Flagstaff Doulas
Supporting you in creating positive pregnancy , birth and early parenting experiences
Elizabeth Aldrich Birth Doula through DONA International and a Licensed Massage Therapist.
While her husband was serving in the Navy, Elizabeth found a passion in empowering women with their health and wellness. It began in 2007 when she graduated from Massage therapy school. That eventually evolved into aromatherapy and then doula services. As a doula, her goal is to help support the whole family through education along with physical and emotional support, so the family can advocate for themselves with confidence. She believes everyone deserves to have an empowered birth and has additional training in Spinning babies. She has experience in supporting advanced maternal age, VBACS, multiples, IVF, plus size birthers, as well as lgbtq+ families. Elizabeth also has advanced training in perinatal and therapeutic massage modalities, infant massage as well as specialized training in essential oil application and education. During Elizabeth’s free time she likes playing board games, crafting and being outdoors with her family, as well as volunteering at her kids school, scouting programs, and church activities.
Stephanie Adams Birth Doula through DONA International, Lactation Educator Certified through UCSD, and Birthing From Within–trained Childbirth Educator
Stephanie’s journey into birth work began from a deep passion for supporting and educating others during life’s most transformative moments. Her background in teaching and community support naturally evolved into doula work, where she discovered how profoundly meaningful it is to walk alongside families as they welcome new life into the world.As a birth doula and childbirth/lactation educator, Stephanie loves creating an environment of calm, confidence, and connection. She believes that every family deserves informed, compassionate support—whether that’s through birth preparation, hands-on comfort during labor, or postpartum guidance. With her the core of her training with Birthing From Within, she weaves together practical education, emotional support, and a nurturing presence to help parents feel grounded and empowered in their own unique journey.When she’s not supporting families, Stephanie enjoys being outdoors—biking, hiking, and soaking in the beauty of the mountains. She also loves connecting with friends and community, and spending time with her family.
Jennifer Field Burgoon Postpartum Doula through DONA International.
Jen has a passion for helping others, especially new parents that are trying to make sense of it all. She has an empathic and calm personality and feels that helping families after the birth of their baby is an essential time for care. Jen wants to provide a family the love and support that she felt like she needed when she had her daughters. When she is not supporting families, she enjoys spending time with her husband and daughters, camping and hiking with their dogs.
Betsy Decker Birth Doula through DONA International and a prenatal, postpartum and pediatric chiropractor.
Betsy blends the information from her two fields of training to provide the most comprehensive support for laboring families. She loves providing reassurance, encouragement and comfort during prenatal visits, birth and postpartum. She has specialized training in Spinning Babies and Body Ready Method.
Emily Edison Birth Doula and Postpartum Doula is a Matrona certified doula, Hypnobirthing Childbirth Educator and a Pediatric Sleep and Development Specialist.
Anaiya B Tianne Birth Doula through DONA International, ProDoula certified and Placenta Encapsulator.
Anaiya has extensive experience in healthcare spanning over 19 years, primarily in surgical services, with five of those years in the Labor, Delivery, Recovery and Postpartum department. She also has always had a considerable interest in a wide variety of healing modalities, which have been a large part of her studies throughout the years. Her immense passion and desire to support birthing parents and newborns in deeper, more extensive ways became realized when she discovered Doula work, as this came naturally to her.
Anaiya's mindfulness, emotional intelligence, advocacy, intuition, and empowerment though wisdom and education have complemented her practice and approach to birth work. She holds much fascination and interest in the ways women, the indigenous, and the ancients have assisted birthing persons and the souls being birthed. Anaiya wishes to bring this timeless honor to every birth room she attends. Hence, she appreciates the many facets within the whole of support: physical, intellectual, emotional, mental, energetic, and if one is so inclined, spiritual. She very much enjoys supporting diverse groups and cultures, including indigenous and LGBTQ+ families.
Anaiya received her Doula training through DONA and is a Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula with ProDoula. She has training in Spinning Babies and in placenta processing. She is a Placenta Specialist involving encapsulation, tincture, and prints.
Anaiya enjoys all things nature and adventure: nature walks, bird watching, animals, rock hounding, crystals, hiking, traveling; and her (or any) cats, music, singing, jewelry, dancing and all things art. She paints with acrylic and occasionally writes poetry, as well as simply enjoying others' art pieces, artistic expressions and creativity.
Jessica Williams Birth Doula is a DONA International certified doula and a licensed massage therapist
Jessica is a DONA certified birth doula and has specialized training in prenatal massage, cranial sacral, and other therapeutic massage modalities. She has a massage practice at the Flagstaff Birth Collective. She brings a supportive and warm, nurturing energy to the birthing space. She feels strongly that everyone should have the support to birth how they choose, feel safe in their birthing space and have the information to make informed decisions about their pregnancy and birth. She brings joy and calm support into the birthing space and holds space for the tough, difficult moments. Jessica has supplemental training in pregnancy and infant loss. During her free time she enjoys spending time with her family, reading books about art, science, and dreams, cooking nourishing meals and regularly spends time outdoors to soak in our beautiful, healing, mountain landscape.
Kristen Pearson
Founder of Flagstaff Doulas
Kristen found the need in not only educating those, but then in taking it a step further and expanding into birth doula work, placenta encapsulation, and postpartum work. She founded Flagstaff Doulas collective in 2019,. She had the vision that working as a team would not only allow more of the community to be served, but allow birthworkers to lean and learn from each other when the doula work was done. Within this journey she helped pair with doulas that were fresh out of training to help with certifications and help those in the community that were underserved, this began the vision of the Flagstaff Birth Support Fund. Kristen often mentioned that this job was beautiful in so many ways, such as meeting a variety of people that she most likely never would have met. Kristen went into births with the knowledge of how sacred the space was and she provided strength, comfort and an empowering presence to many families on their birth journey. A greater mentor could never be imagined.
Kristen, you will be truly missed.