To Schedule Your Appointment
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Core Members
Jacoba MontunaI’m from the mountains of the native lands of Borikén (PR), currently love living, paddling rivers, talking to dogs, and gardening in Skokie, IL. Beyond credentials, I’m also a 3rd generation Santigüadora (traditional healer), a Reiki, Thanatology, and Somatics partner in health-practitioner centering on Companionship’s importance.
I specialize in trauma-informed care creating safe healing spaces for communities around their sexual and reproductive health, natural gynecology, fertility, womb/pelvic care, transitions of life, traditional prenatal, cuarentena, and postpartum care, sexual trauma experiences, FGM/refugee post-traumas, reproductive/fertility loss, and pregnancy loss (miscarriages and stillbirths) journeys, and have +20 years of experience in the field.
I’m passionate about community health education, and I do so by respecting and preserving our communities’ innate cultural healing practices within an evidence-based approach balancing the Midwife Care Model and the Ancestral Comadronas-Santigüadoras practice. I’m a native Spanish speaker and can also work in French and Moroccan-Arabic.
Credentials: Direct Entry Midwife (DEM), Women, Gender, and Sexuality Specialist (WGSS), Certified Doula-Full Spectrum-Death Doula (CD), Lactation Consultant (LC), Childbirth Educator (CBE), and Women’s Health Herbal Specialist (WHHC)
Amanda TarverI came to bodywork in 2009, shortly after moving to the Chicago area. I graduated from the Cortiva Institute in 2010, and started my practice in 2011. I believe that the body is amazing and beautiful, and that we often need guidance in being kind to it. That guidance is what I bring to my clients. My goal is to help people live happier and more comfortably in their bodies through a combination of bodywork, energy work, and education. I perform what I call intuitive massage combining Swedish, deep tissue, myofascial, hot/cold therapies, trigger point therapy, and more depending on each individuals needs. For those who are embarking on pregnancy and childbirth, I offer fertility, prenatal, labor, and postpartum massage options, as well as therapeutic massage for those who are not in one of those categories. In addition to being a licensed massage therapist I am also a Reiki Master Teacher, Certified Infant Massage Instructor, and a birth doula. All services have virtual options available.
Credentials: LMT, RMT, CEIM
Associate Members
Juanita Ahuehuetzin MontoyaI graduated from Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in 2020 and have since then provided bodywork for women in their reproductive journeys. I specialize in body balancing and Breech Release. I’m also a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM), certified by the North American Registry of Midwives (NARM) and qualified to provide the Midwives Model of Care. I have over 10 years of experience providing bodywork, labor and birth support to families across IL and WI. My work is informed by my dedication and commitment to continuous learning. I hold a BA in Cultural Anthropologist, LMT, traditional sobadora/bodyworker, Certified Parent Educator for Spinning Babies, Spinning Babies Aware Practitioner/Breech Balancing, Childbirth Educator, Yoni Steam Facilitator, and craniosacral therapist. My work is always reflective of the individual needs of each client.
Credentials: CPM, LMT, SpBCPE, SpBAP