Companionship
Care that stays, across whatever you’re carrying.
Companionship is what we offer: an ongoing relationship with our practice, shaped to what you’re carrying and held across the time you need to be carried. Sometimes that looks like one practitioner walking the whole way with you; sometimes it’s more than one at once, or the right companion changes as your season does. Not a phase-bound package. Not a fixed program. A relationship that can hold any of the areas of work below, and often holds several layers at once.
We begin with an inquiry. There’s no obligation, no need to know exactly what you want before you reach out, and no expected length to what you share. The shape of the work is built with you.
How the work begins
- Inquiry. Share a little about what’s bringing you. We read every inquiry personally and reach out within three to five business days. There’s no obligation, no need to come prepared, and no expected length to what you share.
- Free consultation. We respond to every inquiry personally, sometimes with an invitation to schedule a consultation, sometimes with questions, sometimes with an honest note about capacity or fit. When a consultation happens, it’s unhurried, usually 30 to 45 minutes, held online.
- Intake & contract. If it feels aligned on both sides, we move into intake and the contract that holds the work, naming what we’re entering and how we’ll be together.
- Sessions begin. Virtual, in-person, or both, shaped to your life and what’s needed. The rhythm is yours.
The Areas We Tend
Companionship can hold any of the following, alone, together, or unfolding into one another as your life moves. Most areas can be tended virtually or in-person; the bodywork and ceremonial pieces are in-person only.
Menstrual & Womb Wellness Cyclical support for the body across the years between menarche and menopause, through symptoms, transitions, and the long work of returning to the body.
What this work can include
- Cycle support for painful, irregular, or heavy bleeding
- Support through hormonal shifts, PMS, and PMDD
- Womb and pelvic bodywork (in-person)
- Transitioning off hormonal contraceptives or IUDs
- Herbal, dietary, and lifestyle practices for cyclical living
Preconception & Fertility Tending the season before pregnancy begins, or begins again, the body, the spirit, and the conditions that make space for what’s trying to come through.
What this work can include
- Body and hormonal preparation for conception: food, herbs, daily practice
- Cycle tracking and fertility awareness
- Emotional and nervous system preparation: what grief, fear, or unfinished story the body is still carrying
- Lineage tending
- Ritual to clear the field
- Relational and community network-building before pregnancy
Pregnancy & Birth Companionship across pregnancy and through birth, holding the conditions your body needs to do what it knows how to do.
What this work can include
- Pregnancy companionship across all trimesters
- Birth planning and territory work: your sovereignty, your conditions, your team
- On-call birth attendance
- Bodywork and ceremony during pregnancy (in-person)
- Coordination with your medical team
- Partner and family preparation: orienting your people to their roles
Postpartum & Early Parenting Tending the body, the dyad, and the family in the months after birth, the season every culture has recognized as foundational, and the dominant culture has forgotten how to honor.
What this work can include
- The five cross-cultural postpartum practices: rest, warmth, nourishment, bodywork, community witnessing
- Closing of the Bones ceremony (in-person)
- Lactation support, including specialized care with Julie, our Certified Lactation Educator
- Newborn care guidance
- Postpartum body care, rest planning, and meal support
- Tending the dyad: mother and baby as one nervous system
Parenting Companionship for the long arc of raising children. The becoming doesn’t end when the baby is no longer a baby, and neither does the care.
What this work can include
- Ongoing parenting companionship, beyond the first year
- Support through transitions: weaning, returning to work, new siblings
- Talking with your child about their body, puberty, and reproductive health
- Tending the parent’s own body, story, and capacity
- Family rhythms and the web of support around your household
Pregnancy Loss Holding what the world rushes past, miscarriage, stillbirth, TFMR, and the long unfolding of what is lost when a pregnancy ends.
What this work can include
- Miscarriage, stillbirth, and TFMR companionship
- Postpartum body care after loss, because the body is processing postpartum whether or not the world calls it that
- Ritual and ceremony for what was lost
- Witnessing in the silence the world rushes past
- Support through subsequent fertility decisions when ready
Abortion Presence and care through abortion: the experience the body has, regardless of the story the culture tells about it.
What this work can include
- Presence in the days surrounding the procedure
- Herbal and somatic support for healing
- Ceremony if it holds meaning
- Help with what to say, or not say, to people in your life
- Witness without agenda, without timeline
- Postpartum care after the body’s process, for as long as the body asks
The Elder Season Companionship for the elder threshold: becoming a grandmother, holding the ones who now hold others, and passing on what a life has gathered.
What this work can include
- Support through the transition into elderhood and grandmotherhood
- Learning to hold your children as they become parents, without carrying what is theirs
- Ritual and ceremony for the elder threshold (in-person)
- Story, lineage, and the passing on of what you know
We often walk with people through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, and the work doesn’t have to start or end there. Families tell us how much it matters to be held by the same companion across that whole arc. A companionship can begin before conception and carry through what follows. It can hold a loss and stay for what comes after. Companionship grows with you. The body’s story is never just about the threshold you’re standing on, and neither is the care.
Most companionship can be held virtually or in-person. Some practices, bodywork, Closing of the Bones, ceremony shared in physical space, are in-person only. We talk through what’s right for you during consultation.
Looking for focused help without ongoing companionship?
Sometimes you don’t need an ongoing companion; you need one good conversation. Sessions are focused, one-time offerings. They begin with a short consultation, so we can meet each other before the work.
Birth Map Session
Focused birth planning support, virtual or in-person.
Postpartum Nest Session
Focused postpartum planning support, virtual or in-person.
Every companion and session also lives on one page. Browse all offerings.
Do you have Medi-Cal or Kaiser? Some of our practitioners offer doula care covered under your benefit. The Insured Care page walks you through what’s included, what lives outside the benefit, and how to begin.