I work closely with my fabulous, skilled team of midwives to provide family-centered care by helping to ensure optimal health for a mother and her child, encouraging a trust in the process of birth and helping to ease this joyful transition for families.

On my road to a midwifery career I was struck by the need for patient advocacy in a system that struggles for power. I have found that giving the evidence-based information to families and empowering them to choose what is best for them results in better outcomes.

My medical experience started in 2008 when I began working as a medical assistant with the University of Washington’s Department of Family Medicine. This work exposed me to a wide variety of people and their needs. I wanted to expand my scope of practice and was drawn to midwifery after attending my neighbor’s birth and the birth of my nephew. I was lucky enough to find obstetric training in my own backyard and completed my Master of Science in Midwifery with a Botanical Medicine focus at Bastyr University in 2019.

Captivated by pregnancy and birth, Amanda decided to pursue birth work after having her first child in 2014. She attended training to become a doula and childbirth educator in 2015, was accepted into Bastyr University’s midwifery program in 2016, and graduated with her Master’s of Science in Midwifery and Botanical Medicine in 2019. As a prior student midwife at Puget Sound Birth Center she feels at home here.