Simply put, our family loves Caitlin! I hired her for postpartum support, and she amazes me with…read morehow gentle and loving she is with my little one. I trust her completely with my son, and even my older son loves her. When I tell him that Caitlin is coming, he exclaims, "Yay!!! Caitlin!" :) My husband is also getting a full 8 hours worth of sleep, and he asks me upon waking up: when is Caitlin coming for another night? If you're looking for rest during the day or night, call Caitlin. Personable, sweet, supportive, and loving, Caitlin is the best!

Caitlin was referred to me by a fellow doula and she was nothing short of amazing. We had planned…read moreto meet and discuss my birthing plan a few weeks before my expected due date but my baby girl decided to come early. Without meeting prior to the birth, Caitlin responded to our call in the middle of the night and drove from SF to Redwood City to assist us in the birthing process. She arrived ready and energetic while remaining calm and soothing. She listened to me and addressed all my needs and became a liaison between my family and the hospital staff. We were very grateful for her presence. Caitlin also offered to keep and freeze my placenta for encapsulation. At the hospital, Caitlin was also a lifesaver by installing our car seat! After the birth, Caitlin followed up with us and helped us for the first few weeks at home with the baby. From teaching me about infant carriers and breast pumps to discussing how the body recovers after birth, Caitlin was an expert. You can tell that this is her passion. I thank Caitlin for being an amazing doula and an overall wonderful person to have during this new chapter in our lives. My family is the most important thing to me and I trust Caitlin with my precision baby girl! Thank you so much Caitlin!

I am a big fan of abdominal massage to heal all sorts of things both physical and emotional. It is…read moresuch a balancing and grounding experience and Francine is truly a healer in everything she does. Anytime you are feeling out-of-sorts Francine's treatments can put you back into your body and help lessen the stress of life by revitalizing and nourishing your soul.

I received more than a massage from Francine. I received a healing. I first met Francine over a…read moreyear ago when she was the assistant midwife for one of my best friends births. I had heard very good things about her and I knew that she was really known and respected in our community. This dear friend gifted me a massage with Francine following the birth of my own baby. I could not have been more excited and in need of a massage as you can imagine. Two and a half months of breast feeding, sleeping with, and carrying a new baby can really leave you with a sore back and arms. I felt very safe to express my emotions and concerns with Francine around what I was looking for in a massage. She normalized all of my disclosures and was very empathetic as she is a midwife and mother herself. I feel that Francine combined many techniques in her massage to help me realign sore areas in my body and I am certain that she also helped me call my spirit back from wherever it had gone during labor. I had many insights and left her home feeling refreshed emotionally and spiritually. I sincerely believe every mother deserves to treat herself to a massage with Francine. As a mental health therapist, I believe it is a necessity to experience the release and realignment that she can intuitively provide so well. I can't wait to treat my husband and mother to a massage with her as well. Thank you Francine.

Alison is incredible! I have followed her to several different locations for acupuncture over the…read moreyears, and she is absolutely the best I've ever seen. Whether she's treating my migraines, chronic shoulder pain, or sleep issues, I always leave feeling better and wake up feeling like a new person. I recommend her to all of my friends and clients. She is so kind and professional and you truly feel like you're in great hands. Thank you, Alison!

I've been seeing Alison for acupuncture for years, and I honestly can't recommend her enough. She's…read morehelped me through chronic back issues that I struggled with for so long, and the relief I've gotten from working with her has been life-changing. Beyond the physical care, she's also supported me through some really difficult emotional and traumatic periods in my life. She has such a calming presence and creates a space where you feel safe, heard, and genuinely cared for. Alison is not only incredibly skilled, but deeply intuitive and compassionate. I trust her completely, which says everything. She's hands down the best practitioner I've ever worked with, and I'm so grateful to have had her in my life all these years.

