Community Resources
Bridging the gaps in women’s healthcare takes a village—and we’re so grateful to be part of one. Over the years, we’ve had the honour of working alongside an incredible community of midwives, doulas, bodyworkers, and care providers who share our passion for supporting women through every stage of their reproductive journey. The practitioners listed here are just some of the trusted colleagues we’ve collaborated with and continue to admire.
50 resources
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Midwifery
Pacific Midwifery Practice
A long-established Vancouver practice supporting home and hospital birth. They describe their aim as honouring diverse identities, relationships and paths to parenthood. Registration is by intake form. A short walk from our clinic.
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Midwifery
Westside Midwives
Organised into two teams so that you have met every midwife who might attend your birth before you go into labour. Care runs from pregnancy through six weeks postpartum, with home visits in the early weeks and clinic visits after that. They attend BC Women's Hospital and support home birth, and a pelvic floor physiotherapist practises in-house.
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Midwifery
Pomegranate Community Midwives
Full midwifery care alongside prenatal classes, lactation consultants, pelvic floor physiotherapy, massage therapy, clinical counselling and a postpartum drop-in group, all in one clinic. They hold privileges with the Vancouver Department of Midwifery at BC Women's, Burnaby Hospital and Fraser Health, and support home and water birth.
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Midwifery
Strathcona Midwifery
Care through pregnancy, birth and postpartum, with lactation consulting available and a choice of home or hospital birth. They describe their role as facilitating care rather than directing it, with the pregnant person and their family as the decision makers, and they specifically welcome Indigenous, trans and queer, neurodivergent, and undocumented families. They also take a limited number of private-pay clients for people without BC public health insurance.
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Midwifery
The Midwifery Group
The first midwifery clinic to open in Vancouver. They offer all routine prenatal and postnatal testing, and midwives work in small teams so you meet everyone who might be at your birth. Home or hospital birth, with in-home check-ups during labour and after.
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Midwifery
South Community Birth Program
Registered midwives, family physicians, nurses and doulas working as a single team, sponsored jointly with BC Women's Hospital. Alongside individual appointments they run group prenatal care, and they have their own doula team and an infant feeding centre. Open to anyone living in Vancouver.
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Midwifery
Birth & Beyond Midwives
Complete pregnancy, birth and postpartum care, including bloodwork, ultrasounds and medications, with support through labour wherever you choose to give birth.
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Midwifery
Downtown Midwifery Practice
Comprehensive care through pregnancy, birth and postpartum, including home visits, prenatal testing and ultrasounds, and referrals on to specialists where needed. Clients choose between home and hospital birth, with water birth available. Pain relief options run the full range, from unmedicated approaches through to an epidural.
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Midwifery
Terra Nova Midwifery
Several midwife teams serving Richmond, Ladner and Tsawwassen, with privileges at Richmond Hospital and home birth supported — every birth is attended by at least two qualified caregivers. Postpartum begins with home visits and moves to clinic visits as you recover. They also offer postpartum-only care if you had your prenatal care elsewhere.
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Midwifery
Midwifery Care North Shore
Vera Berard, RM, offers early prenatal care, postpartum and after-birth care, infant feeding and lactation education, infant development consultation, cesarean recovery support, contraception counselling and early parenting education.
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Midwifery
Plum Midwifery
Comprehensive care in the Comox Valley: individual prenatal appointments with the usual screening, optional group prenatal care, birth attendance wherever you choose, and postpartum care in your home in the early weeks. They also provide breastfeeding support, hormonal contraception including IUD and IUS insertion, and STI treatment where needed. There is a postpartum group with community speakers.
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Midwifery
Cedar House Birth Collective
Registered midwives and family doctors practising together, from early pregnancy through labour and birth to about six weeks after. They acknowledge practising on the unceded traditional territory of the K'ómoks First Nation and describe their care as culturally safe and family-centred. Formerly Cedar House Midwifery.
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Midwifery
Birthdocs
A family practice maternity service — family physicians rather than midwives — providing pregnancy, birth and postpartum care at BC Women's Hospital. They run several care programs, and publish their own pregnancy and birth education material.
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Doulas
Rheja McRae
A doula practising since 1995, having supported well over a thousand families. She offers birth and postpartum doula care and also practises craniosacral therapy, and works closely with midwives. She describes her role as holding space rather than directing it.
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Doulas
Jacquie Munro
A Vancouver birth doula who frames her role as helping clients recognise that they already have the ability, wisdom and courage to give birth. She writes on pregnancy, birth, the first year and parenting.
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Doulas
The Divine Child
Michelle MacLean and Raman Holat offer continuous doula care through pregnancy, birth and postpartum, including support for families building through surrogacy. They also offer energy healing and relationship coaching alongside birth work.
