Practitioners
Augustine Colebrook, CPM, LM
Augustine is a Nationally Certified Professional Midwife and an Oregon State Licensed Midwife serving all of Southern Oregon.
Full Bio Aimee Disharoon, DEM
Quiet and unabtrusive, funny and joyful; Aimee is a blessing to all new mothers.
Full Bio Karla Reinhart, FNP-C
Karla in a Family Nurse Practitioner who is passionate about providing care to the whole person, including preventative and complimentary care, across the lifespan from newborns to elders.
Full Bio Laura Ferrara, LMT lic# 16877
Laura brings a grounded awareness and a bountiful joyfulness to her practice and thrills in serving men, women and children to relieve tension and reach a higher level of body awareness through healing touch.
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Lisa Afshar, CPM, LM
Lisa has been amazed by the transformative power that Mayan Abdominal Massage has on pregnancy and labor. She is excited to make this modality available at Trillium Waterbirth Center.
Full Bio Becky Hale, M.S.
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.
Full Bio Amy Hendrickson, CPM, LM
Amy was hired in 2010 as an additional midwife to meet the growing demand for midwifery in Medford. She brings a depth of experience, a quiet, loving demeanor and a boundless desire to support pregnant and parenting mothers.
Full Bio 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.
Full Bio Dr. Julianne Newman, DC
Dr. Julie specializes in Network Spinal Analysis (NSA), a cutting edge approach to help people not only heal from their aliments but reorganize how their body-mind works.
Full Bio Summer Waters, L.Ac., NTP, CGP
Summer is a Licensed Acupuncturist, herbalist, Nutritional Therapist, and GAPS Practitioner who supports patients in achieving vibrant health with Chinese medicine, nutrition, and lifestyle counseling.
Full Bio Mary Yount, MM
Mary facilitates the body's natural healing process with Reiki, and addresses the root cause of learning and behavioral challenges she observed during her years as an educator with HANDLE® .
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Amy Allen, IBCLC Candidate, Lactation Counselor, Postpartum Doula Coordinator
It is my lifelong passion to support families by providing encouragement, information, and current breastfeeding research to help them reach their own breastfeeding goals.
Full Bio Isis Barker, Parent Educator, Midwifery Apprentice
Isis currently leads our Art of Babies Series, serves families as a birth doula, and recently joined our team of midwifery apprentices.
Full Bio Sherri Breslin, Billing Manager
Sherri comes to Wise Women with years of experience working in medical finance administration throughout the Pacific Northwest.
Full Bio Brier Campbell, Midwifery Assistant
Brier has a passion for serving the under-served and especially working with the Spanish-speaking community.
Full Bio 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.
Full Bio Alison Duren-Sutherland, Office Manager
Alison is passionate about using her skills as an administrator to support midwifery, out of hospital birth, and alternative healthcare.
Full Bio Heather Faith, Midwifery Assistant
Heather has been a student of midwifery for years attending births from the Costa Rican rainforest to hot springs in the California desert.
Full Bio Grace Fox, Event Manager and Doula
Studying to one day be a midwife, Grace currently gains experience in the field as a birth Doula. She is fluent in American Sign Language and is a Certified Infant Sign Language Instructor.
Full Bio Cara Frantz, Midwifery Assistant
Cara caught her first baby as an Emergency Medical Technician, and brings her strong clinical sense along with her passion for holistic healthcare to the Wise Women midwifery practice.
Full Bio Audrie Kingzett, Midwifery Apprentice
Audrie is passionate about providing exceptional postpartum care and excells at helping moms breastfeed successfully.
Full Bio Jenny Johnson, Doula
Jenny was first fascinated with her mother’s midwifery books as a child, and has enjoyed studying pregnancy and birth for thirteen years.
Full Bio Jacqueline Lynch, Midwifery Assistant
Jacqueline got started on the path to midwifery while serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Benin, West Africa and is fluent in French.
Full Bio KC Mahoney, Midwifery Apprentice
KC was thrilled to accept an apprenticeship with Wise Women Care Associates in March 2011 to officially become part of the midwifery community.
Full Bio Angie Renick-Hayes, Doula
Angie believes that if we can create an environment for a woman to be empowered, she will be transformed forever. Angie speaks some Spanish and has been attending births for the last twelve years.
Full Bio Jessica Stapp, Doula
She offers mamas experience and a true passion for birth. Jessica speaks conversational German.
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