Doula & maternal-health consulting · Austin, TX

Twenty years at the bedside, now here on your schedule.

One-on-one guidance for pregnancy, new parenting, and postpartum, by phone or home visit. For businesses and organizations, hotels, event teams, employers, I bring in-house doula support and staff training to people who want to genuinely care for growing families.

For families For businesses & orgs

As seen in SheKnows

Services

Two ways to work with me.

Direct, one-on-one support for individual parents, and a separate track for businesses and organizations who want real maternal-care expertise on their team or in their guest experience.

For families

Pregnancy, newborn & postpartum consulting

Pick a session below, choose a time that works, and pay securely. No office visit required.

Phone Consult

$150

60 min · anywhere, by phone or video

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Home Visit Consult

$225

90 min · in-home, Austin metro area

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3-Session Package

$400

Mix phone & home visits · book sessions as you need them

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For businesses & orgs

An in-house doula for your team or guests.

For hotels, event teams, and employers who want to genuinely support their pregnant and postpartum guests, employees, or attendees, not just check a box.

In-house doula

I become the on-call or in-residence doula for your guests, employees, or event. You're hiring me directly, not buying a program to run yourselves.
Staff training

How your team, front desk, spa, concierge, HR, event staff, should talk to and care for pregnant and postpartum people.
On-site consultations

One-off scheduled sessions during a stay, event, or workday: pregnancy planning, newborn care, postpartum recovery. No standing arrangement needed.
New parent groups & programming

Ongoing groups, workshops, or classes for the parents already on your property or on your team.
Speaking & panels

Booked as the expert voice on someone else's panel, or hired to design and moderate one of your own: conferences, corporate wellness days, industry summits.
Partnerships

Training curricula licensed to hospitals or birth centers, co-branded programming with wellness and family brands, or a standing spot inside an employer benefits platform. Ongoing arrangements, not one-off bookings.

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New service

Recovery care after a planned procedure.

The same steady, in-person support that gets new parents through the fourth trimester, now available after surgery. Rest, meals, and someone capable handling the details while you heal, at home or wherever you're staying.

Comfort & mobility

Help getting settled, moving safely, and staying comfortable as you heal.

Meals & errands

Meals made or brought in, prescriptions picked up, the household kept running.

A calm, steady presence

Someone experienced in aftercare who knows what normal recovery looks like.

WhereHome or hotel, anywhere

WhenStarting the day of discharge

PriceCustom, by length of stay

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Comfort and logistics only, not a substitute for medical or nursing care. Wound care and medication needs stay with your surgeon's team.

How it works

Three steps, start to finish.

Choose & schedule

Pick the session that fits, grab a time on the calendar, and pay through a secure checkout link. No account needed.

Have your session

We talk by phone, video, or in person at your home in the Austin area, for the full time you booked.

Leave with a plan

You get a short follow-up note after every session: what we covered, and what to do next.

Good to know

Frequently asked questions.

Do you attend births?+

No. I've stepped back from birth work and now focus on consulting: pregnancy planning, newborn care, and postpartum support by phone or home visit. If you're looking for a birth doula, I'm happy to point you toward someone in the Austin community.

Where do home visits happen?+

In your home, within the Austin metro area. Outside that range, a phone or video consult covers the same ground.

How does booking and payment work?+

You choose a time on my calendar, then complete payment through a secure checkout link. Both take a couple of minutes and neither requires creating an account.

Do you work with businesses outside Austin?+

Yes. Staff training, consultations, and in-house doula arrangements are typically set up remotely with on-site time as needed, wherever you're located.

What if I need to reschedule?+

Use the link in your confirmation email to move your session, just give as much notice as you can.

About

Doula work, without the 3 a.m. pager.

For twenty years I worked directly with expecting and new parents as a birth and postpartum doula, and co-founded Doula Trainings International, training and certifying doulas around the world. I've stepped back from attending births myself, but the families and friends who still reach out for advice convinced me the knowledge shouldn't go quiet. This is that expertise, packaged for a single call or a single visit, on your schedule instead of mine.

I now split my time between individual consulting for parents and working as an in-house doula and trainer for businesses and organizations, hotels, event teams, employers, who want to genuinely take care of pregnant and postpartum people, not just check a box.

20 yrs

Working directly with expecting & new parents

DTI

Co-founder, Doula Trainings International

ATX

Based in Austin, home visits local, calls anywhere

Watch a clip: teaching cycle awareness for Doula Trainings International

Press & work

In the press, and on stage.

A few places this work has shown up beyond one-on-one sessions: quoted for national parenting outlets, and speaking at Born Into This, the conference she co-founded through Doula Trainings International.

"There is a piece of counseling in the doula's role. It's not about getting a person to a place of acceptance, but just exploring where they are in the moment and giving them permission to have those feelings and to explain what happened."
SheKnows, What to Know About Doulas

"Doulas are advocates for birthing rights, for informed consent and for families as the ultimate decision makers. Doulas do not need to save people from birth."
Motherly, What Doulas Want You to Know About Giving Birth

Watch: a recap of Born Into This, the conference she co-founded

Tara Brooke speaking on a panel at Born Into This, the Doula Trainings International conference

Tara Brooke speaking with a microphone at a Doula Trainings International event

Speaking at Born Into This, the conference she co-founded through Doula Trainings International.

She and Gina Giordano co-hosted and interviewed guests together on the Born Into This podcast, conversations on reproductive health and social justice.

Let's talk

Whichever kind of support you need, it starts with one message.

Booking a personal consult or exploring work with your business or organization, either way, reach out and I'll follow up within a day or two.

Book a consult hellotarabrooke@gmail.com