Services

Whether this is your first baby, or you’ve done this before, giving birth, as natural as it may seem, is often accompanied by a bit of fear and anxiety. In fact, that’s the reason I became a doula and extended into counselling and somatic therapies. I have a deep desire to instill strength through education and support, and to reduce fear for birthing individuals. I know that with the right support, this can be achieved.

For the best understanding of birth doula support, I’ve broken it down into the 3 modalities it includes and how YOU benefit from each.

After an initial complimentary consultation, and once you have engaged in my supportive services, you will meet with me twice during the remainder of your pregnancy.

These meetings will reinforce our relationship while establishing your birth wishes and a comprehensive plan to support you during your labour and birth. I will be on call for you 24 hours per day, 7 days a week. No question is too big or too small to ask. Take comfort in knowing that support is just a phone call (or text) away!

Once labour begins, I will be prepared to join you at home or at the hospital. This will be based on your preference and need. I will support you in the following ways:

Educationally – I will explain each phase of labor as it unfolds. I will help normalize the process for you and your partner in real-time. If interventions become necessary, I will be right beside you to share the benefits, risks and alternatives to consider. All of your choices will be fully supported.

Physically – My in-person presence will reduce fear and instill strength. My ability to utilize comforting massage, pressure, and counter pressure will relieve discomfort and enable relaxation. My vast knowledge of labor positions for labour progression will offer the tangible tools to speed up labour and enable your comfort.

Emotionally – Labouring and giving birth to a child is often accompanied by intense emotion. We don’t always know if what we are feeling is “normal” or not. This experience is unique to each individual who experiences it. I will be the sounding board to your emotions enabling your peace of mind and progress.

The post-partum period is quite often a time marked by so many emotions and experiences.

Whether you have just given birth to your first, or you have many, the postpartum period is often filled with questions and complexities that you might not have anticipated.

Traditionally in many cultures around the world, new mothers/birth givers, and their partners, are surrounded by family and community members, nourished with healthy meals and offered support with caring for their newborn, including support with breastfeeding and bottle-feeding. After you have a baby, you may need or want to process the myriad of emotions from your birth experience, motherhood and parenthood.

– Listening, understanding, and affirming while normalizing the postpartum experience. I call this “mothering the mother.”
– Recognizing the early signs of perinatal mood and anxiety.
– Introducing and supporting various parenting philosophies.
– Strategizing and implementing daily routines.
– Infant feeding/whether breastfeeding support or bottle-feeding education & help preparing bottles.
– Infant soothing and comforting care.
– Tending to light day to day tasks & light house cleaning such as laundry, dishes, etc.
– Newborn care basics such as diaper changing, bathing, etc.
– Preparing light nourishing meals for you, with food in your home.

Whether the number of support people is restricted by health restrictions such as COVID19 at your birth, or you just simply want to limit the number of people in attendance, you may choose to take advantage of my virtual services for childbirth preparation and education.

– 30 weeks pregnancy to 2 weeks postpartum.
– Two 60-minute FaceTime/equivalent meetings to prepare for labour & birth.
– 24/7 access to Doula, via WhatsApp, Messenger, text, and phone.
– Constant contact during labour and birth.
– Information on basic newborn care and breastfeeding support.
– 1 FaceTime/equivalent meetings to discuss clients’ emotional and physical recovery and answer any questions or concerns.

Offering PRIVATE online one to one coaching and guidance. I understand how often women feel alone, unsupported or misunderstood during these times of great change. There are many anxieties, fears, and often, past traumas. These issues can often greatly affect the way you live and relate to others. I can provide a supportive listening ear, strategies, and solutions to aid you in living as the very best version of yourself.

– Confidence.
– Boundary setting.
– Fatigue.
– Emotion management.
– Life balance.
– Motherhood adjustment.
– Recognition of perinatal disorders.
– Self-care.
– Stress management.
– Physical/sexual changes in the relationship.

Setting goals for families, to problem solve & address concerns, such as:

– Learning how to foster a secure attachment and build your child’s brain for success.
– Support parents through mindfulness and self reflection by identifying stressors, past trauma and bias.
– Struggling behaviours such as biting, hitting, fighting etc.
– Emotional Development such as whining, clingy, anxious, etc.
– Sibling Support.

Reiki is a meditative practice that promotes relaxation, reduces stress and anxiety, and promotes a positive mental state. Reiki works on four levels: Mental, Emotional, Physical and Spiritual. It is an energy system that can release stuck, blocked and stagnant energy, encouraging and stimulating healthy, positive, pure energy to flow in its place, which in turn can activate and promote healing.

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by “laying on hands” and is based on the idea that an unseen “life force energy” flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one’s “life force energy” is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.

The over-all outcome is complete relaxation, release of stress, balance in body, mind, and spirit. The combination creates a release of stuck energy and increased healing.

I have discovered that one of the major stressors in a family, is a lack of financial education and planning.

As a Canadian Licensed Financial Advisor, with 8 years experience, I assist people with with:

– Budgeting/planning.
– Tax strategies.
– Insurance products.
– Investments.
– Mortgage/home financing.
– Critical illness/disability insurance.
– TFSA (tax free savings accounts).
– Group benefits.
– Retirement/estate planning.
– And much more.