Allison Rollans

Allison is the owner of High Country Doulas and she loves supporting moms and families as a Childbirth Educator, Postpartum & Labor doula, a certified VBAC Specialist, an Infant Feeding Specialist, Prenatal Health Coach & Postpartum Placenta Specialist. For over 25 years she has trained with organizations such as ProDoula, DONA, Postpartum Support International, La Leche League & The Matrona. 

Allison has a vast resource of knowledge which she uses to support HCD team and the families she serves, including in-depth training on perinatal mood disorders–such as postpartum anxiety & depression. Her most accomplished element she claims is her family; happily married with 3 almost grown children whom she loves tremendously. She knows that a couple's transition into parenthood can be happier and healthier with doula care. Offering her knowledge, experience and continuous support to women and their partners is what she loves to do.

Chelsey Taylor

I'm Chelsey Taylor, the beloved daughter of the Most High King. I’m a devoted wife and proud mama of four children from teens to toddler. 

I have 15 years dedicated to supporting maternal and newborn care to families living in Northeast TN through both peer to peer support groups and professional services. I’m a childbirth educator, labor and postpartum doula, student midwife, and postpartum placenta specialist. 

I was trained through ProDoula and joined the High Country Doulas team in 2017. Since 2021, I’ve been apprenticing with local Certified Professional Midwives to learn the traditional practice of midwifery in our community. I hold certifications in Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP), CPR, and first aid. I also have skills in Spinning Babies techniques, birth emergencies, belly binding, perinatal mood support, and lactation. 

I view this birth work as my God-given ministry and higher calling. Nothing else I can ever imagine doing than walking alongside families as they welcome their new babies.

Gwendolyn Williams

Gwendolyn understands the challenges and the needs that so many families face today, navigating life with a desire to have a family and expectation that seems realistic until the rubber meet the road. She has over 20 years of postpartum doula experience. Now that she knows her service has a name (postpartum doula), she decided to make it official, to get certified in what she loves doing and that is serving families.

Her goals are to serve families in a way that will make them know that they can do this, help them to make informed decisions by sharing evidence based information about their concerns, assist them to adjust to life with a newborn and to have the best postpartum experience possible. She is so excited to embark on this servitude from a professional level. Her strengths are listening, paying attention to details, finding solutions to “problems”, and the love and compassion for family.

When Gwendolyn is not working, you can find her in her garden with her fur baby (Paris) by her side, in her flower beds digging in the dirt, at church, or FaceTiming with her grandchildren. 

Henna Wallace

As a mother of a sweet boy, Henna loves to explore the natural world including plants and herbs. She is certified herbalist through Asheville School of Herbalism. She also is in school for massage therapy.

Trained through DONA and ProDoula International, Henna finds herself drawn to working with parents during their pregnancy and postpartum, as a doula and postpartum placenta specialist. Her soft nature leads parents to feel calm and fully supported. Listening is one of her great skills.

She wants parents to know it’s okay to feel vulnerable, unsure and challenged. Her experience and mother-centered care will help you to feel more confident and steady as you peel away the layers of the new you.

Jessica Phillips

Jessica is a mother to a sweet, little rambunctious boy. She has been supporting parents as a certified breastfeeding specialist for the last 4 years and have added certifications as a labor doula, postpartum doula, and placenta encapsulation specialist to provide clients with a full spectrum of support. She has trained through ProDoula International, The Midwifery Institute, and Lactation Education Resources

Jessica believes in empowering birth and parenting choices for everyone. She is graduating from ETSU with a Bachelor's of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies and a minor in Allied Health. She loves learning and trying new things and is excited to meet and support new parents as a High Country Doula. 

Shivonne Tessa Quintero

Shivonne is known for her soothing, grounding, genuine presence, as well as her playful expressiveness.

She’s had a daily mindfulness practice for nearly 20 years, been practicing yoga for 20+ and is also deeply involved with ecstatic dance and contact improv. In general, she’s totally taken with and dedicated to experiencing the subtleties of the moment through mindful, embodied curiosity and presence. She’s passionate about, and in constant practice with, embracing everything that shows up.

She is so excited and honored to bring any and all of these qualities to be with you on your birthing journey.

Lis McCachren

Lis McCachren is a mother, writer, birth keeper, and yoga teacher. Her yoga training includes optimal alignment, pre and postnatal practices, philosophy, and ways to bring the ancient practice of yoga into modern everyday life.  She is adept at helping students find a practice that fits them: their body, their desires, their lifestyle. Off the mat, she finds yoga to be a tangible tool for parenthood, reminding her each day to breathe deep, live with intention and open to the endless possibilities of life.  

A seasoned birth doula, postpartum doula and placenta specialist, Lis is on a quest to support women in feeling safe and celebrated in the transition to motherhood.

Follow her as she finds beauty and makes meaning @heartcenteredmamas

Lis has completed Postpartum Doula trainings through DONA and ProDoula International, as well as ProDoula Placenta Specialist training.  She holds a BS in Psychology and is an avid Yoga Teacher and practitioner, trained through Neighborhood Yoga in 2008. The practice of yoga shapes the way Lis engages with life each day; it challenges her to live deeply, authentically, reckoning expectations with reality.  It is a practice of trust and a guide to uncovering both our fears and our “best selves”.  Lis is a mama to 3 school age children and is fully on the journey of learning and growing with them.  She is up to date on Blood Borne Pathogen and CPR certifications.

Lis believes in reaching out for what we need, that a little gratitude goes a long way, and that we are all infinitely capable & deserving of support. 

Ysabel Gilmore Farmer

Ysabel is a certified ProDoula Labor Doula, Sound and Music certification, experience leading music therapy sessions, and is completing a degree in Expressive Arts and Mental Health. 

She is passionate about women’s empowerment, mental health, energy work, and the arts. 

In her free time, Ysabel cultivates beauty and vitality through new projects, creative rituals, writing poetry, music, art, and cooking. She also loves skincare, nature, animals, and relaxing on the couch with a good movie. 

In the future, Ysabel would like to create her own wellness studio, do group work, have an Interdisciplinary Art Show, continue women’s empowerment, and change the world for the better.

She sees that birth can be puzzling, terrifying, and fascinating. It can be brutal and beautiful, but she is here for it, all of it.