Birth Doulas

Brenda recently moved to Seattle, WA 2 years ago, she is originally from Los Angeles, Ca.  Brenda is married to her high school love and has 4 children she enjoys spending time with her family. Brenda loves creating a village-like community anywhere she goes. She understood the need to be culturally responsive and trauma-informed in how she cares for and serves families. Brenda has a heart for encouraging, empowering, and educating BIPOC families with holistic wellness practices and community resources that tend to be inaccessible to them in their communities.

Caellyn Everson (She/Her) is a PNW transplant by way of the Midwest. She came to birthwork in 2014 after years of ignoring the call to this work. She is an active community member and builder, social & reproductive justice activist. small business owner, lactation counselor, full spectrum birth doula & postpartum care provider. Caellyn is a practiced soaker up of people’s stories, deep listening and hearing the unsaid and, a wee bit of a mama bear. She likes to spend her time nesting, cooking and crafting and finds herself so comfortable with “making do” or thinking outside the box to get the job done. Her website is www.heldinarms.com.

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.

www.crescentdreamdoula.com
Crescentdreamdoula@gmail.com
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Courtney comes to Open Arms as a birth doula with much gratitude and a passionate commitment in assisting healthy birth outcomes within her community. Also as a licensed social worker, Courtney has an extensive background of supporting and advocating for families from many diverse backgrounds. Outside of birth work, Courtney is a children’s grief counselor and enjoys spending time with family and friends, lifting heavy weights, and tap dancing the night away.

Damarria Davis is a Full Circle Doula and Lactation Peer Counselor. She is the mother of five children, who very definitively represent the melanated rainbow, and the great, great-granddaughter of Sarah Presley, a midwife from South Carolina who caught more than 50 percent of the babies in her town along with neighboring areas. She channels her ancestors in her practice and leads with intent by following the African American Midwifery Model of Care.

Finding passion in medicine, Damarria knew she wanted to be in women’s health in some capacity. Upon completion of her nursing degree, she was confronted with her own perinatal experiences, leading to an unwavering passion in advocacy for equitable maternal care and support for all pregnancy outcomes and birthing options.

The prevalence of disparities in maternal care is evident in the United States. Both bias and scarcity of resources amongst the Black community are contributing factors. Black people deserve unyielding advocates and support always, but especially in labor. For this reason, Damarria is committed to dismantling structural racism in maternal medicine by allocating resources to the community and addressing health equity to ensure Black people receive adequate care.

My Name is Ela Tinoco-Herrera, and I have an associate degree in Early Childhood Education, with an emphasis on Infants and Toddlers. Additionally, I have 8 years of experience volunteering and working as an activist and community organizer with One America, Casa Latina/Mujeres sin Frontera, Para Los Niños, and The Arc of King County.

Now, I am excited to bring my passion and knowledge into my journey as a Community-based Doula and to work at Open Arms beside its wonderful team of dedicated and kind professionals that inspire me. I have three children, two grandchildren, and the human mom of Chester, an adopted poodle of 8 years old. We love spending time in nature and traveling through The States.

Hayley McKie (she/they) everyone deserves to feel cared for during the transitional and impactful moments in their life! I am a certified full-spectrum doula, supporting families through pre-conception, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, abortion, loss, adoption, and surrogacy.

My goal is to be a reassuring, calm, down-to-earth presence, helping ease your transition into a new family. As a queer person, I came to birthwork to advocate for birthing people of all genders and family structures. My belief is that YOU are the expert in yourself – my role as a doula is to support you physically, and emotionally, and in advocating for your wants and needs. I also love supporting partners and anyone else who finds themself “born” into a new role, ensuring the whole family feels nurtured!

Jin Moon (they/them) is an herbalist, birth worker, and writer from Lenape lands (New York) and who is now living on Puyallup lands (Tacoma WA). They believe deeply that supporting our own and each other’s healing creates conditions for healthier communities. They show love by making soup, eating soup, and offering soup to the people around them. You can check out more of their work at Grounded Hearts Apothecary (groundedheartsapothecary.com).

Inspired by my own amazing birth experiences and the transformative journey into motherhood, I have been deeply passionate about supporting Seattle area families during their childbearing year these last 7 years. 

My work is an extension of my personality, rooted in empathy, understanding, and a belief in the innate strength of parents. By gently providing fact-based information, I aim to remove the unknown, allowing families to embrace the journey with confidence and joy.

I am a born caretaker and Mother of 4 who brings a wealth of knowledge which I’ve learned by raising own children over the last 20 years, and in one way or another supporting many children and families within the community. I am no stranger to community and village work as I have coached and been director over drill teams and cheer squads that perform throughout the greater Seattle area for over 22 years. I completed my CMA at Bryman college back in 2004 continuing to work as a Certified Medical Assistant supporting a very diverse population. I trained as a Doula with Shafia Monroe Full Circle Doula Consulting, where I’ve obtained a great deal of African ancestry traditions and birth knowledge from the African diaspora. Birth work has been something I have been doing for many years and am very passionate about. My goal is to educate, eliminate anxiety, and bring forth the best birth experience while helping you prepare spiritually, mentally, and physically. I provide personalized unbiased and non-judgmental encouragement. My zeal for birth work has pushed me to further my education by taking a placenta encapsulation course. As an African American woman, I believe in passing along tradition while teaching our history. I have a great interest in working with teen mothers as I myself was a teen mother and was able to overcome many obstacles.

I am a full spectrum holistic doula and midwife birth assistant; I found my passion for birth work growing up supporting women in my family through their pregnancies/births, then later as I studied black maternal health and the mortality rate of black birthers. My activism is the foundation of my birth work. I believe in advocacy, empowerment and education while helping birthers along with their families make informed decisions for their experience. My specialties are spirit/energy work for parents and babies, perinatal yoga + meditation, breathwork, and herbal preparations! My mission centers your desires/needs for your birth experience around your whole being along with my use of traditional divination workings. You deserve to have your mind, body and spirit cared for the whole way through. You will feel loved in my care. 

I completed the doula training through the Bastyr University Simkin Center for Allied Birth Vocations. I have been working with first-time parents, parents with multiple children, parents who want a vaginal birth or cesarean, and those who seek unmedicated birth or want to use pain medication in their birth. As a birth doula, my goal is to help and support parents through education, advocating, coaching, and nurturing a mom-to-be throughout the pregnancy and birth. I am pleased to work with my clients to maintain a sense of comfort and control on them through different relaxation techniques during birth. Throughout my experience, I enjoyed being the bridge for mothers to create a memorable birthing process.

I have always been drawn to the birthing world and all things having to do with babies. I have provided birth support to friends and family for twenty plus years. With a background in healthcare, I am blessed to transition my career to birth work full time. Love, kindness, respect and equity guide my approach and I am dedicated to helping improve outcomes. 

I’m from Colombia and came to the USA in 2018. After I had my baby, I decided to become a doula in 2023, and I saw how important it is to have one by your side. I live to serve the community, and that was the best decision I have ever made. I’m happy to keep growing on this path.