About

Courtney Satow, CLD (formerly CD(DONA), re-certified with CAPPA) is a Certified Labor Doula, women’s wellness coach, and registered yoga teacher specializing in pre and postnatal yoga. In 2008 Courtney earned a Bachelors Degree in Kinesiology with an Emphasis in Wellness having known early on that she wanted to work in women’s health. The transition into working with women during their motherhood journey was fairly seamless after teaching yoga for several years and then completing a 100-hour pre and postnatal teacher training. Wanting to continue soaking up as much information as possible, Courtney enrolled in BINI Birth’s Doula training and just one week later attended her first birth. Needless to say, it was life changing. She felt so inspired by her client’s strength and unshakable desire to achieve the birth she longed for, Courtney knew that this is what she wanted to dive into. Shortly after completing her Birth Doula certification through DONA, Courtney completed a Spinning Babies training and the BIRTHFIT Professional program. She has since attended the Body Ready Method’s Professional Primer for birth workers and re-certified through CAPPA in 2024.

 Courtney is a mother to her beautiful kids, Sawyer and Banks, and wife to her incredible husband, Kyle, whom she met playing collegiate soccer. As a mother and Doula, Courtney believes in the power of preparation from both an educational and physical standpoint…but there is just so much more to it. If you allow it, it can transform you. To have the opportunity to do something that could be once in a lifetime, to move and share in the experience with your baby rather than disconnect from it… there is something to be said about the way we approach birth and how it can shape our journey ahead. Leading with trust rather than fear…that is the goal. Courtney wants her clients to come away from their birth feeling heard and empowered throughout their journey to becoming a mother. Having had a birth using an epidural along with some necessary interventions as well as an unmedicated and mostly hands-off birth, Courtney has the perspective of both experiences which she feels is a useful tool in itself to lend insight to her clients.

Qualifications

·      Recognized as a Certified Labor Doula through CAPPA (CLD). Previously certified through DONA International as a Birth Doula (CD(DONA)).

·      BINI Birth trained Birth Doula

·      25 hours Birth Doula/Breastfeeding Education hands on training

·      B.S. Kinesiology

·      Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach specializing in Women’s Wellness

·      200 Hour Registered Yoga Teacher through Yoga Alliance

·      100 Hours of Prenatal Yoga/Childbirth Education Training

·      25 Hours Yin/Restoratives Yoga Training

·      BIRTHFIT Professional

. Trained in Spinning Babies and attended the Body Ready Method Professional Primer