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Your Journey with Mooncradle Matrescence
Your Journey with Mooncradle MatrescenceYour Journey with Mooncradle MatrescenceYour Journey with Mooncradle MatrescenceHolistic Full Spectrum Doula Services+Photography
✨ Birth ✨ Postpartum ✨ Bereavement ✨ Abortion ✨
✨ Birth ✨ Postpartum ✨ Bereavement ✨ Abortion ✨
✨ Birth ✨ Postpartum ✨ Bereavement ✨ Abortion ✨
✨ Birth ✨ Postpartum ✨ Bereavement ✨ Abortion ✨
✨ Birth ✨ Postpartum ✨ Bereavement ✨ Abortion ✨
✨ Birth ✨ Postpartum ✨ Bereavement ✨ Abortion ✨
Now Accepting Clients For 2026
Schedule a free consultation at the bottom of the page 🤍⬇️
Practice Alignment Notice:
My full-spectrum care centers bodily autonomy and informed consent at every stage of reproductive life. For this reason, I do not provide services to families planning elective infant circumcision.
Voices of Those I’ve Served
Curious about what it’s like to work with a doula? Read testimonials from the families who trusted me to walk with them through one of life’s most transformative experiences.
My Mission
At Mooncradle Matrescence I am deeply committed to supporting families through life’s most transformative passages. My mission is to create a nurturing, empowering space for birth, parenting, and every transition that follows. I provide personalized, full spectrum doula care in person and virtually, including support during pregnancy, labor and birth, postpartum, bereavement, and abortion. I combine compassionate emotional support with practical guidance and evidence informed resources so each family can make informed choices and move forward with confidence and clarity. My holistic approach honors the uniqueness of every family and meets you where you are, holding space for your needs, your values, and your story.
About Me and Credentials
My work is shaped by both lived experience and ongoing education in birthwork and reproductive care. If you would like to learn more about my background and professional training, you can view the full page here.
Areas Of Service
Pennsylvania
- Northampton County
- Monroe County
- Bucks County
- Carbon County
- Lehigh County
- Pike County
- Berks County
- Montgomery County
- Schuylkill County
- Luzerne County
- Lackawanna County
- Wayne County
- Columbia County
- Northumberland County
- Dauphin County
- Lebanon County
- Chester County
- Delaware County
- Philadelphia County
New Jersey
- Bergen County
- Essex County
- Hudson County
- Hunterdon County
- Morris County
- Passaic County
- Somerset County
- Sussex County
- Union County
- Warren County
I also offer Travel Services and Virtual
Experienced With
Cesarean Birth Support
Birth through surgery is still birth and deserves reverence care and autonomy. I support families preparing for planned urgent or unexpected cesarean births with trauma informed grounding evidence based education and advocacy. My role includes helping clients understand their options within the operating room supporting gentle and family centered practices fostering connection and bonding and holding space for emotional processing and postpartum integration. This care honors the power of the birthing body even when birth unfolds through surgical means.
VBAC Support
Sacred reclamation of the birthing body’s power. I support families choosing to birth again after one and two cesareans, blending trauma-informed grounding with evidence-based preparation in both hospital and birth center settings.
Hospital and Birth Center Births
A calm and anchored presence within medical environments. I guide clients in self-advocacy, helping them navigate structured systems while protecting their autonomy, peace, and preferences.
Home Birth and Freebirth Support
For those birthing in their own sacred space with or without licensed attendants. My role is rooted in emotional, physical, and spiritual support and does not include medical care or intervention. I hold deep trust in the birthing body and help cultivate safety through informed and intuitive choice.
Pregnancy Loss and Release including Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Termination for Medical Reasons
Gentle tending of the liminal. I walk beside families through loss in all its forms, offering ritual space, emotional integration, and compassionate guidance for both body and spirit.
Abortion Support and Companionship
A sacred threshold of release and renewal. I provide stigma-free and embodied care during medication, procedural, and medically indicated abortions, supporting emotional grounding, herbal comfort, and spiritual closure for those who wish to bring meaning and softness to the experience.
Postpartum Healing
The soft unfolding after birth or loss. I offer nurturing, trauma-informed care that centers rest, nervous system regulation, and ritual presence, tending to the body and spirit as they integrate and heal.
Rainbow Pregnancies and Parenting After Loss
Tender care for those carrying both grief and hope. I bring lived experience in supporting parents as they navigate the complexity of joy, fear, and remembrance while welcoming life after loss.
LGBTQIA+ and Gender-Diverse Families
Affirming and inclusive support for every birthing body and family constellation. My care honors language, identity, and the sacred diversity of human experience, ensuring that all families feel seen and respected.
Ritual and Ceremonial Space Holding
Guided ritual, intentional breathwork, and spiritual presence woven through the transitions of birth, loss, and postpartum. I hold sacred space for emotional and spiritual integration that honors both ancestry and intuition.
Trauma-Informed and Body-Autonomous Care
Every aspect of my work is rooted in consent, safety, and sovereignty. I specialize in supporting those with histories of trauma, medical harm, or reproductive coercion, centering nervous system awareness and body wisdom in every encounter.
Every story deserves to be met with reverence, choice, and care.
My work lives within the full spectrum of reproductive experience, where beginnings, endings, and transformations meet. I walk with families through birth, loss, and becoming. My care is rooted in reverence for the body, trust in intuition, and the quiet rituals that help us return home to ourselves.
Contact Me
Clarissa Alves, CD
I would love to hear from you. Whether you have questions, need support, or just want to connect, feel free to reach out. Fill out the contact form, send an email, or connect via social media. I am here to support you on your matrescence journey.
Looking forward to connecting with you 🌿💫 LETS DOULA THIS
Mooncradle Matrescence
Northampton County, PA, USA
Mooncradle Matrescence
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