Note: Many of the locations of the following individuals and their practices are listed by the names given by colonial entities. For more information on the original stewards of these lands, please visit https://native-land.ca/
Finding Care
There are three sections below, one for Physical Therapists, one for Gender Doulas, and one for Doulas, Midwives & Perinatal Care. Providers are listed alphabetically by the location their practices are based in. Within each location, providers are listed alphabetically by their first names. Use the following quick links to find care in that specific location. Note that many providers offer services to those outside of the location they are based in. In addition to their physical practice, many providers offer online services as well.
For more options, visit The Queer Doula Network.
For more clinical-based care options, visit our Fertility Centers & Health Care page.
For care relating to mental health, visit our Mental Health Resources page.
For care relating to pregnancy and substance use support, visit our Pregnancy & Substance Use Resources page.
Physical Therapists
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Image description: Ken has short, dark hair, and wears a grey collared shirt, glasses, and stud earrings. They smile warmly at the viewer. My name is Ken McGee, PT, DPT (they/he). I am a transmasculine physical therapist who specializes in pregnancy and postpartum physical therapy, as well as gender-affirming pelvic health. When I am not in the clinic, I enjoy supporting queer families as a birth doula. I am based in the Seattle area, where I live with my wife and two kids. 425-445-5698 Based in Washington |
Gender Doulas
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Image description: Eli has short, dark hair, a beard and mustache. Dressed in a short sleeved collared shirt with a small print, he wears a necklace and two pins at his chest. He smiles warmly, and leans against a colorful wall. Eli Lawliet, PhD, is The Gender Doula: supporting individuals and families through gender questioning, exploration, and transition. He works with folks one-on-one and provides full-spectrum support based on individual needs and preferences. He also provides classes, workshops, and resources for anyone who has ever been gendered in this world. He is available for speaking engagements, panels, and consultation. Contact: Based in California |
Doulas, Midwives & Perinatal Care
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My name is El MacIntyre (they/them) and I am a disabled, queer, nonbinary, and neurodivergent birth and postpartum doula operating on the unceded traditional territory of the Lekwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ peoples also referred to as Victoria, BC. my interests include movies, crocheting, gardening, thrifting, art, and music! My goal is to create a safe and inclusive space that honours and centres queer, trans, disabled, and neurodivergent people, and is an actively anti-racist space for Black, Indigenous, and non-white people. As someone who exists at multiple intersections of identities, I find it important that there is a dedicated safe space that not only includes and accepts these families and the communities they are a part of but centres and understands them. I have first-hand experience knowing how important using proper names, pronouns, and inclusive language is, or how to work around accommodations and assist disabled and neurodivergent people. Email (el.macintyre@outlook.com) or www.spectrumdoulaservices.com Based in British Columbia |
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Image description: Alex smiles warmly, their short dark hair falling across their forehead as bangs with the sides of their head shaved. They wear thick gold hoops in their ears, and wear a camo tank top with a black strap to a bag across their chest. Tattoos adorn their bicep. Alex Villalba (they/them & elle/ellx) is a full-spectrum birthworker, certified prison doula, gender transition doula and lactation education specialist. They are trained as a domestic violence counselor and work for a perinatal mental health non-profit in Los Angeles. They are also on track to become an IBCLC and certified peer support specialist. Alex came to this work through lived experience and are committed to being a resource for other queer and trans people looking to grow their families. They provide support in-person and via telehealth in English and Spanish. For inquiries please contact Alex at furrypoutine@gmail.com or via text at +1 945.400.7305 (US) +52 55.1140.7031 (MX). Based in California |
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Image description: Three individuals sit next to one another, smiling warmly at the viewer. To the left, Brooke wears their hair short and is dressed in a jean jacket on top of a black hoodie. Maya sits in the middle, with dark hair falling to her shoulders, wearing a shirt and light pants, covered by a black leather jacket. To the right, Cherie, with her dark hair to her shoulders, wears a light striped shirt with a blue cardigan. Brooke (they, them), Cherie (she/her) + Maya (she/her) BORN Collective is a trio of experienced birth workers providing conscious, client-centered care to Bay Area families throughout the childbearing year and beyond. At the root of our collective practice is belief. We believe that birth is transformative. We believe that birth is sacred and yours alone. We believe that birth is individual and connects us all. We believe in birthing families to make informed choices, the right choices for their body, their baby, and their birth. We believe in your right to be heard. We believe that the way our culture treats birth reflects the way we treat the human condition. We believe in you and your baby. IG: @borncollectivesf Based in California |
