Budget-Friendly Doula Support
We believe that every family deserves expert support during birth and postpartum—regardless of budget. Our Budget-Friendly Doula Program connects families with student doulas who are actively training under our 7-month In Joy Birth Mentorship Program, offering high-quality, hands-on care at a reduced rate of only $700.
Compassionate Care at an Accessible Rate
Our student doulas are dedicated, passionate, and carefully trained to provide the emotional, physical, and informational support you need—whether during labor, postpartum recovery, or newborn care.
By choosing a mentorship doula, you receive affordable and compassionate care while supporting the next generation of birth workers as they grow in their practice. The investment is $700 for comprehensive care.
Our Training Program: Hands-On Experience, Expert Guidance
The doulas in our mentorship program are gaining real-world experience under the direct supervision of seasoned doulas with over 20 years of combined expertise. Their training includes:
Comprehensive education in labor, birth, and postpartum care
Hands-on experience supporting families in real-world settings
Evidence-based practices in newborn care, lactation, and maternal recovery
Guidance and mentorship from certified birth and postpartum doulas
These student doulas are fully prepared to provide excellent care while continuing to learn and grow under the guidance of In Joy Birth’s senior doulas.
Meet Our Current Student Doulas
Below, you’ll find a list of student doulas currently enrolled in the mentorship program. Each of these doulas is committed to providing exceptional, heart-centered care while completing their training.
Sharon H.
Sharon was born and raised in Central Florida. She has a 20-year-old son and a 16-year-old daughter. She is currently pursuing her bachelor's degree in alternative medicine. Sharon brings over 10 years of experience as a medical assistant in women's health and currently works as a phlebotomist and a birth assistant at Tree of Life Birth and GYN, working alongside midwives. Sharon loves advocating for mothers and passing on her knowledge so they can achieve the pregnancy they want and deserve. In her free time, she enjoys being outside in nature, on the water, and in the garden.
Bri W.
Briana is mom of three loving, crazy boys, and a doula who is passionate about providing gentle guidance and full support to women throughout their pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journeys. Briana has been happily married to her husband for five years, and together, they’re raising their kids with love, faith, and community. Her passion for doula work began early in pregnancy with her first child as she experienced first hand the difficulties mothers face in receiving full transparency in the birthing space.
As a doula, Briana is dedicated to being an advocate for her clients, making sure their voices are heard and their needs are met. She believes that every birthing person deserves to feel empowered, supported, and confident in their choices. Whether it’s offering comfort, answering questions, or providing reassurance, Briana is happy to be a support to families in anyway she can.
In addition to her birth support, Briana is deeply passionate about mental health and postpartum care. She understands that the emotional and mental aspects of pregnancy and birth are just as important as the physical, and she’s committed to offering support during the postpartum period, when new parents often face unique challenges. Briana helps ensure her clients have the resources, care, and encouragement they need to navigate the transition to parenthood with confidence and ease.
Elisabeth H.
Elisabeth is a doula in the Narcoosse/Saint Cloud area. Her journey began as a teenager when her sisters had babies and she would accompany her mom to support them. Inspired by these experiences, she later went on to receive her degree in Family Life and Human Development.
Having experienced four very different births as a mother herself, as well as infertility and loss, she is well aquainted with the unpredictability of birth and pregnancy. She has seen in herself and others, the long-term difference that a supportive team can have on the wellbeing of parents and their babies. Everyone deserves to know they are strong and fully capable.
Elisabeth loves being creative, including sewing, lace making, and knitting. She has four beautiful children who bring her immense joy. She is ready to walk with you as your birth and journey into parenthood unfold.
Gina K.
Gina is a caring and compassionate doula who brings a calm and supportive presence to all families she serves. She is a mother of two beautifully sweet and spunky girls. Gina has a background in education and serving families with children with special needs.
Gina comes to us with two personally different pregnancies and birth experiences. Her first birth and postpartum journey had complications, thus pushing her to gain more knowledge in hopes of having a better experience the second time around. With her dedication, she was able to fully cherish her second pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey.
Now, Gina walks alongside women and families to empower them on their unique journeys. She offers birth education and preparation, hands-on labor support, lactation guidance, and postpartum care—helping families feel informed, supported, and confident in their choices.
Kiersten V.
Birth is an incredible and miraculous privilege - something we get to do, not something we have to do.
Kiersten is deeply called to educate parents and facilitate empowering birth experiences for all families. She believes a positive birth is one where parents walk away feeling respected, informed, and empowered in their choices.
She approaches this transformative process with compassion, confidence, and a commitment to the most up-to-date evidence-based care. Kiersten provides guidance without judgment and is here to support and advocate for your unique wishes every step of the way.
In 2025, she began her own motherhood journey with the unmedicated hospital birth of her son. During her pregnancy, she encountered significant doubt and uncertainty from the medical establishment after learning her son has achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism. That experience ignited a deep passion to advocate for parents of children with disabilities, as well as parents who have disabilities themselves. She is committed to helping families understand their rights and guiding them in the beautiful experience they deserve.
Kiersten is so grateful to be training under the expert doulas at In Joy Birth and is especially passionate about supporting hospital births, serving as a bridge between families and providers.
With over 15 years as a professional dancer, she also offers private prenatal belly dance lessons to help prepare the body and mind for childbirth.
She would be honored to support you during this profound and beautiful season of life.
Hannah S.
Hannah is a faith-based birth doula and mother of two busy boys.
Her journey into birth work began with her own first birth — a breech baby, a failed ECV, and ultimately a cesarean. Determined to approach her second birth differently, Hannah hired doulas (the In Joy Birth team!), worked with a small midwifery practice, and immersed herself in learning about VBACs. What began as a planned homebirth became a hospital transfer and epidural-supported VBAC. Despite the unexpected turns, she felt empowered, supported, and deeply cared for — largely because of her doula.
