Serving all families in all birth settings in the greater Phoenix area.
WE ARE A TEAM OF DOULAS IN PHOENIX, AZ SUPPORTING AND EMPOWERING POSITIVE BIRTH & POSTPARTUM EXPERIENCES
Alyssa has always had a nurturing spirit and her role as a doula evolved seamlessly. She is passionate about birthing families having choices, resources, and receiving the very best possible care during this monumental transformation as an individual, mother and as their outside relationships evolve.
After 9 years of attending over 400 births, Alyssa is now taking a limited amount of clients to lead her expanding team of doulas. The two roles that are calling her to continue growing and learning are being a business mentor to new doulas in the community and be a more available Mom. Her children are getting older (11 &13!) and being present for them is incredibly important during this fleeting time.
Alyssa has a heart to love, honor, and serve all souls from all walks of life. She will continue to make inclusivity at the core of Cherry Blossom. She is experienced with un-medicated birth, VBAC, high risk, high anxiety, loss, LGBTQA families, and fertility struggles.
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The Cherry Blossom Doula Story
founded by alyssa leon in 2013
About
"Birth work is all-encompassing and support is a necessity!"
-Alyssa Leon, Owner
Our Story:
From the beginning
Fueled by the mission of providing birthing families the choices, resources, and the very best possible care during their monumental transformation as an individual, mother and as they welcome a new soul to their family.
Alyssa created Cherry Blossom Doula Services in 2013 with nothing more than a deep knowing that she was supposed to help pregnant women as a little girl.
Over the next 4 years, Alyssa continued supporting families in all birth settings and in 2018, decided to expand Cherry Blossom and brought on another labor doula due to the increase in clientele.
Before Alyssa became a certified doula, she obtained her childbirth educator certification and lactation educator training, while working at a local obgyn office teaching group prenatal classes. Alyssa applied for a mentorship program at a local birth center and continued attending births as a doula.
Following a passion in supporting birthing families.
2013
2015-2018
2014
More
2020 was the most challenging season that Cherry Blossom team had ever weathered. Although there was a lot of unknown, it solidified how important community was and the team became even stronger!
In 2021, Alyssa co-founded the Root and Rise Collective, which has provided a warm and professional community space for clients to attend appointments, monthly group prenatal meet ups, free bi-weekly postpartum social groups and offer many more classes! The product line for pregnancy and postpartum boxes was launched and are loving the organic collaborations with other providers to better support our families and community.
We will continue growing at an organic pace that is led by our clients and their needs. Cherry Blossom will be expanding to other locations in the valley, creating more opportunities to make an impactful difference in the greater Phoenix area.
In 2019, Cherry Blossom added Postpartum Doula services with families needing more support after they brought their sweet babes home and opened their first office.
2020
2019
2021
Back
2022 & Beyond
Providing the birth experience you desire on your terms
unique services
7
All committed to supporting and educating the birthing community
11+
Placenta prints, cord keepsake, tinctures and capsules.
placentas encapsulated
AMAZING TEAM MEMBERS + GROWING
800+
Including hospital/cesarean, birth center and home births
births attended
1,000+
Assisting & loving on families as a labor doula
years
8
labor, postpartum doula, birth photography, lifestyle photography, placenta encapsulation, childbirth education and labor & postpartum box services
meet the team
My journey into birth work did not happen overnight or by accident. I worked on completing the nursing prerequisites and volunteered at Chandler Hospital in the Postpartum Depression Support Group. Shortly after, I trained at Southwest institute of healing arts in Swedish and Prenatal massage and Reiki energy work.
The labors and births of my children were soul changing, and both equally unique! I took a break from school and became certified through CAPPA as a Childbirth Educator and taught childbirth classes all over the valley. I felt once I unlocked the door to show my full potential, more opportunities than I could have imagined came my way, and this is how I landed in doula work.
In 2013 I started assisting families as a birth doula and, as of 2022, have ATTENDED OVER 400 BIRTHS. I am experienced in all birth settings (including hospital/cesarean, birth center and home births). I have always had a nurturing spirit and my role as a doula evolved seamlessly.
I am passionate about birthing families having choices, resources, and receiving the very best possible care during this monumental transformation as an individual, mother and as their outside relationships evolve.
As Cherry Blossom has continued growing, I am now taking a limited amount of clients. The mentorship and leadership roles of the Cherry Blossom team are calling me to continue evolving and learning. My children are getting older (11 &13!) and being present for them is incredibly important during this fleeting time.
Alyssa has a heart to love, honor, and serve all souls from all walks of life. She will continue to make inclusivity at the core of Cherry Blossom. She is experienced with un-medicated birth, VBAC, high risk, high anxiety, fertility struggles, loss, BIPOC, and LGBTQA families.
