Samantha has been a certified labor doula through The Birth Center Holistic Women's Healthcare, LLC since 2017. She is currently working on her DONA birth doula certification to achieve dual certification. She received her bachelor's degree in Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise from Virginia Tech. After college, she spent some time working with adults, children, and pregnant parents on healthy practices to manage diabetes. While she enjoyed her work, she didn’t feel a lot of passion for that path. She decided to switch careers and work with animals. She spent more than 15 years working with “aggressive” dogs and honing her skills in reading body language and energy. She carries that skill into her current doula work. In 2015 she became pregnant with her first daughter and decided to shift attention to her family and become a stay-at-home-mama. This has been her favorite career, by far, and she loves spending her days with her two beautiful little girls. Receiving amazing care from The Birth Center sparked her love for birth and helping parents on their journey into parenthood.

As a doula, Sam provides a calm, gentle, easy-going environment for birthing parents to relax and be themselves. Her superpower is staying incredibly calm and focused in chaotic environments. She is resilient and loves when birthing people feel free to use whatever tone and language suits them during birth. She is skilled in the nuanced art of body language and takes direction well. She is dedicated to providing individual, attentive, intuitive, and compassionate care.