Evita Varela
Doula, Biologist, Neuroscientist
Conceive with joy.
Birth in peace and power.
Parent in ease.
Berlin and online
What difference will you see in your life?
When you’re anxious about where and how to birth, I’ll be there to assist you to make the right decision for YOU. I accompany birth at any setting.
When your fear rises up in birth, I’ll be there to ease that and champion you to have the birth you envision.
When people may gaslight you and minimize your feelings as you narrate your birth story, I’ll listen to you with openness and no judgement.
When you have one million questions about choices in motherhood, I’ll be there with empathy and evidence-based information to take the weight off your shoulders.
Let’s work together
Fertility sessions (50€/hour), accompanying you in your journey while trying to conceive and going through IVF
Birth and postpartum doula (full accompaniment in pregnancy, birth and postpartum), starting at 1500€. See details here
Tell your birth story, find peace (one or two 2-hour sessions, 50€/hour)
MotherCircle (8-week journey in the hidden arc of motherhood
in an online group, 222€)
I offer my doula services in-person in Berlin
(for parts of the year also in Zurich and in Athens) and online.
My story
My body has been the greatest teacher around bliss, loss, grief and personal power.
I have experienced miscarriages, infertility, amenorrhea, IVF, and I have also given birth to a wonderful daughter.
Early in my teenage years I was diagnosed with PCOS. I have gone through numerous medical exams, ultrasounds, hormonal treatments and recently, IVF.
I integrated these deeply transformative experiences and I guide women and families through them with openness and compassion.
My experience as a researcher in Biology and Neuroscience gives me the foundations to offer evidence-based, scientifically-solid guidance.
I am a citizen of the world (4 countries so far), I speak multiple languages and
I happily raise my creative daughter with my partner following
the respectful, gentle parenting path.
You can birth in power
I experienced a birth with many interventions and I witnessed the absurdity of hospital protocols
(not allowing me to eat, giving oxytocin to speed up birth without offering alternatives, taking the baby directly after birth to a different room without clear signs of distress,
not showing me my placenta).
My birth ended using vacuum and I got a 3rd degree tear.
I was replaying my birth in my mind and feeling sad, disrespected and dispempowered for a long time. I healed thanks to talking with other doulas and being seen within nurturing community.
I felt there should be a better way to birth,
one that leaves no mental and emotional scars
to the birthing person and their family.
That’s why I decided to follow my calling as a doula.
Now, I guide you through an empowering birth and a blissful postpartum.
Credentials
Bachelor's in Biology (Kapodistriako University of Athens),
Interdisciplinary Master's in Neuroscience (University of Geneva)
Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula (Center for Doula Pathways)
Certified MotherCircle Facilitator (by Kimberly Ann Johnson and Jessica Connolly)
Hands-on, 1-week workshop on fascia touch (Camalo Gaskin, Marcello Windolph)
Childbirth Physiology course (by Midwife Rachel Reed)
Mama Natural Baby Care Course
The complete guide to free birth course (by Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark)
Visual hypnobirthing course (by doula Emma Armstrong)
Seminar attendance on: patient advocacy, placenta remedies
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Happy clients said...
‘I benefited so much from Evita’s compassion, advice, and friendship. Evita made me feel comfortable and confident. She came with me to the hospital registration and was right next to me when I woke up from the C-section. My gratitude simply cannot be measured. She's absolutely in the right field with her knowledge of science and her caring nature.’
-Yvonne (had a cesarean birth due to placenta praevia)
‘Evita is really an angel with lots of love, patience and calmness. She is not only a nice person but also a wonderful doula with lots of techniques which helped me in managing the pain and helped me in dilation and delivering the baby. She supported me from the day we met even before signing the contract.
That shows how committed she is towards her work. I can assure everyone that I would be sharing this journey with her again.
-Monica (had a vaginal birth after c-section in a hospital)
‘Having Evita accompany me throughout pregnancy, labor and the postpartum period has been a true blessing! I am not sure if I would have kept my sanity without her support, especially in the first month after the arrival of my daughter.
Evita was there during labor, respecting my needs, being absolutely discreet, yet powerfully present, and saying the right thing at the right time. During postpartum, her visits filled me with warmth and a feeling of sisterhood - she helped me cook nourishing food, brought everything I needed before I knew what it was, and she provided advice and support around the clock.’
-Georgia (had a waterbirth in a birth center)
A poem dedicated to all moms
Our bodies aren't playgrounds for outdated rules,
Our voices won't be hushed by hospital habits,
Our choices aren't playing second fiddle to medical routines.
We're standing tall, not against science, but for the human side of the story.
Let the delivery room echo with the power of choices, caring vibes, and the triumphant wails of new life.
Together, we're building a future where every woman's birth is her badge of strength and wisdom.
Deep in her heart, every woman knows she can birth in autonomy and power.
Let’s support her!
My values
Respect
Honesty
Transparency
Directness
Openness
My methods
Active listening
Bodywork
(fascia touch, massage, rebozo)
Meditation, visualizations
Evidence-based childbirth education
My languages
Greek, English, French, German, Spanish
Do: conceiving with joy,
birthing in peace and power, parenting in ease and meeting yourself sound like your goals?
Then...
Contact me
And let’s arrange a non-binding 15-minute chat !