Boston's First Doula Agency Est. 2002

Dawn FuentesHolgate is a Belizean-born healer whose work lives where breath meets memory, where culture meets care, and where the human spirit remembers its own resilience. For more than two decades, she has walked beside individuals and families through seasons of birth, loss, becoming, and return — offering presence, steadiness, and a kind of listening that feels like home. 

 

A trauma-informed, MassHealth-certified Full-Spectrum Doula, Dawn tends to the entire arc of the reproductive journey: the first flutter of hope, the quiet ache of uncertainty, the sacred work  of postpartum healing, and the tender terrain of perinatal loss. Her advanced training in maternal mental health, postpartum support, high-risk pregnancy, and grief and bereavement allows her to hold what is fragile with reverence and what is powerful with awe. 

 

As a Mental Health Clinician, Dawn works at the roots — where generational stories live, where cultural wounds echo, and where healing begins its slow, steady bloom. She supports veterans, families, postpartum parents, and individuals across the lifespan, weaving together trauma-focused care, grief work, and the wisdom of lived experience. 

 

As an educator, Dawn has taught Human Services, Mental Health, and College Success courses for over a decade, weaving together academic skill-building with trauma-informed pedagogy, a sense of belonging, and identity exploration. Her teaching and facilitation style is warm, intentional, and deeply relational, rooted in the belief that every person carries wisdom, resilience, and a story worth honoring. 

 

Her hands are also in the soil. Through Inner Garden Collaboration, Dawn creates herbal 

products, thematic fairy gardens, aromatherapy experiences, and sensory-based wellness 

workshops that invite people back into their bodies, their breath, and their inner knowing. Lavender, sage, chamomile, basil, and others, each plant becomes a companion in the healing she facilitates, each scent a doorway back to calm. 

 

Dawn’s work is a tapestry of lineage, training, intuition, and love. Whether in the classroom, the birth room, or the community, she is guiding a family through birth, sitting with a family in grief, teaching students to trust their voice, or blending oils and herbs for grounding and healing; her presence is steady, compassionate, reflecting her lifelong commitment to holistic healing, cultural affirmation, and supporting individuals and families as they navigate some of life’s most tender transitions.