Your Doulas
Experience in every type of birth. From natural and unmedicated to high intervention, inductions, and cesareans. From land to water, hospital, home, or freestanding birth center. VBAC’s, twin births, and births after trauma. Experience with perinatal loss, depression and anxiety. Spinning Babies®, Hypnobabies®, Bradley Method®, HypnoBirthing®, Lamaze®. We support them all.
**Current Update: After 16 treasured years in doula work, Kara Jo has transitioned to the world of maternal & perinatal mental health. She is now practicing as a therapist (intern) at Counseling Care in Lake Elmo, MN.
www.counselingcare.us
Meet Our Team
Kara Jo Prestrud
CD(DONA), CLEC, PCD(DONA), HCHD
Owner & Founder
Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula
Lactation Counselor
Graduate Student, Masters in Counseling
Childbirth Educator
Certified Hypno-Doula (Hypnobabies® & Hypnobirthing
®)
Spinning Babies® Trained Trauma Trained Perinatal Professional
Loss & Bereavement Doula
Birth Photographer
Kara Jo has been a doula since 2008 and has helped hundreds of families have empowered, beautiful birth experiences. She holds a B.S. in psychology and is a currently a graduate student pursuing her Master’s in Counseling. Kara Jo has long been passionate about supporting women and families along their journey, and is known for her calming presence, encouragement, and gentle listening. She has enjoyed doula-ing for many midwives and physicians for their own babies’ births, and has been invited by a number of area hospitals to assist with staff/RN education in supporting physiologic birth and healthy breastfeeding practices. She also has a special love for supporting families in need of a more healing birth experience after trauma.
Kara Jo is a mom to four teen and adult children. In her free time she enjoys music, playing in a local flute choir, reading, running and hiking, time with girlfriends, and involvement in her church and volunteer organizations that feed the hungry, protect the vulnerable, and welcome the outsider.