The Integrated Family Collective
Our Vision
We are a village of practitioners dedicated to supporting families throughout their childbearing journey. Through education and compassionate care, we nurture the well-being of parents and children as they navigate one of life's most profound transitions – welcoming a new baby into their family and the world.
At our core, we believe in reweaving the essential layers of support that families need to move from surviving to thriving. We understand that becoming a parent is a sacred rite of passage, one that transforms not just individuals, but entire families, and cultures. Through deep presence and expert guidance, we create a space where families can connect more deeply with themselves, each other, and the unique power of their journey.
In our supportive community, we honor the whole human experience – the healing, the growth, and the beautiful process of becoming. We provide the practical tools, emotional support, and wisdom families need to step into the next phase with confidence and peace. We believe supporting the next generation and families is the best way to create positive change in the world.
Support Across Every Stage of Life
We offer both in-home and office-based support for individuals and families through every stage of the journey, from preconception and fertility to pregnancy, birth, postpartum, infancy, and beyond.
Our collective provides a wide range of services, including Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, lactation support, infant sleep guidance, developmental and attachment support, birth integration for the whole family, birth and postpartum doula care, death doula support, guidance through major life transitions, and personalized care for babies, children, parents, and families.
Whether you're seeking support for a specific challenge or looking for a circle of care to walk alongside you, we're here to help you find the combination of services that best meets your unique needs.
Benefits
Research continues to show that strong postpartum support can have lasting benefits for the entire family. Receiving practical, emotional, and relational care during this time is associated with improved parental well-being, healthier attachment, reduced risk of perinatal mood challenges, stronger relationships, and a smoother transition into family life.
In-home support helps reduce stress and creates the space for physical recovery, nervous system regulation, emotional integration, and rest. Simple acts of care, such as preparing nourishing meals, tending the home, or offering compassionate support, can make a meaningful difference in both short-term recovery and long-term health.
We believe postpartum care should be a cultural norm, not a luxury. When families are deeply supported during this formative season, they move beyond simply getting through the early weeks and into a foundation where parents, babies, and relationships can truly thrive.
Support Options
We present ourselves as a community: an invitation to explore what multiple layers of support can look like during this significant layering of transitions in the perinatal period. Every parent wants to support their family in the best possible way, and what many don't always realize is that supporting your children also means receiving support yourselves. From an attachment perspective, a regulated, well-held parent is often the most direct path to a regulated, well-attached baby, so care for you is care for your whole family system. Each of us here is a unique branch of care, and together we form an interdigitated web of community support, here to meet your needs and help optimize your family's transition through this primal period of early life.
Whatever stage of the perinatal process you find yourself in when you find us will shape how you engage with our support network. You can start simply by scrolling down to meet our individual practitioners and reaching out to whoever feels like the right fit. We are all intimately aware of each other's areas of expertise, and can help co-create a care plan with you based on your family's unique needs. Below is a list of possible engagement pathways:
Comprehensive Community Care Package: Work with the collective as a whole. This option weaves together our practitioners' combined specialties: bodywork, lactation, doula care, and attachment-focused guidance — into one continuous thread of support that moves with you through pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.
Individual Practitioner Support: Reach out directly to the practitioner whose specialty best matches where you are right now, whether that's craniosacral therapy, somatic lactation support, birth or postpartum doula care, sleep support, or developmental and attachment-based guidance.
Our Team
Clara Cunningham
Clara is a seasoned practitioner with 20 years of experience supporting families through the profound journey from pre-conception to early childhood. With deep sensitivity to each family’s unique experience, her heart-centered approach emphasizes gentle, baby-led pacing that respects both nervous system development and attachment needs.
Specializing in Craniosacral therapy (CST), Clara does hands on work with:
- Feeding challenges including latch issues and reflux
- Physical concerns such as arching, body tension, torticollis, hypertone/hypotone
- Sleep difficulties including startling awake and trouble settling, colic
- Head shape concerns
- NICU experiences and premature baby support
- Medical intervention integration
- Particularly sensitive cases including failure to thrive and near-death experiences
- Support for families experiencing baby loss
As an experienced educator, Clara has spent over a decade teaching 2–3 year practitioner trainings in both Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy and Pre and Perinatal Somatic psychology (PPN). Her work is grounded in extensive study of fetal and infant development, as well as attachment psychology and interpersonal neurobiology.
Clara's comprehensive approach includes:
- Bodywork that supports optimal brain and nervous system development
- Practical hands-on skills training for parents to support their baby's development, regulation, and somatic integration
- Custom baby massage instruction to enhance sensory integration and parent-child bonding
- Body-centered, emotionally focused support to help families process birth experiences
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Grace Flint
Grace Flint, of Nurture Human Nature, offers holistic conception, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum support tailored for new mothers, partners, babies, and families.
Services include:
- Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
- Postpartum education prenatally
- Birth Doula Support
- Innate Postpartum Care (Postpartum Doula) Support
- Closing of the Bones Ceremony
Grace orients to this time of life as a rite of passage.
Her work with Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy helps to prepare for and integrate birth for anyone in the family system.
Through years of experience as a mother, auntie, craniosacral therapist, and professional birth and postpartum doula, Grace has grown her capacity to hold a wide spectrum of experience and finds fulfillment in connecting with those on their “humanning” journey, however it unfolds.
Emphasizing ancestral wisdom through traditional birth/postpartum care and body-centered healing, Grace is dedicated to nurturing individual, familial, community wellness, and sacred connection to Life.
Website:
Visit www.nurturehumannature.com
to get a deeper feel for her work and explore individual support options.
Email: nurturehumannature@gmail.com
Phone: 518-588-4457
Denise Skinner
Would you like to feel more at ease in your body and breastfeeding journey?
Denise Skinner, RN, IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant), and certified NeuroMovement Practitioner, has over 30 years of experience helping parents and babies thrive.
She knows that being a new parent—especially a breastfeeding parent—requires unique support for success. Often, the birthing process impacts a baby’s body and ability to suckle effectively, leading to breastfeeding challenges. That’s where Denise comes in.
Through “Somatic Lactation,” she takes a whole-body approach, supporting both the mother’s and baby’s bodies, not just addressing the latch.
She works with the physical transformations mothers go through, recognizing the significant impact of pregnancy and birth. Having breastfed two children, including one with sensory challenges, Denise understands the demands and challenges parents face.
With over three decades of experience, she's here to help you reach your goals for a happy, healthy body and baby.
Website:
www.awakenedbodymind.com
Hiraman Reynolds
Hiraman is co-director of The Human Development Center. For over 45 years, he has cultivated a practice rooted in meditation, beekeeping, and quantum contact therapy~ a lifetime of work attuned to subtle rhythms, whether in the nervous system, the hive, or the breath. He is a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist and Neurofeedback Practitioner based in Bellingham, WA.
Contacting Hiraman
Hiraman will be returning in September.
To schedule an appointment, please text (360) 441-6998. Thank you for your patience while he is away.
You are also welcome to email us at humandevelopmentcenter1008@gmail.com if you'd like to learn where in the world Hiraman is currently traveling, teaching, and supporting, and when he is expected to return.
Marcel Janssens
I have been an engineer (computer hardware and software) for most of my life, with a number of detours over the years: more than a decade of Tai Chi/Qigong, certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, full Pilates teacher training, Masters in Counseling Psychology working 6 years as an MFT mainly with children and teenagers and their families, in Biodynamic Craniosacral training since November 2023, and my personal healthy lifestyle journey.
Values I try to live by every day: integrity, kindness, curiosity, personal responsibility, critical thinking, unity, and gratitude.
