our team
Strength in the tribe
Email:
info@southernschoolformoms.com
Phone:
615-651-0949
Founder, Mommy & Me Educator, Newborn Care Specialist
Jillian is a Newborn Care Specialist trained through The Newborn Care Training Academy. Jillian is highly trained to educate and empower parents during the first year of the babies life which can be very overwhelming. Jillian is also trained in safe sleep practices, car seat safety, and breastmilk storage and handling.
As the owner of The Southern School for Moms, we believe it is the experts responsibility to not tell a mother what to do or how to parent, but instead provide them the tools the mom needs in order to make the best decision for them. What may work for one mom in the class may not work for another. Everyone lives different lives, grew up in different households and has had different experiences. We are here to listen and support.
Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
Newborn Care Specialist
Breastmilk Storage and Handling Specialist
Car Safety Specialist
Safe Sleep Trained
Trained in single subject teaching
Former Para Educator in the public school system
Veronica Ordonez Garza
Email:
hello@lullabyveronica.com
Veronica is a psychologist and certified gentle sleep coach who moved to the US from Mexico 7 years ago. With over 5 years of experience in sleep coaching and 1 year as a sleep consultant for Maven Clinic, she is passionate about helping parents establish healthy sleep habits that allows them to feel their best. Now living in Franklin with her husband and two kids, Veronica loves creating content about sleep, wellness, and motherhood. When she's not working, you can find her working out, reading a book, or sipping coffee at a cozy coffee shop.
certified gentle sleep coach, psychologist
Jen Le coguic
Email:
admin@nashvillepelvichealth.com
Jen Le Coguic, PT, DPT is a Nashville native and a local pelvic floor therapist with over a decade of experience. She is the founder and lead therapist of Nashville Pelvic Health, a pelvic floor therapy clinic dedicated to helping individuals with pelvic health issues. She and her team of physical and occupational therapists empower mothers to prepare for birth and postpartum healing with movement, education, hands-on therapies, and restoring the brain-body connection. She believes strongly that every postpartum person should have access to this information, to aid not only in their recovery but also to help optimize their health throughout the lifespan. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her children ages 9 and 11 as well as hiking with her pup, Stella.
certified physical therapist, doctor of physical therapy
taylor king
Email:
info@blessedbeginningsteam.com
Taylor began her nursing career in 2014 as a Mother Baby nurse, and in 2015 after having her first son, her passion for breastfeeding plunged herself into a lactation career. Her experience includes postpartum, NICU, and outpatient lactation. Her commitment as an IBCLC is to meet you where you are in your breastfeeding journey, educate and support with love and compassion, and help you meet your breastfeeding goals. With her own breastfeeding experience as a mother of 4, as well as years of IBCLC experience since 2017, she has learned that every breastfeeding journey looks different. She is committed to help you find the breastfeeding path that works best for you and your family.
RN, IBCLC
amy green
Email:
amy@nashvilleccc.com
Amy Lynn Green, LCSW, PMH-C, IMH-E, ERYT, is the Founder/CEO of Mamaya Health & Nashville Collaborative Counseling Center. Through both personal experiences with pregnancy loss, as well as a deep passion for creating access to care, she founded Nashville Collaborative Counseling Center (NCCC) in 2019 to change the landscape of mental health care available to those navigating pregnancy, postpartum, infertility, and loss. Mamaya Health was founded in 2023 as a subsidiary of NCCC to support the next stage of scale & growth of maternal mental healthcare. We are so excited to have Amy in our classes to support moms in their postpartum mental health journey!
LCSW, PMH-C, IMH-E, ERYT
Elizabeth Sestini
Email:
elizabeth@soarpediatrictherapy.com
M.S. CCC-SLP/L
C0-founder and Lead Speech Language Pathologist at SOAR Pediatric Therapy
Sara is an occupational therapist with over 20 years of experience working with the pediatric population in a variety of different settings including homes, outpatient clinics, and in schools. She received her OT degree from the University of Kansas, and is certified with NBCOT and is licensed in the state of TN. Sara specializes in sensory processing, emotional regulation, self regulation and attention difficulties, reflex integration, and developmental delays. Her additional trainings include: STAR Institute Sensory Processing Disorder Advanced Intensive Mentorship Level 1, Astronaut Training Certified, Vital Links Quickshifts, Primitive Reflex Integration and Handwriting Without Tears. Sara enjoys gardening, spending time with family and friends, and traveling with her husband, J, and their three boys Eli, Xander & Liam.
