Certified Nurse-Midwife

I have been so blessed to have a rich career in women’s health and midwifery. I started my journey into midwifery as a nursing student, reading the memoir “The Baby Catcher” and I was hooked! I knew that this was what I wanted to do. Soon after graduating from nursing school, I decided to go back to graduate school. At the time, I didn't feel ready to be a midwife. This led me to study women’s health, and become a women’s health nurse practitioner at the University of Minnesota. I practiced in the Twin Cities as a nurse practitioner for 8 years. After birthing two of my own babies, and feeling the itch to get back to my dream of being a midwife, I returned to school and added midwifery to my degree. I graduated in 2014 and have been practicing since.

Throughout the years, I have been honored to help welcome over 500 babies into the world as a midwife and countless more as a nurse. Lately, I have also become very interested in offering bioidentical hormone therapy. With a functional medicine, whole-body approach, I treat menopause, perimenopause, PMS/PMDD, PCOS, and fertility.

In my personal life, I am married to my husband Luke and we have three children Lina, Penny, and Walter. We live in Stillwater, MN. I enjoy spending time with my family, being outdoors, and being involved in my local parish.

Certified Nurse-Midwife

My journey to midwifery started while I was working as a massage therapist when I found a deep connection to my pregnant patients. The childbearing year is so transformative I knew I wanted to support this transition full time. In 2004, I started working in a freestanding birth center and home birth practice. I immediately knew I had found my passion in midwifery.

After spending several years working as a registered nurse in home birth, birth centers, and hospitals, I completed my master's degree in midwifery at Frontier Nursing University in 2018. Since then, I have had the joy of supporting families grow both in hospital and out-of-hospital settings.

When I was introduced to functional medicine, I felt like this connected my roots in holistic health and traditional Chinese medicine to my western medicine education. This system addresses the root cause of dis-ease and treats the whole person; physically, emotionally and spiritually. It has been a great addition to my practice for women of all ages and stages of life.

In my personal life, I am the mother of three — a son and twin daughters. During harvest season, you can find me at my family's apple orchard or hunting. As a family, we love to travel, explore national parks, and bake lots of sourdough.