Directory of Birth & Postpartum Doulas

Cherie Seah
she/her/they/them
Peranakan Chinese Singaporean
Oakland, Serving the Bay Area
Cherie Seah is one of the Co-Founders of Asian Birth Collective & is very passionate about supporting Queer and BIPOC folks through their birth journey. They are also a birth photographer, birth and post-partum doula, specilizing in traditional Chinese yuezi & confinement postpartum practices.

Keelia Alder
she/her/they/them
Serving the Bay Area
Keelia Alder is co-host of the podcast, Doula Stories, and also runs a birthworker mentorship circle with Brooke Patmor on the Birthbruja platform. She's also a doula, childbirth educator, birth photographer and provides breastfeeding/chestfeeding support, infant sleep, baby-wearing and cloth diapering education.
Siobhan Norris
she/they
Serving the Bay Area
Siobhan offers pregnancy, birth, & postpartum care; loss support; traditional Filipino/Visayan nourishment. "I hold certificates in Birth & Labor, Fullspectrum, Homebirth, and Survivor support from Cornerstone and remain committed to expanding my toolkit so I can provide inclusive, informed, and individualized care for all people."

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Myra Julian
she/her
Serving Oakland, Alameda County
Myra is a postpartum doula and a placenta encapsulator.
"I believe there is no correct way to parent, & that good communication, consistent guidance and a positive attitude make a tremendous difference into your first steps into parenthood. And that each parent has a rare intuitive quality that needs to be cultivated through observation and encouragement."

Shalini Shah
she/her
Serving the Bay Area
Shalini Shah is a prenatal educator, lactation counselor, and a full spectrum doula. Shalini is the owner of 'Due Dates' and 'BIPOC in the Bay.'

Sneha Bentley
she/her
Serving the SF East Bay Area (Alameda and Contra Costa counties)
https://sites.google.com/view/birthworker-sne
Sneha is a queer, Tamil/Thamizh-American gestational worker. She seeks to center the consent and pleasure of everyone she works with, and is so excited to meet you in this space!

Crystal Michelle
she/her
Serving Coast Miwok Territory (Marin County) and Ohlone Territory (East Bay)
Email: crystalmichelle.birth@gmail.com
(310) 755-4334
Crystal is a full-spectrum birth & postpartum caregiver who loves to serve families during the transformational journey of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Her care is steeped in traditional, cultural, wisdom integrated with evidence-based research, creating a holistic framework that meets each family's unique needs.

Aimi Gallego
Vietnamese American, she/her
Based in Grass Valley, CA
Aimi D. Gallego is the Co-Founder of Asian Birth Collective. Aimi is a photographer, birth doula, pre-natal yoga instructor and prospective mindfulness-based childbirth and parenting (MBCP) teacher.

Sonha Nguyen
she/her
Serving East bay, South Bay, San Francisco
Mindfulbirthcoach.business.site
Sonha is a birth doula and offers prenatal sessions, birth planning, Huna energy work and mental emotional release.
"I am an energy worker who is so excited to be working as a birth supporter. I’m someone who lives to give back to my roots."

Sheryll Randazzo
Filipina, she/her
Based in San Francisco, CA
https://himaladoulaservices.com/
I am a Mama of 4 supporting families through pregnancy, labor, and birth in the San Francisco Bay Area. I had such a positive home birth experience that it inspired me to do this work.

Masako Yura
Japanese, she/her
Serves Bay Area
I am Japanese birth and Postpartum doula. I support and empower women during the pregnancy birth, postpartum, and beyond.

Angie Park
Korean American, she/her
Serving Los Angeles & Orange County
Angie Park is a Co-Founder of Asian Birth Collective, a birth doula and a prospective childbirth educator. Birthwork intersects with her deep interest in the history of Asian/Korean womyn, Korean diaspora and birth-rites. She also has a deep passion for food sovereignty/justice & plant medicine.