Alyssa
"My passion is supporting women through natural minded birth, encouraging and watching them transform into a wiser, stronger and more beautiful version of themselves."
@cherryblossom_doula
Owner, Labor Doula & Birth Photographer
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Kristy is a fun and full of life Birth Doula, Photographer, and Placenta Encapsulator. It was always written in the stars that Kristy would fall into the area of supporting women and birth work. Kristy grew up In Northern California in a hippy vibing town right outside of coastal Santa Cruz. She grew up surrounded by the flower children of the 60’s where Kristy soaked up their feminist points of view, body autonomy rights, women’s liberation, and basic human rights for all people. Attending ASU, she earned her BS in Sociology and has been in the desert ever since with a few stints of living in Kailua, Hawaii and San Francisco, California. Besides all things birthy – Kristy shares a love for beach time with her family, concerts, plants, podcasts, & documentaries.
Kristy has welcomed over 300 babies and has been a Birth Doula since she was certified in 2013. Before joining the Cherry Blossom team two years ago she spent time growing as a birth doula by assisting a homebirth midwife, working at a birth center as a transfer doula, hosting many postpartum groups, along with owning her very own small doula business. As a Birth Doula she provides warm & nurturing support with a very calming presence. Empowering clients with correct birthing knowledge and complete body autonomy is extremely important to her. She is also trained in the art of Spinning babies, Rebozo technique, counter pressure, massage, and body movement mechanics. Kristy has three children and has had extremely different birthing experiences with each child – from medicated to unmedicated natural birth.
Kristy loves working with all types of clients and has a passion for working with teen pregnancies and adoption situations. She was born to a teen mother and placed for adoption herself and has been very active in many different teen and adoption support groups. These groups include Search-Finders where she provided assistance to adult adoptees who were searching for their birth parents & birth parents searching for their relinquished child. Kristy also spent many years as a mentor for teen mothers that were placing their child for adoption.
Kristy
@cherryblossomdoulakristy
Labor doula & Birth Photographer
Birth Doula, Photographer, & Placenta Encapsulator
next
Megan is in an incredibly passionate DONA certified Birth Doula and student herbalist that has been actively supporting Phoenix families in their journey to a beautiful birth experience for the past 4 years. Born and raised in Phoenix, AZ Megan shares a love for birth, plants, her dogs, and this beautiful desert that we call home.
As a birth doula, she provides complete emotional and physical support for families before, during, and after birth. Megan believes that when people feel empowered during the birth of their children, they can begin parenthood with positive energy and loving hearts. She supports birthing people by meeting their emotional, physical and informational needs, while also supporting partners and other support people that are attending or involved in the birth process.
Megan is a birth justice advocate and is very involved in harm reduction of all kinds as this is one of the things that she is most passionate about. She actively works towards de-stigmatizing people who use substances, reducing harm to womxn and people who birth and educating people on their options while being there for them to help reduce the chances of abuse. She has supported L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ folx, people who are in recovery, polyamorous/open families and those who are stigmatized by society in various ways and she strongly believes that all birthing people should be treated with kindness and respect, regardless of their race, gender, or socioeconomic status.
Megan
@cherryblossomdoulamegan
Labor Doula Director, Labor Doula, Birth Photographer
Labor Doula
next
Birth is not a clinical procedure but a life-changing initiation and rite of passage deserving utmost reverence. As a doula, Hannah holds space for women to connect with their desires, release fear, and step into a sacred way of welcoming and honoring life.
Hannah trained with Carriage House Birth and certified through Whapio & The Matrona, which created a holistic doula practice rooted in birth justice and the natural, physiological process of birth. Her first home birth was in support of a free-birthing mama, unmedicated and completely undisturbed. Witnessing this laboring mama fully present and accountable for her experience revealed what’s possible when a birthing body creates their own unique dance with birth. Hannah serves all birth settings and incorporates yoga, movement, visualization meditations, somatic breathwork, and trauma-informed techniques to regulate the nervous system during labor. Her methods are part of a wider spiritual practice of coming home to one's body. She is also knowledgeable about plant medicine.
Outside of Cherry Blossom, Hannah founded a local goods shop in Downtown Phoenix, is a mother to a Capricorn sun, and is in the process of releasing her second book. Hannah deeply believes that doula care should be accessed without barriers by all families, and is deeply passionate about filling a gap in care for those resource-restricted folks experiencing the lasting impact of incarceration and drug use
Hannah A.
Labor Doula
Labor Doula & Birth Photographer
next
@Hannah_CherryBlossomDoula
Jennifer Magnano is an Ayurvedic postpartum doula, integrative life coach and trauma-informed yoga instructor. She advocates for maternal-child mental health and has survived (and thrived) post two complicated pregnancies, an early and critically ill baby, and postpartum depression and anxiety.
