thbs mentoring program
Mentorship, kinda like a doula for a blossoming doula.
What Mentorship will include:
Applications are now being accepted for the THBS Mentorship Program! The program involves a 3-month commitment.
With this program you will be mentored by more than one doula to fit in with individual schedules and availability.
Please email us if you’re interested in more information. There is a fee for this program, payment plans are welcome.
What Mentorship will include:
- bi-weekly group mentor/mentee meetings (in-person, online, or combination)
- accompanying a mentor to at least 2 prenatal visits
- accompanying a mentor to a birth*, as well as the postpartum follow-up meeting
- guidance on contracts and other client forms
- building community resources
- getting to know local birth/medical community
- conduct in a birth setting
- balancing on-call life and self-care
- guidance with creating professional boundaries
- strategies on how to market and determining self-worth
- guidance with how to best represent yourself in an interview and how to determine when a family is a good fit
- addressing management of professional expenses and filing taxes
- how to organize and work with back-up
- share strategies about different doula business models; as well as a familiarize with those business models
- how to make doula work do-able financially, passive and other income opportunities
Applications are now being accepted for the THBS Mentorship Program! The program involves a 3-month commitment.
With this program you will be mentored by more than one doula to fit in with individual schedules and availability.
Please email us if you’re interested in more information. There is a fee for this program, payment plans are welcome.
Our Current Mentee
Past Mentees
jaimie zakiExperiencing both a cesarean and 2 VBACs (medicated and unmedicated), Jaimie's personal experiences have led her to appreciating the importance of birth and postpartum support during all types of birth, and lead her to seek a career in birth work. Jaimie offers support as a Doula trained with Madriella, Certified Breastfeeding Specialist, and loves to help tell a family's unique stories as a Motherhood Photographer focusing on the journey from Maternity Photos through Postpartum and Breastfeeding Documentation. Jaimie has been a military wife for 5 years and has a special interest in supporting families without a strong local support system in place.
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Meet Sarah Divito
Sarah is a 23 year old New Jersey native who is in the process of completing her birth doula certification, attending a DONA training in November 2019. Through years of experience as a nanny, Sarah fell in love with babies and helping families adjust and transition their little ones coming earth side. Sarah is so excited to work with the women of THBS and begin her experience as a birth doula with her own company, By The Moon Doula Services.
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