Tatiana Koontz
LM, CPM, LCCE
Tatiana is a California Medical Board Licensed Midwife, Certified Professional Midwife, monitrice (advanced birth doula), postpartum doula, placenta encapsulator, and a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator. She owns a local home birth practice and is a birth assistant at Best Start Birth Center. Tatiana is committed to continuing education and has taken the Innate Postpartum Training, Spinning Babies, Rebozo Certification, breastfeeding classes, placenta encapsulation, and other advanced midwifery trainings. She maintains current Neonatal Resuscitation and BLS for Healthcare Providers certifications. She has experience with families who’ve used fertility assistance, surrogacy, multiples, single mothers, LBGTQ+, VBAC, cesarean, waterbirth, and postpartum mood disorders.
Tatiana has devoted her life to birth and postpartum work since she trained as a doula in 2006 and has been privileged to walk with hundreds of families on parts of their special journeys. She has a deep love for postpartum support, helping families transition as they integrate their babies and overcome challenges. Tatiana has a passion for birth options, informed consent, improving connections within families, and aiding them in building their community both before and after birth. Tatiana is a dog lover that is fluent in Spanish after living in South America for several years. She loves to travel whenever possible, watch movies outdoors, and enjoy the sunshine.
*While the professional birth and postpartum doulas listed on the website are carefully screened and selected by the Birth Education Center, they are not employees. All doulas invest in the program by paying a yearly listing fee. By entering into contract with your doula, you do so at your own risk. The doulas are responsible for the means and methods for providing non-medical support to families, within their scope of practice.