Welcome to May You Rise.

My name is May, I'm a multidisciplinary artist and care worker living on land and waterways that have been tended by Klallam and Chemakum people since time immemorial, on what is often referred to as the Olympic Peninsula.

I work to support others through a variety of life transitions.

Here you can find out more about birth & postpartum support, counseling, movement facilitation, and more.

Birthwork

*now booking doula services for birth and postpartum support*

anticipating Apple Health (Medicaid) acceptance for doula support in 2027

Birth is a sacred threshold I’ve been deeply honored to support people in. This work continues to surprise and humble me immensely. Each birth, as well as each postpartum period, each abortion, each pregnancy loss, can be a unique and profound experience that shapes who we are.

Through physical, emotional, educational, and logistical support, having a doula on your team can allow for more bandwidth for you to connect with yourself, partner, and baby throughout the perinatal time.

See below for more information.

Washington State Birth Doula License: BDC.BD.70200373

Trainings and Experience

-Birth Doula Training with Simkin Center for Allied Birth Vocations at Bastyr College 2021

-Birth Assistant Training at True North Birth Center 2023

-Birth Assistant working for Peninsula Midwives 2023-2025

-Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training at BYC in 2023

-Postpartum Doula Training at Cornerstone 2024

-Postpartum Support for families in JeffCo 2024-2026

-Spinning Babies Foundational Course 2026

Doula Support

  • After an initial consult we’ll determine if you’d like to schedule an intake. During our intake visit, I’ll outline the differences between birth/labor support and postpartum support. We’ll talk about your birth plan, support system, ancestral birth rites, and get to know eachother. If it seems like a good fit, we’ll collaborate on the best ways that I can support you during this upcoming journey.

  • I’m currently offering both birth and postpartum support. Get in touch via the Contact Me page.

  • Birth:

    Sliding scale 1200-3000 or covered through Medicaid (come 2027)

    Postpartum:

    Sliding scale 30-45/hour or up to 20 hours covered through Medicaid (come 2027)

Counseling

Counseling can be a space to grow, develop insight, explore your orientation to the world, and deepen your relationships. It can also be a space that we work to undo the ways that systems of colonial and political violence show up in our lives.

I work with a relational, feminist, and systemic approach that is rooted in queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, disabled, mad, and earth-based understandings of the world. I aim to decolonize my practice and meet each person where they are at.

I’m an LMHCA currently working with individuals and couples through a group practice in Clallam County.

Currently offering a peer-support style PMDD Support Group in Jefferson County.

Stay tuned for private practice information coming soon!

Washington State License: MHCA.MC.70154495

Movement

Moving my body with others has been one of the greatest gifts! Collaborating through dance facilitation since 2015 and yoga facilitation since 2020 has shown me how others move through transitional times and integrate insights in their bodies. I have seen how through movement we can sharpen our senses and soften our souls.

This can shape the ways our personal empowerment connects to community resilience. Modern “fitness” settings can forget about how simple it is to move, breathe, and be with others. When we practice consent, intuitive awareness, boundaries, discernment, and strength something really powerful happens. I’ll forever be curious about this phenomenon and want to explore this more.

Stay tuned for class offerings in Jefferson County. In the meantime, feel free to reach out surrounding private movement facilitation and physical birth prep.

Most of the photos on this site are taken by me on my 35mm film camera. Alongside the ephemeral nature of my dance, music, and performance art, I am enchanted by the everlasting spell of a photo. Documenting this wild and precious life is part of the gift. I am growing into what sharing this as an offering might look like. Get in touch if you’d like to co-conspire at a sliding scale rate for analog perinatal, couples, individuals, gender-affirming, celebratory photoshoots :)

Art

About Me

I’m a white first-gen disabled queer careworker and artist living on Klallam and Chemakum land in so-called Jefferson County, WA.

When I’m not in the care or creative realms, I love to grow food with friends, take my dog to the beach, and listen to the sounds of the fire/rain/wind/birdsong.

I am deeply in love with my community, my chosen family, and this one wild and precious life.

I have been shaped by the work of many queer, trans, Black, Brown Indigenous people and value these perspectives immensely. Some of these fundamental voices include Audre Lorde, Leslie Feinberg, bell hooks, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha, Mia Mingus, Melissa Febos, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Tricia Hersey, Maggie Nelson, adrienne maree brown, Eileen Myles, and Sophie Strand.

I continue to listen to what my own ancestors might be singing to me. Their wisdom is connected to the lands we know as Russia and Ireland as well as their unique diasporic movements.

I hope to continuously be devoted to learning more.

Get In Touch

Feel free to complete this form, or email may.weinmaster@gmail.com