About Rebecca
Rebecca is a board-certified Nurse-Midwife (CNM). She graduated from the Yale School of Nursing in 2007, and has sought out additional diverse learning opportunities, merging allopathic and natural medicine. She grew up in Massachusetts, the daughter of a cell biologist and an artist, herbalist and organic farmer, and knew from age four that she wanted to work with women and babies.
Beyond her education at Yale University, Rebecca studied the maternal-child health system in India, touring hospitals, meeting the health minister and attending prenatal and postpartum visits in impoverished communities, studying the role of traditional midwives. She was also influenced by a month “catching babies” in a village hospital in South Africa.
Following graduation, Rebecca moved cross-country to Juneau, Alaska, where she worked as a CNM at the Juneau Family Birth Center. After five years, she transitioned to Wellspring, an integrative health clinic, where she learned to blend her experience from birth work with primary care. In 2016 she founded Earthsong Integrative Medicine and Midwifery, the culmination of her vision for healthcare, training and experience.
Since 2020, Rebecca has transitioned to practice via telemedicine.
Philosophy
Certified Nurse-Midwives believe in “a midwife for every woman, in every season of life.” Rebecca believes women deserve midwifery care to support them through all of life’s transitions.
Rebecca practices “relationship-based medicine”. Building a trusting relationship with patients is an essential part of her practice, in which women feel heard, witnessed, affirmed, honored, seen and understood.
Although it is rarely discussed in our culture, the relationship of client/patient and provider is central to therapeutic work and healing. Greater healing occurs when there is a strong relationship and, in many cases, this strong relationship is the largest part of the therapy itself. Studies clearly show the positive impacts of feeling seen, heard and respected by your healthcare provider.
“My greatest passion and purpose is to help women to reclaim themselves. To help them heal and whole themselves.”
Rebecca is a budding herbalist and homeopath. She believes in therapeutic listening and the model of life coaching. Working with her is a blend of all these features, including labs and imaging, standard western medicine and the use of pharmaceuticals when needed.
Her work with patients is to hear their worries, uncertainties and voice and develop a co-created therapeutic plan. Her approach is to provide information, ideas and possible paths to explore, working together to create a plan that honors the patient, her body and inner voice.
Scope of practice
Rebecca’s scope of practice is set by The American College of Nurse-Midwives. She can work with women from menarche (first period) through the end of life, and with newly born babies up to 28 days of life. She can see men only if they are seeking treatment for a disease that affects the health of a female client (such as treatment for a partner with a sexually transmitted infection).