Hi, I’m Reagan.

Full spectrum doula. Mother. Writer. Artist. Curandera.

I have spent most of my adult life paying close attention to what it means to be in a body. As a model and luxury stylist, I learned early that the body holds stories. The way we dress it, move it, present it to the world says something about what we believe we deserve, what we are trying to become, what we are hiding, and what we are finally ready to show. That work taught me to read a room, to read a person, and to understand that beauty and identity and vulnerability are always in conversation with each other.

It also taught me that most people are carrying more than they show. That insight has shaped everything I have done since, including the way I practice birth work.

How I came to this work

I did not plan to become a doula in any linear way. I came to it through an accumulating sense that something was missing in the way our culture holds the experience of birth. After growing up as the oldest in a large family and seeing how our culture treats birth and the postpartum period, I became fascinated. People were moving through one of the most profound transformations of their lives without adequate support, without someone to witness them, without care that honored both the clinical reality and the deeply psychological nature of what was happening.

Birth is not just a physical event. It is a psychological one. Carl Jung wrote about the idea of individuation, the process of becoming more fully ourselves by integrating the parts of us we have ignored or buried. Becoming a parent, and the process of bringing a child into the world, is one of the most powerful catalysts for that kind of transformation that exists. Old wounds surface. The nervous system revisits things it thought it had set down. The self reorganizes.

A trauma-informed doula understands this. My training in trauma-informed care is not a footnote to my practice. It is the foundation of it. It shapes how I enter a room, how I speak, how I listen, how I recognize when someone needs more gentleness or more grounding or simply to be seen without being rushed. It shapes what I notice and what I never say out loud. It shapes the quality of safety I try to create, which is the kind of safety a nervous system can actually feel.

I threw myself into learning. Midwifery studies. Advanced neonatal resuscitation. Spinning Babies certification. Breech support. Physiological birth. I wanted to bring real clinical literacy into the birth space alongside the psychological and emotional depth. Seven years and hundreds of births later, I still believe that combination is rare and worth everything.

The other threads

I write professionally on fashion and art. I have been a working model and a luxury stylist, and those worlds gave me a fluency in beauty, in aesthetics, in the way objects and images carry meaning. I bring that eye to everything. The way I approach a birth space, a postpartum visit, a consultation, there is always an attention to atmosphere and detail that comes from years of caring about those things.

I have studied tarot for four years and I read professionally. I want to be clear about what that means to me, because I think tarot is deeply misunderstood. It is not fortune-telling. It is a psychological tool, one that I find entirely consistent with a Jungian framework. The archetypes in the cards are the same archetypes Jung spent his life mapping in the human psyche. Working with tarot is a practice of reflection, of surfacing what is already present but not yet conscious, of learning to sit with ambiguity rather than forcing a resolution. Those are the same skills that serve a person in labor, in the postpartum haze, in grief, in transformation. I bring that orientation into my doula work, even when I am not holding a card.

I am a mother, which has taught me things I could not have learned any other way. In my personal life, I practice yoga, herbalism collect vinyl, art, love travel and studying about the people and world around me. I live with my son, and my life partner in Houston, with two small rescue dogs and a rescue kitten named Alani Witches Brew, in a house with a large, dedicated library and art room to house my collection.

What I believe about birth

I believe birth is sacred. Not precious or fragile, but worthy of genuine reverence. Worthy of full attention and skilled, unhurried care. Birth asks everything of a person and it deserves support that meets that ask.

I believe the body knows things the mind has not caught up to yet. I believe that your nervous system carries the history of everything that has ever happened to you, and that birth has a way of bringing that history to the surface. This is not something to be afraid of. It is something to be met with knowledge and with compassion. A protected birth space, one where you feel truly safe, changes what your nervous system is capable of. It changes outcomes. The research is unambiguous about this, and so is everything I have witnessed.

I believe that how you feel during your birth matters as much as what happens. Whether you felt heard, whether your autonomy was honored, whether you were treated as a person rather than a patient. You will carry this experience for the rest of your life. It deserves to be held with care.

I believe the clinical and the intuitive belong together. Evidence-based practice and deep presence are not opposites. They are, in the best birth spaces, completely inseparable.

What you can expect from me

When you work with me, you are working with someone who has done the inner work alongside the professional training. I know what it is to be in a body that has been looked at, assessed, and commodified. I know what it is to move through spaces where you are expected to perform rather than simply be. I know what it is to need someone who can hold your story without judgment and without rushing you toward resolution.

I will learn who you are before your birth. I will listen to what you are not quite saying as much as what you are. I will be honest with you, advocate for you clearly, and stay steady in the moments when things feel uncertain. I will not project my own vision onto your birth. I will protect yours.

I am reachable, consistent, and genuinely invested in how you come through this. Not just whether the birth went well by clinical measures, but how you feel about yourself on the other side. Whether you feel intact. Whether you feel proud. Whether the experience of becoming a parent began, for you, in a space that honored what that actually means. A successful birth is defined to me as not only the safety of the dyad, but how you feel about your experience and how you enter parenthood after this deep initiation. My goal in all things is to inform, empower, and support you above all else. 

That is the standard I hold myself to. It is why I keep training, keep studying, keep showing up.

If something here feels like it was written for you, I would love to connect. The first conversation is always free, always unhurried, and always entirely about you.