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Image description: JD smiles warmly at the viewer, their hair short and framing their face. They wear a bright pink shirt, layered with a bright button up with plant leaves printed on it, as well as a jean jacket donning a few pins. They stand in front of a lush wall of green leaves. JD Davis (they/he), or JD The Queer Doula, is a nonbinary full-spectrum doula in the Los Angeles area. They are passionate about providing affirming, intuitive care to their clients through many perinatal stages. They have a trauma-informed and evidence-based approach to provide the most attentive care possible. In 2021, JD received their Doula Certification through Doula Trainings International, a wonderful organization with a primary focus on reproductive rights and the Slow Doula Method. Their goal as a doula is to instill empowerment, confidence, and informed consent through every stage of pregnancy to postpartum. JD is also a parent to a pretty cool six-year-old kiddo, Jean (she/they), and loves to connect with other trans and nonbinary parents and kids. Website: www.jdthedoula.com Photo by @lex.ryan.shoots Based in California |
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Image description: In a close up picture from the sternum up, Lindsey smiles with their mouth closed and resting their head on their left hand. They are wearing a black tank top, have long blue hair, and tattoos are visible on their right arm and shoulder. They wear dark blue nail polish that matches the color of their hair. Lindsey Oakes LM CPM (they/them), is a queer and nonbinary midwife living on the unceded territory of the Kumayaay People, San Diego, CA. Their midwifery practice includes holistic prenatal/birth/postpartum care, bodywork, breech body balancing, scar tissue remediation, internal pelvic floor work, and reproductive healthcare not solely focused on pregnancy. Lindsey is committed to providing queer and trans affirming care to their community. All of their work is offered on a sliding scale. If you would like to connect with Lindsey, you can find them at: Based in California |
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Image description: Josie stands in the forest with their hands in the pockets of their black jeans. Their shirt depicts a skull with patterns inside. They wear their brown wavy hair long, with bangs across their forehead. They smile warmly at the viewer. Josie Rodriguez-Bouchier L.Ac. (they/them) is a queer, non-binary, Latinx fertility acupuncturist, and Queer Reproductive Health and Justice advocate. Since 2008, they have been supporting folks with wombs to conceive with the help of Traditional Chinese Medicine and other ancient healing modalities. Josie’s mission is to re-center queer, trans, and non-binary BIPGM (aka BIPOC) in the reproductive healthcare realm and beyond. Josie is the host of The Intersectional Fertility Podcast and creator of the Whole Self Fertility Method™. They live on stolen Cheyenne land, colonially known as Lakewood, Colorado, with their wife, two children, and two rescue pups. Website: intersectionalfertility.com Based in Colorado |
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Image description: The founder of Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center smiles warmly at the viewer, wearing a black t-shirt and orange headwrap. Kuluntu Reproductive Justice Center (KRJC) is an organization committed to eliminating the maternal mortality crisis affecting Black families AND the erasure of LGBTQ individuals in birthing spaces by advocating for intersectionality in birthwork. Kuluntu, which means “community” in Xhosa, provides birthwork services and products for families with multiple marginalized identities as well as culturally relevant education and consulting with care providers in order to reduce the birth trauma that affects Black and LGBTQ families. Website: http://kuluntu.center Based in Georgia |
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Image description: Gem sits at a table with books stacked high in the color order of the rainbow. They have bright pink hair, and sit with their palm cradling their face. Gem Kocher (they/them) is a non binary queer feminist* doula based in Berlin, Germany and offering virtual doula care worldwide. They also serve as Lead Educator and Head of Curriculum Development for Doula Trainings International. Gem accompanies folks through pregnancy, birth, postpartum, loss & bereavement, and gender transition with tenderness and love. Their goal is to provide spiritually rooted, trauma informed care to folks in times of great change. Gem regularly hosts doula trainings, courses, workshops and more. Strongly suggest joining their email list where they send out weekly love notes and keep folks updated on offerings. Based in Germany |
