About Embrace
We’re here to hold the whole of you.
Meet the Team
Get to know our Team
Alyssa Lopez
Alyssa believes birth transforms more than just babies, it transforms parents too. With a calm, grounded presence, she supports families through the early days with twins, multiples, and newborns, offering practical help, emotional support, and babywearing guidance.
Her passion is helping parents feel cared for, confident, and never alone in the transition home.
✨Fun fact: When she’s not snuggling babies, Alyssa is out snowboarding, mountain biking, or coaching youth in the mountains she loves.
Cayla De Tar
Cayla’s birthwork began with her own empowering homebirth, and a mission to help others feel just as informed and supported. She blends evidence-based education with intuitive, compassionate care, helping clients feel confident in every decision.
With a special focus on movement, Cayla supports the body through pregnancy, birth, and recovery, believing small shifts can lead to big transformation.
✨ Fun fact: When she’s not doula-ing, Cayla’s on the trails, hiking, paddleboarding, or skiing with her husband.
Jenea Maitri
Jenea blends her expertise in behavioral science, somatic healing, and holistic care to offer deeply personalized birth and postpartum support. She helps families feel safe, seen, and empowered, prioritizing informed consent and grounded presence every step of the way.
With a background in counseling, yoga, and meditation, Jenea creates custom support that nurtures both body and mind.
✨ Fun fact: She’s a proud mom, a lover of the outdoors, and shares her home with a beagle and a tuxedo cat.
Jenna Cole
Jenna’s passion for postpartum care grew from a deep desire to fill the gaps where families need it most. With gentle, affirming support, she helps parents navigate the highs and lows of new life with empathy and ease.
She brings expertise in lactation, newborn care, and family education, plus a knack for connecting families to the resources they need to thrive.
✨ Fun fact: When she’s not supporting parents, Jenna’s in full DIY mode, tool belt on, renovating her home and crafting from scratch.
Larissa McCullough
Larissa became a doula after navigating pregnancy with limited support, and turned that experience into a mission to serve families with empathy, knowledge, and care. She’s a birth nerd, a thoughtful listener, and passionate about helping parents make informed, confident choices.
With a focus on trauma-informed care and sleep support, she’s there when families need a steady, compassionate presence most.
✨ Fun fact: Larissa loves hiking, reading, and coaxing her patio plants to thrive, when her toddler lets her.
Lena Merialdo-Mayo
Lena became a doula after feeling the deep lack of support in her own postpartum journey. With a background in early childhood education, she now offers the grounded, compassionate care she once needed, helping new parents feel more confident, seen, and supported.
She specializes in babywearing, lactation, multiples, and inclusive care for LGBTQ+ and neurodiverse families.
✨ Fun fact: Lena’s a music lover, gardener, and frog mom to two tree frogs named Basil and Sage.
Cascade Bishop
Cascade supports families from pregnancy through early parenthood with calm, personalized care. She brings deep expertise in early childhood, sibling transitions, and lactation, always honoring each family’s values and rhythm.
Her approach is grounded, adaptable, and built on the belief that no parent should walk this journey alone.
✨ Fun fact: Cascade is a mom of three, and has birthed in a hospital, a birth center, and at home (with her older kids present!). Each experience fuels the care she offers today.
Jessica Herbert
Jessica supports families through one of life’s biggest transitions, with intuition, compassion, and a deep belief in your strength. Her care is trauma-informed, personalized, and rooted in trust, whether she’s holding space in labor or capturing the beauty of your story through birth photography.
She’s here to help you feel confident, empowered, and truly seen.
✨ Fun fact: Jessica’s a board game lover, outdoor enthusiast, and always has a novel tucked in her birth bag.
Mili Buraschi
Mili’s birth journey began with feeling unheard, and sparked her mission to help others feel informed, respected, and supported. With a calm, empowering presence, she walks beside families through pregnancy and birth, advocating fiercely and honoring every unique experience.
She’s also an EMT and future OB/GYN PA, blending deep medical insight with heart-centered care.
✨ Fun fact: Originally from Argentina, Mili now calls Tahoe home, where she hikes, skis, and soaks up mountain life with joy.
Jordanne Cabrera
Jordanne became a doula out of deep love for birth and the families who walk that path. After navigating her own challenging birth experiences, she felt called to offer the calm, grounded support she once needed.
With a background as a Certified Nursing Assistant, Jordanne brings both medical awareness and nurturing presence to every family she serves, holding space with empathy, strength, and unwavering care.
✨ Fun fact: Jordanne is a sourdough baker, nature-loving mom, and former pageant queen turned passionate birthworker.
Nora Anderson
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Sayanna Chavez
Sayanna’s journey into birthwork began with a childhood dream, and became reality when she returned home to Tahoe and followed her heart. She now supports families with calm, empowering care, creating space for strength, connection, and grace during birth and beyond.
With a special focus on VBACs, NICU family support, and placenta encapsulation, Sayanna brings lived experience and deep compassion to every birth.
✨ Fun fact: She’s currently studying midwifery, with a dream of offering even deeper care as a midwife.