As a chronic illness warrior for over two decades, Jennifer aims to empower women with the education necessary to create long term wellness, calm & stability beginning in the postpartum space. Self awareness, mindfulness and self care practices are the foundation of her work, including kitchen medicine; with an emphasis on gut health and simplifying ancient wisdom for all mothers of all backgrounds. Today, Jennifer leads postpartum initiatives with Cherry Blossom Doula Services & spends her spare time living her best life: reading, writing, gardening, hiking, and studying theology and natural medicine. She lives in Gilbert, Arizona with her husband of 13 years, their two miracle kids, and several rescue pets.
From 2012-14, Jennifer ran the first grant-funded yoga program in the state of Connecticut. Focusing on at-risk moms and babes, surveys showed that 67% of moms continued to use mindfulness practices at home and it deeply influenced their ability to parent with patience and grace. In December 2019, VoyagePhoenix highlighted Jennifer's work in maternal mental health. The following April, she was recognized as one the the Top 40 under 40 Women Worth Following Phoenix Edition by social influencer Alli Worthington. Jennifer released her first book called Bliss & Blue in honor of her daughter’s journey in March 2022.
Jennifer
@cherryblossompostpartum
Postpartum Doula Director, Certified Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula & Mental Health Advocate
Ayurvedic postpartum doula
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Marlène has always had a passion for helping others. A natural nurturer, she can be found helping friends and family members whenever possible. In school she was involved in many volunteer organizations. Community IMPACT matters to Marlène so very much.
Being one of the first among her friends to become a momma, she has been loving on the women in her life during their postpartum period for over a decade. Her passion to support women during this time only became stronger after her own pregnancy losses and postpartum struggles.
When introduced to the Postpartum Doula profession (a former client of Cherry Blossom founder Alyssa Leon!!) Marlène fell in love with this traditional mother-centered work.
Marlène is California born, and Arizona raised. She lives in the San Tan Valley and loves it's small town feel; is married to her best friend; and they have two wonderful blessings: their beautiful 13 year old daughter Izabella & their rainbow baby Julian who just turned four! Marlène feels incredibly blessed and is excited to begin this dream journey of empowering women and supporting families.
Marlène
@cherryblossomdoulamarlene
Postpartum Doula
Postpartum Doula
next
Grounded in her experience as a pediatric nurse, Hannah has cared for hundreds of families as they transition to life with a newborn.
She knows there are many different ways to be a good parent and loves to validate and share knowledge with her clients as they blossom into this new role.
Hannah is so excited to join Cherry Blossom as a postpartum doula. She’s seen how the postpartum period is beautiful, exciting, and also really hard! Hannah always wants her families to feel prepared and confident as they navigate postpartum recovery, newborn care, and intentionally raising those precious little humans.
Hannah specializes in supporting mental wellness, infant feeding, and unbiased education. She is so honored with each new family who asks her to join them on their postpartum adventure. She’d love to be a part of yours!
“When mothers and fathers are supported, the baby thrives, the relationship thrives, the community thrives, and our planet thrives.” - Kimberly Ann Johnson, The Fourth Trimester
Hannah Q.
Postpartum Doula
Postpartum Doula
next
@cherryblossomdoulahannah
I grew up in Montana with my amazing family. I am the tenth child out of eleven and I’m now an aunt to thirty nieces and nephews. I have always been close to my family and have had the opportunity to spend many days, weekends, and summers making priceless memories with each of them. When I found out that two of my sisters were pregnant, I wanted to gain as much knowledge as possible to support them through their exciting journey.
In 2018 I became a Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula as well as a Breastfeeding Counselor through the International Doula Institute. I have spent nearly my entire life caring for others in a personal and professional setting. I am currently a student learning to support rainbow mamas and their families with course work through SBD University. Working with children and their families in the foster care system helping them learn, grow, and thrive has also gifted me with the experience to help families through hardship. Helping the community grow by giving families, of all types, knowledge to thrive is my life mission.
Four years ago, I moved to Arizona to be with the love of my life. We enjoy spending time in nature hiking, camping, and kayaking. Together, we also love to cook and raise our two cats and Dutch Shepherd, which keeps life entertaining. We truly cherish our life together and I feel incredibly blessed to have an endless amount of love in life and I look forward to sharing
my light by working with you.
Rose
Postpartum Doula
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@cherryblossomdoularose
Aleta has spent the last 20 years advocating for herself and others in the birth world. As a military wife, she has birthed 6 children in 5 different states and one country, and has been transferring her love and knowledge to military families for over a decade. Aleta has always felt that the postpartum period is tender and vulnerable, and her heart lies with holding space for families during this time.
