About Us

One Moon Doula Services has elevated the quality of care for families with infants and newborns in San Diego County and beyond, by carefully selecting well-trained and vetted service providers who bring the highest level of service and professionalism to their clients. Besides a careful selection process, One Moon Doula Services supports the postpartum doulas and newborn care specialists on its team with advanced training, mentorship, continuing education, and professional development, so that they come to your family equipped to provide informed and nonjudgmental support. Additional services such as private in-home breastfeeding classes, belly binding, and sleep coaching help round out the mission to support families during this vulnerable, yet amazing time in their lives.

One Moon Doula Services was created by Kathryn Keener in 2013. After providing private, postpartum doula services for three years prior, and in two cities (the NY Metropolitan Area and San Diego, California), Kathryn saw a significant need for an agency model to better serve her clients. This was because she repeatedly heard from families that finding the right doula for them was sometimes a frustrating process. She heard from doulas that their main goal and passion was to serve families, not necessarily run a business. She wanted to help doulas and families find each other, and to help families find ample support, by providing them with choice, availability, reliable backup options when needed, and a streamlined process for arranging for care that meets their needs.

Kathryn’s plan to open an agency came naturally and took off quickly. She draws from her 15 years of experience helping to run agencies and when she worked in the field of mediation and dispute resolution, prior to becoming a Postpartum Doula. Her role previously was to assess the client’s needs, pair them with an appropriate service provider, and cultivate the service provider’s skills and practice, and she now does all of that and more for the doulas and clients of One Moon Doula Services. In an agency model, families can talk with Kathryn during a phone consultation to ascertain their needs and preferences, then meet a doula or doulas to find the right fit for them, and continually access the doula or the agency owner for any questions or needs that may arise.

One Moon Doula’s postpartum doulas and newborn care specialists are not only vetted, they are raved about by parents of newborns (see our doula reviews here), and they are CPR certified and insured. References will happily be provided at your request.

Currently serving San Diego County and Orange County in California.

Kathryn is the Owner and Director of One Moon Doula Services, which began in 2013 as a private doula practice and evolved into a boutique agency serving families all over San Diego. She is a Postpartum Doula (trained by three professional organizations: CAPPA, DONA, and ProDoula) and is a Certified Sleep Coach. She prides herself in cultivating a top-notch team of professional Postpartum Doulas, Newborn Care Specialists, and Sleep Coaches, and matching them with families based on their needs.

Kathryn grew up in Virginia near Washington, D.C. and has lived in New York, Ecuador, and California. She attended the College of William and Mary and received her Master’s in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from Nova Southeastern University. (She worked for 15 years as a Mediator prior to becoming a Postpartum Doula). She now lives in Encinitas, California with her husband, two young sons, and her dog Luna (the only other girl in the house).