Licensed Certified Social Worker-Clinical (LCSW-C, PMH-C)

I believe every woman should have access to quality mental health care, at every stage of her life. I’m honored to walk with my clients on their journey. Through trauma-informed care and a mind-body approach to wellness, I offer a space where my clients can both heal and grow.

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Licensed Graduate Professional Counselor (LGPC) My goal is to help mothers and fathers reshape negative thought patterns and beliefs, fostering greater mental and emotional well-being.

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Perinatal Mental Health Therapist & Womb Room Owner

No one is fully prepared for what it means to become a Parent.

Having a child is one of the most primal, natural things that human beings are designed to do, yet too often it is a time riddled with fear.

Whether struggling with conception, coping with all of the “what-if’s” of pregnancy, making sense of a difficult labor, navigating relationship dynamics, or managing the challenges of parenthood, it is important to have support.

I specialize in helping individuals access the resources, confidence, and inner wisdom necessary for coping with the complex experiences of parenthood.

I know this is hard.​ You are not alone, and you can absolutely do this.

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Birth + Postpartum Doula

Originally from the Eastern Shore of Maryland (a small town with the perk of being near Ocean City!), Zainab now calls the Canton neighborhood of Baltimore home. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies with a minor in Education from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. After spending the majority of her career as a teacher, Zainab feels this next chapter—supporting families as a doula—has been a natural evolution of her lifelong commitment to care, connection, and advocacy.

With over 10 years of experience supporting families as a nanny, teacher, and mentor, Zainab brings a calming, grounded presence to the birth and postpartum spaces. She has trained as a doula through an immersive international program and continues to expand her learning in areas like prenatal yoga, childbirth education, and herbalism.

Zainab offers both birth and postpartum support and tailors her approach to meet each family’s unique needs. Whether she’s providing hands-on comfort measures during labor, emotional support during a tender postpartum night, or helping parents feel informed and empowered, Zainab shows up with deep compassion and a nonjudgmental heart. While she’s drawn to holistic, natural approaches, her foundation is rooted in evidence-based care and honoring each client’s values, choices, and autonomy.

At The Womb Room, we are inspired by Zainab’s “why”:

“To me, community is everything—and being of service is a privilege. As a brown woman in the LGBTQ community, I know firsthand how powerful it is to have someone in your corner, especially in medical spaces. Birthing people deserve to be deeply seen, respected, and celebrated—and I’m honored to hold that space.”

Zainab’s mission is to help you feel deeply supported and connected—to your body, your voice, your partner, and your baby. Her hope is that every family she works with walks away feeling more confident, more heard, and more at home in their journey.

A little more about Zainab: Zainab is a nature lover at heart—the ocean is her happy place! She’s a self-described homebody who delights in the cozy comforts of life: home-cooked meals, baking new recipes (especially ones tied to her culture), and long, chatty hikes with friends. She’s always eager to grow, learn, and try new things—both personally and professionally.

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Yoga Instructor, RYT 200

Imani has been a dedicated student of yoga since 2015 and has been guiding others in their practice for the past three years. She is trained in contemporary Baptiste-inspired power yoga and has experience teaching a variety of styles including vinyasa, hot power, and slow flow. Imani is currently working toward her second prenatal yoga certification as she continues to deepen her work supporting mothers through pregnancy and beyond.

Imani also teaches free, community-based classes through the Rest Easy Bby Collective in Baltimore, helping make yoga more accessible to her local community. With strong ties to the mental health community, her teaching centers on nurturing the connection between mind, body, and spirit. She encourages students to cultivate self-awareness, build resilience, and develop healthy boundaries both on and off the mat.

As a prenatal yoga teacher and mother herself, Imani is especially passionate about supporting mothers in strengthening their voices and deepening their sense of agency. Through mindful movement and breath, she helps students build trust in themselves, skills that carry from the mat into birth and motherhood.

Imani’s approach to yoga is deeply informed by her own mental health journey. During a particularly challenging time in her life, yoga became a powerful source of grounding and healing, and the practice has continued to support her wellbeing over the past decade.