In 2020, Aleta and her family moved back to the Valley of the Sun as her husband prepares to retire from the US Air Force. Faced with the possibility of finally being in one place for longer than 2 years, she decided to officially jump into doula work. She is currently working on her Postpartum Doula certification through CAPPA as well as exploring a Lactation Education certification to help new mothers whose desire is to breastfeed.
Aleta’s experiences traveling the world with her family allowed her to witness that there are a million different ways to be a family. Not better or worse, just different. She prides herself on helping your family find your new rhythm after birth. She is passionate about supporting all families in their fourth trimester and is inclusive of all family dynamics. Aleta is all too familiar with the whirlwind of being sent home with a new baby and not having enough support. She has seen how even a little bit of support and education can impact postpartum recovery and set your family up to thrive! Aleta strives to be the still, calm soul that feeds your family physically, emotionally, and spiritually during your tender fourth trimester season.
Aleta
Postpartum Doula
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@cherryblossomdoulaaleta
Shaye has been on her medicine woman path for five years, she full heartedly trusts in Life, Birth, and Postpartum and that they deserve to be held with sacredness and honor. As a full spectrum birthworker and wombkeeper, she is devoted to upholding reverence for birth, breath, rebirth and the fourth trimester.
Shaye lives a womb centered life and believes that through restoring reverence for birth, we can embody and remember our birthrights to being centered in our truth, bodies, intuition, hearts and wombs; the inner wisdom within. She holds with reverence that Life is Ceremony, and feels we all deserve sacred containers that hold space for us to be fully present through the initiations of life, of birthing, and the integration of postpartum. She feels it is a great honor to hold space in this way as a doula, to bring forth an all encompassing support.
The medicine she shares is full spectrum, she holds space for healing not only in the physical, but in the mental, emotional and spiritual ways as well. She is trained in indigenous healing ways, and offers womb healing sessions, sound baths, closing of the bones, mama yoga breath and meditation guide.
Shaye lovingly thanks the babies that will be birthed through her for guiding her path.
Shaye
Postpartum Doula
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@cherryblossom.shaye
Amie is an Arizona native currently living in Queen Creek. She loves
her desert home and the smell of the summer rain. She loves the color
yellow, watches the series “Gilmore Girls” on repeat, and eats
chocolate chip cookies like there is no tomorrow. She is blessed to be
a boy mom of 3 and has been married for 8 years.
Her first son was born in 2016 and with him came a passion for the
birth world. She found herself wanting to know everything about
pregnancy and birth! From that time she knew that someday, somehow,
she would be a birth worker. Then in 2021 when her last baby was born
at home, she knew it was her time to go all in and start her journey
to becoming a doula. She completed her training in February of 2022
and started attending births with Cherry Blossom that July.
Settling into the doula role made sense to her because she has always
been a natural caretaker. Loving to serve, encourage, and mentor those
around her. As evidence of this, Amie has worked as a nanny and a
respite/habilitation provider and has always been involved with the
youth programs at her church. She also graduated from ASU with a BS in
Family and Human Development. Her arms and heart that tenderly held
the children she worked with are now reaching out to the mothers who
will bring new life.
Amie is eager, ready, and willing to help mamas create their dream
birth. She wants every mother to feel safe, seen, and supported
throughout their pregnancy, labor, and delivery. Amie knows what a
sacred time this is and is grateful to any family that is willing to
bring her into their birth space.
Amie
Labor Doula
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@cherryblossomdoula.amie
I stumbled on to this beautiful journey of birth work while attending massage therapy school and immediately felt this path was for me. Although new to the birth world, learning and soaking up all there is to know has been my goal since stepping into this role full-time in 2021. I flourished knowing I helped families feel safe and supported when I help them through the most magical and vulnerable time of their lives. I am a healer, an educator and an adventurer.
In 2018 I attended Southwest Institute of Healing Arts to become a Licensed Massage Therapist. Helping to heal bodies through massage, especially prenatal massage became my greatest passion. Pregnancy presents beauty but can also be uncomfortable. Being able to provide relief, education, and welcome a divine mind, body and baby connection are the services I strive to uphold. I am a firm believer in taking care of your mind, body, and spirit. We have to know and trust our bodies to withstand the physiological experiences of birth.
I am so honored to join the Cherry Blossom team as a labor doula and to support families in the Phoenix area. I empower my families to tap in to what keeps them grounded and stable mentally, while also making sure they have the necessary tools and resources to make informed decisions that align with their beliefs and make them feel safe.
