been an apprentice midwife and is a birth doula, experiences which have significantly enhanced her understanding of the somato-emotional process of preconception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, as did her own journey of becoming a parent. Her professional experience also includes a postdoctoral clinical internship at the Women's Therapy Center (El Cerrito, CA), offered preconception consultations and fertility services at Maia Midwifery & Preconception Services (Berkeley, CA) and At Home Fertility Services (San Francisco, CA), as a reproductive health specialist at Planned Parenthood (Concord, CA), and as a prenatal and postpartum support group facilitator at Blossom Birth Services (Palo Alto, CA) and at the Tulip Grove (Oakland, CA). Additionally, she has led support groups at Bloom Retreat for Mothers and Children (Walnut Creek, CA), at Natural Resources (San Francisco, CA), Our Family Coalition (San Francisco, CA), at BirthWays (Berkeley, CA), and has worked at Then Comes Baby (Oakland, CA).