Approach and Credentials

Virginia offers heart centered, clinically responsible midwifery care in Austin, Texas, rooted in traditional partería and family lineage, plant relationships, nourishment, and traditional practices. 

Her approach blends low-risk clinical care with deep respect for the emotional and nervous system experience of pregnancy, birth, adoption, and postpartum. She is committed to practicing with integrity, cultural humility, and reverence for the families she serves.
 

CREDENTIALS - EXPERIENCE - CERTIFICATES

• As of September 2025, Virginia has assisted or acted as the primary provider in over 192 births.

• She practiced Midwifery as prenatal and postnatal support with a focus on Reproductive Justice at Mama Sana Vibrant Women, 2019-2024.

• Substitute Birth Companion for Mama Sana Vibrant Women, 2023 - 2024.

• Fully licensed and up to date on CPR and NRP as of 2025.

• Assisted Julia Bower and other midwives in the Austin area, in prenatal appointments and 15 births, May 2023- Feb 2024.

• Completed the 1 day-Spinning Babies® workshop in 2023.

• Completed the 10 months Women’s Functional and Integrative Medicine Professional Training Program with Dr. Aviva Romm in Dec 2023 (this does not grant a license to practice conventional medicine).

• Completed the Karen Strange Integrative Resuscitation of the Newborn training in 2019 and 2023.

• Completed a mentorship in indigenous knowledge sharing with Irasema Reza Bailey for rebozo somatic practices and Cerradas in 2023 and 2019, with continuing mentorship.

• Participated in a Clinical Herbalism course with Ginger Webb for a few months in 2022.

• Studies Vitalism and Plant Energetics with Evolutionary Herbalism through the Monthly Materia Medica since 2022.

• Assisted in Margi Flint's private Clinical Herbalism practice appointments for several months in 2021.

• Studied Clinical Herbalism Vitalism at the Wildflower School of Botanicals in 2017.

• Has been the primary facilitator for individual and group breathwork sessions, providing sessions to more than 500 hundred individuals, with extensive experience supporting groups and individuals in the integration of trauma and regulating the nervous system,   2012 - present.

• Has been participating and facilitating healing work through traditional Mexican Cosmovision since 2016. Through this time she has learned from female elders in this community. Abuela Bea from El Paso was one of her mentors.

• Has been studying Mayan Cosmovision and healing work under a Mayan Elder, Don Carlos Castillejos, since 2021.

• Completed the LIfeWays training in early childhood education through the lens of Waldorf Pedagogy in 2012.

• Assisted in facilitating Breathwork Sessions for groups 2012-2016 with the mentorship of Maryliana Wickus (Breathwork and Tantra Facilitated trained in Spain and Venezuela), and guidance of Psychotherapist and Breath Work Facilitator Ana Paula Suarez.

• Assisted other Midwives in 20 births in Houston Texas, 2011-2014.

• Assisted in 20 births as the primary care provider in Orlando Florida, 2008-2010.

• Graduated from The Traditional School of Midwifery in Gainesville in 2007, assisting for 50 births and acting as the primary care practitioner for 50 births under the supervision of her mentors. Sat for the NARM test and received her CPM.

• Completed preceptorship with Jennie Joseph in Orlando, Florida, and was trained in the JJ Way®, a method to reduce racial disparity and improve preterm birth outcomes in underserved populations.

• Attended Birthing from Within Workshop, 2005.

• Completed mentorship with Michael Stone in Conscious Breathwork as a Self-healing tool, 2003-2010.