Shannon Wright
LMT 127457
BBCI 256
My passion for supporting birthing people and families began in the late 90s, when a close friend’s birth experience made me realize how much compassionate support and informed decision making matters. That moment led me into deep research and finding doula work and the midwifery model of care — and I never looked back.
I certified as a DONA International Doula in 2003 and volunteered with Operation Special Delivery, supporting partners of deployed soldiers. I spent more than a decade serving families across hospitals, birth centers, and homebirths, while also welcoming my own children through midwife-attended waterbirths.
As our family grew — three homeschooled kids and a partner frequently deployed or traveling for civilian work — the on-call doula life became unsustainable. This led me to the Avalon School of Massage, where I became a Licensed Massage Therapist and continued expanding my skills, specializing in pregnancy, postpartum, and optimal fetal positioning.
When life steadied, I followed a dream and trained in a Birth Assistant workshop at The Farm Midwifery Center in Summertown, TN—a truly transformative experience. Later I also completed AABC’s Birth Assistant Program.
hough childbirth education has long been central to my doula work, Birth Boot Camp’s evidence-based curriculum offered a more comprehensive structure and professionally developed workbooks, eliminating the need for me to create my own materials.
Practitioner Overview (TLDR):
- Certified Doula - 10+ years of doula work in a variety of environments and situations
- Volunteer Doula Services - Operation Special Delivery
- Licensed Massage Therapist
- Participant - The Farm Midwifery Center's Birth Assistant Workshop
- Certified AABC Birth Assistant Training
- Birth Boot Camp Instructor and Doula - Certification courses
- Perinatal Massage Certification Course - Carole Osborne's Workshop Intensive
- Spinning Babies - Workshop for professional
- Spinning Babies - Aware Practitioner Training and Certification
- Mama of Three - very different midwife attended, free standing birth center, waterbirths