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:
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