Services

Katharine believes herbalism, food as medicine, and earth-grounded body care can make a true difference to your wellbeing. Herbs and oils must only be used with respect for their strengths, limitations, and interactions. Katharine’s herbalist offerings include the following:

• custom herbal protocols for pregnancy, labor, and postpartum comfort & wellbeing

• custom herbal creations including perineal healing sitz baths, hormonal regulation & full-body nutrition, hemorrhoid salves, swelling solutions, realistic galactagogues, gentle UTI remedies, labor support tinctures, etc.

• aromatherapy and oils for safe, microbiome-supportive use in pregnancy and labor

• understanding appropriate substitutions for pharmaceutical medicine, and when herbs are not enough or should be avoided

Pricing: $45 per 1-hour consultation; custom products priced at full cost of ethically sourced supplies + $15/hour preparation time

With years as a home and community herbalist, Katharine is a certified childbearing-year herbalist through Herbal Medics Academy. Her mentor, Katia Lemone, is a senior professional midwife and clinical herbalist of 30 years. Katharine’s practice incorporates the strong healing work of plants in harmony with your other chosen healthcare options, all backed by the latest available research.

** Katharine does not work with homeopathy.

Within her scope as a birthworker, Katharine offers home-visit pregnancy massage customized to your needs, and with specific accommodations for your pregnant and postpartum body. Birthwork massage is not a cure-all, but is an excellent ally in:

• safely relieving tension, pain, and muscle/joint strain associated with pregnancy

• promoting better fluid regulation and relieving symptoms of swelling and sluggishness

• aiding in ability to rest deeply, move comfortably, and ease bodily transitions

• grounding you in your body and self during this transformative time

Full brochure available here.

Pricing: $25 per 30-minute session; $45 per 1-hour session

Katharine’s massage credentials include the full training Licensed Massage Therapists take to qualify as prenatal specialists (training ongoing). However, she is not an LMT. She offers massage only within her scope as a birth doula, and as part of prenatal or postpartum doulacare. She is happy to recommend resources for prenatal-certified full LMTs as desired.

*Massage during labor is included as desired in the Birth Doula Package

Katharine is a true gourmet at heart. She prioritizes fresh, healthy and hearty foods to nourish and uplift you, prepared to be delicious. If food-prep and meal/weekly menu creation are a stress-point for you, or if your dietary needs make normal options less accessible, she can work with you to:

• meet pregnancy and postpartum nutrition goals to your dietary restrictions

• plan and purchase your groceries

• cook and meal-prep in your home, or elsewhere by discussion

• create batch meals for freezing

• plan for dietary & health-need accommodation

Pricing: fully customized to your needs

Note: this is not a cottage food business, nor is this service a restaurant/delivery or commercial kitchen. Katharine is able to assist you with your own food goals, and this assistance is the intended service.

If the thought of navigating the medical and insurance systems around birth is overwhelming or anxiety inducing - if navigating the phone calls and online interfaces, insurance barriers and even hospital layouts seems very stressful - this service is for you. Katharine’s support may include:

• appointment scheduling

• paperwork assistance

• insurance wrangling

• accompaniment to and/or debriefing from appointments

• researching providers & understanding recommendations and sorting through literature

• navigating assistance options like social work, payment plans, etc.

Pricing: $35 per hour

Katharine has years of professional experience in patient advocacy within these systems as an inpatient unit coordinator, and as an outpatient executive surgical support & patient services manager. She both respects and has a healthy skepticism of our hospital systems.

Baby showers & nesting parties, mother blessings & closing of the bones… Such events can mean a lot of coordination. Creating registries & invitations, setting up or booking vendor contracts, wrangling complex family situations, and of course decorations & food & set-up… This is a lot of work. Katharine has 15 years of professional experience doing just this! Her support might include:

• create & send custom invitations

• work within a budget to create your perfect event plan

• work with any vendors to ensure contracts are correctly managed

• venue/home decoration set-up and break-down

• menu planning & food sourcing

• online registry creation & curation

• music playlist curation

• honoring the sacred, handling the logistics

Pricing: $40 per hour, or task-specific customized prices to fit your budget

Katharine has managed large and small events from weddings to baby showers to corporate presentations to children’s birthdays. She has coordinated the most formal events to the completely casual. Let her take the stress out of these joyful times.

The first images of you and your baby will be some of the most tender, sacred, and revisited moments in your life. Portraiture is a wonderful way to draw out and draw close to one of those moments - to see it in a deeper and more intimate way. Katharine offers the following, in a vibrant realistic style:

• detailed black & white art-pencil portraiture

• full color oil-painted portraiture

• custom requests

Pricing: $50 - $250 dependent on size, materials, and detail of background

See examples of Katharine’s art here.