supporting you throughout your full reproductive journey

what is a full spectrum doula?

A non-medically trained care professional offering educational, physical, and emotional support for birthing people throughout the full reproductive journey.

This is including but not limited to preconception, prenatal, birth, postpartum, miscarriage, abortion, and womb support.

Synergy Support Space care offerings are infused with the anti-oppressive, inclusive, trauma-informed, affirming, and accessible care foundation set by Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings, where I received my full spectrum doula training and certification. As a full spectrum doula, I approach my care work with self & social awareness, curiosity, and cultural humility.

"Reproductive justice doesn't just look at one small piece of racism-it looks at the whole puzzle. It is such a core aspect of collective liberation that it is in fact collective liberation: it is through reproductive justice that we can achieve true equality, inclusion, and autonomy" —Sabia Wade ꩜

We cannot control pregnancy, birthing, postpartum, or reproductive outcomes, but we can equip ourselves with an abundance of support to be held through it all. All sessions are client-centered using curiosity to create the space to explore your needs and desires. Here are some options for how we can spend our time together.

inside the support sessions

    • Intake & Identifying Your Desires & Needs: Pregnancy history, my role as a doula, partner involvement, concerns about pregnancy, labor and delivery

    • Pregnancy Care & Education: Comfort measures, nutrition, movement, mindfulness/self-care/stress management, emotionally preparing for birth

    • Creating A Birth Plan/Preferences: Hopes and preferences for birth, where you’d like to labor and deliver, interventions, creating a plan A, B, and C

    • Labor & Birth Preparation & Education: Discussing signs & stages of labor, BRAIN, when to call your doula, advocacy, pain management options, and practicing birth positions, comfort measures, breathing techniques, etc.

    • Resource & Referral Sharing: Health & wellness practitioners, podcasts, books, support groups, etc.

    • Postpartum Preparation: Creating support plans, nutrition, plans for rest & healing, newborn care, infant feeding options

    • On-call support beginning at 37 weeks can call/text with any questions or concerns anytime beforehand

    • Hands-on, emotional, mental, and informational support throughout labor, birth, & 1-2 hours after placenta has been delivered or post cesarean recovery

    • Assistance facilitating communication with care providers as necessary

    • Setting up a supportive labor & birth environment adjusting lighting, aromatherapy, music/sound support, etc.

    • Support for your primary support person through assistance, reassurance, and information (if applicable)

  • *As a full spectrum doula, I support with all postpartum outcomes. This includes postpartum support for desired and undesired pregnancies. 

    • Intake & Identifying Your Desires & Needs: Pregnancy/postpartum history, my role as a doula, partner involvement, concerns about postpartum

    • Supporting Your Physical Healing: Plans for rest, sleep, & recovering post birth

    • Nutrition Support: Education, grocery shopping, food preparation

    • Managing Mental & Emotional Health: Birth processing, discussing & identifying PMADs, navigating relationships postpartum, guided meditation & sound healing

    • Support with Caring For Your Newborn: Infant feeding, sleep techniques, bathing, diaper changing, understanding infant cues

    • Building Networks of Support: Building a community support plan, how to ask for help & receive support, navigating changes in relationships postpartum

    • Resource & Referral Sharing: Health & wellness practitioners, podcasts, books, baby items, support groups, etc.

    • Household Support: Support with laundry, light housekeeping, errand running, etc.

  • Offering presence and space for you to develop or sustain a relationship with your womb…Creating a container to tend to your womb in affirming, client-centered ways. This is a space that welcomes those of all gender identities.

    • Intake & Identifying Your Desires & Needs: Cycle/personal history, my role as a doula, any concerns you may have

    • Womb Care & Education: Exploring options for nutritional, herbal, physical, mental, emotional support, cycle tracking & syncing support, creative support in tending to your womb as a source of creation

    • Resource & Referral Sharing: Support with building a community support plan, health & wellness practitioners, podcasts, support groups, etc.

    *Note on language:

    To me, “womb” can encompass the physical uterus, and also a conceptual space of a source of creation within any body…“womb” as a source, of creation, of life. womb is uterus / source / sacral energy. Beyond the uterus, the womb transcends anatomy. I believe that people without uteruses can also have a womb to nurture, and that the “womb” is not inherently connected to identifying as a “woman”.

    While the womb is not uterus specific in my use of it, this offering is informed by evidence based information specific to the physical/hormonal needs of those who have a uterus, regardless of gender identity.

