TLC Doula Group
We are a group of like-minded doulas working together to provide education, guidance and when your time comes – emotional and physical support to you and your family. We seek to reconnect you with your body’s wisdom and the essential emotional support of a clan of birthing people during pregnancy, labor and birth. We provide full spectrum non-judgmental doula support for all your needs. TLC is the oldest doula cooperative in Houston with over 85 years experience in Women's Health.
The Doulas
Labor Enabler
"Kathleen is a founding member of TLC Doula Group, owner of Labor Enabler™ Doula Services and Co-Owner of Rebel Birth Education and Resource Haven. She has been a doula since 2003. She has not only taken several doula trainings, but is the founder of the Labor Enabler Doula Apprenticeship Program. Kathleen loves working in all environments and with all care providers to ensure her clients have their best possible birth."
**She was also my very own doula and I love her very much!**
The Painted Doula
"Joli has helped hundreds of families since 2012 when she began her journey as a doula with an apprenticeship with Kathleen Wilson. She co-authored Rebel Birth Child Birth Education and co-founded Rebel Birth Education and Resource Haven and is the owner of The Painted Doula. She loves to facilitate communication between her clients and their providers, in and out of the hospital, easing the process for all involved. To her, doula work isn’t a job, it’s an art form. Additionally Joli provides beautiful placenta prints she makes herself!"
Maximum Doula Services
"Max is the owner of Maximum Doula Services. He supported his first family through pregnancy in 2021. He is a certified advanced doula, trained through the apprenticeship program with Labor Enabler. They have also completed training from: Spinning Babies, American Heart Association (Basic Life Saver for medical professionals), emergency childbirth prep, college level anatomy and physiology courses, queer specific childbirth education, and more. They have a professional and educational background in body work. They love leveraging their training and calm demeanor to positively impact people’s lives and health outcomes. They identify as a transmasc, nonbinary human and use they/he pronouns.".
Your Lifeline Doula
"Skylar is a Birth Doula and the owner of Your Lifeline Doula. Their background began in childcare as a Nanny supporting families with newborns to early teens and has always been about meeting families where they are at. Skylar realized they were often providing postpartum support to families and sought to grow their knowledge base thus initiating their dive into birthwork. Throughout their learning experience they have strived to fill in the gaps in care many families, especially in marginalized communities, experience. As a Queer and African American parent their approach is rooted in advocacy, education, and emotional support, ensuring all families feel safe, heard, and empowered throughout their journey. When they aren’t performing hip squeezes or burping babies, you can catch them at the ice rink figure skating or at the nearest Jiu Jitsu Dojo throwing people off the mat. Skylar identifies as non-binary and uses They/Them Pronouns."
The Wright Spot
"Practitioner Overview (TLDR):
- Certified Doula - 10+ years of doula work in a variety of environments and situations
- Volunteer Doula Services - Operation Special Delivery
- Licensed Massage Therapist
- Participant - The Farm Midwifery Center's Birth Assistant Workshop
- Certified AABC Birth Assistant Training
- Birth Boot Camp Instructor and Doula - Certification courses
- Perinatal Massage Certification Course - Carole Osborne's Workshop Intensive
- Spinning Babies - Workshop for professionals
- Mama of Three - very different midwife attended, free standing birth center, waterbirths"
Prenatal and Post Partum Workers
Nurture & Nourish
"Hannah is a certified birth and postpartum doula, specializing in infant care as well as prenatal and postpartum meals. As the owner of Nurture&Nourish Doula and Postpartum Meal Service, Hannah is very passionate about caring for new families as they find their own groove with parenting so they feel confident in responding to their baby’s unique needs and finding a care plan that works for the whole family. Her passion for birth began in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2011, where she studied the local and global sociology of birth with Danish midwives. Hannah is also a certified Infant Feeding Specialist from birth to 12 months of age. In recognizing a need for more personal care for new birthing people and their families, Hannah finds joy in creating custom care plans and preparing fresh and nutritious meals during pregnancy and post-birth, because you deserve to be nurtured, too."
Empower Yourself PT
"At Empower Yourself PT, our goal is to exceed expectations by providing personalized, one-on-one pelvic floor therapy for everyone! We specialize in exclusively pelvic health concerns and provide treatment in a spacious private room in Houston.
Whether you’re struggling with pre- and post-natal issues, prolapse, diastasis recti, pelvic pain, sexual pain, urinary and bowel conditions, orthopedic pelvic pain, or men's health issues, we can help."
