Susan is a lover of all things birth, child and parenting. She is the founder and owner of GROW Prenatal & Family Center and was co-founder/director of Evolution Physical Therapy and Yoga from 2006-2015 before opening GROW.

Susan has established herself as a deeply respected leader in our local prenatal, postpartum, and parenting circles through her perinatal work in the community over the past 21 years.  She is a wealth of knowledge and information for pregnant families and a compassionate, gentle voice of support for parents.

Susan has had the honor of supporting 225+ families in birth as a labor doula, and as a childbirth educator she has taught hundreds of couples in her popular yoga and birth workshops. She specializes in high risk births, navigating loss, and supporting families with birth after loss. She is deeply steeped in knowledge of body and breath work and how to prepare people for the best birth possible in the weeks and months leading up to labor.

As an educator, she has been featured as a presenter at the UVM Women’s Health Conference and a staff educator for our local UVMMC labor and delivery staff in hands-on labor support at the bedside.

Susan received her initial yoga teacher certification from OM Yoga in NYC and has an advanced Level 3 certification in pregnancy and postpartum yoga from Colette Crawford of the Seattle Holistic Center.  Additionally, Susan has training in Spinning Babies body balancing. In 2025 Susan received certification from Lindsay McCoy as a Body Ready Method Pro.

With a background in dance and 35 years of experience teaching movement to children, you can often find Susan humming a children’s song or singing a lullaby in a room full of babies.  Susan has taught in a variety of settings ranging from public school classrooms to after-school programs to yoga studios.  She is a contributing author of the Burlington Vermont Flynn Center’s “Words Come Alive” teacher manual and co-author of  a children’s yoga book titled “Star Pose.”  Susan is the proud mother of three boys – Emmett (20), Zinn (17) and Jay (12).