Hi & hello! My name is Ashley (or Ash). I use she or they pronouns, and I live in Madison, WI with my sweet partner, my snuggly dog, and my demanding rabbit. I enjoy making soup (all year long!), sleeping late, watching Twin Peaks, and wandering through thrift stores.

My journey into reproductive / somatic care work has been (and continues to be!) a messy unfolding of my interests, strengths, struggles, silly coincidences, and a touch of magic here & there. Before it became my career & vocation, the journey led me to many different places, including: volunteering at nursing homes, juvenile detention centers, and community centers during a “gap year” before college; working at a retreat center in the Cascade Mountains where I did the laundry, sorted the mail, and lived in very intentional community; living & working at a small farm growing veggies through WWOOFing, and finally landing in Madison, WI where I worked in restaurants & grocery stores. Through those experiences I learned a lot about communication, community, the cycles found in nature, boundaries, and caring for people’s physical needs.

The work started taking shape for me when I trained as a Fertility Awareness Educator after learning to track my own cycle (which totally blew my mind!) and started offering community based classes for adults that included info about how the reproductive system works, breaking down myths & shame that people held about their cycles, and supporting people in feeling more “body literate.” I later added full spectrum doula work to my offerings after attending the births of my niece & nephew (which also blew my mind!) and receiving doula support through my own abortion (another mind blowing experience!) and worked full time as a doula for several years. Through my own experience with anxiety & burnout I found somatic therapy, and eventually learned how to offer those tools to my clients as well, specifically TRE (tension release exercises) and SE (Somatic Experiencing). After taking a break from doula work for a few years, I currently offer 1:1 somatic coaching, support for the full spectrum of reproductive experiences (birth, abortion, miscarriage, infertility, postpartum), as well as medical doula support, classes, and zines… and will likely be tip-toeing more into the world of death doula support and hands-on bodywork in the future.