2801 4th Avenue San Diego, CA 92103 | Phone: 619/269-6969 | Fax: 619/704-3785
Our Care Team
Nikki Helms, LM, CPM, CLEC
Midwife
Nikki is the proud mother of two girls 14 and 20 years old. She's a Licensed Midwife, Monitrice and Perinatal educator.
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Nikki's career in birth work started when a dear friend asked if Nikki would be her doula in 2003. After serving several families in the Bay Area, she got pregnant with her first child in 2004, and relocated to be closer to family in San Diego that next year and was warmly welcomed into the birth community in San Diego.
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Since the start of midwifery school in 2014, she has had the need to start a birth center that serves every body: LGBTQIA+ family builders, marginalized BIPOC, immigrants and asylum seekers, educating along the way.
After a successful, ongoing GoFundMe effort, Nikki is the principal midwife behind San Diego Community Birth Center, currently working tirelessly to ensure the birth center and its nonprofit foundation are well situated to serve the San Diego community.
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Every pregnancy and birth is a miracle and as a Licensed Midwife, Nikki is honored to be able to contribute experience, genuine love and culturally competent care to families in San Diego.
Ashley Baxter, LM, CPM, BSM
Midwife
Ashley Baxter (she/her) is a California Licensed Midwife and Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) through the North American Registry of Midwives. Her journey into birthwork began in Atlanta, Georgia, where she provided free labor support in her community to address the stark disparities in infant and maternal mortality rates affecting Black and Brown birthing people in the South. That passion for justice in birth has remained at the heart of her practice.
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After several years of supporting births in the hospital setting, Ashley felt a deep calling to offer more holistic, client-centered care. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Midwifery from the Midwives College of Utah in 2023 and has since trained in both home birth and birth center settings across Southern California and Northeast Ohio. Ashley also brings international experience, having volunteered in Haiti in 2015 as a labor support educator for student midwives.
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When she's not attending births, Ashley is mother to a tiny human, partner to a pretty cool guy, and a loyal servant to her cat. She’s always happy to chat about Sarah J. Maas novels, Real Housewives drama, or the highs and lows of sourdough baking.
Ashley holds certifications in Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP), Basic Life Support (BLS), and IV therapy. She is committed to providing inclusive, evidence-based care through an intersectional feminist lens.
Parva Shayassi-Hall
Midwife
Parva Shayassi-Hall, LM, CPM
Parva Shayassi-Hall is a midwife, mother, artist, and lifelong belly dancer whose journey into midwifery began with a passion for understanding the deep cultural and historical roots of birth and womb care. As she explored the origins of belly dancing, she discovered its profound connection to childbirth, inspiring her to pursue a career in holistic midwifery.
After completing her midwifery education and gaining hands-on experience through extensive preceptorships, Parva temporarily stepped back from practice to embrace her own transformative journey through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. During this time, she deepened her connection to ancestral ways of caring for the womb, integrating traditional practices with modern knowledge. This experience not only enriched her understanding of the birthing process but also strengthened her commitment to providing care that honors both evidence-based medicine and the wisdom of those who came before us.
With her unique blend of artistic expression, cultural knowledge, and evidence-based care, Parva brings a nurturing and creative perspective to her work, empowering families during one of the most sacred times of their lives. She is honored to join the team at San Diego Community Birth Center and looks forward to supporting families with compassionate, personalized care.
Dallas Casillas, CLEC, BWE
Midwife's Assistant, Operations Manager
Dallas Casillas (she/her) is a Certified Lactation Education Counselor, Babywearing Educator, and the Operations Manager at San Diego Community Birth Center.
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She began her journey in birth work in 2013, sparked by a desire to make lactation support more accessible to families like her own. After certifying through Birth Arts International, Dallas expanded her scope of care to include postpartum doula services and babywearing education.
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Her work has grown over the years to include miscarriage and abortion support, and following the birth of her second child in 2023, Dallas returned to a birth-centered focus as a midwife’s assistant. She brings deep care, skill, and advocacy to every family she supports, centering access and equity for marginalized communities.
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Originally from Reno, Nevada, Dallas now calls San Diego home with her spouse and their two children (with a ten-year age gap). When she’s not supporting families, she’s likely experimenting with sourdough recipes, sipping good coffee, or befriending the neighborhood crows.
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Eugenia Jansen, CST, CMT
Massage and Craniosacral Therapist
With 15 years of experience, Eugenia has been guiding people to experience extraordinary health.
She specializes in:
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CranioSacral Therapy
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Visceral Manipulation
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Medical Massage Therapy
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Somatic Release
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Reiki
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Chinese Medicine
Born in Muzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico, Eugenia is a former doula who From an early age, she naturally gravitated toward helping others. Eugenia has worked as a CNA with dementia, hospice and Alzheimer's patients for several .
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Eugenia’s mother opened the first school of Special Needs in the north of Mexico, which provided her experience working for several years with children on the Autism Spectrum. Having a son with Diabetes Type I, a grandmother and mother with Alzheimer’s, brought her the compassion and courage to change her career, and holistic healing is where her journey has taken her, as she continues to search for new methods and ways of healing.
Certifications:
CranioSacral Therapy from the Upledger Institute
Visceral Manipulation from Barral Institute.
CAMTC Massage Therapy National Holistic Institute
Chinese Yixue - Germany ( Qigong) Red Cross.
Eugenia has joyfully joined us at San Diego Community Birth Center and maintains a practice in Los Angeles.
For appointments, please call (310) 923-2642