Spiritual care for
the road to motherhood.
Perinatal chaplaincy provides spiritual care and emotional support during your fertility journey, pregnancy, and postpartum period, or when navigating pregnancy loss.
The journey to motherhood is one of transformation.
For some, the path is relatively straight. But for many of us, it comes with twists and turns: long journeys to pregnancy, or unexpectedly short ones; facing the grief of loss, and carrying that into subsequent pregnancies; the worry that comes with complications, or being classified high-risk; anxiety for pregnancy and birth.
For all of us, no matter the journey, matrescence (or the transition to motherhood) is a moment of radical change. You, your body, and your spirit are adapting to make way for new life: the new life within you, and your new life as a mother. You deserve care and compassionate support for that journey.
I’m Sara, and I serve women through fertility journeys, pregnancy, postpartum, and loss.
My own life and family story is woven with tales of deep longing for, and transformation in, motherhood. Through my mom’s experience with late-term loss and my own journey with fertility, loss, and pregnancy thirty years later, I know intimately how the experience of longing for, grieving, and experiencing motherhood touches and transforms us.
I also recognize matrescence (or the process of becoming a mother) as way more than a physical journey. Fertility, pregnancy, birth, and loss touch every part of our lives—physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
My training is in companioning and pastoral care for birth and the perinatal period. I’m also a certified Birth and Bereavement Doula (SBD) and am trained in Mentoring and Birth Art through Birthing from Within. You can read more about my background here.
As a perinatal chaplain, I offer two kinds of services: pastoral care and meaning making.
Pastoral care
In pastoral care, it’s my honor to walk alongside you on your journey of, and to, motherhood. My role is to hold space, listen deeply, ask questions, and engage tooling to help you move through areas where you feel stuck.
Meaning making
I also offer a few specialized services to help you process and draw meaning from your experiences with fertility, pregnancy, and birth. These experiences use therapeutic art practices and story work to help you engage with your beliefs, work through fears, and process or prepare for major experiences like birth.