Sara hall
Email:
sara@soarpediatrictherapy.com
OTLR/L
Co-founder and Lead Occupational Therapist at SOAR Pediatric Therapy
Sara is an occupational therapist with over 20 years of experience working with the pediatric population in a variety of different settings including homes, outpatient clinics, and in schools. She received her OT degree from the University of Kansas, and is certified with NBCOT and is licensed in the state of TN. Sara specializes in sensory processing, emotional regulation, self regulation and attention difficulties, reflex integration, and developmental delays. Her additional trainings include: STAR Institute Sensory Processing Disorder Advanced Intensive Mentorship Level 1, Astronaut Training Certified, Vital Links Quickshifts, Primitive Reflex Integration and Handwriting Without Tears. Sara enjoys gardening, spending time with family and friends, and traveling with her husband, J, and their three boys Eli, Xander & Liam.
Sara Murray
Email:
sara@bumptobundles.com
Sara Murray is a NICU Nurse who teaches the Prenatal Baby Care 101 class and the Baby Safety/CPR 101 class as well as pediatric care in our postpartum series. Sara is a wife and a mom to four precious kids. She has been a NICU Nurse for eleven years helping parents during one of their most vulnerable times. She has always had a passion for serving moms and their new babies. Preparing and equipping parents to care for their babies is something she loves to do.
Sara is the owner of Bump to Bundles where she offers a few options for breastfeeding moms. Sara also does NICU Support Services where she supports families individually in their personal NICU experience. Sara was so excited to hear about The Southern School for Moms where the community is centered around the journey of motherhood.
RN, NICU Nurse, Well baby nurse, lactation expert
Sara Thomas
Email:
sthomas@augustlawpllc.com
Attorney at Law, Owner of August Law, Pllc
Sara Thomas is the owner of August Law, PLLC and a fellow mom of two amazing girls, ages 15 and 18. Her passion is helping families with minor children navigate estate planning. There is nothing more important than ensuring that your children are protected and end up with the people you, as parents, would choose and not who a judge would choose based upon limited information.
She has practiced high-stakes litigation, business law, non-profit law and Title IX, but she believes she can impact her community the most through estate planning. She has years of experience counseling people through hard circumstances. Sara thrives on helping families proactively navigate the two things that no one can escape: death and taxes!
Cassie Kleinfelder
Email:
cassie@villageschilddevelopment.com
Cassie Kleinfelder is the co-owner of Villages Child Development. Cassie is a pediatric occupational therapist of 14 years, a lactation counselor, a military wife, and mama of 4! She teaches our developmental classes and supports moms on how to support their baby developmentally.
Villages Child Development offers parent and me style playgroups that span infancy - preschool, focusing on various developmental milestones. For those children that may need more 1:1 support, we offer peace of mind sessions and in-home therapy (OT, PT, speech & feeding therapies). Additionally they offer an online feeding course called Making Sense of Solids with additional add ons for 1:1 support and group classes.
MOT, OTR/L, CLC, CIMI
Summer Range
Email:
info@blessedbeginningsteam.com
Summer has a background in child development and family studies and is a practicing pediatric ER nurse. She has a passion for helping babies and their families. Summer is a certified lactation counselor and truly has a passion for working with breastfeeding families. She is looking forward to being able to support mothers and their families during one of the most meaningful and challenging parts of their lives!
BSN, RN, CLC
Olivia dykes
Email:
olivia.d.dykes@gmail.com
NASM CERTIFIED PERSONAL TRAINER
I’m Olivia, but a lot of people call me Liv. I’ve been a coach in the greater Nashville area for almost 7 years. I’m a NASM certified personal trainer as well as a certified Precision Nutrition Level 1 coach & Pregnancy and Postpartum Corrective Exercise Specialist. I have a passion for helping women achieve their goals postpartum and feeling good about themselves through nutrition and exercise. I would love the opportunity to help you achieve your health goals and do so while simultaneously improving those relationships.
ANGELA LEE
Email:
angela@blessedbeginningsteam.com
Angela is the owner of Blessed Beginnings in 2009 that helps meet the needs of expectant and new parents in the Middle Tennessee area. As a registered nurse since 2001, she has a background in labor & delivery, mother/baby postpartum care, lactation and childbirth education. She loves working with families in the comfort of their own homes during a season of life that is full of unexpected challenges and sweet blessings. Angela believes it is a privilege to be a small part of a mom and baby's story, and her desire is that every family would have a Blessed Beginning!
BSN, RN, IBCLC
Jacqui Redlinski
Email:
info@blessedbeginningsteam.com
Education, safety, and family centered care have always been part of Jacqui’s passion in nursing. Her previous hospital background includes working with antepartum, labor and delivery, and postpartum patients and families. After becoming a mother, she realized how unpredictable each day can be. Her breastfeeding journey had challenges to overcome including tongue ties and food intolerances/allergies with both of her daughters. As a certified lactation counselor, she recognizes the importance of personal support in the path you choose in feeding your infant(s).