About Harley

Harley McKenna (they/them) is a full-spectrum doula, certified postpartum doula, and certified lactation counselor who has had the enormous pleasure of supporting families in Central Vermont and beyond since 2020.

Harley is a member of the doula team at the Community Doula Care Program and a Doula Case Manager with The Doula Project of Washington County Mental Health.

Their approach to doula care is deeply informed by trauma literacy and BIPOC queer feminism, with a goal of supporting their clients to claim their agency, make intentional and informed choices, feel seen and heard and cared for, and glean all of the growth and self-compassion that each reproductive experience has to offer.

Harley’s Trainings & Certifications:

  • Perinatal Mood Disorders: Components of Care 2-day course with Postpartum Support International, Septemeber 2025

  • Supporting Plus Size Pregnancy with Michelle Mayefske, January 2024

  • Evidence Based Birth Instructor Training Program, completed December 2023

  • Recovery Coach Academy with Recovery Vermont, November 2022

  • Gender Affirming Birthwork 101 with Moss Froom, November 2022

  • Empty Arms Bereavement Trainings: accompaniment during loss, and during subsequent pregnancy and birth, October 2022

  • Intimate Partner Violence 101 with Circle, September 2022

  • When Survivors Give Birth with Selena Shelley & The Howard Center, September 2022

  • Spinning Babies 2-day Training, April 2022

  • Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) through ALPP, Oct 2022

  • 52-hr Lactation Counseling Course with the Healthy Children Project, completed July 2022

  • Pelvic Shape and OB Bias Workshop & the Creating Space Workshop with Blossoming Bellies Wholistic Birth, February & March 2022 

  • Institute for Birth, Breath & Death training on supporting pregnancy and infant loss (through Poppy Seed Health), November 2022

  • Supporting Survivors who Birth with Eri Guajardo Johnson

  • Supporting Trans Birthers with Trystan Reese

  • Postpartum Doula Training & Certification, Cornerstone Birthwork Trainings, April 2021

  • University of Vermont Hospital Labor Doula Training, November 2020

  • Full-Spectrum Doula Training, April 2020, Ancient Song Doula Trainings