We hired Jenny to be our postpartum doula with the idea that she would be with us for about 3…read moreweeks. Fast forward to 4+ months of Jenny helping me find my way through new motherhood, maternity leave and the physical experience of being postpartum. After the first day I knew that having Jenny in our lives, mainly as my support, would be hands down the best decision we made as new parents. Right from the beginning she intuitively knew how to come in with her gentle and kind spirit and be helpful. She would support me in taking care of myself, watching the baby so I could eat, shower, sleep. She was happy to help with laundry, dishes or cooking. She was such a wealth of knowledge when I needed someone to bounce my new-mom anxieties off of. She is an AMAZING masseuse. She was great at giving little shoulder and feet rubs when she was at the house and I've also hired her for two full body massages, which were amazing. She checked all of the boxes in terms of helping out with the baby and around the house. But most importantly for me, she was someone I felt completely comfortable being vulnerable with. If you're someone who is used to handling things quite well on your own, motherhood can be a trip... Jenny made it easy for this go-getter to admit fear or confusion and ask for help. I never felt that her presence required more energy on my part (an introverts dream) she seemed to know if I was in the mood to chat, or just needed quiet without me having to say so. I could literally write 20 paragraphs about Jenny and our experience with her. We called her my son's "best friend," she feels like family to us and I could not recommend her more highly. If you hire Jenny you'll only be sad that you can't turn her into your child's nanny and keep her forever, like we tried to.

Perspective from a new dad:…read more My wife and I hired Jenny because we felt that she understood our concerns around childbirth; while we knew we'd have great healthcare in the Bay Area, we wanted to make sure we had an advocate for our family in the delivery room (not just agents of the hospital). At first we weren't sure what kind of doula would be right for us, as we were a couple of scientists looking for an experienced hand to guide us through the process, not... hippies. With her calm and gentle demeanor, Jenny was more than accommodating during our initial meeting. Throughout our pregnancy, Jenny provided us the research behind any suggestions she made and wasn't dogmatic about any one approach. As a prospective father, Jenny listened to me and made my concerns heard, too. Of course, I played a much smaller part in the engagement, but I appreciated that I wasn't an afterthought. Jenny was very helpful in giving both of us tips and exercises to do to prepare my wife for childbirth. Where Jenny's services really shined was, of course, during the big event. We called her when my wife started feeling early contractions on a Saturday morning and into the evening (10pm) and throughout the night (2am to 4am). She was responsive to text and phone calls throughout. We went to UCSF to see how dilated my wife was, and unfortunately we found out she wasn't that far along, so we returned home to Oakland. The next morning, things were _really_ picking up. We called Jenny over and my wife's water broke on Jenny's way over. When Jenny arrived, she assessed the situation and said we should call and start heading to a hospital. Then, the hospital recommended we call 911. While I coordinated the paramedics and firefighters that were taking my laboring wife into an ambulance, Jenny was coaching my wife and helping her deal with the intensity of the surges. I would not have been able to give my wife the support she needed without Jenny's help. The paramedics didn't think imminent birth was likely at all, but Jenny trusted my wife's instincts, despite the fact that she wasn't showing the traditional contraction pattern that indicates active labor! Jenny continued to help her through the contractions from the front seat of the ambulance. Ten minutes later, as that ambulance flung open its doors at the hospital, out came our baby's head. One more push and our son was born healthy as my wife was being rolled into the Emergency Department! Jenny helped us have the most wonderful (and adventurous) birth story, and we're so thankful for her help.