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Image description: Ama smiles warmly, their short wavy brown hair falling to their shoulders. They wear glasses and long dangly earrings that are a light orange, as well as a blue denim button up. They are surrounded by lush vines. Ama (they/them) runs the Embodied Reproductive Care Center in Chicago, IL. Ama provides trauma-informed and trans-centered full-spectrum doula services, somatic trauma & stress processing, peer counseling, and childbirth & sex education. Ama is a white, queer & trans, disabled & neurodivergent, fat, survivor of violence in ED recovery, and works from a space of lived experience rooted in these identities. They specialize in working with queer & trans families and survivors of violence. They support all reproductive health outcomes, including fertility journeys, pregnancy loss, abortion, stillbirth, abdominal birth, and pelvic birth. Based in Illinois |
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Image description: Darnicia smiles warmly at the viewer, their dark shoulder-length locs framing their face. She wears a yellow shirt and a hoop in her nose. A tree with yellowing leaves is in the background. Hey, there! 👋🏾 I’m Doula Darnicia (she/they/eve) Our reproductive journeys do not exist independently of social context and constructs, which lends to the injustice and inequity commonly seen in the medicalized prenatal care system. Practicing bodily autonomy while pregnant and giving birth in that system can be difficult; it was designed that way. For birthing people belonging to marginalized groups, additional barriers increase the probability that they will not receive optimal care. That’s WHACK AF. I am a Black and queer birthworker passionate about fostering a culture of autonomy that centers birthing people as the authority of their reproductive experiences — fertility to postpartum (or not being pregnant at all). I use an “all bodies, all cultures, all genders, all births” approach to provide compassionate, safe doula care that honors the full spectrum of identities and intersectionality in each person. I am attentive to your and your support network’s needs, providing compassionate, continuous, customized support that is as unique as you. I am committed to providing in-person and virtual* doula support that advocates, holds space, educates, and trusts the intuition of birthing people. I am your support person, your birth bestie. I do not replace your partner, community, or familial support. I educate, enhance, and encourage them to support you in the ways you direct. My doula care is trauma-informed, intersectional, body-positive, gender-affirming, and deeply committed to harm reduction. I am dedicated to providing evidence-based information, empowering you to problem-solve, and encouraging you to advocate for your rights. Thank you for being here. I am so thankful to share this journey with you! Peace and Blessings, Doula Darnicia 💕✊🏾
Want to know more? Please contact me today. Darnicia, Birth Theory 312-436-2273 IG: @birth.theory Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/birththeorydoula Book a consultation: calendly.com/birththeory/doula
In person support: one hour radius of Chicago, IL Virtual support: globally |
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Image description: Rise smiles at the viewer, wearing their braids up in a top knot with a single strand falling next to their face. They wear large hoop earrings, and a blue shirt donning a floral print. Rise (they/them) is a Black disabled gender fluid femme/bio residing on Objibe, Odawa and Potawatomi land (Chicago). They are a Birth/Postpartum/Grief&Loss/Abortion care worker; meditation facilitator; yoga teacher; gender affirming care,trauma informed care and disability justice educator; and poet. Rise has been a healing practitioner for over 10 years. They are deeply invested in disability justice, access, centering wellness for Black queer and transnb folk, trauma education, and rest. They are equally invested in daydreaming and hanging out with their support pup, Jelly Ferocious Rise started Riotous Roots 1 year ago as a means to house their talents, passions and dreams for their communities in one place. You can learn more about them at www.riotousroots.com. Their Trans and Nonbinary Specific Support Offerings are: – Birth, Postpartum, Abortion and Grief & Loss Care work Based in Illinois |
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Image description: Storm looks over their shoulder, their long brown hair falling onto their black jacket. I’m Storm (they/them/their) and I am a disabled, intersex, & genderqueer birthworker of many hats. I am the volunteer coordinator for the Rape Victim Advocacy Program in Iowa City, a full-spectrum doula, and certified childbirth educator. My birthwork practice is within a sexual assault advocacy organization and centers on working with survivors. My areas of specialization include medical & obstetric violence, birth and postpartum services, trans families, autonomous reproductive healthcare, and abortion. I also have experience in supporting individuals who choose self-managed abortion and pelvic care. I believe that respectful, healing healthcare and births are possible and a right. My passion is helping my clients get the healing they deserve. Here’s my personal listing for services: https://www.badt.directory/iowa/iowa-city/childbirth-educator/storm-o-brink Here’s my organizations web page, which briefly describes services: https://rvap.uiowa.edu/help/doula-services Contact Info: Email: stormy-obrink@uiowa.edu Based in Iowa |
