Our Birth and Postpartum Doulas

What does a birth doula do?

  • Provides support and education during the labor and postpartum period
  • Recognizes birth as a key experience in life
  • Understands the physiology of birth and the emotional needs of labor and the postpartum period
  • Assists one in preparing for and carrying out birth plans
  • Stays throughout the labor providing continuity of care
  • Provides emotional support and physical comfort measures
  • Facilitates communication between the birther, partner, and providers
  • What does a Postpartum Doula do?
  • Assists the with physical healing after birth by giving parents time to sleep, shower, rest, or eat, as well as by helping with light household chores
  • Provides hands-on guidance with diapering, swaddling, bathing, infant soothing, and feeding support
  • Helps guide partners and siblings on adjusting to life with a newborn, as well as supporting the many emotions that go hand in hand with a new baby while watching and helping with postpartum mood and anxiety disorders
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Nicki Ament CD, ILFS

Certified Birth & Postpartum Doula
Provider For: Quilted Health, Medicaid

Birth Doula

Full-Spectrum

LACTATION

POSTPARTUM

Certification Organization: Thresholds with Amity Kramer; Stillbirthday; Black Women do VBAC with Denise Bolds

Year Began Practicing: 2020

Education: Bachelors & Masters degree in Psychology/University of Phoenix; AA in Human Services & Management/University of Phoenix

Additional Training:

  • Birth and Bereavement Doula Training (Stillbirthday)
  • Transmasculine Fertility Workshop w/Kayden Coleman
  • TENS Unit Trained
  • Thresholds Relationship Based Childbirth & Parenting Education
  • Certified Integrative Lactation and Feeding Specialist through Manhattan Birth
  • Supporting birth families in Recovery training with Amity Kramer
  • CPR Certified

Other Maternity Services offered: Services offered free of charge to Teens, In-home and virtual lactation and feeding support

Service area: Greater Spokane Area

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Camryn Cooper

Certifying Birth Doula
Provider For: Medicaid

Birth Doula



Certification in progress

Year Began Practicing: 2025

Education: Doctor of Pharmacy, University of Montana

Additional Training:

  • Bloodborne Pathogens Certification
  • BLS/CPR Certified
  • Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Trained
  • IBCLC (in progress)

Service area: Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas

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Jenni Danley CD

Certified Birth Doula
Provider For: Medicaid, Tricare

Birth Doula

Offering Additional Postpartum Doula Services exclusively to Birth Clients

Certifying Organizations: Birthworker Academy; Lilac City Doula Training Center

Year Began Practicing: 2024

Additional Training:

  • Keeping Your Power! Advocacy in Action Certified
  • Bloodborne Pathogens Certified
  • NRP Neonatal Resuscitation Certified
  • BLS/CPR Certified

Service area: Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas

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Eileen Davis CD, RN

Certified Birth Doula
Provider For: Medicaid

Bereavement

Birth Doula

Certifying Organization: Washington State Department of Health

Year Began Practicing: 2026, after 37 years as a Labor & Delivery RN

Education: BSN

Additional Training:

  • Bloodborne Pathogens Certified
  • BLS/CPR Certified

Service area: Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas

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Melanie Floerchinger CD

Founder, Board President, Doula Mentor
Certified Birth Doula
Provider For: Quilted Health, Medicaid, The Doula Network

Birth Doula

Bereavement

Childbirth Education

Full-Spectrum

POSTPARTUM

Certifying Organization: Birthing From Within™

Year Began Practicing: 2012

Education: B.S. in Exercise Science & Minor in Native American Studies/University of Montana

Additional Training:

  • Bereavement Workshop, 2019
  • Birthing From Within™: Advanced Mentor Workshop
  • Pregnancy and Infant Loss Training, 2021
  • Advanced Doula Training (Mother Tree Doula Services), 2021
  • Bloodborne Pathogens Certification
  • Infant/Child CPR Certified
  • Full Spectrum (CE) Birth Advocacy 2021

Other Maternity Services Offered: Virtual Childbirth Education Classes and Full Spectrum Doula Services

Service area: Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas

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Olli Gluskin CD

Certified Birth & Postpartum Doula
Provider For: Quilted Health, Medicaid

Birth Doula

Childbirth Education

Full-Spectrum

Placenta Encapsulation

POSTPARTUM

Certification Organization: Birth Arts International

Year Began Practicing: 2022

Education: BS in Botany/Humboldt State University

Additional Training:

  • Bloodborne Pathogens Training
  • Spinning Babies, 2023
  • Trauma Informed Perinatal Professionals, 2021
  • Bereavement Training, 2021
  • Postpartum Doula Training
  • Racism in Home Visiting
  • Placenta Encapsulation Training, 2022
  • CPR and First Aid

Other Maternity Services Offered: Placenta Encapsulation, Postpartum Doula Services

