Our Story

Before Thrive existed, there was just me: a healthcare professional who thought she knew what to expect.

I had years of experience observing and managing labor and birth. I'd spent countless hours babysitting growing up. I was financially stable, emotionally ready, and completely in love with my partner. By every measure, I was prepared.

And then pregnancy humbled me.

I experienced several miscarriages before a pregnancy finally stuck and when it did, hyperemesis gravidarum made those early months brutal. I labored for 72 unmedicated hours to bring my sweet, stubborn daughter into the world. Two days later, I was sent home still reeling physically and emotionally with a baby and no roadmap for what came next. I didn't recognize my own body. Breastfeeding felt impossible. I felt so unlike myself. I needed help, and I didn't know how to ask for it, or where to turn.

What saved me wasn't a single resource or a perfect plan. It was people. An incredible network of friends and birth workers I discovered along the way people who showed up, who knew things, who helped me figure it out. With their support, I began to thrive. (Yes, that's where the name comes from.)

By the time I added my second, third, and fourth children, the difference was extraordinary. I could feel my community around me at every turn. The transitions were still hard — but I never felt alone in them. That experience changed what I believed was possible for new parents, and it changed what I knew I had to do.

After the pandemic birth of my fourth baby, I made the decision to scale back my clinical hours and build something I wished had existed when I needed it most. I trained as a doula in 2022 and am certified through DONA International. I went on to earn my credentials as a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) through the Academy of Lactation Policy and Practice, and completed my training as an Evidence Based Birth® Instructor — because I love learning, I'm a nerd, and I'm completely unapologetic about it.

In my role as a doula, I specialize in being a calm, trusted presence when things feel overwhelming. I'm good at translating medical language into plain English, cutting through the noise in high-pressure moments, and making sure birthing people have the information and confidence to make the right choices for their bodies and their babies.

Thrive exists because every new parent deserves what I eventually found: a community that shows up, knowledge that empowers, and support that makes the hard parts feel survivable.

5 things for potential clients to know about our founder…

She is a Family Nurse Practitioner with an additional board certification as an HIV Specialist from the American Academy of HIV Medicine.

Her favorite part of my job is building long-term relationships with my clients and watching them flourish.

She has personally given birth 4 times in a variety of situations (birth center, hospital, midwife, doctor, doula, no doula, long labor, short labor, unmedicated labor, epidural, induction, & the pandemic…)

She secretly love being awake in the middle of the night while the rest of the world sleeps. It's when she feels most creative and courageous.

She hates coffee. She does, however, love an ice-cold Diet Coke any time of the day or night (she knows. It’s gross. We all have our vices.)