Explore Our Services

There are seasons when we need more than advice.
We need someone steady. Someone attuned. Someone who can hold practical details while also honoring the emotional weight of change.

Ovate offers nonjudgmental, embodied support through birth, postpartum, reproductive decisions, identity shifts, overwhelm, grief, healing, and reinvention.

This work blends evidence-based education, emotional support, nervous system awareness, advocacy, creativity, ritual, and deeply human care.

What We Offer

Support rarely fits neatly into categories. The services listed here are simply a starting point. Customized support packages are available to reflect your unique needs, circumstances, and season of life.

  • Pregnancy and birth are not just medical events. They are transformational experiences that deserve informed, compassionate support.

    As your doula, I provide emotional, educational, and physical support throughout pregnancy, labor, and immediate postpartum so you can feel more grounded, informed, and connected to your own instincts.

    Whether you’re planning an unmedicated birth, epidural, induction, cesarean, VBAC, hospital birth, or home birth, my role is not to push an agenda. My role is to support you.

    Support May Include:

    • Prenatal planning sessions

    • Birth preference preparation

    • Education and resource guidance

    • Emotional processing around pregnancy and birth fears

    • Partner support and coaching

    • Comfort measures during labor

    • Advocacy and grounded presence

    • Immediate postpartum support

    • Text/phone support during pregnancy

    Ideal For:

    • First-time parents

    • Families wanting additional emotional support

    • People seeking a more empowered birth experience

    • Those navigating anxiety, previous trauma, or complex feelings around birth

    Optional Add-Ons:

    • Birth photography

    • Postpartum meal support

    • Herbal care packages

    • Ceremony or blessing gatherings

    • Nursery nesting support

  • Postpartum care is community care.
    And most families are expected to navigate it with far too little support.

    The early postpartum period can be beautiful, disorienting, exhausting, lonely, tender, and overwhelming all at once. My role is to help create softness, structure, nourishment, and breathing room during this transition.

    This is not about perfection. It’s about helping you feel cared for while you learn your new rhythms.

    Support May Include:

    • Emotional support and companionship

    • Infant care guidance

    • Feeding support

    • Light household support

    • Meal prep

    • Nervous system regulation support

    • Holding baby while parents rest/shower/eat

    • Sibling support

    • Recovery support after birth

    • Processing the birth experience

    • Resource referrals when needed

    Postpartum Support Can Look Like:

    • A calm presence in the home

    • Help resetting overwhelming spaces

    • Someone making sure you eat and hydrate

    • Encouragement without judgment

    • Practical support that reduces mental load

    Available Formats:

    • Daytime support

    • Overnight support

    • Short-term intensive support

    • Ongoing weekly care

  • Reproductive support should include all reproductive experiences. Whether you are navigating miscarriage, abortion, TFMR, pregnancy loss, or another deeply personal reproductive experience, you deserve compassionate, nonjudgmental support.

    This work centers emotional safety, bodily autonomy, practical care, and human dignity — without assumptions about how you “should” feel.

    Support May Include:

    • Emotional support and companionship

    • Processing complex feelings and transitions

    • Appointment accompaniment

    • Practical recovery support

    • Meal or care support

    • Grounding and nervous system support

    • Space for grief, relief, uncertainty, anger, or mixed emotions

    • Ritual or remembrance practices if desired

    • Support for partners or families

  • Sometimes what people truly need is someone steady beside them while life is unraveling, rebuilding, expanding, or simply overwhelming.

    Everyday Doula and Chaos Coordination support blend emotional support, practical assistance, accountability, nervous system care, creative problem-solving, and grounded guidance through life’s transitions, both the ongoing seasons and the sudden chaotic moments.

    Not therapy.
    Not toxic positivity.
    Not hustle coaching.

    This is real-life support for real-life situations.

    Some clients seek ongoing support and companionship through periods of transition, burnout, caregiving, grief, identity shifts, or rebuilding. Others simply need a calm, reassuring presence for a shorter-term situation like preparing for a move, navigating a stressful season, organizing a major life event, getting ready for a wedding, recovering after a hospitalization, or managing overwhelming logistics.

    Whether support is long-term or temporary, the goal is the same: helping you feel more resourced, grounded, supported, and less alone.

    This May Be Helpful If You Are:

    • Burned out or overwhelmed

    • Going through a breakup, divorce, move, career shift, or identity transition

    • Neurodivergent and struggling with executive functioning

    • Craving more structure and support

    • Rebuilding after grief or illness

    • Longing for creativity, connection, or direction

    • Feeling isolated in motherhood or caregiving

    • Trying to reconnect with yourself

    • Navigating an especially stressful or logistically overwhelming season

    Support May Include:

    • Body doubling and accountability

    • Weekly planning/reset sessions

    • Creative coaching

    • Emotional processing support

    • Home reset assistance

    • Organizational support

    • Rituals and reflective practices

    • Appointment or errand support

    • Gentle habit-building

    • Nervous system regulation tools

    • Move or event preparation support

    • Accompaniment through difficult seasons

    • Calm logistical support during high-pressure moments

    Think Of It As:

    Part support person.
    Part guide.
    Part practical helper.
    Part calm in the chaos.
    Part witness to your becoming.

  • Our relationships with our bodies, identities, sexuality, pleasure, confidence, and self-expression are often shaped by shame, survival, caregiving, cultural expectations, trauma, major life transitions, or years of disconnection from ourselves.

    This offering provides compassionate, trauma-informed, nonjudgmental support for those exploring identity, reclaiming their relationship with their body, reconnecting with desire and creativity, or moving through seasons of personal transformation.

    Support may include:

    • embodiment practices

    • nervous system-aware support

    • confidence and self-expression coaching

    • identity exploration

    • relationship to body image and sensuality

    • reconnecting with creativity and pleasure

    • support through life transitions and reinvention

    • practical accountability and emotional support

    • ritual, reflection, and grounding practices

    This work is collaborative and client-led. It is not therapy, counseling, or medical treatment, and does not diagnose or treat mental health conditions.

Ovate is an LGBTQ+ affirming, neurodivergent-inclusive space that honors bodily autonomy, consent, individuality, and the many ways people experience identity, family, healing, and becoming.

Our Process

Connection

We’ll begin with a free phone consultation to discuss what’s bringing you here, what kind of support you’re seeking, and whether we feel like the right fit for one another. This is a relaxed, no-pressure space to ask questions, share concerns, and explore what support through Ovate could look like for your unique situation.

Collaboration

If we decide to move forward, we’ll meet in person or virtually to create a personalized support plan tailored to your season of life, needs, preferences, schedule, and level of desired care. We’ll review expectations, communication styles, boundaries, and logistics, finalize your package, sign agreements, and begin building a foundation of support that feels collaborative, sustainable, and aligned.

Services begin with ongoing communication, practical and emotional support, resource sharing, and personalized care based on your needs and goals. Clients are also welcomed into the Ovate Grove community for optional peer connection, continued support, and access to future gatherings, workshops, and special events.

Care & Community

As your needs evolve, we’ll create space for reflection, grounding, and sustainable next steps.

Some clients complete support after a specific season, while others choose to continue care in a new or evolving way as life shifts and needs change.

Continuation

  • "Connection is why we're here. It's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. This is what it's all about".

    -Brene Brown