Offering Full-Spectrum Doula Services

Service area: Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas

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Tammy Huguenin CD

Certified Postpartum Doula
Doula Mentor & SPDA Volunteer
Provider For: Carrot

Bereavement

Postpartum

Certification Organization: ProDoula;  Institute for the Study of
Birth, Breath and Death

Year Began Practicing: 2014 + Over 30 years previous experience

Additional Training:

  • CDA (Child Development Accreditation) Birth – 3 years old
  • Infant, child and adult CPR/First Aid Certified
  • CAPA Parent partner trained/ mom mentor
  • Circle of Security Parenting trained

Other Services: Bereavement Doula

Service area: Greater Spokane and North Idaho

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Kelly Kathrens CD, ILFS

Certified Birth, Postpartum, & Bereavement Doula
Provider For: Quilted Health, Medicaid, United Healthcare (WA)

Bereavement

Birth Doula

Full-Spectrum

Lactation

POSTPARTUM

Certification Organization: Pacific Association of Labor Support Doulas (PALS)

Year Began Practicing: 2020

Additional Training:

  • BADT: Bereavement Doula Training
  • Bloodborne Pathogens Certified
  • Breast/Chest Feeding
  • Manhattan Birth: Lactation & Feeding Specialist Training
  • Thresholds: Birth Doula Training
  • Birth Arts Int’l: Postpartum Doula Training
  • End Of Life Doula Training
  • Stillbirthday Training
  • CPR Certified

Other Maternity Services Offered: Bereavement & Postpartum Doula Services. Services offered free of charge to Teens.

Offering Full-spectrum Doula Services

Service Area: Greater Spokane Area, Coeur d’Alene areas

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Jamie Koop CD(DONA)

Certified Birth Doula
SPDA Volunteer

Birth Doula

Certification Organization: DONA International

Education: Liberal Art Degree, Salish Kootenai

Medical Secretary, Medical Coding and Billing

Individual Provider/DSHS, Certified Nurses Aid

Additional Training:

  • The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death 2020
  • Circle of Security International 2020
  • Virtual doula Training, DONA 2020
  • Advanced Doula Training, Mother Tree Doula Service 2021
  • Bloodborne Pathogens Certification

Service Area: Spokane and Coeur d’Alene

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Beth Mathis CD(DONA), CLC

SPDA Mentor and Board Secretary
Certified Birth Doula
Provider For: Tricare, Quilted Health, Medicaid, United Healthcare, Carrot

Birth Doula

Childbirth Education

LACTATION

Offering Additional Postpartum Doula Services exclusively to Birth Clients

Certification Organization: DONA International

Year Began Practicing: 2011

Education: Certified Nurses Aid

Additional Training: 

  • Collaborative Practice, Advanced Doula Training, 2011 & 2021
  • Rebozo Workshop with Gina Kirby
  • Perinatal Support Washington Workshop: Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders
  • Advanced Doula Training (Mother Tree Doula Services), 2021
  • Bloodborne Pathogens Certified
  • CPR & First Aid Certified
  • CPR& First Aid Instructor
  • Certified Lactation Counselor, ALPP

Other Maternity Services Offered: Guidance for mothers through breech and pre-term births, even non-clients.

Service Area: Greater Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas

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Sarah McDonald CD (Pro Doula)

Certified Birth Doula
Provider For: Quilted Health, United Healthcare, Medicaid

Birth Doula

Childbirth Education

Full-Spectrum

Offering Additional Postpartum Doula Services exclusively to Birth Clients

Certification Organization: Pro Doula

Year Began Practicing: 2019

Education: BA in English Literature/Whitworth University

Additional Training:

  • Advanced Doula Training (Mother Tree Doula Services), 2021
  • Spinning Babies, 2021
  • Postpartum Doula Training
  • Keeping Your Power-Advocacy in Action
  • Understanding Indigenous Birth Work (The Village Doula), 2025
  • CPR Certified
  • Bloodborne Pathogens Certified

Other services Offered: Birth Consultation, Doula Mentorship, Doula Trainer, Postpartum services

Service Area: Greater Spokane and North Idaho

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Courtney Rowland CD(DONA)

SPDA Board Treasurer
Certified Birth Doula
Provider For: Quilted Health

Birth Doula

Childbirth Education

Full-Spectrum

Offering Additional Postpartum Doula Services exclusively to Birth Clients

Certifying Organization: DONA International

Year Began Practicing: 2017

Additional Training:

  • Certified belly dance instructor
  • Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in COVID area training with Perinatal Support WA, 2021
  • Advanced Doula Training (Mother Tree Doula Services), 2021
  • Spinning Babies Training, 2021
  • Full Spectrum Doula Training, 2022
  • CPR Certified
  • Bloodborne Pathogens Certified
  • Safe space for LGBTQIA+

