Partners
We want you to have the best pregnancy you can. We want you to recover fully postpartum. We know that we cannot fulfill all your needs to maximize your recovery, so we have listed other providers we recommend here. We have personally met, spoken with, and/or worked with all of these providers.
If you are a provider and want to be added to our referral list please schedule a virtual meeting with Kate Uttech.
Doulas
312 Doulas
Heather and Victoria are amazing at supporting their clients through pregnancy and postpartum. By having two doulas that you have built a relationship with it allows them to share the role and trade off to continue providing support through your labor. They offer classes, weekly group support groups, and doula support during birth and postpartum.
Carly Ann
Carly Ann is a wonderful trauma informed doula who specializes in working with LGBT community. She is particularly skilled at assisting her clients in maintaining autonomy and ensuring informed consent through decision making.
Chicago Family Doulas
Chicago Family Doulas is a full service Doula Agency providing families throughout the entire Chicagoland area with professional, compassionate and personalized support. They have a highly trained team of doulas that support families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. They provide daytime and overnight newborn care, birth support and have many amazing classes.
Chicago Photo Doulas
Maggie is an amazing human. She is a birth doula and birth photographer specializing in bringing both skills into your labor space to support you and also give you memories to look back on.
Kick-Ass Birth
Holly is an excellent experience doula who has been educating and supporting birthing people since 2006. She can also provides birth story processing.
https://kickassbith.com
Joanna Russin
Joanna is a social worker turned doula. Because of her training as a social worker she is particularly skilled at working through difficult emotions and anxiety surrounding labor and birth.
Julie Lambert
Julie works with 312 doulas. She has a special interest in trauma and somatic movement. She is is a lifelong learner trained in therapeutic practices, somatic healing, and continues to engage in additional courses to enrich clients experience. You can reach her through 312 Doulas
Stars Above Birth
Erika Walton is a birth doula with special training in working through trauma. Erika is training in spinning babies, evidence based birth, and providing a safe space for your birth.
Supported Serenity
Rebekkah Carney at Supported Serenity offers birth and postpartum services as well as birth education, spinning babies, and placenta encapsulation.
Tunisia Macklin
Tunisia is an especially good fit for anyone desiring a strong maternal figure at their birth. She is there to take the load whether it be your own mother is absent or you would benefit from someone helping you shut off your brain. She also does massage (especially for breech babies) and placenta encapsulation.
Wild Garden
Melissa Fahey is a birth and postpartum doula. She also offers lactation support, placenta encapsulation, and birth education. She especially loves supporting queer and single parents families. Melissa can be reached through her website https://www.wyld-garden.com or at melissaf.haley@gmail.com
Chiropractors
Align Wellness Center
Dr. Emily specializes in Webster technique and is passionate about helping people have easier pregnancies and deliveries.
Bright Futures Chiropractic
Bright Futures is a chiropractic office specializing in working with families. They provide support to people during pregnancy, infants, parents, and all family members.
Evanston Family Chiro
Dr. Sean Curry loves helping famlies on the journey to parenthood. From helping people get pregnant, to staying active and feeling your best through pregnancy, and recovering postpartum. Dr. Curry is here to support the whole family achieve wellness.
Nurture Women’s Wellness
Dr. Brooke Merkel is a chiropractor who utilizes a variety of techniques to assist with fertility, ease pregnancy discomforts, and help babies get into position for easier later and delivery.
Lactation Consultants
Dr. Crystal Cooper
Dr Crystal Cooper is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to baby care. She is holds a PhD in anthropology and is an IBCLC. This combination gives her especially deep understanding of the relationship between feeding and sleep to help you, your baby, and your whole family on your parenting journey.
Northshore Lactation
Northshore lactation offers virtual and in-person support to ensure convenient access to care as soon as possible. Their lactation consultants are particularly experts in oral ties and helping your start off right from the beginning.
Taylor Made Lactation
Taylor is a fantastic lactation consultant who supports her clients from beginning to end through their feeding journey. She provides in home visits. She also runs a wonderful support group for new parents at Just Be You in Mundelein.
The Lactation Dietitian
Meghan specializes in helping families struggling with food intolerances and allergies to be sure everyone is meeting their nutritional needs for optimal health and wellness.
Mental Health Providers
Ashley Smith - virtual and inside New Journey Physical therapy
Ashley has extensive experience in supporting clients with a history of trauma including using somatic therapy techniques.
Crescent Moon Therapy - virtual and in person perinatal mental health practice
Crescent Moon Therapy is a specialty practice where all therapists have training specific training on perinatal mental health, fertility challenges, miscarriage or loss, parenthood support, birth trauma, and life stresses.
Dr. Erika Yamin - primarily in person perinatal mental health practice
Erika Yamin is a psychologist who specializes in perinatal mental health. Her specialties include coping with difficulties during pregnancy, processing trauma, feeling overwhelmed, or perinatal mood disorders.
Introspekt Therapy - virtual perinatal health practice
Jessica Ryan specializes in perinatal mental health concerns including trauma, loss, infertility, and adjusting to parenting. Her practice is all virtual.
Stephanie Mantelman - Virtual down the hall from New Journey Physical Therapy
Stephanie is a trauma specialist mental health therapist.
Daylily Counseling
Jenna Salek specializes in trauma and perinatal mental health to help clients navigate life transitions to create and sustain the changes they wish to see in their lives.
New Moon Perinatal - Affiliates in Counseling
New Moon Perinatal is a group at Affiliates in Counseling that specializes in perinatal mental health to support individuals, couples, and family in navigating expected or unexpected transitions throughout the journey from conception to parenting young children.
https://affiliatesincounseling.net/infertility-perinatal-postpartum-counseling/
Northshore psychotherapy - larger practice with varying services
Northshore psychotherapy is a practice with a number of therapists with varying counseling styles and specialties. Some areas of focus include perinatal mood disorder, fertility, and couples therapy.
Wool Psychology - primarily virtual sex therapy practice
Eliana Wool is a wonderful psychotherapist who has a specialty and special interest in sex therapy. This is often a necessary part of the healing process for those with a history of pain with intercourse or who are postpartum.
Provider Database
Birthguide Chicago
Birthguide is a wonderful resource listing birth providers and locations with comparison of their birth statistics. You can also find complementary care services such as physical therapists, acupuncturists, massage therapists, mental health providers, chiropractors, doulas, and others.
BIrthlink
Birthlink is a wonderful resource for finding a midwife or other natural birth provider. You can peruse the website, or book a consultation with Jo Anne to find your best fit.