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Image description: Sus smiles warmly at the viewer, wearing a pink beanie covering short brown hair, as well as a pink jacket and a light blue printed scarf. Sus Jones: I am a homebirth midwife, I offer prenatal and postpartum care, labor and birth support, and I also do fertility/preconception counseling and at-home intrauterine insemination. I offer individualized care that centers queer and trans folks and supports people seeking embodied and authentic connection while trying to conceive and throughout pregnancy. I am a queer, trans/non-binary, divorced, single parent. I have two kids that I birthed at home with the support and care of midwives. Though I believe that I have always been queer and trans, it wasn’t quite in my awareness through most of my adulthood. I believe that embodied work and somatic healing that I did throughout both my pregnancies and early parenting helped me to start exploring my queerness and gender identity further. Companion Midwifery and Fertility Services Website: www.companionmidwifery.com Based in Kansas & Missouri |
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Image description: Moss’ face is pulled into laughter, wearing braids, glasses, and a beard. Tattoos cover their arms, and they wear a pink tank with beige pants, as well as a large gold triangular necklace. They sit in front of a large book case. Moss Froom is a nonbinary birth worker and educator living in Baltimore, MD. Moss offers trans and queer centered support services for people at all stages of their reproductive and family building journeys (both virtually and in-person), and teaches other birth workers and healthcare providers how to provide support that’s affirming and celebratory of trans and queer families. www.mossthedoula.com Based in Maryland |
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Image description: Kate wears their dark hair short, with glasses framing their face. They wear a white shirt with a skull on it, as well as black pants. Tattoos decorate their arms. Kate (they/she) is a full spectrum doula and CLC practicing in Southeast Michigan (with virtual support options also available, location non-specific). Kate is queer, gender-nonconforming, and nonbinary. Kate is passionate about protecting transitional life events for everyone – regardless of who they are or the path they take. They really love the feeling of helping to cultivate a safe space for a family to thrive. Based in Michigan |
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Image description: In the top right, Ellyn wears her blonde hair to her shoulders, glasses framing her face. She smiles warmly, wearing a black shirt with a pin. A note to her left identifies her as Ellyn, stating that her specialty lies in ‘Childbirth Education,’ ‘Birthwork,’ and ‘Fertility Support.’ To the bottom left, Shea wears their blue hair to their shoulders. They wear a white tank top with black polka dots, and has tattoos decorating their arms. To their right is a note that identifies them as Shea, stating that their specialty lies in ‘Bodywork,’ ‘Birthwork,’ and ‘Gender Care.’ Hello! I’m Shea. I am a Queer, trans non-binary, white parent working to operate from an anti-racist and decolonizing framework. Ellyn is a queer, white birthworker. We live on Anishinabewaki and Očeti Šakówiŋ land in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area of Minnesota. We work with all families, but center those who carry oppressed identities. We believe in calm, supportive guidance and are dedicated to helping people find the path to the birth they desire with all of the tools and knowledge we have to share. There are no right or wrong choices– only the choices that work best for you. Humor and confident support are the hallmarks of the work we do. We believe that birth can and should be joyful. We are committed to racial and economic justice and believe birthwork is a part of those commitments. We are also deeply invested in supporting the plus size and fat community— your size does not define your birth story! Shea and Ellyn operate Nisse Body and Birth – a two person support team. You can find us at www.nissebodyandbirth.com or email info@nissebodyandbirth.com and we are on Instagram @nissebodyandbirth Based in Minnesota |
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Heritage Soul Insight is a program of Nafasi Center for QTPOC, a resource and social advocacy group serving the US the central South. We provide community care, education, healing, and support services to Black and Brown Queer, Trans and Intersex People of color. Serving Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Illinois. Our website is here: https://heritagesoulinsigh.wixsite.com/heritagesoul Email: heritagesoul.insight@gmail.com Based in Missouri |
