Providing support and guidance through transformative journeys!

Hello and Welcome!

My name is Sallay! I am a Full Spectrum Birthworker, biologist, gardener, and herbalist! I am deeply committed to creating a space where everyone feels seen, supported, amd empowered.

I provide care and support through the stages of the reproductive journey including fertility & conception, birth, postpartum, loss, and abortion. My role is to honor your intuition. listen, and help advocate for you and your unique journey.

To support your journey, I draw from my biology background and herbalism to integrate modern and evolving knowledge systems with the ancestral knowledge that plants and the natural world hold.

My practice is rooted in Reproductive Justice and Liberation for all, birth justice, disability justice, Black Liberation, racial justice, Queer and Trans justice, healing justice, climate justice, ecological justice, Land Back, and support for all other survivors of childhood sexual abuse and sexual assault. We have all been birthed and birthwork intersects everything! 

I'm looking forward to connecting! Let’s work together to create a nurturing and empowering experience tailored to your needs!

Services

  • Pregnancy, labor, and birth are life changing transformative experiences. My goal is to provide support, care, and knowledge to help you navigate this life changing process! As a birth doula, I support birthing people and their families before, during, and after birth, whether at home, in a hospital, or in a birthing center. My care is rooted in the knowledge that you have the most intimate knowledge of your wants and needs, and I’m here to provide personalized support for your unique needs!

  • I believe that caring for a family takes a village. No one should have to navigate the complexities of the postpartum period and parenting alone.

    The postpartum support I offer can look like emotional support, birth processing, personalized support resources, sleep support, and physical support such as light housekeeping, nourishment, baby care, sibling care, and more! My work is rooted in fostering connection and community through the postpartum period and beyond!

  • You deserve support. No matter the reason, you deserve options, compassionate care, and the education and resources to make the best decision for you. You deserve to be seen, heard and cared for before, during, and after your procedure.  I will be there for you in whatever way feels best for you.

    Abortion is healthcare and my goal is to honor your autonomy and emotional well-being and make sure you feel empowered, whatever decision you make.

  • Fertility doula care is an essential resource in a world where knowledge about fertility and reproductive health can be inaccessible and often overwhelming!

    As a Fertility Doula, I provide non-medical physical, emotional, and informational support to families and individuals on their path to becoming pregnant, providing support for folks interested in avoiding pregnancy, those facing fertility complications like PCOS and endometriosis, and for those needing support while trying to conceive through IUI/IVF.

  • What grounds my photography is a love for capturing the beautiful in-between moments we often miss, whether it’s a bee napping in a flower, the intimacy of labor, or shared family laughter. These moments create lasting memories, and I hope to capture some beautiful ones for you and your family!

  • My herbal support involves a conversation to figure out what is going on and how I may support you,  to help you begin or continue your journey with plants, to connect and learn with plants as our teacher, and to encourage building a relationship with the plants, the land, and with your ancestral traditions and knowledge of plants.

    Whether you are seeking support for reproductive health, your overall well-being, or stress management, I would love to help guide you in finding ways to incorporate plants into your life!

  • This is a community resource designed to nurture a connection to our plant relatives and the earth, help build healthy ecosystems, preserve biodiversity, and to promote food justice and sovereignty.

    Here you can borrow seeds to grow your own herbs vegetables and flowers and collect seeds from your harvest to keep the library thriving!

Lessons from the gardens

There’s something special about working with pollinators, the sun, the soil microbes and bugs, rain, and wind to help tiny seeds grow and thrive. I love gardening and has taught me many things. Plants offer beautiful reminders and lessons, many of which I believe can be applied to life and the journey of reproductive health.

Growing a garden and the transformative stages of your reproductive journey take time, patience, care, and thoughtful attention.

Both plants and humans thrive when support, healthy ecosystems, and community is involved.

Plants, our bodies, and babies need to be watered, nourished, loved, and cared for to thrive.

Testimonials

  • “My birthing experience was overwhelmingly positive, thanks to Sallay. I had strived for a medication-free birth and was so happy to be able to achieve that with Sallay as my doula and birth partner. Her calm demeanor and kind nature were exactly what was needed during the uncertain and sometimes scary process of labor and delivery. From our initial consultation to our pre-birth meetings and finally to the "big day", Sallay was professional, positive, and encouraging, as well as a wealth of knowledge and resources. Our family is so grateful to have had such a wonderful person by our side while our daughter came into this world. I would recommend her to anyone looking to hire a doula.”

