HELLO! I AM SO GLAD YOU’RE HERE.

I am a birth keeper and a guardian of transition, transformation, and growth. My work lives at the threshold…where bodies open, where stories begin, where the stars offer their quiet guidance. I am an educator and an advocate for voice, creativity, and curiosity, both in the journey of life and in preparation for childbirth and growing a family.

I believe that when we allow ourselves to be deeply supported, to be seen and held by a loving, trusting witness, we will always reach for hope, renewal, and possibility.

Like a strong tree who only knows how to receive nutrients and grow, we too know how to root deep and rise toward the light, when we are given all we truly need to be who we are.

I strongly believe in the dignity and sovereignty of every person I serve. We are not meant to do this journey alone.

As a doula, I am here to help you feel supported and prepared for your birthing and postpartum journey, to help create safe, loving, trusting birth environments where a woman or birthing person can connect with her instinctual body, settle the part of her mind that organizes, plans, and worries, and allow the birthing process to move through her.

Giving birth is a powerful portal. This rite of passage is fundamental. It is sacred. It merits deep respect and full support. I offer presence, guidance, and education for the full perinatal journey — pregnancy, birth, and postpartum — and I work with all families and all bodies, supporting the entire birth team, including partners as they move through their own threshold into parenthood.

I am honored to serve as a full-spectrum doula, childbirth educator, counseling astrologer, and guide for those facing the threshold.

Verana was one of our fairy god mothers for the birth of our baby. Her ability to hold space and give unbiased info is unparalleled. She is gentle and kind and curious. Everything you would want during a huge transition. Prenatally she gave us the info we needed and maybe even more importantly listened to us as a couple as we noodled out our thoughts and feelings on birth, postpartum and parenthood. She felt like a friend, a sister, and a confidant. During our homebirth she was present to everyone’s needs, highly communicative, took stellar videos, and soothed my nerves. She’s the kind of human who holds you and encourages you to trust your body and your wisdom. WE JUST LOVE HER! I’d hire her again and again.
— N, Mother of Akash

I also work as an archetypal, counseling astrologer, and this work feels deeply woven with my work as a doula. I find myself ever more weaving the two — walking my astrology clients through their own inner birthing journeys, back to themselves.

I see over and over again that when we are guided back to our center, with a loving witness, we find a quality of love that can transform even the deepest fears and darkest nights into new rays of possibility, hope, and beauty.

From here, anything is possible. I believe in all that is possible inside you.

I see people. I meet them where they are. And I see where their soul wants to go. I am here to help guide you home. Through trust. Through your body. Through connection.

We are alive at a wildly challenging, heartbreaking, and heart opening time, where we are asked to be mindful, embodied, and organized, individually and collectively, to face this world with courage, authenticity, and grace. This means being messy. This means being human. This means being with each other.

I am passionate about anti-racism work, especially in the birth room. I am committed to unpacking my own whiteness and internalized racism, and to walking beside individuals and organizations committed to uprooting patriarchal systems of oppression and colonization — in community and in connection.

BLACK LIVES MATTER!


I serve women/birthing people and families in Marin County, the East Bay, the entire San Francisco Bay Area, CA, and Online.
I am support hospital births, home births, and birthing centers births.
I serve all birthing persons, partners, individuals, and families of diverse backgrounds.
I feel honored and grateful to work with LGBTQIA families.
I value respect, care, mutual understanding, honesty, and trust.
LOVE IS LOVE.

HOW I GOT INVOLVED IN THIS WORK

I had been traveling abroad in South America for a couple years when both birth and astrology found their way into my heart and my world in 2013. While working on a farm in Peru, I received my first astrology reading and began to study my own natal chart. I began noticing huge openings in my body and a call to deepen my relationship with what it is to be a woman, in relationship with Spirit, Life, and Eros. Through the guidance of the stars and the earth, I felt encouraged to move to California in the fall of 2014.

After working as a nanny for many years, I was invited, seemingly by chance, to a birth-keeper conference in 2015. I found myself in a room full of birth professionals, and immediately recognized a profound sense of homecoming to something primordial, powerful, and True. I could feel what a deep and holy honor it is to stand beside women/birthing people and families at threshold of bringing their little ones into the world at this time.

I believe bringing babies into the world today in the presence of a loving, caring, educated support team is an act of courage and liberation for all.

This work changes me. Every birth, every reading, every mother, every client is a gift and a teacher for my Soul. I join you on this path of liberation, healing, and bringing more wholeness into your bodies and heart. The more I tend to my own path of healing, grace, power, and creativity, the more I feel confident in each of us to transform, to break free of the stories we tell ourselves that are no longer true, and to come to rest in the deep center of our being. I believe in you and all the life you carry inside.

I have been very fortunate and privileged with opportunities to study, live, work, and travel in South America and Africa. Along my travels and journeys, I have received deep messages from the jungles, the mountains, the oceans, the skies, and the gentle, steady whispers inside my own body and heart. Most recently, in early 2026, I attended an immersion for birth workers with Wombs of the World, an opportunity to study ancestral birth wisdom and spirituality in South Africa. This journey deepened my commitment to birthing people and birth workers globally, and has left me changed in ways I am still integrating.

When I am not in the birth room or diving into the vast and magical world of astrology, I love to sing, play music, dance, drum, write poetry, play with puppets, cook, and spend time with my beloved family, friends and my extraordinary teacher and guide, Earth.

ASTROLOGY QUALIFICATIONS

  • Student of Trust Psyche © School of Astrology and Depth Psychology 2017-present

  • Transit Astrology: the art of living, 2021

  • Counseling Astrology for Professionals, 2019

  • Deepen Your Astrological Practice: A Psychospiritual Journey through the forty-five Planetary Combinations, 2018

  • Student of Michael Morris, Cusco, Peru, 2014

DOULA QUALIFICATIONS

  • Wombs of the World Immersion, South Africa, 2026

  • Certified Birth Story Medicine listener, 2025

  • Childbirth Education Certification with BADT (Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings LLC)

  • Student Liaison for Doula Thrive, 2020-2022

  • Doula Thrive yearlong doula mentorship completion, 2018-2019

  • Creative Ways of Making Space for Baby training, 2019

  • Rebozo skills and embodiment training, 2019

  • Birth doula training completion with Natural Resources, 2018

  • Postpartum doula certification, 2018

  • Volunteer doula with Homeless Prenatal Program, 2018

  • Elizabeth Davis' Heart and Hands Midwifery Intensive, 2017

  • 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification with Namaste Yoga, 2015-16

  • Volunteer doula with San Francisco General Hospital, 2015-16

  • Doula training completion with Birth Matters, 2015

  • Advanced Spanish proficiency

  • Intermediate Portuguese proficiency

  • Child/Infant First Aid/CPR certification

Photo of rose by Koa Kalish

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I believe in honoring the power, beauty, and magic of our earth, courageously confronting systemic racism, and paying homage to the lands upon which I live and work. Although I now live in Marin County, on the stolen land of the Coast Miwok people, I still pay an annual land tax to Sogorea-te as one small step in acknowledging the beautiful and stolen land of the Chochenyo-Ohlone people of the East Bay, and I encourage you to do the same. I am committed to unlearning inherited beliefs that cause harm and learning how to be in right and clear relationship with all of life, through deep listening, embodied living, pleasure, and joy.

It is a gift to be alive at this time, and I am so grateful.