Meet the Team at the Harmony Doula Group

Birth & Postpartum Doula Trainer, Birth & Postpartum Doula, Childbirth & Lactation Educator, Midwife's Assistant, Certified Aromatherapist, & Placenta Encapsulation Specialist

Teri leads our childbirth education series, mentors our apprentices, and is the coordinator of the birth team. She is an approved trainer and certified Birth and Postpartum Doula (DONA International), Lactation and Childbirth Educator (ICEA), Midwife's Assistant, professional Aromatherapist, and has a PhD from Stanford University. Read more about Teri, her extensive experience, and childbirth philosophy here.

Birth & Postpartum Doula

Jessica is our lead Birth Doula, and received her DONA-approved training through Teri. Her path to doula work wasn’t a straight line. It grew out of 13 years as an early childhood educator, some time in nursing school, and a lifelong love of teaching and caring for others. Doula work brought all of that together.

Jessica has a natural instinct to support and nurture and brings warmth, calm, and steady presence into the labor space, and she loves helping families feel confident and informed about birth and newborn care. Becoming a first-time mom herself in 2025 only deepened that connection. She understands the uncertainty, the exhaustion, and the beauty of those early weeks firsthand, and she brings that lived experience into how she support our clients. I live in Martinez with my family, and I’d be honored to be part of your birth story.

Jessica's goal as a doula is to support families by helping them navigate all the various information, guide them to trusted resources, educate them on physiological birth and postpartum recovery, help them make a birth and postpartum plan, encourage them advocate for themselves, support them mentally, physically, and emotionally, prepare them for early parenthood, and bring their birth and postpartum vision into reality.

Jessica is enrolled as a member Ponca Tribe of Nebraska and has many years of experience with first-time parents, single-by-choice parents, LQBTQ+ families, high-risk pregnancies, and BIPOC families.

Birth Doula, Childbirth Educator

Kat is certified as a Birth Doula (DONA International), a childbirth educator (ICEA), and Perinatal Mental Health (PSI) and has additional training in trauma-informed care and Evidence-Based Birth Practices.

She is a strong advocate for the rights of birthing people, and firmly believes that each birthing person deserves to know and understand their options, and choose for themselves what is best for them and their baby.

Kat believes that evidence-based childbirth education is the foundation of a positive birthing experience and envisions a world where everyone giving birth has access to the tools and information they need to choose what is best for them.

She provides an optimistic and grounding presence in the birth room.