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Image description: kuwa jasiri, chest covered in roses, lays comfortably and peacefully with eyes closed. kuwa jasiri Indomela kuwa jasiri (first name) is the founding steward of Authentic Creations Artistic Apothecary, where we offer birth teams, spiritual support and herbal hormone therapy to genderqueer People Of Culture (Of Colour). Over the last decade our grassroots collective care prioritizes mental health, spiritual wellness, ancestral wisdom and zero waste practices. Zines: https://artisticapothecary.org/my-e-zines-free/ Based in New Mexico |
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Image description: Luca smiles warmly at the camera, sitting on a beach with the sun setting in the sky behind them. They have short, dark, curly hair and wear a gray short sleeved shirt with dark shorts. Their septum is pierced. Luca (they/he) is a Xicane trans nonbinary person currently living on unceded Tiwa land in Albuquerque, NM. Luca supports and advocactes for trans and queer people and families through many reproductive experiences, including fertility, pregnancy, abortion, loss, birth and postpartum. They really enjoy connecting and building relationships with the folks they support. www.lucasoliz.com Based in New Mexico |
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Image description: Charlie smiles warmly at the viewer, their long, dark, curly hair falling behind their shoulders. They wear a gold necklace, earrings, and and a floral button up shirt. A large Monstera leaf is in the background. Charlie Monlouis Anderle (they/them) I am an advocate, educator, and companion for people experiencing profound life changes. Some might describe what I do as full-spectrum doula work, but this term has various interpretations and doesn’t fully encompass who I am. I help people make, carry, birth, feed, and raise babies. Aside from growing families, I support my trans and non-binary fam (sometimes beginning as strangers) through our ever beautiful, messy, and miraculous process of becoming ourselves. Sometimes this work involves teaching and lateral mentorship with other birth workers, and sometimes it looks like pouring my heart into a pan of frying plantains and steamy coconut rice. I am a student-midwife, dreaming to one day practice community-centered, gender-affirming primary care in partnership with other queers right here from my home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn–unceded Lenape land. And most importantly, I work how I live: I try to rebel against cis heteropatriarchal capitalist white supremacy by practicing mutual care and interdependence in all relationships, from short-lived interactions to kinships that last many lifetimes. Through my practice, Nourishing Seeds, I offer in-person and virtual support for conception, abortion, pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth and loss, genital and cesarean birth, lactation, postpartum, and gender transition, as well as mentorship for queer and trans birthworkers –all on a sliding scale. www.nourishingseedsdoula.com Based in New York |
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Image description: Ryan wears their long wavy dark brown hair back in a ponytail that falls across their shoulder, the sides of their head shaved. They smile warmly, wearing earrings and a dark blue short-sleeved button up with a small white pattern. City buildings fill the background. Ryan DiMartino (they/them) is a queer, trans, non-binary full spectrum doula based in New York City and Western Massachusetts. Their practice provides care to all experiencing pregnancy, abortion, adoption, and the postpartum period. Their experience as the birth parent of two adopted children drives their practice to center queer families and pregnant people considering adoption, with specialized support to help facilitate sustainable open relationships between birth and adoptive families. They come to reproductive justice work from a background in sex and sexuality education and relationship coaching, striving to nurture justice and joy in all that they do. Contact and more information can be found at www.worldofdifferencedoula.com Based in New York & Massachusettes |
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Image description: Mel has a shaved head and wears a white shirt with a white button up layered on top. Wearing a necklace and large hoop earrings, Mel smiles warmly at the viewer. Mel Graham, originally from Brooklyn, NY, and currently residing in Charlotte, NC. I am a Queer Non-Binary Femme. I am a parent to 3 young adult children and a grandparent to two. I came into birthwork as an extension of my natural healing and teaching gifts. l spent over 30 years working as an assistant in various industries and has always had a yearning for supporting women, femmes, and gender non-conforming persons in all areas of their lives. Weaving my healing skills, teaching skills, and learnings I am able to provide the grounding and listening spirit in a full spectrum way for persons in their postpartum, miscarriage or stillbirth, fertility, abortion as well as Trans Persons transition support. Supporting my fellow BIPOC LGBTIAQ+ tribe members proudly. My website is mpoweredsouls.net Email melinda@mpoweredsouls.net Instagram @mpowerdsouls Based in North Carolina |