Outside of Cherry Blossom, I fill my time growing my personal business, Love Your Soul Massage, and spending time with family and friends. I am originally from Washington State, but have called the desert home since 2016, with my two fur babies Zuez and Charlie. Birth should be respected, your voice should be heard, and your feelings made valid. I welcome you to step into your power, to do the work both mentally and physically needed to prepare yourself, and to trust your mind, body and intuition. I feel so blessed to do something I love, and I look forward to supporting more families and walking with you on this sacred journey.
Michét
Licensed Massage Therapist & Labor Doula
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@cherryblossomdoula.michet
Postpartum Doulas
Labor Doulas
Labor Doulas
meet the team
Postpartum Doulas
My journey into birth work did not happen overnight or by accident. I worked on completing the nursing prerequisites and volunteered at Chandler Hospital in the Postpartum Depression Support Group. Shortly after, I trained at Southwest institute of healing arts in Swedish and Prenatal massage and Reiki energy work.
The labors and births of my children were soul changing, and both equally unique! I took a break from school and became certified through CAPPA as a Childbirth Educator and taught childbirth classes all over the valley. I felt once I unlocked the door to show my full potential, more opportunities than I could have imagined came my way, and this is how I landed in doula work.
In 2013 I started assisting families as a birth doula and, as of 2022, have ATTENDED OVER 400 BIRTHS. I am experienced in all birth settings (including hospital/cesarean, birth center and home births). I have always had a nurturing spirit and my role as a doula evolved seamlessly.
I am passionate about birthing families having choices, resources, and receiving the very best possible care during this monumental transformation as an individual, mother and as their outside relationships evolve.
As Cherry Blossom has continued growing, I am now taking a limited amount of clients. The mentorship and leadership roles of the Cherry Blossom team are calling me to continue evolving and learning. My children are getting older (11 &13!) and being present for them is incredibly important during this fleeting time.
Alyssa has a heart to love, honor, and serve all souls from all walks of life. She will continue to make inclusivity at the core of Cherry Blossom. She is experienced with un-medicated birth, VBAC, high risk, high anxiety, fertility struggles, loss, BIPOC, and LGBTQA families.
Alyssa
"My passion is supporting women through natural minded birth, encouraging and watching them transform into a wiser, stronger and more beautiful version of themselves."
@cherryblossom_doula
Owner, Labor Doula & Birth Photographer
next
Kristy is a fun and full of life Birth Doula, Photographer, and Placenta Encapsulator. It was always written in the stars that Kristy would fall into the area of supporting women and birth work. Kristy grew up In Northern California in a hippy vibing town right outside of coastal Santa Cruz.
She grew up surrounded by the flower children of the 60’s where Kristy soaked up their feminist points of view, body autonomy rights, women’s liberation, and basic human rights for all people. Attending ASU, she earned her BS in Sociology and has been in the desert ever since with a few stints of living in Kailua, Hawaii and San Francisco, California. Besides all things birthy – Kristy shares a love for beach time with her family, concerts, plants, podcasts, & documentaries.
Kristy has welcomed over 300 babies and has been a Birth Doula since she was certified in 2013. Before joining the Cherry Blossom team two years ago she spent time growing as a birth doula by assisting a homebirth midwife, working at a birth center as a transfer doula, hosting many postpartum groups, along with owning her very own small doula business. As a Birth Doula she provides warm & nurturing support with a very calming presence.
Empowering clients with correct birthing knowledge and complete body autonomy is extremely important to her. She is also trained in the art of Spinning babies, Rebozo technique, counter pressure, massage, and body movement mechanics. Kristy has three children and has had extremely different birthing experiences with each child – from medicated to unmedicated natural birth.
Kristy loves working with all types of clients and has a passion for working with teen pregnancies and adoption situations. She was born to a teen mother and placed for adoption herself and has been very active in many different teen and adoption support groups. These groups include Search-Finders where she provided assistance to adult adoptees who were searching for their birth parents & birth parents searching for their relinquished child. Kristy also spent many years as a mentor for teen mothers that were placing their child for adoption.
Kristy
@cherryblossomdoulakristy
Labor doula & Birth Photographer
Birth Doula, Photographer, & Placenta Encapsulator
next
Megan is in an incredibly passionate DONA certified Birth Doula and student herbalist that has been actively supporting Phoenix families in their journey to a beautiful birth experience for the past 4 years. Born and raised in Phoenix, AZ Megan shares a love for birth, plants, her dogs, and this beautiful desert that we call home.
As a birth doula, she provides complete emotional and physical support for families before, during, and after birth. Megan believes that when people feel empowered during the birth of their children, they can begin parenthood with positive energy and loving hearts. She supports birthing people by meeting their emotional, physical and informational needs, while also supporting partners and other support people that are attending or involved in the birth process.
