About Lena

For the past twelve years I have had the pleasure of working with children and their families in a multitude of settings, including in-home daycare, baby-sitting, summer camps, environmental and sustainability education programs, after-school tutoring, and most recently as a certified Montessori elementary teacher. An educator at heart, I love collaborating with families to support the full potential of human development.

Currently I am working outside of the Montessori classroom, focusing my energies on building my labor and postpartum doula practice, Cascadia Birth Services.

I came to doula work through several close friends who are midwives. Their excitement and passion for serving women’s birth needs resonated deeply for me. The more I learned about their work, the more I considered how I might be able to use my skills and experience as a teacher to give individualized support to new families.

When I am not working with clients, I can be found at home with my husband, working in the vegetable garden, delighting in new recipes in the kitchen, or hiking around our NE neighborhood.  I also train in an Indonesian martial art form, Poekoelan Tjimindi Tulen, and have served as an assistant instructor in the after school and summer youth programs at One With Heart Tulen Center in SE Portland.