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Doulas
Jill Colpitts
Has supported over 500 families through birth and postpartum, and has taught CPR to tens of thousands of students. Alongside doula care she runs prenatal classes across Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, prenatal and postpartum consultations, and caregiver training for anyone who will be looking after your baby. A mentored doula option is available at lower cost.
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Doulas
Maya Baranec
Birth and postpartum doula, DONA-approved training and HypnoBirthing certified. Birth support covers comfort measures, water birth and advocacy for your birth plan; postpartum covers newborn care, meals, light household help and sibling support. She publishes her fees openly, rents TENS units and birth pools, attends BC Women's, Royal Columbian and Lions Gate as well as home births, and offers virtual support for families outside her travel range.
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Doulas
Brood
A team of vetted doulas rather than a single practitioner. Birth support covers labour, planning and partner support; postpartum covers day or overnight newborn care, feeding and sleep support, light meals and tidying, and includes siblings and pets. They provide compliant receipts, and clients are often reimbursed through major extended health providers.
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Doulas
Alongside Doula Care
Fabiana Rodrigues offers birth doula support, postpartum doula care and lactation consulting. She speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish, and works with families navigating a healthcare system different from the one they grew up in.
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Doulas
Cari Doula
Carina Falone works specifically in postpartum, offering both day and overnight support. She also offers a companion service for getting to appointments and out of the house in the early weeks. The emphasis is on meals, baby care and rest rather than clinical or educational support. Speaks English and Portuguese.
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Doulas
New Spirit Arrivals
Rylie Geant is a birth and postpartum doula and a certified placenta encapsulation specialist. Alongside doula support she rents birth pools and TENS units, supplies home birth kits, and offers prenatal massage.
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Lactation
Simply Nourish
Katy is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and a perinatal Registered Nurse. She offers at-home prenatal feeding education in the third trimester, newborn feeding support covering both the physical barriers and the emotional side, and guidance on starting solids and toddler feeding. In-home, in-office and virtual appointments.
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Lactation
WeLCome Babies Lactation Consulting
Brianna is a Registered Nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. Initial consultations happen in your home and include a written care plan, with follow-ups in person or virtually, a prenatal feeding preparation class, and an after-hours virtual session for evenings. Covers breastfeeding, chestfeeding, bottle feeding, pumping, engorgement, nipple pain, plugged ducts, weaning and starting solids.
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Lactation
MamaMilk
Shahrzad Tayebi is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant who also practises craniosacral therapy, using the two together to address tension in a baby's head, neck and shoulders where that appears to be behind the feeding problem. She works with painful or absent latch, very long feeds and supplementation questions.
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Lactation
Doula Lily
Lilach Golan is CAPPA-trained and an active member of the Doula Services Association of BC, offering postpartum doula support, lactation support, and prenatal lactation consultations. She leads the Childbearing Society's breastfeeding clinic, runs postpartum circles for new mothers, and is Co-Executive Director of a non-profit supporting women and young families.
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Lactation
KellyMom
A long-running, referenced library on breastfeeding and pumping, covering milk supply, latch, returning to work, medications and weaning.
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Prenatal education
Childbearing Society
A non-profit running prenatal classes as either a multi-week evening series or a condensed weekend workshop covering the same ground — birth, breastfeeding, newborn care, coping tools and preparing for postpartum. They also run seminars on cesarean birth, multiples and home birth, a session on pregnancy nutrition, private classes on request, and postpartum classes.
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Prenatal education
Birth By Bloom
Childbirth education delivered as a multi-week evening series, a weekend intensive, or a private class in your home. It covers labour physiology, comfort measures, pain relief options including epidural, cesarean preparation, newborn care, feeding, sleep and postpartum recovery. Classes run at several host clinics and community venues across Vancouver and Surrey. They also host an online doula meet-up and train doulas.
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Parenting & safety
Safe Beginnings First Aid
Holly Choi is a Child Passenger Safety Technician-Instructor certified in both Canada and the US. She teaches infant and child CPR, choking and injury prevention, car seat safety and home safety, in person and online, with professional-level certification available. She also offers one-to-one virtual safety consultations with a written follow-up report, and in-home safety visits.
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Parenting & safety
Dr. Deborah MacNamara
Developmental counselling for parents, children and teens, grounded in child development research. Counselling is available with her or another Registered Clinical Counsellor on her team, alongside online courses, books, downloadable guides and a podcast.
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Parenting & safety
The MotherFlock
A Vancouver community and resource hub for new mothers, built around a postpartum mothers' group, workshops and a local resource directory. It deals directly with matrescence, the identity shift of becoming a mother.
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Parenting & safety
BabyGoRound
A registered charity providing essential baby gear — cribs, strollers and much more — at no cost to families who need it across Greater Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. Access is through one of their referring agencies, so a midwife, doctor, social worker or community organisation can make the referral.