Megan is a birth justice advocate and is very involved in harm reduction of all kinds as this is one of the things that she is most passionate about. She actively works towards de-stigmatizing people who use substances, reducing harm to womxn and people who birth and educating people on their options while being there for them to help reduce the chances of abuse.
She has supported L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ folx, people who are in recovery, polyamorous/open families and those who are stigmatized by society in various ways and she strongly believes that all birthing people should be treated with kindness and respect, regardless of their race, gender, or socioeconomic status.
Megan
@cherryblossomdoulamegan
Labor Doula Director, Labor Doula, Birth Photographer
Labor Doula
next
Birth is not a clinical procedure but a life-changing initiation and rite of passage deserving utmost reverence. As a doula, Hannah holds space for women to connect with their desires, release fear, and step into a sacred way of welcoming and honoring life.
Hannah trained with Carriage House Birth and certified through Whapio & The Matrona, which created a holistic doula practice rooted in birth justice and the natural, physiological process of birth. Her first home birth was in support of a free-birthing mama, unmedicated and completely undisturbed.
Witnessing this laboring mama fully present and accountable for her experience revealed what’s possible when a birthing body creates their own unique dance with birth. Hannah serves all birth settings and incorporates yoga, movement, visualization meditations, somatic breathwork, and trauma-informed techniques to regulate the nervous system during labor. Her methods are part of a wider spiritual practice of coming home to one's body. She is also knowledgeable about plant medicine.
Outside of Cherry Blossom, Hannah founded a local goods shop in Downtown Phoenix, is a mother to a Capricorn sun, and is in the process of releasing her second book. Hannah deeply believes that doula care should be accessed without barriers by all families, and is deeply passionate about filling a gap in care for those resource-restricted folks experiencing the lasting impact of incarceration and drug use
Hannah A.
Labor Doula
Labor Doula & Birth Photographer
next
@Hannah_CherryBlossomDoula
Jennifer Magnano is an Ayurvedic postpartum doula, integrative life coach and trauma-informed yoga instructor. She advocates for maternal-child mental health and has survived (and thrived) post two complicated pregnancies, an early and critically ill baby, and postpartum depression and anxiety.
As a chronic illness warrior for over two decades, Jennifer aims to empower women with the education necessary to create long term wellness, calm & stability beginning in the postpartum space. Self awareness, mindfulness and self care practices are the foundation of her work, including kitchen medicine; with an emphasis on gut health and simplifying ancient wisdom for all mothers of all backgrounds.
Today, Jennifer leads postpartum initiatives with Cherry Blossom Doula Services & spends her spare time living her best life: reading, writing, gardening, hiking, and studying theology and natural medicine. She lives in Gilbert, Arizona with her husband of 13 years, their two miracle kids, and several rescue pets.
From 2012-14, Jennifer ran the first grant-funded yoga program in the state of Connecticut. Focusing on at-risk moms and babes, surveys showed that 67% of moms continued to use mindfulness practices at home and it deeply influenced their ability to parent with patience and grace.
In December 2019, Voyage Phoenix highlighted Jennifer's work in maternal mental health. The following April, she was recognized as one the the Top 40 under 40 Women Worth Following Phoenix Edition by social influencer Alli Worthington. Jennifer released her first book called Bliss & Blue in honor of her daughter’s journey in March 2022.
Jennifer
@cherryblossompostpartum
Postpartum Doula Director, Certified Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula & Mental Health Advocate
Ayurvedic postpartum doula
next
Marlène has always had a passion for helping others. A natural nurturer, she can be found helping friends and family members whenever possible. In school she was involved in many volunteer organizations. Community IMPACT matters to Marlène so very much.
Being one of the first among her friends to become a momma, she has been loving on the women in her life during their postpartum period for over a decade. Her passion to support women during this time only became stronger after her own pregnancy losses and postpartum struggles.
When introduced to the Postpartum Doula profession (a former client of Cherry Blossom founder Alyssa Leon!!) Marlène fell in love with this traditional mother-centered work.
Marlène is California born, and Arizona raised. She lives in the San Tan Valley and loves it's small town feel; is married to her best friend; and they have two wonderful blessings: their beautiful 13 year old daughter Izabella & their rainbow baby Julian who just turned four! Marlène feels incredibly blessed and is excited to begin this dream journey of empowering women and supporting families.
Marlène
@cherryblossomdoulamarlene
Postpartum Doula
Postpartum Doula
next
Grounded in her experience as a pediatric nurse, Hannah has cared for hundreds of families as they transition to life with a newborn.
She knows there are many different ways to be a good parent and loves to validate and share knowledge with her clients as they blossom into this new role.
Hannah is so excited to join Cherry Blossom as a postpartum doula. She’s seen how the postpartum period is beautiful, exciting, and also really hard! Hannah always wants her families to feel prepared and confident as they navigate postpartum recovery, newborn care, and intentionally raising those precious little humans.
