.:About the Doula:.

Emily grew up in Barnstable, Cape Cod and after graduation, attended University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She earned a Bachelors of Arts in Psychology and Women's Studies. In 2010, she gave birth to her daughter Lena Rose with the assistance of a doula. She had never considered or been educated about natural childbirth or hiring a doula. Emily had an amazing experience and it motivated her to become a doula herself. Her dream was to work with teen girls and as a labor and delivery nurse, but found doula-ing satisfies both passions.

Emily believes in the transitive powers of childbirth on women and want every woman to have a doula if she wants one and to have the most fulfilling birth and most positive experience. Childbirth is so empowering and humbling at the same time, that to be a part of another's special moment means so much to the doula. Birthing is a spiritual event and women can take back the personal power and innate strength to give birth without excessive and unneccessary medical interventions.

Emily works as a mental health counselor full time and she draws on her experiences in social work and birth work to be successful. She is currently a midwifery student​​ and has dreams of opening a pregnancy and birth services center on Cape Cod.