Support for the whole person
within the perinatal experience.
Fertility, pregnancy, birth and postpartum can bring questions, decisions, emotions, uncertainty — and experiences we can prepare for, alongside others we simply cannot predict.
BREATHE is a space to understand what you’re navigating, explore your options, and feel supported through the uncertainty as you find your way forward.
You may be here because…
You have questions, but you're not always sure who to ask.
You have information — maybe even too much of it — but you're still trying to understand what it means for you.
You're facing decisions you didn't expect to have to make.
Something feels heavier, more complicated, or more uncertain than you thought it would.
Or maybe things are going beautifully, and you simply want to learn, prepare, and understand what lies ahead.
Sometimes you need answers.
Sometimes you need better questions.
And sometimes you just need someone beside you to say:
Okay. Let’s take this one step at a time.
Ways I Can Support You
Different moments call for different kinds of support.
You may be looking for information, emotional support, preparation, energetic care, or someone to accompany you more closely through a specific part of your experience.
Explore the kind of support that feels most useful to you right now.
Fertility Support
Practical, informational and emotional support as you navigate fertility questions, testing, treatment, decisions, uncertainty and everything that can happen in between.
Perinatal Emotional Care
A one-on-one space to talk, process, prepare and feel supported through the emotional complexity of fertility, loss, pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
Childbirth Education
Understand how birth works, explore your options, navigate decisions, and approach what lies ahead with greater confidence.
Perinatal Reiki
Energy work to support grounding, connection, relaxation and wellbeing through fertility, pregnancy, birth, postpartum and loss.
Birth Doula Support
Informational, physical and emotional support, with continuity of care as you prepare for and move through birth.
The BREATHE Approach
Support isn’t only about what is offered. How it is offered matters, too.
I listen before I offer.
Your story comes before my answer.
Every person brings a different experience, different questions and different needs. Support begins with understanding yours.
I make the complicated easier to hold.
Clear information. Honest conversations. No unnecessary panic.
I help you make sense of what you're navigating without adding more overwhelm to the experience.
I inform without taking over.
Knowledge gives you a voice within the experience — not control over it.
My role is to help you understand, ask questions and explore your options so you can make decisions that feel right for you.
I mean it when I say I'm here.
You deserve support not only when things break, but when they feel heavy.
Sometimes support means information or practical tools. Sometimes it means having someone beside you while you figure out what comes next.
Veronica Pertuso
Bilingual Birth Worker & Educator
For nearly nine years, I have worked alongside families through different parts of the perinatal experience. Along the way, I’ve supported more than 150 families through my work as a full-spectrum doula.
My professional foundation began before birth work. I earned my degree in Clinical Psychology in Venezuela after six years of university study. Since entering the birth world in 2018, that foundation has continued to grow through years of hands-on experience, ongoing education, curiosity, and the countless lessons that come from sitting beside people through some of life’s biggest transitions.
Today, my work has grown to support people across fertility, pregnancy, birth and postpartum — bringing everything I’ve learned along the way into the work I do through BREATHE.
I believe support can be both deeply human and deeply informed.
Understand birth.
Explore your options.
Prepare for what lies ahead.
Birth doesn’t always follow the plan. Preparation isn’t about making sure that it does.
It’s about understanding how birth works, exploring your options, knowing what questions to ask, and having the tools to participate in decisions — even when the experience takes an unexpected turn.
This course brings together physiology, practical preparation, informed decision-making, partner support, interventions, and what happens after birth — because preparing for birth means preparing for more than the moment your baby arrives.
Knowledge doesn’t give you control over the experience. It gives you a voice within it.
Kind Words
From families I’ve had the privilege of supporting.
“While our birth did not go exactly as planned, I can say that the choices we made were well-guided, fully understood, and made with intention.”
— Julie Duong
“…keenly know when to tell it to you straight… She also brings great big sister energy :)”
— Felicity Pereyra
“Vero is a calming presence. As soon as she entered our house, I would feel myself relax.”
— Lindsay Hatcher
A Little Something to Help
Practical resources to help you understand, prepare, ask questions, and navigate what comes next.
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Not sure where to start?
You don’t need to know exactly what kind of support you need before reaching out.
We can talk about what you’re navigating, what questions you have, and what kind of support might feel most useful right now.