula Doula Vitae, contracting under LifeTree Birth Care luci@doulavitae.com 802-556-1245 I find it incredibly challenging to describe the depth of meaning behind being a doula. Pregnancy and the birth experience moves me - it is nothing short of a miracle. The opportunity to be with a family, however defined, during such an intimate and progressive moment in life, is a gift. As a doula, I will help bring forth the needs and desires of the family to guide them through to the moment their baby is born. I am passionate about supporting the miracle and embracing the gift. Now, let me take a moment to introduce myself. I am Luci Tarr, a doula supporting the birth experience throughout the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire. I value the bond of family and the emotion and strength that lives within that bond. I believe it allows me to provide the utmost care and support in all situations. No matter what your birth plan might be, natural or medically supported, I believe that the continuous support of a doula helps birthing women and their partners have the experience they desire. I welcome the opportunity to speak with you and answer any questions that you may have. |
Megan Dubuque, IBCD
megandubuque@hotmail.com
Services offered: Birth Doula Care
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.
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.
megandubuque@hotmail.com
Services offered: Birth Doula Care
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.
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.
Sarah Emily Allen
sarahemilydoula@gmail.com
Services offered: birth and postpartum doula services, birth story listening, bereavement support
Sarah completed her DONA doula training in April 2018, is certified as a Sacred Baby practitioner and circle leader, has training in Birth Story Medicine and is a certified VBAC Doula, as well as a Still Birth Day Birth and Bereavement Doula. Sarah is currently undergoing additional training as a Birthing From Within certified doula.
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 recognize this rite of passage with each client so that they may emerge from the birthing time feeling seen, honored and celebrated and with a new sense of compassion for themselves.
Sarah practices narrative healing and has a special concern for families who have experienced heartache in the birthing process and who may be looking for a safe and compassionate listener as they process and integrate their experiences.
sarahemilydoula@gmail.com
Services offered: birth and postpartum doula services, birth story listening, bereavement support
Sarah completed her DONA doula training in April 2018, is certified as a Sacred Baby practitioner and circle leader, has training in Birth Story Medicine and is a certified VBAC Doula, as well as a Still Birth Day Birth and Bereavement Doula. Sarah is currently undergoing additional training as a Birthing From Within certified doula.
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 recognize this rite of passage with each client so that they may emerge from the birthing time feeling seen, honored and celebrated and with a new sense of compassion for themselves.
Sarah practices narrative healing and has a special concern for families who have experienced heartache in the birthing process and who may be looking for a safe and compassionate listener as they process and integrate their experiences.
Trillium Birth, LLC
Zoë Newmarco
doula.trilliumbirth@gmail.com
Services offered: birth doula services
Zoë (she/her) is a trained birth doula through DONA International, and is currently working towards full certification. She has been passionate about birth, caring for newborns, and supporting new parents for as long as she can remember, and is excited to finally be diving into birthwork—something that has called to her for years.
Bringing a gentle enthusiasm to her work, Zoë enjoys helping people access evidence-based information about childbirth and parenting, to help them make informed decisions that are right for them. She resolutely believes that there is no one right way to give birth, and is here to support parents in making the choices that are right for them.
She works with parents giving birth in the hospital, at home, or at independent birthing centers, and welcomes working with parents with low income, LGBTQIA+ parents, and single parents.
Zoë Newmarco
doula.trilliumbirth@gmail.com
Services offered: birth doula services
Zoë (she/her) is a trained birth doula through DONA International, and is currently working towards full certification. She has been passionate about birth, caring for newborns, and supporting new parents for as long as she can remember, and is excited to finally be diving into birthwork—something that has called to her for years.
Bringing a gentle enthusiasm to her work, Zoë enjoys helping people access evidence-based information about childbirth and parenting, to help them make informed decisions that are right for them. She resolutely believes that there is no one right way to give birth, and is here to support parents in making the choices that are right for them.
She works with parents giving birth in the hospital, at home, or at independent birthing centers, and welcomes working with parents with low income, LGBTQIA+ parents, and single parents.
Well Maiden Doula and Healing Services
Katie Williams RN-BSN, CLC
wellmaidens@gmail.com
Services offered: virtual and in person postpartum holistic care and consultation, virtual and in person birth and postpartum education, lactation support, back-up birth doula support
Katie completed her traditional training as a Registered Nurse in 2008. Her nursing clinical background is rooted in a maternal child framework through a community and homecare paradigm with a trauma focused approach. Her training outside of nursing, as a holistic practitioner and birth keeper, is dynamic and continuously evolving.
After completing her initial Doula training with DONA in 2011, she decided to pursue a more in depth learning with Birthing From Within (BFW) and will soon be certified as a Mentor. After attending birth for over ten years in the Upper Valley, she came to realize that she could have the greatest impact by focusing on the postpartum experience. She is a certified INNATE provider and Lactation Counselor (CLC).
If you were to work with Katie in a postpartum capacity you could expect her to offer what would be considered a traditional postpartum doula role alongside a more integrative approach. This approach blends whole foods nutrition with body care practices such as moxa-bustion treatment, closing of the bones, massage and herbal techniques like yoni steaming and bathing to facilitate the body’s healing after birth. These sessions, depending on your needs, last two to four hours. Her availability is primarily during evening and weekend hours.
Katie does offer prenatal education support to groups and individuals through the lens of BFW and INNATE. She also hosts classes that extend beyond the perinatal time and introduce how you can cultivate and integrate food and herbs as healing practices for the journey of woman, parent and family.
Katie cares deeply about holding a practice and nourishing a growing community that feels safe to BIPOC, LGTBQ, low income people and single mothers. All are welcome here.
Katie Williams RN-BSN, CLC
wellmaidens@gmail.com
Services offered: virtual and in person postpartum holistic care and consultation, virtual and in person birth and postpartum education, lactation support, back-up birth doula support
Katie completed her traditional training as a Registered Nurse in 2008. Her nursing clinical background is rooted in a maternal child framework through a community and homecare paradigm with a trauma focused approach. Her training outside of nursing, as a holistic practitioner and birth keeper, is dynamic and continuously evolving.
After completing her initial Doula training with DONA in 2011, she decided to pursue a more in depth learning with Birthing From Within (BFW) and will soon be certified as a Mentor. After attending birth for over ten years in the Upper Valley, she came to realize that she could have the greatest impact by focusing on the postpartum experience. She is a certified INNATE provider and Lactation Counselor (CLC).
If you were to work with Katie in a postpartum capacity you could expect her to offer what would be considered a traditional postpartum doula role alongside a more integrative approach. This approach blends whole foods nutrition with body care practices such as moxa-bustion treatment, closing of the bones, massage and herbal techniques like yoni steaming and bathing to facilitate the body’s healing after birth. These sessions, depending on your needs, last two to four hours. Her availability is primarily during evening and weekend hours.
Katie does offer prenatal education support to groups and individuals through the lens of BFW and INNATE. She also hosts classes that extend beyond the perinatal time and introduce how you can cultivate and integrate food and herbs as healing practices for the journey of woman, parent and family.
Katie cares deeply about holding a practice and nourishing a growing community that feels safe to BIPOC, LGTBQ, low income people and single mothers. All are welcome here.
Are you a trained doula serving the Upper Valley of VT/NH? Please contact me about adding your bio to this page.