Learning to track my own menstrual cycle in 2011 sparked something in me that led me down an important path of both fascination for bodies and how they work, and anger for the lack of inclusive & accessible information around these topics.

I initially came to care work in 2012 through my training in the Fertility Awareness Method and have taught hundreds of individuals how to track their ovulation in order to get pregnant, avoid pregnancy, and / or to feel more connected to their body & cycles. This work naturally lent itself to curiosities pregnancy (and it’s many outcomes) and in 2016 I started training as a full spectrum doula. I’ve supported individuals & families through 100+ pregnancies and have witnessed many different types of experiences, including: hospital birth, home birth, high risk pregnancies, inductions, planned & unplanned cesareans, breech babies, miscarriages, medication & in-clinic abortions, navigating the medical system as a trans / non-binary person, and pregnancy loss (to name a few).

Supporting someone through birth isn’t so different from supporting someone’s nervous system healing—they both involve holding curiosity about what will happen next, providing education about the body, and staying present to someone else’s experience in the moment.

My work as an educator & doula also got me curious about other systems in the body—specifically the nervous system. I found TRE (Tension / Trauma Release Exercises) through my own experience with anxiety and in 2021 trained as a TRE Provider and in 2023 started training as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (in progress). I’m particularly interested in working with people who have experienced birth or other medical trauma as well as people who work within the medical system, but I also believe that anyone who is curious about connecting with their body can benefit from these tools.

Everyone deserves information about their wise & weird body!

In addition to birth work & somatic work, I also love to make things and have written dozens of zines (pronounced “zeens”)—handmade, self published booklets on body-related topics. I like to make complicated topics easily digestible & fun for my students and clients. In many ways, the zines I make are the resources I wish I would have had as a young person and adult learning about my body.

My work is gender expansive & trauma-informed—in addition to these important frameworks I also try to bring humor, compassion, spirituality, and an awareness of current events to the work I do. I also enjoy sitting at coffee shops, biking around Madison, watching Twin Peaks with my partner, eating delicious food, hanging with my neighbors, sleeping late, futzing around my 100 year old house, and snuggling with my animal companions.