Heather Baker, CIMI, CMD, CMT, NCTMB

My practice focuses on supporting women in finding their center. Specifically during the child bearing years. However, anytime a woman is in transition, I hold space for her to find where she is again. I offer somatic bodywork, classes herbal consultations and experience as a doula to families.

I have a BA in Psychology. I have graduate experience in Perinatal Psychology from the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute and Botanical medicine from Tai Sophia. I have been a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist since 1996 and a Labor Doula (DONA trained), since 2001. In the same year, I completed a 250 hours program with The Star Institute, www.rimastar.com. This training allowed me to call myself a Certified Massage Doula.

The doula and graduate program opened the world of pre and perinatal psychology to me. As I read and learned from authors, such as David Chamberlain and Joseph Chilton Pearce, about the latest discoveries in understanding babies and how they develop in and out of the womb. The programs also offered the spiritual aspects of change that occurs for us women, as we become mothers or in other times of our life.

I am an apprentice to Dr. Rosita Arvigo and am honored to continue this line of healing for women and their families. I have been learning about herbal, nutrition and aromatherapies since 1996, and feel it holds a positive place alone or in partnership to Western medicine.

I am an apprentice home birth Midwife through the National College of Midwifery since 2007. I plan to sit for Narm exam in 2011. I choose this traditional approach in caring for women because of the the informed choices given to women and their families. Respect and medical based evidence in making a decision is the fundamental right of every person.

I am a proud homebirth mother of Zane and in awe of the remarkable healing capacity we all have within us.