Outside of yoga, Imani works as a writer at Johns Hopkins. She also writes poetry and prose and runs a literary magazine. Born and raised in Baltimore, she is a mother of two young children and loves spending time outdoors in the sun and in nature. One day she hopes to publish a collection of poetry or her debut novel, a dream she has held alongside her long-standing desire to become a yoga teacher.

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Postpartum Doula

PJ has been supporting families as a career nanny in Baltimore since 2020. In 2024, they transitioned into birth work to help families build strong foundations for themselves and their children. They have worked closely with more than 30 families, providing education on infant care alongside practical, hands-on, and emotional support.

PJ specializes in infant feeding and lactation support. They also offer meal preparation with a focus on nourishing foods and herbs that promote healing, warmth, and milk production during the postpartum period. They’re especially known for offering a comforting mug of red date tea and a shoulder to cry on when needed. PJ’s goal is for every family to leave feeling more confident and able to extend softness and compassion to themselves, their partners, and their babies.

Born and raised in Baltimore, PJ studied fine art and music before the pandemic and gradually found their way to family building and parental support through their work as a nanny. After the overturning of Roe v. Wade, they immersed themselves in learning about reproductive justice, drawing inspiration from writers and activists such as Loretta Ross and bell hooks. PJ is a proud genderqueer lesbian, mother to their cat, Orca, and loves yoga, hiking, spinning in circles, swimming, and most of all, cooking.

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Connie Sanabria is a passionate and emerging yoga instructor with a fresh perspective and deep enthusiasm for sharing the practice. She began her journey in 2021 by completing a Yoga Alliance registered 200-hour teacher training through Awakening Yoga Academy, where she learned the foundations of functional movement, body alignment, and the importance of honoring each individual body.

Connie first began teaching yoga at Baltimore City College High School during the virtual learning year and continued in person the following year. At the time, she was also a full-time educator and saw firsthand how students were seeking ways to destress and incorporate movement into their daily lives. After transitioning out of the classroom and into motherhood, her curiosity about her changing body led her to complete an 85-hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training with Lily Dwyer Begg in 2023.

Today, Connie specializes in prenatal yoga, baby and me yoga, and toddler yoga. She is especially excited about teaching toddler yoga, where she finds joy in watching children interpret poses in creative and playful ways.

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Clare Donofrio, LCSW-C (she/her/hers) is passionate about supporting clients through pregnancy loss, pregnancy ambivalence, and the journey of trying to conceive. Pregnancy and family building can be full of joy, but they also carry losses both big and small - from recovering after a traumatic birth to navigating new anxiety or depression symptoms, shifting identities, or changing partnership dynamics. Clare’s goal is to help new parents trust their intuition and feel confident and comfortable in parenthood.

She’s drawn to the potential for validation and healing in the therapeutic process, and incorporates somatic experiencing and parts work into her practice -helping clients recognize their own strengths and needs.

“My own reproductive health and pregnancy experiences inspired me to become a perinatal therapist. I know what it is like to be a pregnant person seeking support, and to experience disappointment and disillusionment with our health care and social support systems.”

Clare is committed to decolonization and anti-racism, both in her professional practice and in her personal life as a parent and Baltimore resident. She is queer-allied and loves working with queer, trans, and gender non-conforming families.

Clare first trained as a full-spectrum doula in 2014 and went on to co-found the Baltimore Doula Project, with the vision that every pregnant person in the Baltimore area should receive holistic, non-judgmental care throughout their pregnancy, regardless of outcome. She later studied social work and public health, focusing on maternal and child health disparities in the United States.

“All of my professional and personal experiences have fortified my respect and admiration for the strength, wisdom, and resilience of birthing people.”

For the past four years, she has worked with expectant and new families across Baltimore City, filling gaps in support networks through mental health care, psychoeducation, health education, and support group facilitation. She’s had the privilege of supporting pregnant people in many different settings - local hospitals and clinics, a Baltimore City elementary school and community center, and the Maryland state women’s prison.

