About Jen

With 10+ years of teaching experience and a Master of Arts in Teaching from Quinnipiac University, Jen pivoted smoothly & dove deeply into the birth world, where she empowers families to navigate all things perinatal. She has developed a unique and effective framework for private birth prep, and she regularly offers Hypnobirthing as an officially certified instructor.

Choosing either of these childbirth education options means LIVE in person or virtual learning with a top notch program and teaching skills that are bound to make the experience engaging, organized, and well worth the investment.

Jen is a certified yoga instructor and well-practiced in guiding individual and group meditation and learning. She completed her certificate in Montessori’s Early Childhood program, and she has a great passion for child development, accommodating neurodivergence, and leading with healthy attachment & conscious parenting. Breath, movement, presence, and witnessing all that ebbs and flows have been at the core of her pregnancies, partnership, parenting, birth work, life, and continued learning.

Through her work as a certified birth doula, she provides compassionate, evidence-based care while supporting families in hospitals, birth centers, or home births, inclusive of all birth preferences and able to meet you where you are in your journey.

After attending 100 births in the last four years, Jen’s passions are clear. She is particularly passionate about all families receiving:
1) quality childbirth education/ having access to an educational offering beyond the hospital setting, and

2) guidance during their prenatal preparations that empowers and alleviates layers of engrained fear & anxiety.

HOW JEN SUPPORTS: She focuses on honoring, witnessing, and providing full presence during a life-altering transformation for your family. Jen is a firm believer that the birther’s nervous system, baby’s position in utero, and your family’s choice of birth team will impact the way the process is felt and experienced. Working with Jen means working to strengthen your understanding of which of the aforementioned elements need more energy and attention. She uses an empathic approach to support families. She asks a lot of questions to encourage deep reflection- inviting an understanding of what core values your family would like present in the birth space. She provides evidence-based information, practices, and techniques to help support your family’s decision-making from your prenatal to your postpartum journey. Jen believes with the right support and resources, labor & birth can be healing. She encourages clients to have active & open communication with their providers and birth team to make informed or intuitive decisions with the birther’s voice centering the experience.

WHO JEN SUPPORTS: Jen supports ALL types of desired birth experiences and outcomes. Jen believes in the process of birth, and she also believes in modern medicine as a set of tools to support when needed or desired. Jen is proud to support all families with a variety of configurations, all cultural backgrounds, all religious preferences, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ community. Jen is particularly skilled at supporting people with anxiety around the perinatal process. As a white cisgender female, she is committed to learning more about policy change efforts in maternal healthcare. She is an educator, social work grad student, and parent who continues to explore ways in which racist and sexist policies and practices are deeply engrained in the healthcare system. Jen aims to be an advocate for social change through birth work and education, and she is eager to keep learning.