Founder of SONDERBIRTH®

I didn’t set out to become a somatic birth doula. I’ve spent years moving between worlds—academic and intuitive, corporate and creative, Western and ancestral—always sensing that birth was never just a clinical event, but a mirror of something far deeper.

Like many women, my own births opened something ancient and electric in me. They restructured my body and spirit in ways no book or training could have prepared me for. In the quiet hours of postpartum, in the nonlinear waves of grief and awe, in the adrenaline and chronic cortisol release of an unexpected 9-month NICU stay — birth is an opening, revealing, and always leading you to a new women to meet in the mirror.

Honoring the vivid and complex became the foundation for Sonderbirth™, and later mapped the framework for The Unfolding Method™—a somatic, archetypal approach to birth that centers the nervous system, the unconscious, and the body’s inner intelligence. In 2023 I developed Birth Constellations™ using what I call the sonder spiral, a map of the emotional and relational imprints surrounding a woman before labor even begins—revealing that how we birth is how we live, and how we live is reflected in how we birth.

This work is about turning towards oneself and tending to the unseen so that we can birth fully present and with the rhythm of our essential nature.

I’ve walked with hundreds of women through this terrain—offering tools that support coherence in the body, self-trust in the unknown, and reverence for the full spectrum of human experience. Beyond birth, I teach somatic and emotional literacy to high school students through the Upward Bound program, where we explore what it means to feel safe, seen, and empowered in one’s own skin.

What I’ve learned, whether in a birth room, a classroom, or my own inner landscape—is that healing doesn’t come from fixing, it comes from witnessing, from honest conversations with yourself, and from attunement. From loving what’s been exiled. From remembering we are never separate from the sacred. We are all uniquely viviv, complex beings with stories to tell.

This is the heart of my work.