Credentials, Skills, & Trainings

  • Parent & Partner

  • Artist & Creator

  • Midwife & doula - both for birth and death, depending on the day

  • Breastfeeding Educator

  • Childbirth Education

  • Birth Art facilitator

  • Birthing from Within Mentor

  • Trauma Informed Care

  • Mindfulness

  • AFPA Pilates Fitness Instructor

  • Solution-Focused Dialogue



Certifications and Memberships

Giving Austin Labor Support co-founder & community activist

American Midwifery Certification Board

Texas Board of Nursing

American College of Nurse-Midwives

American Holistic Nursing Association

Neonatal Rec & CPR

Central Texas Breastfeeding Coalition

Birthing from Within


Once we are willing to confront our emotional suffering, we begin making choices based on attraction instead of aversion, love instead of fear. Where we used to think about what “was” safe, we now become interested in doing what seems right or fun or meaningful or ripe with possibilities
— Martha Beak