    I practice mirroring language, meaning I will mirror/reflect the language that you use to describe your own body/experience.  If the use of “womb” is not a word that resonates with you, we will have time to explore, affirm, and utilize your own naming choices. I am here to hold you as you navigate your relationship with your womb in whatever way resonates with you. 

In addition to education, preparation, advocacy, resource & referral sharing, rest, nourishment, & relational support infused in the full spectrum doula offerings, I also utilize sound, breathwork, and meditation to support your comfort, mindfulness, and stress relief throughout your womb, pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum journey.

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Sliding scale available for Black, Indigenous, and/or migrant folks as needed.

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Synergy Support Space engages with a deeply client-centered approach uniquely curating sessions using your desires and needs as the compass to create a container for a pregnancy, labor, birth, postpartum, and reproductive experience where you feel held and supported.

No client, no pregnancy, no birthing experience, no postpartum, no womb journey is the same.

FAQs

  • I have been working with families officially as a full spectrum doula since 2022. Supporting others throughout their reproductive journeys has been with me for as long as a I can remember. This calling goes as far back as attending the birth of my brother at 6 years old.

    In addition to my work as a Full Spectrum Doula, I have been a caregiver for families with infants for over 10 years.

  • I have supported clients throughout the full reproductive range including womb support for individuals, 10+ birthing families throughout their prenatal/birthing journeys and 40+ families throughout their postpartum journeys. I have supported a wide range of birthing people through varying experiences some of which include epidural-supported births, planned or emergency cesareans, unmedicated hospital births, inductions, high risk pregnancies, navigating having a baby in the NICU, raising twins, having an undesired pregnancy, and holding space for those who have experienced loss.

  • I currently offer my services in California (San Diego, Los Angeles, and East Bay) and NYC.

    If you live outside of these areas and would still like to work together, please feel free to connect with me! I am open to travel anywhere under aligned circumstances.

  • Yes! Postpartum is forever! Whether you are 2 days or 20 years postpartum, you deserve postpartum support!

    I offer doula services at any stage in your postpartum journey that you feel you need or desire support. I will meet you where you’re at in creating sessions that feel relevant to you and the postpartum stage you are in.

WHAT FAMILIES & CLIENTS ARE SAYING…

  • Taylor is an incredible force. She is a deeply connected and spiritual person—she has the ability to put all beings to ease. We used to joke that no one made our child sleep as deeply as Taylor, and that gift comes from the connection our child felt to her inner spirit that resonates calm, love and peace. We are so pleased to work with her and know she will be a tremendous help in the childbirth and childcare journey of many in our community. As a Black mom, physician, and community advocate, Taylor is the real deal. We feel blessed to have her in our circle.

    ~Dr. Stella Safo, MD MPH

  • Taylor has a gift for caring for others in a thoughtful, compassionate way. Not only is she someone I trust implicitly with the wellbeing of my daughter, but I enjoy the grounding energy she brings with her when she enters my home. The birthing process and postpartum period can be a vulnerable time. Taylor offers support without judgement or pressure. Whether it was comforting my fussy infant, helping me navigate lactation and feeding struggles, or guiding me through the unpredictability of early parenthood, Taylor brought a sense of peace and reassurance that I know will be invaluable to other expectant and new parents. She has the heart for this work.

    ~Anna H.

  • Taylor is incredibly special to our family. We trust her completely. Taylor is an amazing communicator, a thoughtful and attuned caretaker and an absolute joy to be around. This work is so intimate and there is literally no one who I think does it better than Taylor. Having her in our lives during early parenthood has been an absolute blessing.

    ~Zhanna Gerlovina

  • Taylor has been watching our (now) 3 year old daughter for most of my daughter’s life. We are so grateful to work with her.Taylor has a warm, calming demeanor and a steadiness and confidence in everything she does. From the time my daughter was little, she has soothed her and made her feel safe and loved. Taylor is wonderful to communicate with, knowledgeable, consistently reliable, and mature beyond her years. Taylor exudes confidence, focus, and decisiveness in a way such that if I ever have another child, I would be honored to have Taylor provide doula services. 

    ~Mackenzie Schoonmaker

  • Taylor is warm and caring to our baby. Never flustered by difficult moments. She’s thoughtful and clear in her communication with us. She’s become part of the family.

    ~Eli Bosworth