Our Team
Alexis Edwards is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker-Supervisor and Certified BEST Doula that specializes in perinatal mental health and trauma recovery. She has a BS in Child & Family Studies and a MS in Social Work. Alexis is passionate about the birthing persons right to informed consent, respect, and nurturing through the transition to parenthood. Her own traumatic births and journey to motherhood inspired her to become a doula and build a holistic, trauma-informed practice that recognizes the link between birth and perinatal mental health.
Courtney is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Adjunct Professor and Certified BEST Doula in Dallas, Texas. She has a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Masters of Science in Social Work. As a therapist, specializing in perinatal mental health, intimate partner violence and sexual trauma, Courtney became interested in birth work after the birth of her son. Birth work has allowed Courtney to bring together two things she is passionate about- working with trauma survivors and her love of all things pregnancy and postpartum.
Who We Are
Courtney and Alexis met in 2010 when working together as counselors at a domestic violence agency in Dallas, TX. They spent almost 5 years together providing counseling to adolescents and young adults victimized by violence, and teaching dating violence, sexual assault and bullying prevention to students. After becoming parents, they were both inspired to shift their focus to serving new parents and were especially passionate about building awareness on the unique needs of survivor parents. In January 2018 they co-created a trauma-informed support training for birth and postpartum professionals that they teach across the U.S. As mental health professionals and birth workers with a background serving survivors, they bring a unique perspective on how to better support parents carrying trauma through the reproductive years.
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