Other Maternity Services Offered: Belly Dancing Prenatal Classes

Offering Full-Spectrum Doula Services

Service Area: Greater Spokane area

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Melanie Shaul-Alban CD

Certified Birth Doula
Provider For: Tricare, Medicaid, United Healthcare

Birth Doula

Placenta Encapsulation

POSTPARTUM Doula

Certifying Organization: International Doula Institute, DONA training

Year Began Practicing: 2020

Additional Training:

  • Placenta Encapsulation with Womb Wisdom
  • TENS Unit trained with Sharon Muza
  • Spinning Babies Trained
  • Trauma Informed Perinatal Professionals
  • Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders/Mental Health Basics Training
  • Rebozo Arts with Womb Wisdom
  • Lactation Specialist with Lactation Education
  • CPR Certified
  • Blood Borne Pathogens Certified
  • Food Handlers Certification with Washington State

Other Maternity Services Offered: Placenta Encapsulation/Postpartum Doula Services

Service Area: Greater Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas

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Cher Simmons CD(DONA)

Certified Birth Doula
Provider For: Tricare, Medicaid, Quilted Health

ADoption doula

Birth Doula

Childbirth Education

Lactation

Postpartum

Certifying Organization: DONA International

Year Began Practicing: 2015

Education: Bachelors in Child Life and Health, Master of Science-PAS

Additional training:

  • WA state adult educator
  • NRP certified 
  • CPR/blood borne pathogens 

Other Maternity Services Offered: Childbirth Education Classes, Postpartum parent support and education groups, Postpartum Doula services, lactation support services, Adoption doula services.

Service area: Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas

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DeeAnn Stack CD

Certified Birth Doula
Provider For: Quilted Health

Birth Doula

Childbirth Education

Certifying Organization: Intentional Birth Pro, Lilac City Doula, International Doula Institute, ProDoula

Year Began Practicing: 2020

Additional Training:

  • VBAC Specialist
  • Preventing Trauma in the Birth Place
  • Keeping you Power Advocacy training
  • Childbirth Education: ProDoula, Birthing From Within, Childbirth Physiology Rachel Reed
  • Bundle Birth Physiologic Birth
    Bundle Birth Basic Fetal Heart Tones
  • Midwifery Wisdom SkillZ and Drillz (focus on hemorrhaging and shoulder dystocia)
  • Ongoing live weekly training with Intentional Birth
  • Ongoing live training with Birthing Instincts
  • Ongoing live training with Rachel Reed
  • CPR Certified through 2026

Other Maternity Services Offered: Childbirth Education, Birth Photography, Reflexology/ acupressure/ bodywork, Spinning Babies, Baby wearing

Service Area: Greater Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas

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Lisa Viehouser CD(DONA), PALS

Certified Birth Doula
Provider For: Quilted Health, Tricare, Medicaid, United Healthcare

Birth Doula

POSTPARTUM

Offering Additional Postpartum Doula Services exclusively to Birth Clients

Certifying Organization: Pacific Association of Labor Support Doulas (PALS); DONA

Year Began Practicing: 2020

Additional Training:

  • Birth Doula Skills Workshop: Simkin Center for Allied Birth Vocations, Bastyr University -2020
  • Postpartum Doula Skills Workshop: Simkin Center for Allied Birth Vocations, Bastyr University 2020
  • When Survivors Give Birth Foundational Training: Penny Simkin, Phyllis Klaus 2021
  • Birth Advocacy Doula Training LGBTQ+ Reproductive Support Course – 2021
  • Spinning Babies 1 day Workshop – 2022
  • Sudden Infant Death: Building Professional Skills and Understanding for Prevention -2023
  • When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Sexual Trauma on Childbearing Women: Simkin Center for Allied Birth Vocations- Advanced Counseling Training: Selina Shelley – 2023
  • Great Starts Childbirth Instructor Training: Parent Trust for Washington Children – 2024
  • Perinatal Support WA: Foundations in Perinatal Mental Health Training – 2025
  • Perinatal Support WA: Best Practices in Prevention, Identification & Treatment of Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders – 2 days – 2025
  • Body Ready Method – 2025 – 2026 Certified Pro April 2026
  • National Perinatal Association: Uniting for Impact: Advancing Rural-Urban Collaboration and Innovation in Perinatal and Infant Health – Scholarship Recipient – Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 2026
  • NICU Doula Academy – 2026 (working towards certification)
  • Bloodborne Pathogens Certified
  • CPR Certified
  • Safe space for LGBTQIA+

Other Maternity Services Offered: Passionate about serving families who are or have experienced anxiety, depression, and past trauma or medically difficult pregnancies.

Service Area: Greater Spokane and Coeur d’Alene, as well as Pullman/Moscow/Lewiston and surrounding areas. In special circumstances, I can arrange to support families in the Seattle area.

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