Lindsey Oakes
(they/them)
Licensed Midwife, Certified Professional Midwife
Lindsey is a midwife and bodyworker from South Lake Tahoe now residing on the unceded territory of the Kumeyaay people, San Diego California.
Lindsey works with midwife Nicole Morales in her homebirth practice, Art of Opening Midwifery, and at Tourmaline Birth and Wellness Center. Outside of midwifery care, they offer bodywork, breech body balancing, and work with scar tissue.
Lindsey has committed to providing culturally competent care for Queer and Transgender people. As a queer midwife, Lindsey is dedicated to providing the LGBTQIA2S+ community with accessible, informed, and compassionate care.
If you would like to learn more about queer healthcare, or you would like to donate the cost of a wellness visit or lab work, please contact me by clicking LEARN MORE.
Bodywork
Coming into relationship with someone through bodywork is a vulnerable and beautiful process, of which no two sessions are alike. Chronic stress, anxiety, and fatigue have taken over the modern world, and with it the demand on the nervous system has intensified. The body processes the added stress, which is reflected in misalignment and discomfort. Utilizing stretches, ligament releases, and demonstrating supportive practices to use at home, we work together to bring balance to the body. In pregnancy, imbalance can affect fetal positioning and day to day comfort. Outside of pregnancy, occurrences like persistent jaw tension, constipation, headaches, or scar tissue could impact quality of life. Meeting clients where they’re at without judgment, assumption, or agenda is what I strive to provide through a body balancing session. Bodywork is a passion, and also a calling, through which I connect to my community, and myself.
Midwifery
Holistic reproductive healthcare considers the mental, physical, and social impacts life can have on the body throughout the reproductive lifetime. Visits are shaped around each individual and address nutrition, imbalance or discomfort in the body, and overall health and wellness. Preventative healthcare and wellness looks at a person as a whole, where you and your provider come up with a plan to improve or support your quality of health. Midwifery care in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum is raw and intimate. Deep relationships are formed to support trust and safety in a person’s ability to birth, regardless of how or where a birth occurs. Bodywork is weaved into care, visits are paced along with the nervous system, and care is extended long after the fourth trimester.
My personal practice of midwifery values bodywork and relationships equally with counseling and compassion. If I view health as a process as well as a lived experience, I can work collaboratively with those I’m supporting. I’m committed to my work and the people I serve, and I’m humbled and honored to call myself a community midwife. I look forward to connecting with individuals and families to provide a rewarding and embodied experience. If you would like to discuss reproductive healthcare or midwifery services, please reach out to schedule a consultation with me.
