About me

Lynn began her indie doula and photography practice in 2018. Her background is in reproductive health and non profits as an educator, direct care professional, and in state policy and project management. She has a BA in Gender Studies, is a certified birth, postpartum, and full spectrum doula, a childbirth educator, and a member of the Queer Doula Network. She hangs her fanny pack in Andersonville where she lives with her wife Mercedes -- a deep-hearted middle school teacher she's spellbound by, and with whom she shares the creative practice called home. Weaving together modern and traditional approaches, her support with families focuses on body literacy and agency, trauma and healing, educating and preparing for birth and postpartum, collective care, caretaking and parenting, honoring transitions, and nurturing relationships (including sex and intimacy). Knowledge building is a collaborative mixture of education, experience, and intuition. At the heart of it: you belong to yourself and are the expert of your own experience. She is committed to trauma-informed practices and co-creating safer spaces by being body- and sex-positive, anti-racist, pro-choice, queer and gender affirming, and welcoming to solo, poly, blended, or communal families. Your care should be designed for your comfort, needs, and wants. It should see you in your full context – your stage of life, unique body, lived experience, culture, community, ability, desires, and dreams.

Education

Gender Studies (2017)

Certification and training

Birth Doula (2018)

Postpartum Doula (2018)

Childbirth Educator (2020)

Full Spectrum Certification (2019)

Memberships and affiliations

Queer Doula Network

Credentials

Specialties

Languages

English

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Service introduction

♡ photog & doula services ♡ DOULA — The care you receive through all reproductive transitions – whether it’s fertility, birth, or postpartum – should be designed for your comfort, needs, and wants. It should see you in your full context – your stage of life, unique body, lived experience, culture, community, ability, desires, and dreams.  I provide full spectrum, innovative, comprehensive, and community-focused doula care. My birth & postpartum services encompass the entire pregnancy-birth-postpartum journey (sometimes the conception journey, too!) and I stay with families for a year after their birth. PHOTOG — I specialize in birth photography and long-form, in-home portraits of families, pregnancy, and people. My style is a mixture of narrative portraiture, and photojournalism. It is emotional, intimate, irreverent, nostalgic, poetic. As a long-form photographer, I spend a meaningful amount of time with folks — anywhere from a couple of hours to an entire day. As a birth photographer, I spend time with families to build a trusting relationship, and provide postpartum support for a year after the birth. All photography options include a framed print, with the opportunity to include modern-style albums. MODEL OF CARE— The Kismet model of care is trauma aware, body-sex-kink positive, anti-racist, LGBTQ affirming, pro-choice, and affirming of all journeys and families; it is rooted in principles of slow living, somatic healing, common herbal medicine, cultural appreciation, and reproductive justice. It weaves together traditional and modern perspectives to nurture your well-being and mind-body-heart connection. photography can be added to doula support at a bundled discount.

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