Training

Kate considers all her work - from early nannying to doula work in New Orleans and witnessing her mother naturally birth - formative in her midwifery training. Academically, Kate attended Columbia University’s Nurse-Midwifery Program in New York, graduating in 2010 and beginning practice in 2011. She is an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, Licensed in Arizona, and Board-Certified in Nurse-Midwifery. She worked in a hospital-based group midwifery practice in Arizona for several years, honing her skills with a team of CNMs and Obstetricians - doing everything from prenatal care to catching babies to first-assisting in Cesarean surgical birth. Her next practice was an in-hospital birth center in Louisiana, and her love for natural birth options truly blossomed here. The Pharmacy Museum asked her to curate an exhibit on Midwifery in Louisiana, and you can visit it next time you’re in the French Quarter. She finally reached her goal of working out of hospital in a freestanding birth center in Arizona in 2018 and obtained her second midwifery certification as a CPM (Certified Professional Midwife). Her sweet midwife colleagues supported her during the simple homebirth of her child, which became a new experiential lesson in birth and mothering.

Approach

Kate’s personal midwifery craft is a combination of careful listening along with attentive assessment, study of evidence-based care, and experiential wisdom. She loves practicing midwifery and especially working at a sustainable, calm pace! She’s committed to providing affirming care that celebrates people of all different backgrounds - be that ethnicity, race, gender, faith, body size, trauma background, or substance history - you will receive non-judgmental, kind, attentive care in her office.

She loves to help people accomplish their goals by working in a collaborative space - whether that’s planning for motherhood, waterbirth, sobriety, getting anxiety under control, or just maintaining health. She feels that you carry the expertise on your body, and she brings her clinical education and experience. She looks forward to getting to know you, to supporting you along on your life journey towards flourishing health.