Clare is a native Baltimorean and lives with her partner, two kids and cat. She loves being outside in nature, traveling, listening to music and podcasts, and watching reality TV. Above all, she loves the chance to connect with parents - and to connect new families with each other.

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Jamie offers a judgement-free approach, understanding that no one plan works for all families. Jamie is trained to recognize body tension patterns, tackle bottle-refusal, and treat oral-ties. She particularly loves collaborating with other practitioners/ disciplines to address individual needs.

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Yoga Instructor + Ayurvedic Health Practitioner

Maria’s journey with yoga began as a teenager when she tried a few classes at her local YMCA. She quickly found that yoga was a powerful tool for managing anxiety. On a whim, in 2013, she decided to sign up for yoga teacher training—a decision that would profoundly shape her life. After completing her 200-hour certification, Maria dove straight into her 500-hour training, and she has been teaching and sharing her love for yoga ever since.

During her teacher training, Maria was introduced to Ayurveda, sparking an insatiable curiosity that led her to pursue formal education in this ancient healing system. In a beautiful twist of fate, Maria completed her Ayurvedic Health Practitioner program and submitted her final paperwork the same day she gave birth to her son, Wren.

Life has certainly changed for Maria since becoming a mother. Now, she balances time between caring for her son and their beloved dog, Raita, and teaching yoga. While her days are filled with the joy and chaos of new motherhood, Maria feels called to help others in the birthing community, particularly in the postpartum period—a crucial and often overlooked phase in the U.S. healthcare system. Having experienced the benefits of Ayurvedic care before and after birth, she is deeply grateful for the knowledge she gained and is eager to share it with others.

Maria has been teaching yoga for over 11 years, gaining experience with various styles that have shaped her understanding of how people move and heal differently. It was yoga that eventually led her to Ayurveda, where her true passion lies. Now, she is determined to bring the healing wisdom of Ayurveda to the Baltimore community, with a particular focus on supporting birthing people with both prenatal and postnatal care.

Maria is passionate about environmental justice and equality, values she shares with her partner, a staff attorney at Maryland Legal Aid. Together, they are dedicated to creating a better world for their family and their community.

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Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW) Perinatal Mental Health Certified (PMH-C)

“As a therapist, my style is energetic, encouraging, collaborative, and empowering. I strive to create a safe haven of support and empathy while fostering hope and healing. I use an integrated, strengths-based approach to teach skills and strategies you can carry with you beyond our sessions.”

After facing personal challenges during and after the births of her children, Danelle Buchman was drawn into the world of advocacy, becoming active in the paid family leave movement. With a background in community organizing and public health, she has worked for various nonprofit organizations and volunteered with groups like MomsRising and Emerge Maryland. These experiences inspired her to pursue a Master of Social Work while living overseas with her family.

Although she initially leaned toward macro social work, Danelle discovered a deep passion for clinical work and the transformative power of supporting women one-on-one. She now blends her advocacy roots with her therapeutic practice, believing that personal empowerment and systemic change go hand in hand.

Danelle serves as a member of the Advisory Board of the Maryland Chapter of Postpartum Support International, where she also serves as a Past Chair. As a therapist, her approach is energetic, encouraging, collaborative, and empowering. She creates a safe, empathetic space for healing and growth, using integrated, strengths-based techniques that equip clients with practical tools they can carry beyond their sessions.

“I enjoy working with couples. Communication is key for couples navigating the journey into parenthood. Whether you’re being proactive or already in the thick of it, couples therapy offers the insight of a skilled third party to help you strengthen communication and face the inevitable challenges of parenthood as a team. I help couples improve their relationship by addressing communication issues, conflict, and emotional disconnection. Together, we’ll explore your relationship dynamics, work through conflict, and build a deeper sense of understanding and connection. Whether you’re facing relationship issues, family dynamics, or other couples and family challenges, I’m here to help you thrive — even during the most stressful times. I have training from The Gottman Institute, including their Bringing Baby Home program.”

A Maryland resident of over 20 years, Danelle also spent seven years abroad in Germany and England with her husband and children, visiting over 30 countries during that time. She enjoys traveling, reading, walking her dog while listening to podcasts (her favorite is You’re Wrong About), and staying engaged in her community through volunteer work at her children’s school and continued involvement with Emerge Maryland.