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Image description: Ash smiles warmly while standing in the middle of a forest, wearing a dark long-sleeved shirt, a necklace, and earrings. Ash’s hair is dark, wavy, and short. Ash Dasuqi: I’m a Palestinian nonbinary midwife. I teach a queer/trans childbirth preparation class, a curriculum I created after attending many births and giving birth myself. It is a very evidence-based, trauma informed class that centers the trans & queer experience in pregnancy, labor, babyfeeding and postpartum. In addition to everything necessary for birth preparation and safer self-advocacy in home and hospital births, we also discuss hormone therapy, chestfeeding and drying up, inducing lactation, queer divisions of labor, dysphoria in birth, power dynamics in parenting, and much more. Sliding scale and payment plan options available. Based in Ohio |
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Image description: Gab sits on a bench outside in front of a green fence. They smile warmly, wearing a bright blue headwrap, a dark long-sleeved turtleneck shirt, blue jeans cuffed to their shins, black boots, necklaces, and rings. Hi, my name is Gab and I am your queer doula! I am a full spectrum doula and educator who prioritizes support and education for queer and trans community that is sex and kink positive. I help people get informed and feel empowered along their reproductive journey by providing fact based information to make the choices that work. I believe that choice, consent, courage, community and care are the foundation of all reproductive care education. In this space you will learn about the different stages of reproductive health and care though a trauma informed, sex positive and queer lens! @yourqueerdoula they/he/she Based in Ontario |
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Image description: Mary-Dora stands in front of a wooden fence, their short dark hair and face covered by a white veil that falls over their upper body. Mary-Dora (they/them) is a genderfluid, neurodiverse, multi-disciplinary artist, careworker and settler based in Tkaronto. They show up in their communities as a performance artist, birth/postpartum doula, somatic movement facilitator, organizer, peer supporter and writer. Through their experiences navigating disability, resiliency and gender/sexual identity exploration, they are interested in locating and investigating their artistic and birthwork practice through the intersections of care and collective healing. MD provides queer, trans and gender affirming care and engages with healing arts and body-centered practices for a more liveable future, as a method for surviving in late-stage capitalism. Check out their work and offerings at www.somaticpractice.ca or follow them on instagram @somaticpractice (birthwork/somatics) & @crystalwhispurr (artistic/personal). Photo taken by Omar Al-Samadi (IG @abandonedaffair) www.abandonedaffair.com Based in Ontario |
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Image description: Bleu looks off to the distance, wearing their dark hair pulled back. They have a nose piercing and earrings, and wear orange eye shadow. Bleu is a postpartum doula and abortion advocate helping families in the Pacific Northwest. They’re trained on insemination resources for queer families, emotional/informational/in-person support regarding clinic or at home medical abortions, and all things postpartum! Bleu and her partner are currently in the early stages of IVF to try and conceive a family of their own! You can contact her via phone (720) 490-8158 or email bleumoondoula@gmail.com Based in Oregon & Washington |
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Image description: JB smiles warmly at the viewer, dark hair kept short. They wear red heart-shaped glasses and a black t-shirt which reveals a tattoo on their left bicep. Hi, I’m Jenna “JB” Brown (they/he). I’m a full-spectrum doula and community educator, with a passion for pelvises, human relationships, trauma-informed care, and the complexities of justice. With six years of experience as a perinatal professional, as well as prior training and experience in somatics and trauma-informed care, I absolutely love providing support to people in transitional moments, especially those revolving around reproductive health, family building, and gender-and-identity-related experiences. As a trans non-binary person, I am practiced in the art (and awkwardness) of transition, and bring this knowing and compassion to all of my clients and students as they face a variety of thresholds and transformations, including conception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, as well as loss, termination, and surrender. Website: https://loveoverfearwellness.com/ Based in Pennsylvania |
