Our Mission
We believe that caring for your total wellbeing—body, mind, and spirit—is essential to achieving a fertile life. Our expert team of care providers specialize in all stages of women's health to guide, educate, and inspire you on your path towards wholeness, healing, fertility, pregnancy, birth, parenthood, and beyond.
— Marion Woodman
Coaching & Doula Packages
Learn about our curated support services from the menu options, below, and schedule your first session!
A Message from The Fertile Spirit
"We created The Fertile Spirit to support you through some of the biggest transitions in your life as women. Whether you are exploring fertility preservation & treatment, pregnancy & parenthood, seeking to achieve health goals, wanting to improve your relationships, or longing to create a fuller and more satisfying life we are here to help. In partnering with CNY Fertility, we have assembled a truly incredible team of expert coaches, doulas, and holistic specialists who are trained in women's issues, healing, health, and wellness. We believe that our challenges often present the greatest opportunities for our growth and are here to serve you and the highest expression of your goals, desires, and dreams."
— Danielle Sara, Founder & Director
Our Team
Danielle Sara, Coach
Danielle is the Founder & Director of The Fertile Spirit and specializes in a depth approach to transformational growth and change. Weaving imaginal psychology, somatics, self-inquiry, and mindfulness, she helps individuals, couples, and groups connect to their most fertile spirit so that they can live from a more realized, embodied, and authentic place. Her background in trauma and creativity brings a unique lens to her work with clients. Danielle believes that our biggest obstacles reveal profound rewards when we orient to ourselves and our dreams with awareness, trust, and love.
✓ Masters in Counseling Psychology
✓ Group Counseling Facilitator
✓ Somatic Mindfulness Practitioner
✓ Expressive Arts Specialist
Alexis Colantonio, Coach
Alexis works with clients on a whole body approach to health involving nutrition, diet, and food choices to optimize mind & body balance. Her coaching improves client's health through teaching the utilization of whole foods for manageable, delicious, nourishing, and satisfying anti-inflammatory meal plans. She couples her training and culinary skills with an understanding of the power that thought plays to promote long-term health benefits. Alexis has worked with clients through fertility, pregnancy and postpartum and is a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute. She is passionate the science of customized menu-making with delicious, simple, self-prepared foods that sustain a healthy body, mind, & spirit.
✓ Integrative Nutrition
✓ Wellness Coach
✓ Dietary Accountability
✓ Meal Planning
Amanda Ehrman, Coach
Amanda is a certified clinical hypnotherapist specializing in mindful self compassion and embodied awareness. Her focus is on working with women and children to support them in connecting with an empowered sense of worth and well-being. Through mindful movement, gentle breathing practices and therapeutic imagery, Amanda guides her clients into a naturally induced state of relaxation and self-optimization so they can access the full power of their minds to enhance confidence, release limiting beliefs and connect with their greatest potential.
✓ Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist
✓ Mindful Self Compassion Practitioner
✓ Yoga Alliance Certified (RYT-200)
✓ Therapeutic Guided Imagery
Liam McAuliffe, Coach
Liam believes that each one of us has an innate capacity to explore, release, and heal our deepest wounds, blockages, and traumas. Specializing in working with men, Liam assists in reclaiming masculine power, purpose, and meaning. Drawing on two decades of meditation practice, a Master's in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and advanced training in Depth Psychology, Liam guides clients on a liberating journey of healing and self-discovery. Blending guided meditation, somatic awareness, and close listening, you will learn to hear your unique answers to life’s biggest questions. You will discover things about yourself and your life that you didn’t know before to find new solutions to difficult problems.
✓ Somatic Mindfulness Practitioner
✓ Couples and Relationship Specialist
✓ Men's Work Specialist
✓ Holistic Nutrition Coaching
Sheri Poe, Doula
Sheri is passionately committed to supporting new families from ‘womb to world' and helping them to thrive in their postpartum journey.' She offers a spectrum of support tailored to your specific postpartum needs. As a Mom of four, Certified Postpartum Doula, Certified New Parent Educator, and Baby Care Expert she understands the joy and challenges faced in the fourth trimester and helps you prepare for a smooth transition with empathy, compassion, and lots of practical information! Sheri shares the 'tools' needed for a smooth transition to help you become informed, empowered, and confident parents.
✓ Certified Postpartum Doula
✓ Certified New Parent Educator
✓ Newborn Sleep Training Specialist
✓ Breastfeeding Guide
Tami Remen, Coach
Tami is a Somatic Experience Practitioner (SEP) having completed a 3-year training program with Peter Levine. She has worked as a certified Holistic Nutritionist and Wellness Coach. Tami’s personal journey to wellness began as a result of chronic symptoms she experienced in her forties. She believes that Somatic Experience and proper nutrition can help us heal and reclaim their lives by rebalancing their nervous systems, allowing us to reconnect to our bodies. Her work is based on supporting clients to discover their innate capacity for healing and to assist them in releasing deeply held stress, emotional pain, and trauma.
✓ Somatic Experience Practitioner
✓ Holistic Nutritionist
✓ Wellness Coach
✓ Mindful Stress Reduction Guidance
Meghan Thomas, Coach
Meg is an Intuitive Fertility Coach who helps women tap into their power & inner knowings so that they can be empowered every single step of their fertility journeys. She also finds herself on her own sacred fertility journey and uses the tools of yoga, meditation, sound healing & transformational coaching to navigate her own way. She is founder of the Intuitive Fertility Community and hosts transformational retreats across the country and virtually.
✓ Intuitive Fertility Coach
✓ Fertility Yoga & Meditation Teacher
✓ Retreat Leader
✓ Sound & Energy Healer
Jennifer Waters, Coach+L.Ac
Jennifer’s passion is discovering the root cause of dis-ease in your body. She believes in the body's innate ability to heal and has found that through the practices of purification and detoxification, healing can occur rapidly. Jennifer has worked in private practice with countless women, men, & children for over 20 years. She combines the life restoring modalities of acupuncture, with phototherapy , supplementation, and nutrition to derive extraordinary results. As a Zen meditation practitioner for over 30 years, she knows that our thoughts and feelings directly impacts our overall health. Purification practices geared towards the mind and body, are the ultimate way to improve your egg quality, maintain a healthy pregnancy, and prevent dis-ease.
✓Diplomate of Acupuncture
✓ Certified Arvigo Abdominal Therapist
✓LED Light/Photobiomodulation Therapist
✓ Detoxification & Purification Expert
Mary Whitlock, Coach+Doula
Mary is inspired and passionate about providing families and individuals with the resources, empathetic support, and nurturing to maintain a balanced life. As a Certified Health Coach, Meditation Instructor, Ayurvedic Doula + Chef specializing in Maternal Care and Ayurvedic wellness, she has had the honor to work with hundreds of families and individuals from around the world and has come to learn that regardless of who she's working with, there is always a common thread. Irrespective of peoples' background or profession, we are all intrinsically connected. Additionally, when it comes to starting a family, nature inevitably prevails.
✓ Certified Holistic Health Coach
✓ Ayurvedic Chef & Wellness Expert
✓ Dona Certified Doula & Hypnobirthing
✓ Meditation Teacher