I met Charisse (Dr. Charisse Balance, .. but so unpretentious and assimilating - she never…read moreintroduced herself as such), .. as my Anatomy Instructor, in my Yoga Teacher Training, at Point Reyes Yoga, in Point Reyes Station, California - with Nicholas Giacomini (MC Yogi) & Amanda Giacomini (10,000 Buddhas). As I helped Charisse with her artificial skeleton assistant friend, (sweetly dubbed 'Bone-ita') :-) from her car to class .. I already was falling in love with her. She was (and is still .. so much so), cute, sweet, smart, approachable, .. used words to subtly let me know she was 'getting' me, .. and gorgeous. It's ridiculous to mention her appearance twice, .. but really, .. it's no wonder she was selected as the model throughout and on the cover of this new awesome yoga book that was just published. S/o to : "Yoga Myths: What You Need to Learn and Unlearn for a Safe and Healthy Yoga Practice", by Judith Hanson Lasater, Ph.D. (I have no affiliation) Speaking of yoga - she practices it, teaches it, .. and lives it. AND, she integrates her years of education, skill, and professional and personal life INTO it, .. beautifully and interestingly intertwined with physiotherapy. A month.ish later, while still hanging out in the Bay Area, CA (I'm a current Nomad, .. from Chicago), .. the chronic pain I've experienced for decades (I've been diagnosed with Degenerative Disk Disease, .. and all the sh*t that goes along with that, throughout the body), .. took a turn toward the super wtf acute version pain. So I contacted Charisse to schedule a phone consultation. I texted with her, while I was at Stanford Hospital, .. but then spoke with her when out. Talking with her was like doing so with a good Friend, .. the smart, reassuring, helpful kind. She incorporated an individualized holistic approach .. sort of augmenting the treatment suggested by the hospital and doctors, .. and addressed my body, mind and spirit. As a woman, mother, yogini, *and* physiotherapist, - she was able to share these offerings with an understanding of the science of movement, biomechanics, kinesiology and anatomy. She seemed to have a respect for the entirety of my person - not just the diagnosis. She was sensitive to the fact that other factors may have contributed to my physical and emotional challenges (shout out to trauma, .. *&* fascia which is likely sort of storing it - my words). And then offered ways to incorporate various tools to work with that - including the suggestion that I look into other teachers and practitioners (very cool), .. and do my own independent research. I love Charisse. And appreciate her dearly - especially for her calming, assuring demeanor, .. during my time of need. And would recommend her for Yoga, Yoga Instruction, or Holistic Health / Physiotherapy Consulting .. anyday.

After having a few friends recommend working with a pelvic floor therapist before giving birth, I…read moreset up an appointment with Charisse for a perineal preparation visit during my third trimester. This was the best thing that I did to prepare for giving birth. Charisse was incredibly professional and supportive. I learned more about the anatomy of delivering a baby, my body, and what my preferences would be for laboring during my appointment with Charisse than the birthing class I took through the hospital. I came away from our appointment excited for my labor and delivery. I highly recommend working with Charisse during your third trimester.

Diana was an amazing postpartum night nurse for my twins! She was professional, kind, organized and…read moreSO HELPFUL! She was always on time, made sure to do a thorough check in with me when she arrived to see how the babies were doing and did so much while she was here during the night! She helped me organize clothes, prepared bottles, cleaned and washed all kinds of baby items, folded laundry and truly made me and my babies feel so loved and safe. I only wish I have met her sooner and was able to work with her longer. She gave my the initial push to sleep train and did the entire first night for me with my twins and wrote down every check in with times and feedings. I will always be so thankful for Diana and her amazing care! She will always be part of my family

I worked with Soi through Ayus and had the loveliest post-partum experience. She was so patient…read morewith me and made the loneliness of past-partum entirely go away. I received abhyanga, yoni steaming and belly binding which were all so essential to my recovery. A few weeks post birth, we incorporated light yogi and pelvic breath work which truly helped me be in a much better state and a better mother for my kids. Highly recommend working with their doulas!

Ayus has been a blessing in my postpartum. The services and the items provided by them is great and…read moremade my healing journey smooth and faster. They are very attentive to your needs and tailor their approach accordingly. I highly recommend them.

Absolute sweetheart!…read more I'm shocked that more people haven't written a review for Rose and her incredible capabilities. I've done my share of acupuncture and let me tell you, Rose is the best. She very gentle, very encouraging, and totally professional. She puts all your worries at ease and always makes you so relaxed you will literally fall asleep with needles in various parts of your body with no problem at all. She's very educated in woman's issues and is always very clear with all the explanations and questions you might have. If you're looking for true professionalism, a gentle touch, and personal experience, what are you waiting for? Call Rose!

This review is long over due…read more First and most importantly, I started seeing Rose in June of 2011 and by November 2011 I was pregnant. Before seeing Rose we had been trying to get pregnant for over a year and although we did get pregnant it was followed quickly by a devastating miscarriage . When I became pregnant again in November having Rose by my side was just the calming I needed, she is so knowledgeable and kind. I feel extremely blessed to have her as part of my "team." I am now 24 weeks pregnant with my first little boy and I couldn't feel happier and more grateful.