Hannah specializes in supporting mental wellness, infant feeding, and unbiased education. She is so honored with each new family who asks her to join them on their postpartum adventure. She’d love to be a part of yours!
“When mothers and fathers are supported, the baby thrives, the relationship thrives, the community thrives, and our planet thrives.” - Kimberly Ann Johnson, The Fourth Trimester
Hannah Q.
Postpartum Doula
Postpartum Doula
next
@cherryblossomdoulahannah
I grew up in Montana with my amazing family. I am the tenth child out of eleven and I’m now an aunt to thirty nieces and nephews. I have always been close to my family and have had the opportunity to spend many days, weekends, and summers making priceless memories with each of them. When I found out that two of my sisters were pregnant, I wanted to gain as much knowledge as possible to support them through their exciting journey.
In 2018 I became a Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula as well as a Breastfeeding Counselor through the International Doula Institute. I have spent nearly my entire life caring for others in a personal and professional setting. I am currently a student learning to support rainbow mamas and their families with course work through SBD University. Working with children and their families in the foster care system helping them learn, grow, and thrive has also gifted me with the experience to help families through hardship. Helping the community grow by giving families, of all types, knowledge to thrive is my life mission.
Four years ago, I moved to Arizona to be with the love of my life. We enjoy spending time in nature hiking, camping, and kayaking. Together, we also love to cook and raise our two cats and Dutch Shepherd, which keeps life entertaining. We truly cherish our life together and I feel incredibly blessed to have an endless amount of love in life and I look forward to sharing
my light by working with you.
Rose
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Aleta has spent the last 20 years advocating for herself and others in the birth world. As a military wife, she has birthed 6 children in 5 different states and one country, and has been transferring her love and knowledge to military families for over a decade. Aleta has always felt that the postpartum period is tender and vulnerable, and her heart lies with holding space for families during this time.
In 2020, Aleta and her family moved back to the Valley of the Sun as her husband prepares to retire from the US Air Force. Faced with the possibility of finally being in one place for longer than 2 years, she decided to officially jump into doula work. She is currently working on her Postpartum Doula certification through CAPPA as well as exploring a Lactation Education certification to help new mothers whose desire is to breastfeed.
Aleta’s experiences traveling the world with her family allowed her to witness that there are a million different ways to be a family. Not better or worse, just different. She prides herself on helping your family find your new rhythm after birth. She is passionate about supporting all families in their fourth trimester and is inclusive of all family dynamics.
Aleta is all too familiar with the whirlwind of being sent home with a new baby and not having enough support. She has seen how even a little bit of support and education can impact postpartum recovery and set your family up to thrive! Aleta strives to be the still, calm soul that feeds your family physically, emotionally, and spiritually during your tender fourth trimester season.
Aleta
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Shaye has been on her medicine woman path for five years, she full heartedly trusts in Life, Birth, and Postpartum and that they deserve to be held with sacredness and honor. As a full spectrum birthworker and wombkeeper, she is devoted to upholding reverence for birth, breath, rebirth and the fourth trimester.
Shaye lives a womb centered life and believes that through restoring reverence for birth, we can embody and remember our birthrights to being centered in our truth, bodies, intuition, hearts and wombs; the inner wisdom within. She holds with reverence that Life is Ceremony, and feels we all deserve sacred containers that hold space for us to be fully present through the initiations of life, of birthing, and the integration of postpartum. She feels it is a great honor to hold space in this way as a doula, to bring forth an all encompassing support.
The medicine she shares is full spectrum, she holds space for healing not only in the physical, but in the mental, emotional and spiritual ways as well. She is trained in indigenous healing ways, and offers womb healing sessions, sound baths, closing of the bones, mama yoga breath and meditation guide.
Shaye lovingly thanks the babies that will be birthed through her for guiding her path.
Shaye
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Amie is an Arizona native currently living in Queen Creek. She loves her desert home and the smell of the summer rain. She loves the color yellow, watches the series “Gilmore Girls” on repeat, and eats chocolate chip cookies like there is no tomorrow. She is blessed to be a boy mom of 3 and has been married for 8 years.
Her first son was born in 2016 and with him came a passion for the birth world. She found herself wanting to know everything about
pregnancy and birth! From that time she knew that someday, somehow, she would be a birth worker. Then in 2021 when her last baby was born at home, she knew it was her time to go all in and start her journey to becoming a doula. She completed her training in February of 2022 and started attending births with Cherry Blossom that July.
Settling into the doula role made sense to her because she has always been a natural caretaker. Loving to serve, encourage, and mentor those around her. As evidence of this, Amie has worked as a nanny and a respite/habilitation provider and has always been involved with the youth programs at her church. She also graduated from ASU with a BS in Family and Human Development. Her arms and heart that tenderly held the children she worked with are now reaching out to the mothers who will bring new life.
