Serving Joplin & Springfield

Ashley Johnson

  • Owner and Certified Doula with Dona, Uzazi and Cappa, Placenta Encapsulator, Certified Postpartum Doula with BEST & Certified in Pregnancy Loss Support
    Medicaid (Healthy Blue) approved doula

  • I love working with people and getting to see them embrace their strength, abilities and believe their body can do amazing things. I am honored to be able to support, encourage and help them as their birth story develops and becomes a part of their lives and story. It is such a beautiful gift to walk through pregnancy, birth and postpartum with so many lovely people.

Serving Springfield

Tawni Gary

  • Maternal Support Practioner
    (Fertility Doula, Birth Doula, & Postpartum Doula) BeboMia
    Certified Childbirth Educator
    Lactation Educator
    LUVs Leader
    Certified Postpartum Nutrition Professional
    Medicaid (Healthy Blue) approved doula

  • Native Texan, book nerd and mother of six kids. I have a passion for supporting families to have healing, empowering, and restorative births. Through my own birth journeys and of those who I have walked alongside, I have gained knowledge and experience with: natural childbirth, homebirths, cesarean birth, NICU stays, twins, VBACs, Induction, Loss, birth trauma, and high risk pregnancies. Reclaiming birth, healing trauma, and creating new space is key when unexpected changes happen. I work with families to build their lighthouse to have in the changing waves of pregnancy and birth. We all need a guiding light we can count out to always be there through the joys and challenges of fertility, birth, and postpartum.

    I have trained as a Fertility, Birth, and Postpartum Doula with Bebo Mia. I have Perinatal Mental Health training with Postpartum Support International, Breech training with Breech Without Borders, and Birth Emergency Skills Training, and have begun training with GOLD Lactation Academy.

Serving Joplin & Springfield

Aneva Jefferson

  • Certified Birth Doula and Postpartum Support with Birth Advocacy Doula Trainings

  • I'm Aneva (she/her)! I was born and raised in Springfield, MO, but recently moved back after completing my Bachelors in Psychology from UMKC and my Masters in Community Development and Action from Vanderbilt University. While in Nashville, I found my passion for reproductive justice and completed my full-spectrum doula certification through a Black owned/queer led organization called Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings (BADT). As a queer biracial woman, learning how to best show up for my communities in the birth space was of utmost importance to me. I worked with a Black birth collective based in Nashville called Homeland Heart, where I found my niche as a community doula and furthered my reproductive justice education by completing a training in perinatal mood/anxiety disorders. I am passionate about educating diverse families and birthing folks on how to advocate for themselves in the birth space and beyond!

Serving Springfield

Alexis Guccione

  • DONA certified Birth Doula and Yoga Instructor

  • To be a doula is to be motivated by humanitarianism. I know that I am called to nurture. I see that with every baby birthed a new mother is born. For as long as I can remember, I have been inspired by the strength and glow of both mother and child in their adventure together. Born elder to my brother and sister I grew as observer and aid in the beautiful efforts of my mother and father to raise happy and healthy people. I have proudly taken on village mentality with every arrival of my nieces, nephews and five god children. I am privileged to come from a long-time background in therapeutic massage and yoga instruction. I believe my education, experience and passion in these past careers better enable me to understand with confidence the physiological and emotional possibilities of your path to new motherhood. It is my honor to be invited on this journey. My intentions are to provide educated information, physical support and unconditional open space.

Serving Springfield

Chloe Keyes

  • DONA trained Birth Doula Intern

  • Hey friends! I’m Chloe, a fun-loving family birth enthusiast! Bringing life into this world is such an amazing and beautiful thing, I want you to be able to look back on your experience with joy! I love finding creative ways to ensure you feel heard and supported through your journey, and I will be your number one cheerleader through this whole process! I also bring my experience as a Licensed Massage Therapist in hopes to best serve my expecting families! In my free time, you can find me traveling to hike a mountain somewhere, or curled up with my big dog on the couch, book in hand.

Serving Joplin

Shannon Wedge

  • Village Host in Joplin & Certified BEST Postpartum Doula

  • I am a creative person, and I enjoy getting to know other people. I am a mother to five very unique and also creative people. I love good food, a hot cup of coffee, and conversation. I also love plants, and get excited with each new leaf that unfurls. I'm grateful for the opportunity to be village host with Flourish Family Doulas, and look forward to getting to know more mothers in our community.

Serving Springfield

Alexis Pippin

  • DONA trained Birth Doula Intern and Certified Aromatherapist

  • I had a less than ideal experience giving birth to my daughter. It was full of interventions, some of which I wasn't familiar with. This opened my eyes in a big way & led me to become a doula.

    Creating & bringing life into this world is one of the most challenging & rewarding journeys life has to offer. I wholeheartedly feel that it's my calling to help support & nurture women through their journey into motherhood & beyond. It truly takes a village!

    I want to help ensure you look back at your experience fondly. This is your journey, your pregnancy & your body. I want to help you feel empowered & in control throughout your entire pregnancy. I'm here to listen, educate & hold space for you. I want you to feel seen, heard & respected. I'd be honored to join your birthing team.

Serving Springfield

Anna Haak

  • DONA certified Birth Doula

  • After I had my first daughter, friends asked if I would support them with their births. I was unaware that being a Doula was a position at the time. My passion for women’s health and the dignity of all people led me to becoming certified through DONA, and then to begin volunteering to help in the Doula role for birthing people in need of support in hospitals. Through the past years I’ve had 8 children of my own and gained many personal experiences; births at home, birth centers, hiring a Doula for my own care, loss, and advanced maternal age among many others. My philosophy on birth is holding space for people right where they are and helping advocate for them as they journey forward. The birthing experience has long lasting implications that deeply impact the new family that is being formed and the world since we are all connected.

Serving Joplin

Allyson Edwards

  • BEST trained Birth Doula Intern

  • Hi! I’m Ally Edwards! I’ve grown up in the Joplin area my whole life and I have 3 little girls. I have a specialist degree in psychology, which allows me to have some more insight on not only what’s going on physically, but emotionally as well. With my last pregnancy, I had a doula from Flourish Family Doulas & afterwards I just knew I had to become a part of it! I can’t wait to become apart of your support team through your birth.

We believe that all parents deserve compassionate care, education, expert support, and community. With our amazing group of care providers, childbirth education, parenting classes, and community events, we are able to care for and support families in Springfield and Joplin the way they deserve. After all, it takes a village!

You’re not in this alone, let’s flourish together!