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About Thérèse

Thérèse Hak-Kuhn Executive Director

Thérèse Hak-Kuhn is the mother of 6 children and has a wonderful partner, Paul. Her first birth was attended by an obstetrician in a hospital setting and her following births were attended at home by both Certified Nurse-Midwives and Direct-Entry Midwives.
Thérèse has worked professionally with pregnant women since 1992 as a midwife’s assistant, professional labor assistant, prenatal counselor, childbirth educator and breastfeeding consultant. She has attended about 500 births at home and the hospital as both assistant to the midwife as well as labor support in the hospital. She has experience working with a diverse population.
Thérèse is facilitator of The Richmond Home Birth Circle, The Postpartum Circle, Labor Assistant/Dolua Support Circle, as well as, a birth activist group in her community. She is the Executive Director of Birth Matters VA, a non-profit consumer organization in Virginia. She has her own home-based business, Scentsational Comfort, producing and commercially selling Aromatherapy Heating Pillows. She works part-time in an independent leadership school for fifth through eighth grade girls, giving her the opportunity to educate as well as empower. She has been teaching labor assistant/ doula workshops for ALACE since 1996, having taught 100’s and 100’s of women (and some men) all over the continental US, Hawaii and Canada. She finds all of her work an honor and a privilege.
She is excited to carry forth the integrity and experience of all the many women who have preceded her in this role as leader of a national training and certification organization. She will take her years as Director and instructor of the Labor Assistant training program to promote the change that is imperative to the well-being of families.