Amie is eager, ready, and willing to help mamas create their dream birth. She wants every mother to feel safe, seen, and supported
throughout their pregnancy, labor, and delivery. Amie knows what a sacred time this is and is grateful to any family that is willing to bring her into their birth space.
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I stumbled on to this beautiful journey of birth work while attending massage therapy school and immediately felt this path was for me. Although new to the birth world, learning and soaking up all there is to know has been my goal since stepping into this role full-time in 2021. I flourished knowing I helped families feel safe and supported when I help them through the most magical and vulnerable time of their lives. I am a healer, an educator and an adventurer.
In 2018 I attended Southwest Institute of Healing Arts to become a Licensed Massage Therapist. Helping to heal bodies through massage, especially prenatal massage became my greatest passion. Pregnancy presents beauty but can also be uncomfortable. Being able to provide relief, education, and welcome a divine mind, body and baby connection are the services I strive to uphold. I am a firm believer in taking care of your mind, body, and spirit. We have to know and trust our bodies to withstand the physiological experiences of birth.
I am so honored to join the Cherry Blossom team as a labor doula and to support families in the Phoenix area. I empower my families to tap in to what keeps them grounded and stable mentally, while also making sure they have the necessary tools and resources to make informed decisions that align with their beliefs and make them feel safe.
Outside of Cherry Blossom, I fill my time growing my personal business, Love Your Soul Massage, and spending time with family and friends. I am originally from Washington State, but have called the desert home since 2016, with my two fur babies Zuez and Charlie. Birth should be respected, your voice should be heard, and your feelings made valid. I welcome you to step into your power, to do the work both mentally and physically needed to prepare yourself, and to trust your mind, body and intuition. I feel so blessed to do something I love, and I look forward to supporting more families and walking with you on this sacred journey.
Michét
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"My husband and I both agree, that having a baby without a Doula should not be an option. We wish that we could gift this incredible blessing to every expecting parent."
We first reached out to Kristy because we were nervous my husband would faint at the first signs of pain/blood.. Thanks to Kristy's kind encouragement, and loving support, my husband was able to step into his role as my partner, and enjoy every second of both births. Thanks to Kristy's leadership and calm guidance I felt more confident and in control of MY birthing experience, which helped me safely bring two amazing little boys in to this world. I know not everyone gets to have their dream birth story, but I feel incredibly lucky to have had the love and support from Cherry Blossom Doula Services that helped make my dreams come true.
Would absolutely recommend Kristy to anyone and everyone I know!”
Hillary
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"Alyssa has been my doula twice, both very different births but one thing remained constant: she’s a calming presence in the middle of chaos. "
Alyssa reminds you of how strong you are in the right moments.She walked with us through complicated moments and her experience and knowledge really helped us through an unexpected cesarean birth, and a powerful VBAC. It doesn’t matter if this is your first or second or third birth, having a doula is one of the most caring things you can do for yourself.
Alyssa has built a business with women that are just as kind, strong, inclusive and smart as her and Cherry Blossom has been an excelent resource for birth and beyond.”
- Lorena
- Brittany
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"She empowered us to advocate for ourselves during labor to work towards the birth we wanted. If you’re one the fence about hiring a doula, definitely do it! "
We had the honor of having Megan as our doula for our first baby born at the end of October. Her support and guidance meant the world to us during pregnancy, labor and delivery, and even postpartum. Megan is a light and has a calming presence that automatically helps ground you. She supported and loved on my me and my husband during labor and delivery and we definitely would have had a much different experience without her. She is highly knowledgeable and always had resources for us on whatever topic we needed, whether it was a documentary on breastfeeding or birth or evidenced based articles on any number of topics. She absolutely goes above and beyond for her families. She empowered us to advocate for ourselves during labor to work towards the birth we wanted. If you’re one the fence about hiring a doula, definitely do it! Every mama deserves to have a Megan with them on their journey!”
"...couldn't have asked for better labor support..."
"Kristy was incredible, organized and on top of things, yet very comfortable and laid back. She was all about what WE wanted. She was supportive and encouraging through a very long labor and went above and beyond what we ever would have imagined. I couldn’t have asked for a better labor support as I aimed for a non-medicated induced delivery. She helped me to get exactly what I wanted, even when in the midst of it, I forgot that I actually wanted it.
Together we achieved my goal of no epidural, and I couldn’t have done it without my amazing doula and husband team! In preparation for our delivery we met several times and communicated through text and calls. Even the nurses commented the next day on how much they liked her as a doula! Thank you, Kristy, !!"
C. Smith
