“Holly is an incredible holistic birthing professional and all around beautiful human.”
- Janice R.
Holly Michelle Farkas (she/her) is a full spectrum doula, certified breastfeeding counselor, childbirth educator, prenatal & postnatal yoga instructor and passionate perinatal health advocate based in Kingston, NY.
In her doula work, Holly provides warm, unwavering & compassionate support through an evidence-based, judgement free lens. Her goal is always to meet clients where they are in their process in an effort to make them feel seen, held, empowered & autonomous in their decision-making.
Holly has worked in the birth field since 2017 when she began working as Studio Director of Love Child Yoga in NYC, a holistic support space & yoga studio for expecting & new parents founded by Neelu Shruti. Her education as a birth worker was bolstered by her time spent with clients teaching prenatal yoga, helping facilitate prenatal and new parent support groups and working with newborns. Holly’s time in the birth world has ignited within her a fiery passion for empowering, educating & bolstering all birthing people as they cross this ever-important, sacred threshold.
She is in the process of completing her Master’s of Public Health in Health Policy from the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy (SPH) with a focus on reproductive health, rights and justice. She has worked with Planned Parenthood of Greater New York, the NYC Department of Health and is currently a researcher for the CUNY Sexual and Reproductive Justice Hub and Government Affairs Assistant to CUNY SPH’s Executive Director of State and Local Public Health Initiatives.