Meet The Experts
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Birth Doula
Hilary with Momentum Birth Coaching is a birth doula and coach.
“My ideal clients are expecting parents who want to feel less anxious and more confident, prepared, and empowered for their birth experience. They may feel worried about labor and postpartum and are looking for personalized support, education, and guidance. I’m here to provide the support you need, no matter what your ideal birth looks like!”
She takes Kaiser and private pay patients.
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Birth Doula
Ashley Gerhard is a birth and business doula who supports women through the moments that change everything—pregnancy, postpartum, and building a life or business that actually feels like them. As the founder of Phoenix Transformations Birth & Business Coaching, she blends trauma-informed care, nervous system regulation, psychology, and yoga-based embodiment to help women feel deeply supported, steady, and seen.
If you want someone who can hold your birth plan or your big dreams, Ashley is that person. She offers childbirth education, prenatal and postnatal yoga, placenta encapsulation, intuitive coaching, and strategic guidance for women growing families and businesses.
Not local or not seeking in-person care? Ashley created a powerful online birth preparation program that delivers her holistic, grounded support in a way every woman can access.
Use Little Seeds Families Code: LSF-ASHLEY for 10% off.Ashley accepts Kaiser, Carrot, and private pay.
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Birth Doula
Desiree a birth doula providing pregnancy and labor support. She offers childbirth education classes and various workshops on topics pertaining to birth preparation and early parenthood. She works primarily with expecting families, including BIPOC, LGBTQ+, VBACs and home births.
“My ideal client is holistically minded and wants to be actively and mindfully involved in their care through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum”.
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Birth Worker
Allison with Bay Area Birth Worker is a holistic birth & postpartum doula & Birth Story Medicine® Listener. She is here to witness & celebrate you in your rite of passage. Allison offers personalized birth doula support for your unique birth journey & traditional mother-centered daytime postpartum care. Her hope is that you will feel seen, honored & supported so that you & your family thrive.
She takes Carrot & private Pay
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Chiropractor/ Functional Health/Lactation IBCLC
Kara with the the Well Chiropractic in Danville wears many hats. Chiropractic and lactation support
Chiropractic: Prenatal, postpartum & pediatric care
Pregnancy: Webster certified, Sciatica, round ligament pain, Pubic symphysis dysfunction
Postpartum: Diastasic Recti & C-section scar rehab
Pediatric: Colic, constipation, torticollis, flat head syndrome, tongue/lip tie pre/rehab
Lactation services: prenatal consults, pumping consults, postpartum visits, therapeutic ultrasound for clogged ducts/mastitis
She will send a Super Bill to your insurance and is HSA/FSA eligible.
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Massage Therapist
At her Lafayette brick-and-mortar location, Ajeet offers a range of holistic bodywork and wellness services, including the Arvigo® Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy for reproductive and digestive health, Feldenkrais® for Babies and Children to support natural movement and development, as well as Marma Point Therapy, Deep Tissue Massage, Cupping, and other therapeutic modalities.
As a Full Spectrum Doula, Ajeet also provides mobile massage during early labor. Every doula package includes a Maya Abdominal Massage session, empowering women with tools and education to support fertility, uterine health, and overall well-being.
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Mental Health- Child
Anna specializes in working with children ages 2–12 using play therapy and expressive arts modalities. These developmentally appropriate approaches help children express emotions, process experiences, and build coping skills in a safe, supportive environment. They also offer family therapy, parent therapy, parent workshops, early childhood mental health consultation, Social skills groups and art processing groups.
“our ideal client may be: Parents of children ages 2–12 who are noticing emotional or behavioral challenges, and are looking for child therapy that honors the child’s developmental stage. Families with children up to 14 navigating relationship dynamics, transitions, or stressors that benefit from family-based, play-oriented therapy.”
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Mental Health- Couples Therapy
Tali specializes in couples therapy for new and expecting parents, helping partners strengthen their connection and navigate the many changes that come with parenthood. Her supportive eight-week program is designed specifically for this stage of life, offering tools for communication, teamwork, and emotional closeness. In addition to individual and couples sessions, she has created engaging workshops that foster connection and growth, which she would be thrilled to offer you.
“My ideal clients are couples who are expecting or within the first year postpartum. I would also love to work with individual adults and couples in any stage too but my offerings for new and expecting parents are unique.”
