Wellness Practitioners

Megan Crouse is a licensed Acupuncturist and Herbalist who specializes in women’s health and fertility. She has had the pleasure of helping women and couples conceive with acupuncture and herbal support alone, and has provided complementary treatment alongside western interventions such as IVF and IUI. She designs a unique healing plan for each individual patient, using a variety of modalities including acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, moxibustion, nutritional guidance, meditation techniques, and cupping therapy. In addition to providing fertility support, Megan has had the pleasure of working with women throughout pregnancy, labor & delivery (during which she uses acupressure and acupuncture to ease discomfort and promote a smooth and healthy labor), and postpartum healing.

As a mama of two little ones, Megan has experienced the beauty and challenges of growing into motherhood, Megan understands how important it is to feel truly heard and held, and to have a community that nurtures your physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.

Autumn Fox is an astrologer and storyteller who is passionate about helping mothers understand their connection to their child(ren).

She is an essayist and astrologer who is passionate about facilitating intentional relationship-based and nature-inspired experiences through storytelling.

She hopes to build out a unique caregiver-child program, parent garden circles and monthly generative writing workshops at Clove Lea. Through these gatherings, her intention is to provide a space for people to come together in a supportive and nurturing atmosphere that fosters creativity, friendship and growth.

Autumn currently facilitates a monthly writing circle. Flowering Bodies.

Steph Choyce is a Healer & Holder for Mamas :) She is a certified Reiki master, sound healer, yoga + meditation guide, and support coach- all in service to women receiving the nurturing care they deserve. She is passionate about the power of sound and moving energy through the body, and exploring how we all have the power to unlock our own healing. Steph offers her signature 90-minute MamaLove 1:1 sessions (virtual + in person) as well as Group Reiki + Sound + Movement workshops for all bodies to move energy together.

After a challenging postpartum mental health experience, Steph got curious about perinatal mental wellbeing, and earned a certificate in Perinatal Mental Health & Mood disorders from Postpartum Support International. She is also trained as a trauma-informed facilitator and peer counselor for group and individual work.

For anyone seeking ongoing care, Steph also offers 3-Month support containers that combine all of her offerings and hold mamas in the nurturing embrace of continuous care. She would love to hear from you <3 Steph

Carie Salberg, is a 500 hour certified yoga instructor who received her certification through Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health. Kripalu’s philosophy teaches that yoga is not just poses on a mat. It is a lifestyle and practice that inspires connection, compassion, and joy.

Carie has been teaching locally in the Hudson Valley for more than ten years. She has primarily been teaching private one-on -one classes since the pandemic. She is compassionate and excited to bring the community back together in person for quality experiences of sharing true connection and energy.

Laura Paskell-Brown uses tarot combined with somatic therapy for those who are slowing down, waking up and recovering from burnout. A former birth doula, she does a lot of work with women who are trying to have babies, are pregnant with babies, are parenting babies or have lost babies. She can offer individual healing sessions, run tarot workshops and add her services to other people’s offerings, etc. She would also love to help establish a thriving mummas group that meets weekly and is based on the principles of radical consent and the mother’s sanity at all costs.

A massage therapist and certified birth and end-of-life Doula, with a focus on women’s health. In Clovelea, she offers baby massage classes combining pregnant couples and parents with infants.

A lactation consultant who works with LeLeche League providing classes on feeding and has an ongoing toddler meeting.

A doula turned massage therapist who offers prenatal massage. At Clovelea, she offers baby massage and couples massage workshops.