     - Monica D.

  • “Sallay was my postpartum doula when my daughter was a newborn. She was with us several nights per week, and having her there made all the difference to my sleep, recovery, and peace of mind. Sallay is thoughtful, caring, fantastic with babies, and a pleasure to spend time with. I can't recommend her highly enough!”

    - Rosie R.

  • “I was so blessed to have Sallay during the first few months after I gave birth to my daughter. I have health issues, so having her doula service overnight helped me to recover quicker. She was always on time, kind, and understanding of whatever our family needed. I thought I would feel uncomfortable having someone that wasn’t family watch my child overnight but her sense of calmness and gentle spirit put me at ease. When her shift was over, she would give me a very detailed report of my baby’s feeding and changes for that night. I would definitely recommend her to family and friends.”

     - Jessica M.K.

  • “Working with Sallay was the best decision we made! And I truly mean that. With my first child, I had a traumatic delivery that had lingering emotions that popped up when it came time to prep for my second. When I first met with Sallay, I openly discussed my concerns and immediately she made me feel seen and tailored our birthing journey to help me heal mentally, emotionally, and physically. Going into labor, I felt empowered and informed. Postpartum, whole and supported. I'm so grateful for Sallay, she is truly operating in her purpose.”

    -Angelica S.

  • I have been on the journey of Infertility for 13 years. My husband and I have seen all the doctors and tried all the treatments we could afford. The stress and mental load of treatment and emotional baggage of infertility really weighed me down for a long time and even interfered with treatment at times. This round of treatment I was determined to not go through this alone and as a person within the birth circles I wanted to find a doula that could help me walk through treatment so I would not feel alone. Sallay has been such a beautiful light and encouragement to me! She helped me forgive and heal my body from past treatment cycles, connect with my inner strength and peace through all the ups and downs. We went over balancing Eastern wisdom and western technology to really support my body and feel like myself again. She has a beautiful, kind spirit and is such a wonderful listener! She researches any and every question I have and always brings a healthy scientific perspective to all of the cultural wisdom and practices that are often overlooked by western medicine. She supports me with soup recipes when I’m sick, herbal remedies for everyday irritations, even planting schedules as I learned to connect with nature and put my desire to mother into the world while I wait. We are now on the countdown to our first embryo transfer and I could not have faced all the hurdles to get here without Sallay cheering me on! I’m just so grateful to have someone like her during this latest part of the journey. I can’t wait to call her when I finally get that BFP!

    Kayla L.

COVID-19 Statement

COVID is not over and we are still in a global pandemic! SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, is not mild and unlikely to become so. Regardless of if you had mild, severe, or no symptoms at all, the receptor that SARS CoV-2 binds to ACE-2, is present in critical parts of the body including not only the lungs but also your blood vessels, heart, kidneys, brain, bone marrow, reproductive organs and more. This means that no matter what initial symptoms you have the virus can still do a lot of widespread damage and can lead to Long COVID! The virus continues to evolve and variants have emerged with changes in how easily you can catch it and its ability to hide from the immune system. The “vax and relax”, unmasking strategy, and a LOT of disinformation and misinformation, have led to millions of people dying, developing chronic illnesses, and becoming newly or more disabled around the world with more and more cases daily.

There is still hope. We don’t have to accept endless cycles of infection and reinfection as inevitable. By embracing precautions like masking, indoor filltration and ventilation, and staying home when sick (which many do not have the privilege to do) we can protect ourselves and our communities. This moment also invites us to rethink how we view illness and disability, to challenge internalized ableism, and harmful narratives that equate rest with weakness and productivity with worth. Every life is valuable.

We must also recognize the immense grief and loss caused by preventable deaths and widespread disablement that could have been if we had stronger systemic protections. Getting COVID is not a moral failure, it is a reflection of a public crisis that was made worse by neglect from institutions meant to protect us. We need to shift our focus from individual blame to collective action and imagining, demanding, and building toward a world where care, equity, and safety for all people are prioritized over profit and convenience.

Taking precautions against COVID and working to reduce the spread is community care, reproductive justice, birth justice, disability justice, racial justice, climate justice, environmental justice, queer and trans justice, healing justice, housing justice, class solidarity, children’s rights and so much more!

Read more about my COVID-19 statement, and how you can protect yourself, your family, and your community below.

Think we’d be a good match? Set up a free consultation!