PRACTITIONERS

Refuge Midwifery offers grounded, personal, and empowering midwifery care

We are experts in normal fertility, pregnancy and birth, and our services span the childbearing from conception support and home IUI to prenatal care, home birth, water birth, postpartum care, lactation support and well newborn care. All families and family structures are welcome in our practice. We serve families in Philadelphia, South Jersey, and Southeastern Pennsylvania an hour radius from West Philadelphia.

Beth is a fully licensed physician and board certified specialist in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine. She attended medical school at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed a three year residency in Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, where she performed over 2,000 osteopathic treatments, including treatment of nearly 200 newborns (the ultimate preventative medicine.) She  is a member of the Cranial Academy and has over 200 hours of training in Osteopathy in the Cranial Field.

Dr. Blum is a size-inclusive practitioner and is committed to providing body-positive, gender-affirming care. Before medical school, she trained as a homebirth doula, worked with autistic and neurodiverse young people, and organized around transformative justice and community-based responses to sexual violence. These experiences, combined with her deep dissatisfaction with the profit- and pharmaceutical-driven medical system, inspired her to go into medicine and build a practice founded on the principles of accessibility and patient self-determination. Welcome to that practice.

Dr. Michal Pearl Waldfogel is a naturopathic doctor who brings two decades of experience in education, facilitation and community-building to her work in healthcare.

By leveraging her advanced training in integrative primary care, clinical nutrition, botanical medicine and biofeedback, she works together with patients to create personalized treatment plans that are safe, effective, affordable and fun! In addition to providing one-on-one care, she is passionate about treating isolation and loneliness with community-as-medicine through Group Medical Visits.

Dr. Michal considers mental health to be a major driver of overall well being and enjoys working collaboratively with therapists and prescribing providers to help patients find balance and heal from anxiety, depression, insomnia, alcohol use and more. She practices from a weight-inclusive and trauma-informed framework.

Outside of the office, Dr. Michal is a singer-songwriter and encourages creative expression and humor as part of the healing process.

Alyssa Hansen is a licensed Clinical Social Worker in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). She earned her Master’s in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania and her Certification in Human Lactation from Drexel University.

With over a decade of experience, Alyssa is dedicated to supporting individuals and families in achieving their individualized goals. She is trained in perinatal mental health through Postpartum Support International, and has expertise in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Ecosystemic Family Therapy. Alyssa’s passion lies in helping birthing and lactating individuals navigate the transition to parenthood, while also offering support to partners and family members.

As an inclusive lactation provider, Alyssa works collaboratively with families to create personalized feeding plans that prioritize the unique needs of each parent, child, and family dynamic.

Alyssa provides virtual support to families in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and offers in-office or in-home consultations in the Philadelphia area.