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Image description: Fredrik smiles at the viewer, wearing a long-sleeved grey pullover and glasses. His head is shaved, and he keeps a large orange beard. He cups his face in his hand, his arm sprawled over the side of a blue backrest. My name is Fredrik, my pronouns are he/him and I am a queer fertility- and birthdoula who offers services to people who are trans or non-binary and/or queer on their journey to parenthood. I offer support during assisted reproductive treatments such as. IVF or IUI, but also other aspects of trying to conceive. As a birth doula, I offer support during pregnancy and labour. I speak Swedish, Norwegian, English and some French. My website and social media are all in Swedish (might change). Website: queertility.webbas.se Based in Sweden |
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Image description: Color photo of Angelique in front of a mottled gray tree trunk. They are a medium-toned East Asian person with a buzzed head of black hair, wearing glasses, smiling, looking off to the right. They’re wearing a black wire necklace with silver metal rings looped on it and a black tank dress. As a facilitator, consultant, editor, organizer, and creative, Angelique works to support and repair the connections people have to themselves and their families, communities, and cultural practices. She supports individuals and groups through practical, responsive coaching; trains community and health care workers and educators; and offers lectures, classes, and workshops on topics including the practice of carrying children in fabric close to their caregivers, consent, cultural awareness, community building, relationships, and parenting, in alignment with social, healing, and transformative justice frameworks. Her goal is to seed communities with as much critical thinking, compassion, accountability, and resilience as possible, while helping people get through their days more easily. Angelique values building intergenerationally, with colleagues across disciplines, to question and depolarize the beliefs and practices that can lead to isolation and feelings of powerlessness — to co-create or reclaim ways we can end cycles of violence (systemic, interpersonal, internalized) and promote resilience and healing from historical and social harms. Mobile: 713.899.0655 FB: facebook.com/mumwooga Based in Texas & Virtually |
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Image description: Court wears their blonde hair short, with glasses framing their face. They wear a jean jacket with a pin on it, and cross their arms over their chest. They stand in a field with trees dotting the horizon. Court (they/them) is a witness, space-holder, and supporter for families of all types and in all stages. They have supported birthing families since 2019. Court is passionate about honoring life’s transitions, and they believe that all birthing people deserve compassionate, steady, and informed support throughout their unique reproductive journeys. Court works with a wide range of clients, including folks who identify as queer, polyam, highly sensitive, teens, and fellow caregivers. https://companioncourtney.com Based in Texas |
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Image description: Mel wears their red hair pulled up with the sides of their head shaved, smiling warmly at the viewer with their glasses framing their face. They wear a blue button down shirt with fish printed on it. Mel Kennedy (They/Them) Based in Virginia & Maryland |
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Image description: Alice wears his wavy blonde hair long, his round glasses framing his face. He wears a white shirt with a black jacket. He touches his cheek with the knuckles of his left hand, a watch adorning his wrist. I’m Alice Arden, he/him pronouns. I’m a trans man who works in perinatal-family support and education. A cornerstone of my practice is the idea of intentional parenting, really, intentional living as a whole. I have a deep interest in psychology and emotional wellness that I bring into my support work and education. In a lot of therapeutic work the concept of an emotional “toolbox” is used. It’s my goal in the time I have working with new parents to support them in building their own toolbox they can utilize well after I’m gone. My approach is adaptive to the specific needs of each family I work with, as I believe every family is unique. There is no one-size-fits all in this work. Based in Washington |
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Image description: Cashew smiles warmly at the camera, wearing a brown brimmed hat over their long, wavy, blonde hair. They wear several necklaces, a white v-cut shirt, and a yellow cardigan. My name is Cashew (they, he, she), my practice is Crescent Dream Doula & Photography. I am a queer, gender-fluid, birthworker in Everett, WA. I have been a birth doula serving local low-income & marginalized families for the past 3 years. I value joining you WHEREVER you are at in your journey and providing support in the specific areas that feel most impactful to you. I don’t come with an agenda, I come with an open heart and unconditional support. I believe people should have access to high quality, affirming care that meets not only their needs but goes beyond that so that they feel comfortable, validated, and loved. Based in Washington |
