On-call reality
Your availability is shaped by due-date windows and on-call periods, not a nine-to-five calendar. Booking and messaging get built around that.
For doulas · Digital services
Grow your doula practice while you stay focused on birth
Websites, local visibility, and admin automation built for the way doula practices actually run — priced for a practice, not an agency budget.
On a tight budget? The DIY guide is genuinely free and genuinely useful — no strings.
Why I get this
You’re already looking at my work
Joy Birth Doula is my wife Mandy’s practice. I built this site, along with the family portal, the intake flow, and the training space for the doulas she teaches. So when I say a doula’s calendar doesn’t work like a normal local business, I’m not repeating something I read — I live the on-call life with my amazing doula wife.
Have a look around the rest of the siteWhy this is different
Built for how doulas actually work
Most agencies treat a doula practice like any other local service business. It isn’t. Your calendar, your sales cycle, and your ethics all work differently — and the systems should match.
Local-first, always
Families search by city and hire by trust. Everything points at your service area, your reviews, and your face — not national keywords you'll never win.
Speed wins the client
Families contact three or four doulas the same evening. We make sure no inquiry sits unanswered and every one lands in a single inbox.
Boundaries respected
Automation touches scheduling, paperwork, and reminders. Anything involving a family's body, birth, or grief stays entirely in your hands.
Services
What we can build with you
Take one piece or all four. Each is priced separately so you can start where it matters most.
Website design & build
A practice site that looks finished and makes hiring you the obvious next step — built around your offers and your voice, not a template you have to fight.
SEO & socials
Done-for-you or done-with-you local visibility, so families in your area find you without you living in Canva and Google every night.
AI automation for business ops
Admin loops only — inquiry routing, follow-up reminders, invoice nudges, busywork reduction. Never clinical decision support or medical advice.
Optional client portal setup
If you want it: a private space where families complete intake, track pregnancy progress, see appointments, and you review it all in one place.
How it works
A clear path to launch
01
Discovery
We learn your offers, your voice, your service area, and what families need to do next.
02
Build / setup
Site, visibility, ops automation, and optional portal — scoped to what you actually need and nothing more.
03
Launch
Go live with clear calls to action so families can hire you, and you can stay focused on birth.
04
Optional ongoing
Keep visibility and ops humming on a small monthly plan — or take the keys and run it yourself.
Free · No strings
Can’t afford help yet? Do it yourself.
Not every practice is ready to pay someone, and that’s fine. I wrote a short guide with the six things that actually bring families to a doula practice — what to do, in what order, and what each piece costs. Most of it is free, and you can work through the whole list in about a month of evenings.
- Claim and finish your Google Business Profile
- Build one page that actually converts
- Turn on a review engine that runs itself
- Never lose an inquiry again
- Write the five pages families search for
- Automate the admin, not the care
Four pages, plus copy-and-paste scripts, a tool-cost table, and a 30-day plan. If you follow it and still want help, you’ll be a much cheaper project by then.
What’s included
- A practice website built around your offers and voice
- Local visibility work so families in your area can find you
- Ops automation for admin busywork
- Optional client portal setup with intake and progress tracking
- A fixed scope and a fixed price agreed before any work starts
- Full ownership — your domain, your accounts, your data
What’s not
- Doula training or certification
- Software seats or a monthly platform you can never leave
- Clinical records, EHR, or any HIPAA-regulated product
- Anything resembling medical advice or clinical decision support
- Long contracts — monthly support is month-to-month or not at all
Next step
Request a free consult
Twenty minutes, no pitch deck. Tell me what your practice needs and I’ll come back with a clear scope and a fixed price — or tell you honestly that the free guide is enough for now.
Request a free consult