Born in London, England, I have worked with children and families all my life – as a nanny, a teacher, a counselor and, for the past five years, as a birth and post partum doula. All that experience (and my own as a parent) has made me aware of how our future relationships with our children are determined from the very beginning. It is my belief that a happy, stress-free and fulfilling birth experience is the very best start to confident parenting and a rich family life.

I started my work life as a private nanny before training to become an AMI Montessori pre-school teacher, then moved on to take an MA in Counseling Psychology and work as a School Counselor. At the same time I was raising my own two children. The more I saw of family relationships the more interested I became in the very beginnings of those relationships. In 2015, I trained as a doula through Contra Costa Regional Medical Center and Childbirth International. I have a special interest in teen pregnancy, Surrogate birth and LGBTQ families.