Lena DeGloma CCCE, MS, LMT, CD, CLC
Lena DeGloma’s experience as a certified birth doula, certified lactation counselor, licensed massage therapist, and clinical herbalist informs her approach to holistic childbirth education. She is the founder and owner of Red Moon Wellness in Park Slope, Brooklyn – a wellness practice that offers therapeutic massage, clinical herbal medicine, and childbirth services. Lena currently serves on the Board of Directors of the CEA/MNY as the Co-Coordinator of the Teacher Certification Program (TCP). She also teaches Optimal Nutrition for the Childbearing Cycle and Teaching Labor Support for the TCP and serves as a mentor for teacher trainees. Lena has been attending births as a doula at homes, hospitals and birth centers for nearly a decade and was certified as a birth doula by homebirth midwife and educator Susanrachel Condon of Niara Healing Arts. She also completed an advanced doula training with Ina May Gaskin and renowned doula instructor and film director (Orgasmic Birth), Debra Pascali-Bonaro. Lena holds a Master of Science in Clinical Herbal Medicine from Maryland University of Integrative Health, where she wrote her master’s thesis on uterine contractility and herbs. She is a part-time faculty member at the ArborVitae School of Traditional Herbalism in Manhattan where she teaches classes on female reproductive health and herbal therapeutics. Lena has also written prenatal massage curriculum, supervised student massage clinics, and taught massage and at two different massage therapy programs in New York State. Before her work in wellness and childbirth, Lena worked as a coordinator of a community education program focused on issues of gender-based violence and on a domestic violence response team in New Brunswick, NJ, and has lived and worked on several organic farms and eco-villages in Costa Rica.
Learn more: www.redmoonwellness.com