Our Founders
April Bullock, CPM, LM, Owner/Director Birthwise Birth & Family Center & Melissa B Light of Light Family Acupuncture
About 5 years ago we began our quest to create the perfect holistic family and health center to serve the Austin area. We are thrilled to have found that in East-West Family Health and have recently expanded our holistic health services to more completely serve your family.
April Bullock CPM, LM
Birthwise Birth & Family Center
April is the owner and director of Birthwise Birth & Family Center and the co-founder of East- West Family Health. She has been serving Austin birthing families since 1995 and is so happy to have been able to create a wonderful holistic healthcare community for her clients. In addition to midwifery April is also a Certified Hypnobirthing Childbirth Educator and is enrolled in the Devon School of Homeopathy. With an undergraduate degree in Spanish from UT Austin April is thrilled to be able to better serve the Spanish speaking population of Central Texas. April has attended over 500 births and as a native Austinite she is looking forward to many years of service to come. She is the proud and busy mother of 3 boys, ages 16, 13 and almost 5.
Natalie
Birthwise Birth & Family Center &
Move on Rio Grande
Jayme Moore CPM, LM, HBCE
Birthwise Birth& Family Center
Jayme is a midwife and childbirth educator. She has worked with women and children in various capacities since 1997 as an educator, doula and midwife. After the birth of her daughter in 2001, Jayme realized that birth not only empowers the mother but is an amazing experience for everyone involved and began working on her training in birth support. Since then she has had the honor of witnessing the birth of hundreds of babies, developed and implemented and instructional curriculum and guided many couples through the intricacies of becoming families. All of this experience informs her practice, helping her to create an environment of informed choice and understanding. With an undergraduate degree in Spanish and years of serving as an adult ESL teacher, Jayme is able to serve Spanish-speaking families. Jayme has two amazing children that encourage her and provide innumerable chances to gain patience. She is thrilled to be a midwife at Birthwise Birth & Family Center and enjoys working with an amazing duo of midwives.
Melissa B Light MSOM TxLAc
Light Family Acupuncture
Melissa B. Light has spent over a decade empowering women and children through education, counseling, nutrition, movement and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Melissa is the chief practitioner and founder of Light Family Acupuncture, a thriving private practice in central Austin. Light Family Acupuncture focuses on treating the entire family from preconception through pregnancy and parenthood. Melissa specializes in pregnancy, labor, and pediatric care and is currently working on a book.
Melissa is a mama of two amazing children. She has been treated with Chinese Medicine pre and postnatally with both pregnancies. For the past 9 years Melissa has taught courses locally and across the country on nutrition and weight loss, acupressure for birth and children, and building a dream acupuncture practice.
Melissa B. Light holds her Masters of Science in Oriental Medicine from the acclaimed AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine in Austin, TX where she was honored for her research in treating Bi-Polar Disorder with Traditional Chinese Medicine. She recently was voted 2011 Austin Mother-Friendly Birth awards Best Acupuncturist.
She holds her acupuncture license with the state of Texas Board of Medical Examiners as well as national certifications in Asian Bodywork, Chinese Herbology, and Oriental Medicine.
My clients are seeking the birth or adoption of a child, the successful creation of a step-family, strategies for co-parenting and the resolution of childhood issues that might get in the way of successful relationships of all types. I also work with families who are experiencing infertility and are exploring alternative methods of creating a family.
I provide a safe space apart from your day-to-day life and support you in making choices and taking actions that will lead to the outcome that you desire. My clients say that our work together helps them to develop new skills, habits, thoughts, and behaviors which they continue to find useful as they build their families.
Margery Segal, RSMT, IDME
Margery Segal is an integrative therapist who works with her clients on both physical and psychological concerns.
She specialized in Body Mind Centering®, Somatic and Developmental Movement Therapy and traditional talk therapies for adults, children, and infant-parents. Margery divides her practice between
1) Infant, child and family attachment and bonding- focused developmental movement education and therapy.
2) Adult identity and parenting issues: prenatal and postpartum challenges and depression. parenting, birth trauma, PTSD (physical and emotional trauma), relationship, body image, addiction, health and family issues.
Dawn Gibson, LCSW
Mindful Mothering
Dawn K Gibson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the owner, therapist, and coach of Mindful Mothering. She is very excited to be part of East-West Family Health Center! Dawn specialized in counseling and coaching women during pregnancy and their first year postpartum. She has over a decade of experience in the mental health field working with women, children, and teenagers. She currently provides individual counseling and coaching and facilitates prenatal, postpartum, and NICU postpartum support groups. Please visit her website to learn more about Mindful Mothering and her services. www.mindfulmotheringaustin.com
Stephanie Berry and Crystal Davidson
Stephanie is a practicing herbalist of traditional western herbalism, utilizing local herbs and foods as medicine. She has a special interest in consulting during pregnancy, with children and with autism related disorders.
Mungu Barret Massage
Mungu Barrett has 10 years of massage experience. He specializes in Deep Tissue ,Thai, Swedish & pregnancy massage.He also incorporates other modalities such as myofacial release and cranial sacral therapy in his treatments. His massage is not only therapeutic but also energetically grounding.