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Sparkwell Health is a Full-Scope Midwifery Care practice in Washington state offering preconception & fertility counseling, contraception, sexual health screenings, prenatal and postpartum education, lactation support, gender wellness care, and more via telehealth with a queer, trans, non-binary healthcare provider Cedar “CE” Durfee, MSN, CNM, ARNP, CLC, CD(DONA), HCHD. Contact information: Washington state: https://www.sparkwell.xyz US & International: https://www.mavenclinic.com/app/practitioner/178079 Based in Washington |
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Image description: A white trans man is sitting on a blue couch holding two babies and smiling. He is wearing a button down shirt sleeved t-shirt and the two infants are swaddled in blue blankets. One baby has a blue pacifier in their mouth. In the background is a bookshelf. The Seahorse Doula is Dylan Pugh MPH, CD (he/him) and located in Seattle Washington. Dylan is a full spectrum doula specializing in gender affirming care and support for people experiencing abortion, miscarriage, prenatal, child birth and loss, as well as supporting and advocating folks through medical visits. Dylan works towards addressing health equity in his work and helping individuals in navigating complex and often oppressive health systems. Learn more about his work at his website; http://www.theseahorsedoula.org Based in Washington |
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Image description: Katy smiles warmly at the viewer, wearing her red hair short and matching with an orange long-sleeve turtleneck shirt. Behind her is a body of water and a cloudy sky. Doula Katy C (she/they) is a birth and postpartum doula serving birthing people and families of all genders, sizes, and configurations in Seattle, Washington. Making your own choices is empowering and great doula support can give you the emotional safety, information, and time to make choices for your body, birth, and baby. They love to share evidence-based resources and hope to invite compassion, curiosity, and physiology into your birth and transition to parenthood. doulakatyc.wixsite.com/doulakatyc Based in Washington |
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Center for Indigenous Midwifery was founded by Rhonda Lee Grantham, an Indigenous Midwife and Herbalist from the Cowlitz Nation. Cowlitz people are a Salish-Sahaptian tribe of SW Washington that translates to “Seeker of the Medicine Spirit.” For over two decades, Rhonda has been actively catching babies and supporting programs within tribal communities, both at home and globally. Rhonda also founded the Canoe Journey Herbalists Project, and when leading both, is guided by her lens as a cultural anthropologist and Native woman; in addition to her passions for global health, family wellness, and culturally-centered care. Website: https://www.indigenous-midwifery.org/ Email: director@indigenous-midwifery.org Based in Washington |
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The mission of Quilted Health is to build and champion a model for equitable access to compassionate, evidence-based, whole-person care. We provide pregnancy care and gynecologic care for people of all gender identities, and our diverse midwife-led care team goes above and beyond what you might expect from other providers. Simon Adriane Ellis, one of our midwives in Washington State, was awarded the 2021 American College of Nurse Midwives “Excellence in Leadership and Innovation Award” for their work advocating for health equity and access to respectful midwifery care for all transgender and non-binary people. You can learn more about Quilted Health – or schedule a free consultation with one of our midwives – by going to www.quiltedhealth.com or calling 1-888-743-7384. Based in Washington |
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Image description: Stevie sits at a table filled with plants. Their short dark hair is pulled back, and glasses frame their face. They smile warmly and wear a white button down shirt with a dark jacket on top. Stevie Norman (they/them/elle): Previous clients have described a warm, calmness about me that helps them feel grounded, and this is exactly the type of environment I intend to cultivate. My approach is to listen to your hopes and fears, meet you where you are at and accompany you on your journey with grace and patience. I draw on my work as a dual language educator and instructional coach to support families in communicating their needs and connecting them with resources and unbiased support. I welcome all families and their configurations, and I intentionally center queer and trans affirming practices in birth work and postpartum support. My passion is in accompanying survivors, queer, trans and gender non-conforming birthing people and their families as they navigate the transformations of pregnancy, birth, and parenting. I provide respectful, collaborative and inclusive care for all families. It is my priority to see, honor and celebrate you fully. I believe in you and your body’s wisdom and needs and support your choices in what is best for you and your baby. IG @stevie_stevonnie Based in Washington |