At the heart of Danelle’s work is a commitment to social justice and a belief in the power of helping women find strength and confidence in their own voices.

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Kristie Graybill is a passionate birth worker and Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator serving families in Baltimore, Maryland. With years of experience supporting hundreds of families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, she feels honored to walk alongside families during such a transformative time in their lives.

Kristie’s approach is practical, compassionate, and empowering. Through movement, body awareness, and evidence-informed education, she gives families tools to support comfort in pregnancy, fetal positioning, and preparation for birth. Her training with Evidence Based Birth® also allows her to help families better understand current research and feel confident making informed decisions about their care.

At the heart of Kristie’s work is a desire to create a space where people feel safe, heard, respected, and confident in their own bodies.

Outside of birth work, Kristie loves watercoloring, practicing qigong, and spending time outdoors. These simple practices keep her grounded, connected, and curious—and bring the same sense of mindfulness and presence to the families she supports.

It is a privilege for Kristie to be part of each family’s unique journey, offering education, encouragement, and a little extra confidence along the way.

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 Yoga Instructor

Emily teaches poses safe for the pregnant and postnatal body, meant to reduce discomfort and to aid with mental and physical healing. This is also a welcome space to connect with and to share resources with other mothers.

  “I do this work because yoga helped me through my hardest times in life and I believe it is almost a therapy that can ease troubles or help one see the world through brighter eyes.”

Emily specializes in fluid motions/asanas along with breathwork that helps in everyday life. She enjoys sharing meditations and mantras in each of her classes. She has been told that her classes help with bringing awareness into the body and to calm the mind through the breathwork and mantras.

“It means everything to hear after teaching a prenatal class that mothers feel better with discomforts they were feeling.”

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Emily found yoga in her early 20’s traveling the country while working in the film industry. Yoga helped her center and destress while traveling around the country for work. Suffering from breathing difficulties, Emily found yoga as a means to end late night rushes to the hospital. Through heated yoga she has found stable breathing and her true self. Yoga is her therapy. It has helped her through health troubles, grief and many more life experiences.

Emily Tayler is a yoga instructor and traveling photographer who was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. Her work has been printed in multiple publications including Harper’s Magazine, Esquire Russia, This Very Instant, Float Photo, and has been exhibited in Australia, London, Cleveland, DC, and New York. She loves yoga, travel, photography, cats, coffee, tea, film, books, RadioLab, National Geographic, Ologies, and Patti Smith.

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Allison has been a yoga instructor for 15 years, 10 of which she mentored and trained some of Baltimore’s top yoga teachers. At the time, she was also overseeing the Charm City Yoga and YogaWorks studios.

Her uplifting classes welcome you as you are, blending fluid movement, breath awareness and soul-nourishing affirmations to live a more joyful, balanced and conscious life now. She incorporates philosophy, energetics, sound and free movement into the physical practice. You’ll leave her class feeling rejuvenated, deeply relaxed, and inspired.

Allison lives in Hamilton-Lauraville with her husband, 2 toddlers, and cat. She is a devoted NY Times Crossword puzzler, avid world traveler, and live music addict!

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Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC)

“Our society is no longer set up as a ‘village’ to help support new parents. Friends and family don’t always know what to say or how to support us through this journey, leading us to feel more alone and invalidated in our experiences.

I aim to provide a safe, unfiltered therapy space where my clients can speak freely about all the complicated emotions that comes along with the perinatal journey, without the fear of judgments or expectations of ‘how they should feel.”

Rebecca utilizes a holistic, mind body and neuroscience-based approach to therapy, emphasizing the interconnection between all five spheres of health (physical, mental, emotional, spiritual and social health). Her approach includes traditional talk therapy, mindfulness, Brainspotting, and principles from Yoga and Polyvagal Theory to help cope with symptoms of anxiety and depression, and desensitize the physiological trauma response.

