Hi, I'm Courtney. I'm a Certified Nurse Midwife, Women's Health Nurse Practitioner, and founder of Cardinal Way Midwifery.

For almost fifteen years I've walked alongside women through some of the most tender moments of their lives. I started as a labor and delivery nurse. Now I'm a midwife, supporting births in homes, birth centers, and everywhere in between.

I became a midwife because I wanted more than a moment in the room. I wanted the whole story. As a nurse, I never saw what came after labor. I missed the continuity. That's what led me to start Cardinal Way, a practice built on trust, presence, education, and autonomy.

My training blends medical science with deep respect for the body's wisdom. I earned my nursing degree from UT Arlington and trained as a midwife at Georgetown University. But the real education happened in living rooms and birth tubs, watching what happens when people feel safe and in charge of their own birth.

Birth is a normal, physiologic process, not a medical event. My job is to protect that process and guide you with evidence, intuition, and respect.

If you want to labor unmedicated, you need someone who has seen it happen hundreds of times, on purpose, not by accident. I'm not here to push one kind of birth. I'm here to help you find the one that feels most like yours.