About the Doula

As a doula…

I hold sacred space for you as you experience the joys and sorrows of your child-bearing year.

I believe in the power of physiological birth and want to empower you with education to make informed choices and amplify your voice and your birthing desires. I will support your choices for avoiding or embracing medical interventions that bring you peace of mind and comfort.

I help facilitate open conversations with your medical staff so you can feel heard, informed and safe.

I offer helping hands, a listening ear and a prayerful heart to actively support the many needs of parents in pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

I am a sister to encourage you so you can labor through the threshold of motherhood, your rite of passage, without fear. I am a sister to the fathers, encouraging them in their role to support, love and protect their beloved.

I believe God has written his love story for humanity through the Incarnation of his Son, Jesus, into a family. Because of this great love, we can experience divinity and the sacred in messy, ordinary family life.

A piece of my story

My name is Ashlie and I was raised right here in Silverton, Oregon. I moved out east to New York and then Boston for college. I married my high school sweetheart, Josh, and he commissioned into the US Air Force. We adventured through North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Hawai’i, and now have settled into life back in home sweet Oregon.

During our nomadic military life, we brought four wonderful children into the world. Each pregnancy, birth and expansion of our family transformed me, stretched me and made me new. It’s my greatest joy and most important work in life, to mother our children. As the years rolled on, I started to feel another calling toward birthwork. I homeschooled our precious kids up until 2025 when I decided to make some space in my life for pursuing work as a doula. I trained with Mother Tree, a DONA International approved training, for both birth and postpartum doula work. I am continuing my education and working toward certification as an Oregon Traditional Health Worker.

As a Catholic woman, I find great joy in this work. God sent his Son, Jesus, into this world through a family, through the way of the womb. Although birth is a common, every day occurrence it is personally transformative, our own experience that touches the Divine Story. A parent gazing upon a new child begins to understand just how much God must love them, in his mercy! To me, that never gets old. Your family story is sacred, messy, unique and beautiful. Where a family welcomes in a little one, it is holy ground.

I am honored you are here, considering allowing me into that sacred space. I wish you all the joy, growth, support and love you need as you take this brave and beautiful step into your motherhood and fatherhood.