Hi, I’m Anoushka!
I’m a birth doula and public health practitioner. My practice centers your lived experience, feelings, and preferences, supporting you in this moment of growth and transformation. I’m dedicated to providing evidence-based, trauma-informed, LGBTQIA+ affirming, inclusive, and compassionate care. I live, practice, and care for community in Denver, Colorado in the traditional and ancestral homelands of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations and peoples. Together with my blind senior dog Dena, I’m building my connection to myself and this place, one moment of learning and growth at a time.
My experience
I’m a DONA-trained and Denver Health Doula Program certified doula. I practice at Denver Health, Colorado’s primary safety-net hospital system, supporting patients from around the world in their diverse hopes and preferences for their birth experiences. I teach and practice privately both online and in the Denver metro. I’m training as a Certified Lactation Counselor through the Healthy Children Project.
I also work in reproductive health equity and health policy for the State of Colorado. I hold a Masters in Public Health in Health Metrics and Evaluation from the University of Washington, and studied geography and community and global health at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN.
Why Alpenglow?
Pregnancy transforms us — we’re always evolving into the next version of ourselves, whether we’re the pregnant person, a loved one, or even your doula! It’s an honor to work with folks in that space of transition, and to hold the co-existing emotions, bodily sensations, questions, fears, joys, and dreams together. Alpenglow is the sunlight reflected before sunrise or after sunset, a time of strengthening, of softening, of going inward and of radiating outward, of sitting with what is, promise, and potential, of being with each other, just as birth can be.