Tia Stark
she/her
Serving Los Angeles
Tia Stark is a birth and postpartum doula, a childbirth educator and provides both placenta encapsulation and reiki services

Bianka May
she/her
Serving Inland Empire/San Bernardo County
"I focus on "extended postpartum and parenthood support" as a doula. After the newborn stage, I can continue to offer the same parent-focused support until children are about 5 years old if requested."

Supinda Sirihekaphong
she/her
Serving Morongo Basin (29 Palms, Joshua Tree, Morongo Valley, Yucca Valley)
Supinda is a first-generation Thai-American full spectrum doula and yoga guide committed to supporting folks rediscover their powers to heal and create a happy and healthier life for themselves and others.

Junko Watanabe Ziemba
she/her
Serving Los Angeles/Orange County
I am a Postpartum Doula, Lactation Educator Counselor and a Malaysian-style Postnatal Practice Provider. I am a Japanese immigrant mama of 2 who love cooking, bellydance, and making art!

Michelle Brenhaug
she/her
Serving Los Angeles
I am a Japanese American mother of 2 and I am very passionate about every birthing person having emotional and physical support during labor.

Karen Try
she/her
Serving Los Angeles/Long Beach
I am a full spectrum birth worker currently serving the Los Angeles area. I strive and thrive to always center anti-racist, intersectional, inclusive, trauma-informed, and accessible care in my practice and life.

Victoria Pacheco Ingram
she/her
Serving South Bay, Los Angeles, CA
www.comadrepostpartumdoula.com
I am a postpartum care provider, educator, and movement guide who offers support, nourishment, and ceremony to help folks heal and feel exalted in the sacred postpartum time. I am honored to be able to hold space for them to feel heard and to re-member their wholeness.

Megan Michiko
she/her
Serving San Diego County
I am a Traditional Queer Full Spectrum Birthworker with a passion to support families through their reproductive years. I have a passion for holistic care to support the whole body and family.

Joyce Dykema
she/her
Serving Lincoln, Nebraska
Joyce is a birth doula, Evidence Based Birth®️ Instructor, childbirth educator, and community breastfeeding educator. She has been working with birthing families in the Lincoln, NE area since 2009.

Janel Feliz Martir
she/her
Serving Brooklyn, Manhattan
I am a Asian-American NYC-based senior professional birth practitioner who specializes in providing evidence-based and compassionate support to birthing people. I have attended over 140+ births in the US and abroad, and have an extensive background in clinical obstetrics and global maternal health.

Marnellie Bishop
she/her
Serving Portland, OR and virtual
I am a wife, mother and birth and parenting advocate. I celebrate the individual and the role they play within their community.
Marnellie is a Birth and Postpartum Doula, Virtual Doula, Childbirth Educator.

Anna Balagtas
she/her
Serving Toronto, Durham Region + GTA
I’m a queer Filipina full spectrum birthworker. My practice is rooted in radical care and queer reproductive justice. I believe in providing gender affirming and trauma informed care for all folks in their reproductive journeys.

Karena Dang
Serving Edmonton, Alberta & surrounding areas 1 hour away
I’m a queer Filipina full spectrum birthworker. My practice is rooted in radical care and queer reproductive justice. I believe in providing gender affirming and trauma informed care for all folks in their reproductive journeys.

Katherine Shing-Siu Lee
she/her
Serving Seattle
I am a steward of the sacred 4th Trimester/ Golden Month. I nurture the whole family and help ease this time so parents can be present to bond with their baby.

Hana Lehmann
she/they
Serving Greater Philadelphia Area (includes NJ)
Hana is a full-spectrum doula, birth photographer, childbirth educator, and founder of a local birth equity fund. She loves beekeeping, finding the best donuts, and cooking "too much" food for meals with friends.

Heather Gallagher
she/her
Serving Burlington, VT and surrounding cities
Heather is Chinese American & is fluent in English & ASL.
Services: Birth, postpartum, abortion, gender affirming and death doula care. I am also a birth, family and death photojournalist.
"I live at many intersections (Asian American, bi racial, CODA (Child of Deaf Adult), daughter of a refugee and immigrant). I care deeply about disrupting systems of oppression and providing compassionate, non judgemental care to folks in all stages of life."