About Jetha
Join me in telling the truth about parenthood.
Let’s prioritize our care and wellness — our families, our communities, our world depends on it.
Let’s be underachieving parents together, doing less, and therefore being MORE.
Hello! I’m Jetha, LCSW, birthworker
she/her
I’m a clinical social worker & birth doula and postpartum caregiver.
In my work, I combine offer counseling, coaching, witnessing, mentorship during times of change and initiation.
My Philosophy
I want to remind you of your living intuition in this time of transition. Living in our modern age, we are bombarded with ways of “doing” the childbearing continuum. I want you to prioritize the caring-for-yourself expense (this is not indulgence or an “extra”).
I offer the witness, the reflection, and the coaching to your inner knowing.
Resisting constant doing — and learning to be — allows us to integrate our experiences and lean into who we are now, where everything is different than before we were pregnant, had a baby, had a postpartum life.
My Journey
My name was given to me by my parents. During pregnancy, they adapted it from author, Jethro Kloss, while reading his book, Back to Eden. A classic text on holistic health, I believe their intention towards wellness permeated my gestation and left a lasting imprint on my own life’s purpose.
Raised in New York City and Colorado, I am grateful for a life that has afforded me generous experience navigating both urban and rural landscapes both personally and professionally.
I became motivated to assist and nurture others in birth through the unexpected opportunity of tending my best friend in her birth journey. Additionally, my first daughter's arrival unfolded in an unexpected way, so when I became pregnant with my second, I knew I wanted a birth that I could surrender to and make peace with no matter how she arrived. It was during my second pregnancy and birth that I personally came to appreciate the impact and support of a doula.
During a dark night of the soul, when my children were two and four-years-old, I gratefully became introduced to the spiritual practice of animism.
Until then my own personal healing spanned years of impactful forms of psychotherapy and mindfulness meditation. And yet, something was missing. Journeying practice offers an arm of healing I had been longing for.
Connecting to spirit gives me an opportunity to make contact to something larger, something outside my ordinary five-sense life. And in the busyness of raising children, I need a buoying, a place in the chaos that assures me of the heart of my own belonging.
Simply put, I spend time listening to guidance and insight from the non-human world.
My work strives to be in awakened relationship with all that is, to restore the feminine and to harmonize the paradox of living whilst moving towards a vision of justice.
Education, Trainings & Certifications
Components of Care & Advanced Psychotherapy Training: Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders, Postpartum Support International — 2021
From Trauma to Triumph: When Survivors Give Birth Advanced Training — 2020
Innate Traditions Postpartum Caregiving Training — Certification 2019
Professional Shamanic Healing Practitioner Training — 2017-2019
Doulas of North America (DONA) Certification — Certified Doula (CD) | 2016
Spinning Babies Workshop — 2015
Abortion Doula Training with Colorado Doula Project — 2017
Colorado Licensed Clinical Social Worker — LCSW 2008
Hunter College School of Social Work — MSW 2002
State University of New York, Albany — BA 1997
“We love everything about Jetha! She is calming, nurturing, loving, supportive, detailed oriented, resourceful, down to earth, trustworthy and a good listener. Being a doula is her true calling.”
“As a postpartum doula, Jetha offered practical things like cooking, cleaning, and laundry — but also ceremonial experiences that helped me psychologically and spiritually orient to my new life.”
7 Things I Love
01 — Having a spontaneous day, idle time.
02 — Not having a schedule to keep.
03 — Dancing particularly to 90s hip hop music and Beyoncé.
04 — Yummy food with my yummiest of people.
05 — Reading and listening to poetry.
06 — The library — being enveloped by and being alone amongst stacks of books.
07 — Soothed by silliness and laughing so hard I’m crying & my side aches.
Are you ready to be physically, mentally, and spiritually held throughout your childbearing journey?
Schedule a quick check-in chat with me to find out if we’re a good fit.