Meet Katie

Hi There!

I’m Katie! I use they/them pronouns.

My journey to birth work began when I was in college when I started volunteering as a clinic escort at Planned Parenthood. As a queer person, I knew what it felt like to carry the weight of other people’s opinions about my body, my sexuality, my choices.

After graduation, I trained with the DC Doulas for Choice Collective and began providing abortion support to folks at a clinic in Virginia. In holding space for people’s relief, sadness, grief, and all of the other feelings that can come with abortion, I found a calling to supporting folks navigating the transitions of pregnancy and I knew I wanted to bring that same care to birth.

I offer compassionate support, knowledge, and care to pregnant people, birthing people, new parents, and people who have experienced miscarriage, abortion or pregnancy loss. I especially love working with folks who are curious about their bodies and about reproductive processes (grad students, academics, other nerds), people who value embodied knowledge (body workers, yoga teachers/practitioners, folks who listen to their gut), and folks who live outside the box of traditional narratives of pregnancy/birth/parenting (folks building creative family structures, queer and trans folks, other rebels). I also helped launch LGBTQ Birth to build community among queer and trans families and birth workers.

A little bit about my…

​Training

Abortion support trainings with DC Doulas for Choice (November 2015) and the Boston Abortion Support Collective (August 2017)
Birth and postpartum support training with Shafia Monroe through the SMC Full Circle Doula Training in May 2018.
Childbirth educator training through CAPPA in June 2020.

Additional training:
Trauma, Domestic Violence & Resilience Training for Home Visiting & Community Embedded Providers - November 2017
Breastfeeding for Birth Professionals Workshop - February 2019.
Department of Public Health Overdose Prevention Training - April 2019
Spinning Babies for Labor and Birth Workshop - May 2019

Education

I did my undergrad at Brown University, where I studied Computational Biology and Gender and Sexuality Studies. I received my Masters of Social Work from Boston University. Through my social work training, I worked with children and their families living at the intersections of domestic violence and housing instability at the Elizabeth Stone House and served as the perinatal social work intern at Mount Auburn Hospital, providing inpatient social work support and outpatient therapy to people through pregnancy, miscarriage, and postpartum.

I also completed Masters of Divinity at Boston University studying trauma, embodiment, and liberation. As part of my theological training, I completed a unit of clinical pastoral education (a hospital chaplaincy internship) at Brigham and Women's Hospital. I have experience providing spiritual support to people of any or no religious affiliation trying to making meaning out of difficult situations.

I live in JP on the traditional land of the Massachusett people.