Dolphin Doulas
Jennifer Wolfe
Jennifer Wolfe is a Prenatal and Vinyasa Yoga instructor, Doula, clinical and medical hypnotherapist, childbirth educator, and Reiki master. She is the creator of the popular DVD “Prenatal Vinyasa Yoga ~ Jennifer Wolfe” and has just released a second DVD entitled “Prenatal Vinyasa Yoga~ Short Forms with Jennifer Wolfe“. She founded the Dolphin Yoga and Doula Center in 2002 to help birthing women and their partners have better birth experiences by providing knowledge, tools and a comforting environment for prenatal health and childbirth. In June of 2007 Jennifer expanded her business by taking on a partner, Tracy Stettner, and together they moved Dolphin Yoga & Doula Center to a larger location on the San Mateo and Burlingame border.
Jennifer has studied yoga for the past eleven years with a variety of instructors including Doug Swenson. As a hypnotherapist for the past eleven years, Jennifer has pioneered Childbirth Hypnosis, a unique methodology she developed for gentle birthing and anxiety reduction. Jennifer utilizes Childbirth Hypnosis and yoga in her doula practice to achieve deep mind and body relaxation. She has prepared hundreds of pregnant women for childbirth and provided doula support in over 300 births at Mills Peninsula, Sequoia, Kaiser, Stanford, El Camino, Good Samaritan, Valley Care Medical Center, Pleasanton Birth Home, and California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) hospitals.
Jennifer directs the Center’s pre-and postnatal yoga classes, incorporating Ashtanga, and Vinyasa Flow style yoga postures. She is an educator at the Palo Alto School of Hypnotherapy, where she offers Hypnodoula and Childbirth Hypnosis certification to doulas and hypnotherapists. Jennifer also provides Reiki therapy, education and certification.
Tracy Stettner
Tracy is a Birth and Post Partum Doula, a certified Personal Trainer, Pilates Instructor and Nutritional Counselor. Tracy has been working for many years in the fitness industry and has spent the last few years focused on pre/postnatal clients. She so enjoyed working with this clientele that in June 2006 she became a Doula as well.
Women have such different views of what a happy and healthy child birth is that Tracy views her role as a coach to the laboring woman in making her labor and delivery experience as incredible as possible. Since every birth is so unique whatever road is traveled to get there, the birth was successful if the woman and her partner felt empowered and educated to make safe and effective decisions. Tracy will participate in all kinds of birth situations from home births to medicated hospital births. She believes strongly that a Doula is beneficial in all situations.
As a fitness expert and nutritional counselor, Tracy is excited to not only assist pre/post natal women, but all those who are eager to work hard on bringing their bodies into optimal health. She has years of experience assisting women and men of all ages of become more physically fit and nutritionally balanced.
Tracy grew up in on the Peninsula and attended the University of Colorado attaining a degree in Sports Psychology. After years of working in the fitness industry on her own, Tracy joined forces with Jennifer in September 2006 and became co-owner of Dolphin Yoga & Doula Center in May 2007. Tracy and her husband Aaron have two amazing sons Alex & Jordan. In her free time she likes to workout, volunteer, spend time with her family and friends and enjoy nature.
Affiliations & Certifications
ACE Personal Trainer • AFAA Group Exercise Instructor • Powerhouse Pilates Instructor • Spinning Instructor
IDEA Fitness Member • CAPPA Member • BABI Member • Dolphin Certified Birth & Post Partum Doula
DONA Trained Doula and Member • ICEA Childbirth Education Instructor • AFPA Nutrition & Wellness Consultant • Baby Boot Camp Instructor and previous franchise owner
Jessica Berman
As a birth and postpartum doula, I work with parents before, during and after the births of their children. I work helping to prepare families for childbirth and I provide continuous support, guidance and encouragement throughout labor. I believe that birth is a natural and powerful event and that every woman deserves undivided care and attention as she brings a new life into the world.
I also work with parents to help them adjust to their new arrivals by providing practical assistance and emotional support in my postpartum practice. This includes assistance with breastfeeding, teaching parents to care for and soothe their newborn and understand their baby’s cues, helping mothers recover from childbirth through rest and nutrition, and helping with general household tasks such as dishes and laundry.
Each family, mother, baby and birth is unique, and my care is tailored to meet individual needs.
My path to becoming doula starts in South Africa, where I lived until moving to Canada in the late 1980s. After 10 years in Toronto, I moved to San Francisco in 1999. After surviving several spectacular dot-com meltdowns, I shifted career paths into the not-for-profit world.