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Chiropractic
The Chiro Culture
Dr. Pavin Rakhra holds Webster Technique certification for pregnancy care and advanced ICPA training in prenatal and paediatric chiropractic, and Dr. Erin Rakhra is also trained in pregnancy and paediatric care. They work with families from the first trimester through postpartum recovery, and with babies and children including latch and feeding difficulties.
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Chiropractic
Be Chiropractic Wellness
A group chiropractic practice offering prenatal and postnatal care, paediatric assessments and the Webster technique, alongside acupuncture, craniosacral therapy, holistic nutrition, custom orthotics and exercise prescription.
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Chiropractic
The Powerhouse Chiropractic
Dr. Logan Senchuk and Dr. Melissa Garcia work with pregnancy-related back pain and postpartum rehabilitation, and with infants and children including feeding challenges, oral ties and developmental milestones. Dr. Garcia offers cesarean scar therapy using microcurrent point stimulation.
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Chiropractic
Revolution Health
Dr. Chris Chatzoglou and Dr. Alain Desaulniers offer prenatal and postnatal chiropractic and paediatric chiropractic alongside general spinal care, rehabilitation, nutrition coaching and work on nervous system regulation. Close to our clinic.
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Chiropractic
Jointworks
Perinatal chiropractic alongside registered massage therapy, naturopathic medicine, acupuncture, kinesiology, craniosacral therapy, visceral manipulation and manual lymph drainage.
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Chiropractic
Mount Pleasant Wellness
Dr. Ingrid Neufeld practises chiropractic alongside a registered massage therapist, with acupuncture also available.
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Chiropractic
Main St Chiropractic
Chiropractic care including care during and after pregnancy.
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Chiropractic
Jassal Chiropractic
Dr. Avtar Jassal offers prenatal, paediatric and family chiropractic using the Torque Release Technique, and also practises acupuncture.
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Fertility care
Olive Fertility Centre
Fertility testing, IVF, IUI, egg freezing, and donor and surrogacy pathways, with clinics around the province. They participate in BC's publicly funded IVF program, which offers eligible residents one-time funding toward a round of IVF. They also run their own fertility wellness services including mindfulness, acupuncture and yoga, and support 2SLGBTQIA+ family building and single parents by choice.
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Fertility care
Pacific Centre for Reproductive Medicine (PCRM)
Fertility evaluation, IVF, IUI, egg and sperm freezing, male fertility care, reproductive surgery, prenatal and genetic testing, oncofertility, and third-party reproduction including egg donation, donor sperm and gestational surrogacy. A referral is generally needed to proceed, and they can help request one if you don't have a referring provider.
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Fertility care
Fertility Matters Canada
A national non-profit offering free peer support groups, online and in person, alongside plain-language education on family-building options and a clinic finder.
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Perinatal mental health
Pacific Postpartum Support Society
Free phone and text support on weekdays on 604-255-7999 or toll-free 855-255-7999, plus free peer support groups — in person and online — for parents with babies under 18 months. They also run education sessions for partners.
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Perinatal mental health
BC Women's Provincial Reproductive Mental Health Program
Specialist mental health care from before pregnancy through the months after birth, including pre-pregnancy consultation if you have a psychiatric illness and are planning a pregnancy, and group sessions on PMS and PMDD. A referral is required from your doctor, nurse practitioner or midwife. The clinic is family-friendly — you are welcome to bring your baby.
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Perinatal mental health
BCACC — Find a Registered Clinical Counsellor
The BC Association of Clinical Counsellors' public directory of Registered Clinical Counsellors. You can filter by specialty, including peri- and postnatal concerns, peri- and postnatal grief and loss, and infertility and reproductive support.
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Midlife health
Menopause Foundation of Canada
Free Canadian, evidence-based resources on perimenopause and menopause: a symptom tracker, a guide to preparing for appointments, a physician finder, and material on longer-term heart, bone and genitourinary health. Available in English and French.
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Midlife health
The Menopause Society — Find a Practitioner
A directory of clinicians holding the Menopause Society Certified Practitioner credential, searchable by country so it can be used to find certified practitioners in Canada. The credential is maintained through examination or continuing education.
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Health navigation
HealthLink BC
Dial 8-1-1 anywhere in BC to reach a registered nurse at any hour of the day or night, and a registered dietitian, qualified exercise professional or pharmacist at other times. For mental health support at any hour, the BC Mental Health Support Line is 310-6789. Translation is available in more than 130 languages.
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These are practitioners and organizations we have worked alongside, or consider good places to start. We share them for information only. Acumamas Wellness does not employ or supervise anyone listed here, and a listing is not a clinical recommendation or a guarantee of any outcome. Please confirm a practitioner’s current registration with their college or association, and talk with your primary care provider or midwife about what is right for you. Last Updated Jul 31st 2026.