Amanda has apprenticed and trained under traditional midwives and herbalists from Eastern Europe, Washington State, and Hawaii, as well as elders and teachers from our own province of British Columbia.

Aside from being a doula, Amanda has worked as a midwife assistant for homebirths, a graphic designer, and has developed courses for doulas and prenatal yoga instructors.

Amanda has a passion for mentoring new doulas and for creating community-based motherhood support groups.

Mothers need mothers.

Doula
Herbalist
Photographer
Holistic Birth Educator
Doula Mentor

I became fascinated with birth after I became a mother at the age of 20. It was 2001 and I was living in Victoria, BC. My doctor’s office was in her house, my friends were having homebirths and encapsulating their placentas, and I learned what a doula was that year.

Birth felt like a big deal and no big deal all at once. It was organic and natural, yet it had the power to transform the woman who was giving birth, and the witnesses that supported her. I had felt like a lioness after giving birth to my daughter. It was a hospital birth and there were no ceremonies or placenta pills, but I felt complete and powerful, something we all need when our motherhood begins.

When I had my second baby, I was able to have the homebirth I had wanted so badly, and I became a homebirth evangelist, surely annoying my pregnant friends. By the time I was pregnant with my third, I had gotten the birth work bug and decided to combine my herbalist practice with being a doula. Seventeen years (and five kids of my own) later my relationship with being a doula has evolved in many ways. Yet, I still desire to support women in their own process of becoming their most powerful selves so they can see
how strong they really are.