Meet our practitioners

TENDING THE WOMB THROUGH EVERY THRESHOLD

Our practitioners bring diverse gifts, training, and lived experience to this work. What unites us is a shared commitment to tender, culturally-rooted care.

Our Practitioners

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Our Practitioners ✦

  • Jaontra (JJ) Henderson smiling in front of tan boulders under a blue sky.

    Jaontra "JJ" Henderson (SHE/HER)

    FULL SPECTRUM BIRTHWORKER & BODYWORKER

    JJ holds the full arc, the messy, the sacred, the in-between, with warmth, humor, and a steady presence that lets you soften into your own journey.

    meet JJ
  • Chay Tadeo smiling in front of a leafy jungle mural.

    Chay Tadeo (she/they)

    FULL SPECTRUM BIRTHWORKER

    Chay meets you with grounded, culturally-rooted care through every pregnancy outcome, and carries a particular gift for the tender spaces of loss, release, and ceremony.

    MEET CHAY
  • Julie Taylor smiling softly, with long dark hair and a denim jacket.

    Julie Taylor (she/her)

    FULL SPECTRUM BIRTHWORKER, CERTIFIED LACTATION EDUCATOR (CLE) & CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY TECHNICIAN

    Julie meets you with warmth, humor, and a steady heart, and as a certified lactation educator and mama of three, she brings both professional knowledge and lived experience to your side.

    meet Julie
  • Leila Mottley in a teal patterned blouse against a white wall.

    Leila Mottley (she/her)

    FULL SPECTRUM BIRTHWORKER

    Leila brings a quiet steadiness and a fierce voice to the birth space. She grounds you in expert newborn care and makes sure you are heard, especially when it matters most.

    MEET LEILA

Our Mission

To return people to the power and magic of their wombs and their right to tend them, and to walk beside them through every threshold of reproductive life.

Our Vision

A world where womb care is ordinary again: reproductive care as the ground of every life, every threshold crossed in community, and the people who hold others held in turn.

How We Work

Nourishment

This might look like herbal tea and a foot bath. It might look like someone who simply stays when the fear creeps in. Nourishment isn’t an add-on to our care; it is the care. The body has always required warmth, rest, and witness to do what it already knows how to do. We tend to the whole of you because the whole of you is what arrives at every threshold: your story, your motherline, the body you’ve been in your whole life.

Co-Creation

We build care alongside you, your beloveds, and the community that surrounds you. No one births, grieves, or transforms alone, and no one was meant to. Every threshold asks for a web: the people who hold the conditions your body needs, who witness, who stay. Part of our work is helping your people learn how. All of the children are ours, and the village isn’t a metaphor; it’s what we restore, one family, one circle, one community at a time.

Sacred Witnessing

Your body’s wisdom leads. We honor the mystery and pace of your journey without rushing toward resolution. The body has its own design and its own timing, and the body already knows. Our work is not to direct it but to witness it: presence over protocol, conditions over correction. To be truly witnessed is its own medicine. Your motherline has too often gone without it.