Joanna Bronkema is a Certified Nurse Midwife and Nurse Practitioner offering holistic healthcare to women & LGBTQI people in their conception, pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and all stages of reproductive health, specializing in homebirth. She began her career as an environmental biologist, but soon discovered the work that needed to be done to restore the rights of childbearing people. So, she became a doula and attended births in homes, birth centers and hospitals in California and rural Guatemala, and then went back to school at the University of California San Francisco to receive her RN, CNM, and NP degrees, after which she completed training in Functional Medicine at the Institute for Functional Medicine. Joanna has experience in hospital, birth center, and community/home birth settings and offers both alternative/complementary and herbal treatments as well as conventional allopathic (“Western”) prescriptions & procedures, combining the best of both worlds. As a former research scientist, Joanna is proud to offer truly evidence-based care. Her birth philosophy is that women are strong and birth is natural and beautiful. Incorporating the 6 Naturopathic Principles in her care, she has found that often the least interventive course of treatment is also the best one for long term wellness. Joanna sees her main as a guardian of health and safety for mother and baby while facilitating a mom-to-be to discover her own strength, knowledge, and internal beauty in labor and birth so that she and her family can embrace an empowering childbirth experience without fear, no matter where it may lead them. You can book a well-person, pregnancy, or lactation visit right away. Se habla español.
Como partera hispano-hablante, ayudo a los futuros padres a descubrir su propia fuerza y el conocimiento interno que ellos pueden experimentar lo que es el poder de dar a luz no importando a donde los dirija. Yo busco proveer el cuidado hacía la mujer y la diversidad de orientaciones sexuales y géneros, basado en la evidencia y en una manera holística durante la concepción, embarazo, nacimiento, y todas las etapas de la salud reproductiva. Empecé mi carera como bióloga ambiental, pero cuando descubrí el trabajo que tenía que hacer para revivir los derechos de natalidad, me convertí en doula y atendía partos en casas, centros de nacimiento, y hospitales en California y en Guatemala. Después, regresé a la universidad a recibir mi entrenamiento como enfermera registrada, enfermera de la salud pública, enfermera profesional/practicante de la salud de la mujer y enfermera-partera certificada en la Universidad de California en San Francisco. Ahora como enfermara especialista, ofrezco procedimientos y medicinas convencionales, pero creo que el tratamiento mejor usualmente es el tratamiento mas natural. Uso principios naturopáticos para guiar mi interacción con mis clientes. Mi filosofía es que la mujer es fuerte y el parto es una experiencia única que se puede disfrutar sin miedo. Se puede tener sus citas conmigo en español.