After five years of raising money for wonderful organizations such as Shanti (a San Francisco-based organization that provides social services for people living with AIDS and breast cancer), I embarked on a more hands-on career: working as a doula.
This work enables me to fulfill my life-long passion for women, pregnancy, birth and babies!
In 2006 I had the opportunity to learn from the legendary midwife Ina May Gaskin by participating in The Farm’s Midwifery Assistant workshop and I have also completed several programs offered by Doulas of North America (DONA). I also volunteer as a birth doula at St. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco, primarily servicing low-income women.
After living in San Francisco for four years, I now live in Oakland’s Lake Merritt District. I provide birth and postpartum services in the East Bay and in San Francisco.
Other Training/Education
I was a women’s studies major at the University of Toronto. I am also a DONA-trained birth and postpartum doula, and I participated in the assistant midwifery program at The Farm (Tennessee) in September 2006.
Lactation Consultation
Sheila Dukas-Janakos MPH, LE, IBCLC
Sheila has been involved in the field of reproductive maternal and child health for over 23 years. She has worked in public health for 7 years shifting her focus to babies and moms and a lactation career after having 3 children. She earned her B.S. in Community Health from SFSU in 1987, attended UCLA’s Lactation Educator Program in 1991, and completed her Masters of Public Health in 1995 from San Jose State University with her theses on “Breastfeeding for the Working Mom and/or Student.” She passed the boards to become an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant in 1996, a certification she maintains to this day.
She currently has a private practice and is the Owner of Healthy Horizons Breastfeeding Centers in the San Francisco Bay Area, acting as a Clinical Lactation Consultant, Health Educator, and Perinatal Educator for local hospitals and pediatric groups. As part of her practice, she operates support groups for new moms and babies, and working moms and has provided consultations, pump rentals, and health products for over 19 years to the community. Her specialties include suck & swallowing disorders; working and breastfeeding; infant nutrition, care and normal newborn behavior; breastfeeding challenges such as breast refusal, sore nipples, mastitis, weight gain/loss, and milk supply problems.
Fitness
Karen Riley-Grant, Baby Bootcamp
Karen is a certified fitness instructor with an emphasis in pre and postnatal fitness. As a collegiate varsity athlete and accomplished tri-athlete, working hard to achieve fitness goals is something with which she is very familiar. Karen lives in Half Moon Bay with her husband, Andy, daughter Phoebe and dog, Cooper. She has worked in corporate marketing for the past 10 years and became a franchise owner of Baby Boot Camp in 2007. Baby Boot Camp provides her the opportunity to blend the two most important things in her life: family and a sharp focus on health & well being. She is thrilled to get outside of the office and work with other moms to achieve their personal fitness goals.
Rebecca Blake
Certified Yoga Instructor ~ Adult, Family, Children & Youth Classes (Private or Group)
Rebecca Blake found yoga in 1998. It was initially a periodic love affair when time and life permitted, but the more she embraced and committed herself to a regular yoga practice and lifestyle, the more her life was transformed. With roots of performing and teaching ballet, her love of teaching body movement persisted. That, combined with a passionate desire to share this valuable life tool with others, moved her to begin teaching yoga. She likes to think of it rather than “teaching” yoga, she “guides” yogis through an experience, offering suggestions to ignite them to more deeply explore their own practice and to find their own teacher within.
In March 2005, she completed her yoga teacher training with Ganga White and Tracey Rich
at White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara. In March 2008, she completed her Kid’s Yoga teacher training at It’s Yoga Kids in San Francisco.
Rebecca continues to be a life-long student of life, studying with a variety of experienced teachers and styles ranging from Zazen Meditation and Pranayama to Kid’s Yoga, Restorative Yoga to AcroYoga, Kundalini to Vinyasa Flow and from Jivamukti to Anusara. Rebecca infuses these styles while encouraging open minds and open hearts. She challenges students to go beyond the limits of tradition to follow their own path.
Counseling
Dr. Helen Marlo
Helen Marlo, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Burlingame, CA, where she treats children and adults. She is Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology Program at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, CA. She integrates a background in psychoneuroimmunology and mind-body healing; infant, child, and adult development as well as extensive experience with trauma, including early childhood trauma, into her clinical practice. For over 15 years, Dr. Marlo has provided psychotherapy, consultation, and clinical services to children and adults addressing developmental issues, problems, and traumas including issues unique to prenatal, pregnancy, and postpartum experiences. She and her husband have a daughter, Renée and a son, André.