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Mental Health- Trauma Informed
Amanda provides individual, dyadic, and family therapy to support people through the journey to parenthood, from preconception and pregnancy to postpartum and early parenting. Her work includes supporting those navigating fertility challenges, loss, typical and high-risk pregnancies, postpartum mood changes, and early relational concerns.
I work with clients across the perinatal period, including those navigating NICU experiences, birth trauma, or mood changes. My relationship-based approach integrates each person’s cultural values, family stories, and lived experiences, including trauma, and I support parents and parents-to-be in understanding how their histories shape their identities, expectations, and challenges as caregivers.
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Mental Health- Mother's
Jillian provides psychotherapy for moms - and is certified in perinatal mental health. Beyond the perinatal period, she is an advocate of maternal mental health and see mothers with kids of any age. She commonly works with anxiety, processing birth experiences, and identity shifts.
“My ideal client is a new or new again mother who is embracing and wrestling with her new identity as a mother or a mother to multiple. There is many layers of grief experienced in motherhood and I love creating space to identify and process this. I take a full system approach - both the system of parts with the individual as outside: family, societal, etc.”
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Mental Health- Perinatal
Kate with Oak Wellness Therapy provides Individual therapy for adults. Perinatal mental health certified (PMH-C) for specialized work with pregnancy and postpartum moms.
“Pregnant, postpartum, and moms are my favorite population to work with. I also enjoy working with adults on managing boundaries, self-worth, perfectionism, transitions, anxiety and depression.”
She takes insurance and Private pay clients.
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Midwives
Kathryn & Angela offer midwifery care, including homebirth and well‑person care.
We offer full-spectrum midwifery services that support you through all phases of reproductive life — from health and wellness checks outside of pregnancy (well‑person care), through prenatal care, childbirth (including homebirth), and postpartum follow-up.“Our ideal client is low risk pregnant clients desiring a home birth or low intervention birth.”
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Pelvic Floor PT
Natalie, founder of Empower Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy provides pelvic floor physical therapy services to women physically navigating ANY phase of life. This most commonly includes women in the prenatal, pregnancy, or postpartum phases, as well as moms with older kids struggling with chronic pain. She helps moms manage pain (pelvic pain and full body) as well as bladder, bowel and digestive changes (commonly leakage, constipation, and acid reflux). She prioritizes educating her patients on their unique anatomy and help them understand and prepare for the changes to come through trimesters, labor, and delivery.
“My ideal client is any woman wanting to prepare for pregnancy or navigating motherhood, while preventing or relieving any pain along the way.”
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Pelvic Floor PT
Adrienne the founder of Women’s Root Wisdom, provides traditional and holistic pelvic floor physical therapy for women navigating pregnancy, postpartum, and the journey into motherhood. Serving women throughout the East Bay at her Walnut Creek Office.
Their work focuses on supporting women who are preparing for pregnancy, currently pregnant, or recovering postpartum. Through a blend of evidence-based and holistic approaches, they help women address pelvic pain, full-body discomfort, and changes in bladder, bowel, or digestive function.
“My ideal client is anyone planning for pregnancy, currently pregnant, or navigating postpartum—seeking support, relief, and confidence in her body at every step.”
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Postpartum Concierge
Claire, Owner of Nurtured by Claire provides personalized postpartum concierge care for new mothers and families. Services include in-home and virtual support with recovery after childbirth, newborn care guidance, emotional wellness check-ins, breastfeeding support, and help transitioning from hospital to home—especially for those recovering from high-risk or complicated births.
“My ideal clients are people who are seeking compassionate, expert support during the postpartum period. Those who value trusted, professional care from someone with clinical experience as a postpartum nurse.”
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Sleep Consultant
Kriselle Farrales is a Pediatric Registered Nurse and Certified Pediatric Sleep Coach specializing in newborns to school-aged children.
“My ideal clients are any families struggling with their child's sleep! My goal is to help parents implement strategies that support the natural development of their baby's sleep patterns and foster healthy sleep habits, respecting the baby's individual needs and temperament.”
HSA/FSA eligible with e medical note from your Dr.
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Speech Therapist
Kaleigh is a speech therapist with Speech SF. They provide in-home parent coaching (Lamorinda only) and speech therapy services for children aged 18 months through elementary school.
“My ideal clients are Lamorinda parents looking to learn how to boost their child’s speech and language development at home, whether or not their child is in speech therapy.”