Having navigated multiple birth settings and decisions, Hannah is passionate about helping families understand their options, advocate for their preferences, and feel steady no matter how their story unfolds. She believes that while “babies don’t read birth plans,” parents can still walk away feeling protected, informed, and never alone.
Hannah is honored to come alongside families during pregnancy and birth, offering calm, faith-anchored support throughout their transformative journey.
Outside of birth work, she enjoys reading, staying active, attending Bible study, and watching her boys run wild with their cousins — usually with popsicles in hand.
Candy M.
Candy is a native central Floridian, raised in a non-traditional family which gave her the passion to help others just as was done for her. She is a firm believer it takes a village to not only raise a child but to support new parents on the journey to parenthood. She has attended several births over the years as a stand in Doula for family and friends and is ready to take on the role, professionally.
Candy, Is a mother of one adult daughter and jokes she has 37 other daughters as she was a girl scout troop leader for over a decade and holds DCF certifications in childcare as well as working towards her CLC (lactation) certifications through the health department so she can serve the communities who need it the most.
Candy has a passion for photography, babies, lactation and now in this new season of life for her, a passion for birth and supporting parents through the birthing process and 4th trimester. She wants to be your village. Her professional history was in the medical & dental field for over 20 years. She has turned in her scrubs to follow her dream of helping bring babies earth side.
She is interested in serving in all aspects of “the Doula role” that she can. Candy understands that not everyone can easily acquire a doula and is willing to work with families in need in hopes to assist giving every expecting mother the best birthing experience possible.
Kristen P.
Kristen is a mother of 4 grown sons, and is devoted to her husband of over 30 years. She grew up in Seminole County and has called it home for almost 50 years. Kristen personally has a wealth of birthing experiences- she's experienced induced labor, vacuum extraction delivery, hospital births, birth with an obstetrician, birth with a nurse midwife, vaginal natural birth without drugs, vaginal birth with an epidural, a C section birth, a high risk pregnancy, a NICU baby, and breastfed each of her children for 10-14 mos.
Kristen is caring and compassionate, and has a deep love for the vocation of motherhood, the miracle of childbirth, the wonder of newborns, and the blessing of children. She feels called by God to uplift and support new mothers through labor, delivery, and early motherhood. She looks forward to combining her real-world expertise with the evidence-based care of the In Joy Birth doula training program to provide mothers with unwavering support and advocacy of their birth choices at the beginning of their incredible journey of motherhood.
Kristen has a strong Christian faith and is a practicing Catholic. She graduated from Rice University where she was a 4 year student athlete- swimming. After college, she earned her MBA from the Crummer Business School at Rollins College in Winter Park. She worked in the business world prior to the birth of her first son and then worked part time in financial administration for various small business clients while raising her sons to adulthood. Kristen is devoted to healthy living- spending time outdoors in the beautiful Florida sun, preparing nutritious meals, and using food as medicine. In her free time, Kristen loves being outside – kayaking, paddleboarding, boating, swimming, visiting local Florida natural springs, walks with her 3 dogs, and gardening.
Willow M.
Born and raised in Tampa, Florida, Willow now lives in Kissimmee with her fiancé and their son. Willow herself was born at home to a mother who told her stories of the injustices that parents often face in pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period, and who worked as a Hypnobirthing instructor in order to help educate parents on how to create their dream births with evidence-based education and informed consent. Willow went through early childhood and high-school caring for family and friend’s young children and going to local birth-work and childcare events with her mother. Through these experiences Willow became fascinated by the realm of childbearing and rearing, often daydreaming about her own future pregnancy, birth and child-raising experiences. However, after a difficult unplanned pregnancy in college and the tumultuous birth of her son, Willow struggled with postpartum depression and anxiety and realized just how lucky she was to have the support system that so many go without (four generations of family under one roof, to be exact).
This gratitude that Willow felt for her own situation began to morph into a deep sense of disappointment towards how our society has normalized the lack of support that so many parents face both during pregnancy and after welcoming a baby into their families. Willow received a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Central Florida, and within her studies found that she is incredibly passionate for reproductive, maternal and parental equity and justice. Willow recognizes the deep-rooted injustices within our society regarding pregnancy, birth and postpartum, and knows how many families go without adequate support. We know that it takes a village to raise a child, but we forget that it takes a village to support parents, as well. Willow hopes to be a villager for families who could use a helping-hand during such a transformative period in their lives, and she hopes to ensure that families are able to have positive birth and postpartum experiences regardless of their backgrounds, healthcare choices, careers and lifestyles, because she understands that the ideal pregnancy, birth, postpartum and parenting experience looks different for everyone and every family.
In her free time Willow enjoys reading, weight-training, making jewelry, painting, creative writing, learning about native Florida plants and spending time outdoors with her family, friends and toddler.
Victoria C.
Victoria is a birth doula based in Lake County, where she lives with her husband, their two wonderful children, and a lively mix of three cats and two dogs. Her passion for birth work was born out of her own story. After a traumatic first birth in 2020, she knew she wanted a different experience the next time. When expecting her second child in 2024, she hired a doula—and that decision changed everything. Her second birth was empowering, transformative, and redemptive, inspiring her to walk alongside other families as they welcome new life.
Victoria believes every woman deserves to experience birth as a beautiful and empowering event. She is passionate about the physiology of birth and about equipping mothers and their partners to confidently advocate for the birth they desire. Faith and family ground her, and when she’s not supporting clients, she enjoys sewing, reading, and continually learning new things.