Rebecca uses Narrative Therapy and Birth Story Processing to help cohesively process your birthing story from pre-conception, through pregnancy to labor/delivery and postpartum, honoring the recollection of each stage in your journey to parenthood. She also places a strong emphasis on teaching self-advocacy skills to help you navigate the complexities of the perinatal medical system.

Rebecca is a Philadelphia native and diehard Eagles fan. She moved to Baltimore for college and grad school and has lived in Baltimore/DC ever since. She and her husband of 14 years welcomed their daughter in February 2022 through IVF. In her free time, she is passionate about Orange Theory Fitness, hiking, spending time friends and family, and practicing Yoga. She loves to travel and explore new places.

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I believe in fostering a nurturing, inclusive community where people can move, breathe, and be supported throughout pregnancy. Through my work as a prenatal yoga instructor and as a current master’s student in genetic counseling, I’m committed to uplifting others through health with empathy, education, and mindful movement.

I specialize in creating supportive, accessible flows that incorporate breathwork, mindful movement, and evidence-informed knowledge from my genetic counseling training. My approach emphasizes emotional awareness, body autonomy, and meeting each person exactly where they are. People leave feeling more centered, empowered, and connected to themselves and their growing community.

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Yoga Coordinator & Instructor

Emily is a mother of two young children, a yoga teacher, a reiki master, an avid reader and an arts & crafts enthusiast. She drew on the practices of yoga while pregnant and in labor and hopes that she can pass that knowledge on to her students through her teaching. As a yoga teacher at the Womb Room, her goal is to guide those entering motherhood through a practice that is not only soothing in the moment, but that will support the body and mind for all of the challenges that are to come.

Emily has been teaching since 2013; she came to the practice with a deep love of movement from her years as a childhood athlete. Through the years, she has developed a strong understanding of body awareness, energy, alignment, and action. In her teaching, she encourages students to fully inhabit their bodies and breath, embracing each moment as an opportunity for exploration. She firmly believes that yoga is for everyone, regardless of background, flexibility, or experience.

In Emily’s classes, students are guided breath by breath through intelligent sequencing designed to challenge, awaken, and ultimately soothe, leading them into a state of presence—free from judgment or expectation.

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Myriam Ralston has been practicing yoga since 2010, and teaching since 2015.

While pregnant, she used prenatal yoga to help manage nausea, the first-trimester “growing pains” and to keep her mind and body healthy.

Myriam was trained in a quick-paced style of vinyasa yoga, but in the past years has found her own more gentle and restorative practice and teaching style.

“I like to help each student let go of expectations and meet their body where it is at that moment.”

Myriam has lived in Baltimore since 2017, and absolutely loves it! Her full-time work is in External Relations at the School of Public Policy at UMBC. Outside of yoga, you can find her with her kids, walking her dogs Ellie and Trudy, reading the book du jour, taking online exercise classes, gardening, or getting cooking lessons from her husband.

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Odile Penet (Pronounced “Oh-deel”) – She/Her/Hers – is a Certified Childbirth Doula (DONA International), a Postpartum Doula/Baby Nurse (IFSI, France), a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, Certified Self-Hypnosis for Childbirth Instructor, and a PBi trained Placenta Encapsulation Specialist.

Odile has a degree in early childhood education, is a French native speaker and provides her services in both English and in French.

She has been serving families for 20+ years and she has safely encapsulated hundreds of placentas, using a method based on Tradition Chinese Medicine.

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I believe yoga can be a powerful way to feel more connected to your body, your breath, and yourself - especially during the major transitions of pregnancy and early parenthood. My goal is to create welcoming, supportive spaces where people can slow down, move with intention, and feel empowered and connected throughout this season of life.

I am a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200), having completed my yoga teacher training in 2021, with a background and passion rooted in yoga, dance, movement, mindfulness, and meditation. I am especially excited to bring my yoga practice into the prenatal and postpartum space, creating classes that honor the changing body while making movement feel accessible, joyful, and supportive. As a new mom, I have a personal understanding of the physical and emotional transitions that come with pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood, and I am continuing to deepen my knowledge through prenatal and baby-and-me yoga education and practice.

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