Meet Our Team
Kelly Corzine (She/her)
Specialities: Postpartum Doula, Perinatal Hospitality Maven
Additions: Chef, Breathwork Teacher , Aryurvedic healing modalities
Servicing: Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan, LIC
Kelly Corzine is a highly experienced full-spectrum, postpartum-centric doula, with a private practice in Brooklyn, NY since 2016. With a background in fine dining hospitality, Kelly brings a unique blend of personalized, compassionate care and a calm demeanor to her doula practice, ensuring that new families feel nurtured and supported during the postpartum period. Her services include emotional and physical support during childbirth, postpartum recovery assistance, breastfeeding guidance, and specialized postpartum nourishment.
Kelly has trained with DONA, Birdsong doulas, Latham Thomas (Mama Glow), Sacred window studies for Ayurvedic postpartum care and is a lactation counselor. Her dedication to providing trauma-informed care is enhanced by her continuous professional development.
Kelly has over a decade of experience parenting and supporting postpartum folks as they cross the threshold. When she’s not doulaing you can find her throwing dinner parties, swimming, and going on adventures in and out of the city. She lives in Brooklyn with her partner and two sons.
Kira Birney (She/They)
Specialities: Postpartum Overnight Doula
Additions: Reiki
Servicing: Brooklyn, Lower Manhattan
Kira is a Brooklyn based parent, doula, and artist. Each role influences the other. They provide a holistic, grounded, and intuitive approach to community support. Providing full wrap-around overnight support to parents. When they aren’t doula-ing you can find Kira in their happy place by the beach and ocean.
The birth of their first child was their initiation into birth work. Kira was in shock at the lack of information and support provided about early postpartum from their midwife, birth doula, family and friends. They made it their personal goal within their community to hightlight/uplift the postpartum experience, which eventually guided Kira toward postpartum centered support care.
Madeline (Mads) Mellinger (She/Her)
Specialities: Postpartum, Sibling, Childcare Bridge Doula
Additions: Cooking
Servicing: Brooklyn, Manhattan
Mads is a postpartum doula and dance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Born and raised on a multigenerational goat dairy farm in Pennsylvania, Madeline’s work in both the doula and dance world is focused on community and the pursuit of collaboration and reciprocity. She is passionate about supporting and empowering women and birthing people in this tender and beautiful stage of parenthood. Mads’ most joyful moments are found in a sweaty dance class with friends, looking for the perfect rock at a beautiful body of water, playing board games with her mom, preparing a delicious meal for people she loves, and getting settled into a lovely camping spot. After many years working as a babysitter and nanny for various families and children of different ages, as well as doing postpartum care for family members, she felt compelled to work more closely with parents and babies in their postpartum journey.
She witnessed the gap in support and care for the birthing partner once the baby arrived and felt inspired to tailor her work to be more directly involved with the postpartum period. She believes in supporting the whole self: body, mind, and spirit. She has experienced the power of a listening ear, a nutritious meal, and an uninterrupted nap—there are so many ways she can support parents so they can support one another and their new addition to their family!
Margeaux Gertmenian (She/Her)
Specialities: Postpartum Daytime Doula
Additions: Cooking, Yoga, Reiki, Herbalism
Servicing: New Jersey including Maplewood, The Oranges, Chatham, Montclair, Westfield, Millburn
Margeaux is a New Jersey based postpartum doula and small business owner where she provides meal support to families and runs a small batch skincare brand, Deep Roots Botanical Goods. Margeaux is also a full time mama to her two children, certified yoga instructor and passionate gardener. Her own postpartum period was challenging but also life changing in a very positive way. Her hope for every woman is to allow for rest and healing, setting herself up for success as a mother and ensuring ongoing health in the years to come. She loves providing meal support for clients and have seen firsthand the relief it provides knowing that they have nourishing delicious food at the ready as it allows them to focus on their family and baby as well as their own well being.
Yvonne Hancock (She/Her)
Specialities: Postpartum Day and Nighttime Doula
Additions: Certified Lactation Counselor, Certified Pediatric Sleep Consultant, Trained Parent Educator & Expert in Belly Binding
Servicing: Manhattan, Astoria, Long Island City, Park Slope, Willamsburg, Greenpoint
Yvonne is a Certified Postpartum Doula, Certified Lactation Counselor, Certified Pediatric Sleep Consultant and Pro Belly Bind expert. She began birth work due to her Postpartum experience with her son. Yvonne experienced lactation issues and was also diagnosed with Postpartum Depression and Anxiety. Once she received the professional support that was needed, Yvonne began her mission to provide postpartum families with her expertise and guidance surrounding the fourth trimester. When Yvonne is not taking care of her clients she loves to spend time with her husband and son.
Angela Jones (She/Her)
Specialities: Postpartum Day and Nighttime Doula, Sibling Bridge Care
Additions: Cooking
Servicing: Brooklyn and Manhattan
Angela is an artist who moved into birth work as a natural progression. Providing support to families in New York as she pursued her art career simultaneously. One compliments the other, there's an art to holding space, and its very similar to the creative process. Her mother is a midwife of 40+ years, so you might say its in the blood. She is the eldest of 3 daughters and one of her first memories is the home birth of her baby sister. It impacted in ways unbeknownst to her at the time and informed her later pursuit of knowledge and the desire to work and support families through this profound stage of life.
Katharine (Katie Joy) Tabor (She/Her)
Specialities: Postpartum Day and Nighttime Doula, Sibling Bridge Care
Additions: Certified Lactation Counselor, Lactation, Cooking, Belly-binding, Massage, Yoga, Reiki, Meditation, Herbalism, Breathwork
Servicing: The 5 Boroughs plus some NJ and CT
Katie Joy identifies as a Mother first and has been working in the healing arts for over a decade through art making, full spectrum birth work and energy work. She approaches birth and postpartum in the lens of holistic traditional care. Each person and families journey is unique, sacred and she feels extremely honored to work in this intentional way! The birth of her daughter and going through postpartum brought her to this work. She feels so honored to work with Mothers and Families during such a special sacred time in their lives.
Marisa Méndez Marthaller (She/Her)
Specialities: Postpartum Daytime Doula
Additions: Certified Lactation Counselor, Cooking
Servicing: Brooklyn, lower Manhattan and sometimes Queens
Marisa Mendez Marthaller is a postpartum doula, lactation counselor and postpartum cook. She has been a practicing doula since 2018 after the birth of her son inspired her to help feed families in the postpartum period. She is Mexican American and Spanish English bilingual. She identifies as queer and loves supporting queer families in the postpartum and family building phase. She is also the founder of Soup Doula, a NYC soup delivery service that delivers care all over NYC in the form of delicious soup. Her entry into doula work was the realization that new parents need a lot of support and wanted to help them by cooking delicious and healthy meals. Of course, soon she learned that being a doula is so much more than that. She enjoys watching parents navigate challenges and develop their confidence as care givers.
Lornnie Louie (She/Her)
Specialities: Postpartum Day Doula
Additions: Lactation, Cooking, Belly-binding, Yoga, Meditation, Herbalism, Breathwork, Postpartum Planning
Servicing: Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan
Lornnie is a postpartum doula, lactation counselor and herbalist. She has a holistic approach to wellness to address the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual components of health. Her care is deeply inspired by traditional care practices from around the world and by using food as medicine. She uses bengkung belly binding technique and breathwork to support the healing process of the birthing parent. When she’s not doula-ing, you will find her teaching prenatal / postnatal yoga, spending time in her apothecary garden, or on an escapade in nature with her partner and son.