Karla provide primary care for the whole person across the lifespan from newborns to elders, including preventative and complimentary care.
Practitioners
Summer Waters, L.Ac., NTP, CGP, Acupuncturist, Nutritional Therapist
As an Acupuncturist, Herbalist, Nutritional Therapist, & GAPS Practitioner, Summer supports patients' health with Chinese medicine & lifestyle counseling.
Heidi Bornholdt-Way, LMT, Massage Therapist
Heidi's clients leave the office ready to continue the healing that begins on the massage table with self-help massage techniques they can use at home.
Dr. Julianne Newman, DC, Chiropractor
Dr. Julie specializes in Network Spinal Analysis (NSA), a cutting edge approach to help people not only heal from their ailments but reorganize how their body-mind works.
Amy Allen, IBCLC, Lactation Consultant
Amy's passion is to support families by providing encouragement, information, and current breastfeeding research to help them reach their own breastfeeding goals.
Lizabeth LeVine, BCST, CranioSacral Therapist
Lizabeth is passionate about helping individuals heal trauma, especially at the beginning and end of life.
Laura Ferrara, LMT, Massage Therapist
Laura helps men, women and children relieve tension and deepen body awareness with healing touch.
Becky Hale, M.S., Psychotherapist
Becky has practiced psychotherapy with families for over 20 years. She provides a respectful, caring and playful healing experience that is lasting and self sustaining.
Midwives
Augustine Colebrook, CPM, LM
Augustine is a Nationally Certified Professional Midwife and an Oregon State Licensed Midwife serving all of Southern Oregon.
Amy Hendrickson, CPM, LM
Amy brings a depth of knowledge and experience, a quiet, loving demeanor and a boundless desire to support pregnant and parenting mothers.
Melissa Hilson, CNM, MSN
Melissa is a Certified Nurse Midwife who is passionate about helping people through the two of the most powerful transitions in life: birth and death.
Aimee Disharoon, CPM
Quiet and unabtrusive, funny and joyful; Aimee is a blessing to all new mothers.
Heather Faith, CPM
Heather's innate trust in the birthing process leads her to be with women in labor, and she loves seeing women claim their independence and power in birth.
Cara Frantz, DEM
Cara caught her first baby as an Emergency Medical Technician, and completed her midwifery training at Wise Women Care Associates in 2012
Midwifery Students
Andrea Dodson
Andrea has extensive personal experience with childbirth, as the mother of eight wonderful children, all but one of whom were born under the care of a midwife.
Jennifer Johnson
After taking a sabbatical following her own birth at Trillium in December 2011, Jennifer returned to the practice October 2012 to finish her midwifery training.
Audrie Kingzett
Audrie is passionate about providing exceptional postpartum care and excells at helping moms breastfeed successfully.
Kerensa Ritchie
Kerensa has a strong clinical background, coming to WWCA as a student midwife while completing her training as a Registered Nurse at Oregon Health Sciences University.
Andraya Somerville, BS, RN
Andraya thought she would wait to become a midwife later in her life, but the call of midwifery was too powerful to deny.
Staff
Jessica Gitzen, Receptionist
Jessica is a people person with an infectious laugh who has spent most of her working life in healthcare administration.
Sherri Breslin, Billing Manager, Office Manager (Redwood Clinic)
Sherri uses her business savvy to ensure that our Wise Women are reimbursed for the valuable services they provide.
Alison Duren-Sutherland, Office Manager (Crater Lake Clinic)
Alison is passionate about using her skills as an administrator to support midwifery, out of hospital birth, and alternative healthcare.
Melissa Cate, Birth Photographer
It is the raw beauty and emotion of birth that Melissa loves to document most, and she is excited to join the Wise Women team as a birth photographer.
Jamie Lurker, Event Coordinator
Jamie is excited to meet the needs of the Wise Women community with our busy schedule of events, classes and peer support groups.
KC Mahoney, Retail Manager
KC manages our Wise Women Wellness Shop, and brings with her years of experience at the Ashland Food Co-op, along with work as a birth doula and student midwife.
