Jacqueline Kelleher ,proprietor, has been supporting growing families in our community for over ten years as a doula and childbirth educator. She is the Pennsylvania representative for Postpartum Support International, as well the Director of Postpartum Services for DONA International. In addition, she is the author of Nurturing The Family. Years of supporting families in the community have given her an excellent knowledge of the challenges faced by new parents and a drive to fill the gaps that they so often face. She is the mother of 3 children and is expecting another in July.
Angela Leonard MOM,IBCLC, LCCE, CD(DONA) is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator. She has been teaching childbirth education classes both privately and in a hospital setting since 2003. Angela believes that birth is a natural process of a woman’s’ body and in her classes she strives to empower each woman to believe in her body’s innate wisdom to nurture and birth her baby. She helps fathers and birth partners learn how they can help the mother through labor and enjoy a beautiful and rewarding birth together. Angela is a DONA Certified birth doula and has attended over 400 births since 2000. She is also an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant and loves to continue working with her families even after baby is born. With all those letters after her name, Angela says that the ones that mean the most are MOM. She has 4 children, all with very different birth stories. Her first came into the world by Cesarean section, her second was born with a midwife in a hospital setting and her 3rd and 4th were born gently at home.
Susan Maroto is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who has been in practice for thirteen years as a therapist and adoption social worker. She is certified in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), a powerful technique in trauma resolution. She is also the mother of two young children.
Dave Decker is retired from Navy Civilian service where he developed and managed the Navy's shore based weight handling equipment training program. Dave is an avid handy-man with 30 years of experience and a passion for learning and teaching. He is a volunteer firefighter with Middletown Fire Company.
Marie Goodwin is the co-founder of Families for Natural Living Philadelphia. She lives in Media with her husband and two small children.
Wendy Waterman has been teaching childbirth to couples since 1997. She has three children of her own and has attended several births of her students over the years. Drawing from her own experiences in childbirth, those of her students, and her own reading and research, Wendy's classes strive to give each couple enough information to make informed choices through their own labor and birth experience. Natural coping techniques are taught to help women and their partners through labor and birth with minimal interventions. Women who plan to birth at home or hospital, or anywhere in between, are welcome. Wendy is currently working on her postpartum doula certification, and hopes to become a birth doula (in addition to teaching) in the future.
Meg MacCurtin has a Masters in Art Therapy and she taught art for eight years. She and her husband used sign language to communicate with their two young sons when they were preverbal and signing continues to be a primary form of communication for her youngest son who has a developmental disability. Meg and her family live in Media.
Adriane Dourte is a nationally certified , PA licensed acupuncturist with a Master's Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture from Five Branches Institute for Chinese Medicine in Santa Cruz, CA. Adriane also studied acupuncture in Hangzhao, China.
Heather Dyas-Fried has a BA in Theatre Arts and is a founding member of Equalogy, inc., a theatre for social change. She completed her 200-hour yoga teacher training and prenatal yoga teacher certification at Kripalu in MA and her Baby Om yoga training in NYC. Heather is also a postpartum and birth doula.
Michelle Collier is the founder of Performance Fitness, LLC. Michelle has over 4 years of experience working with expectant and new moms. She holds an Advanced Mat Pilates certification from the Pilates Institute of America. Michelle is also certified as a Personal Trainer and Group Fitness Instructor through the American Council on Exercise. To get more information on Pilates, Michelle or Performance Fitness check out www.performancefitnessllc.com.
Celia Brown Celia Brown is the co-founder of nannysnap. Her professional background in Recruiting and Marketing support her efforts to educate and empower parents throughout their search for childcare providers. Celia has a BA in Psychology from the University of Michigan and an MA in Adult Education from George Washington University. She currently lives in Media with her husband and her 1 year old son, Alexander.
Shannon Moyer Shannon holds a Master's degree in Social Work. Her experience includes working as a Behavioral Specialist Consultant, where she collaborated with parents, teachers, and other professionals to develop strategies to address the behavior challenges of children with special needs, and provided ongoing coaching and support to ensure that the strategies were implemented effectively. Shannon lives in the Main Line, Philadelphia area with her husband and stepson. Her decision to become a coach is the result of her being inspired by the philosophy that the coaching profession applies to helping people, which is very action-oriented and forward focused. She is passionate about using her experience in the mental health world to help people achieve more fulfilling lives.
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