Maria Dolorico, M. Ed., BCC, CLC, CD(DONA)
Maria Dolorico received her M. Ed in Mental Health Counseling from the University of Massachusetts, Boston and began her career counseling young adults at high risk for HIV/AIDS at a community health center under the Ryan White Care Act. She has extensive experience in women's reproductive health counseling.
She began her practice A Mom Is Born in 2007, providing birth and postpartum doula services in the Boston area. After attending nearly 300 births, she renewed her focus on mental health and emotional wellness by running support groups for new mothers. Once she completed rigorous didactic and practical requirements, she passed the Board Certified Coach's examination, with a speciality in Life Coaching. Maria's counseling and coaching services support women in articulating their challenges and finding empowering solutions so they can have more joy and fulfillment in their pregnancy, postpartum, and motherhood. She is also a Certified Lactation Counselor, and her vast experience as a birth doula and mental health counselor gives her a unique ability to understand the relationship that birth and breastfeeding have with emotional complications and emotional wellness. She is also one of the co-founders of The Every Mother Project, an organization dedicated to the training, support, and networking of women’s allied health professionals and service providers, so that they can address the perinatal emotional wellness needs of their clients within the scopes of their fields. She lives in Boston with her husband and 3 daughters. Maria is dedicated to giving honest space, community, and voice to the full emotional spectrum of motherhood.
She began her practice A Mom Is Born in 2007, providing birth and postpartum doula services in the Boston area. After attending nearly 300 births, she renewed her focus on mental health and emotional wellness by running support groups for new mothers. Once she completed rigorous didactic and practical requirements, she passed the Board Certified Coach's examination, with a speciality in Life Coaching. Maria's counseling and coaching services support women in articulating their challenges and finding empowering solutions so they can have more joy and fulfillment in their pregnancy, postpartum, and motherhood. She is also a Certified Lactation Counselor, and her vast experience as a birth doula and mental health counselor gives her a unique ability to understand the relationship that birth and breastfeeding have with emotional complications and emotional wellness. She is also one of the co-founders of The Every Mother Project, an organization dedicated to the training, support, and networking of women’s allied health professionals and service providers, so that they can address the perinatal emotional wellness needs of their clients within the scopes of their fields. She lives in Boston with her husband and 3 daughters. Maria is dedicated to giving honest space, community, and voice to the full emotional spectrum of motherhood.