Around the Circle Midwifery
Our Midwives
Finding inspiration in every birth
Carolee Hall, LM, CPM, IBCLC
Carolee (she/her) was inspired to become a midwife through her own birth experiences and the loving care she received from midwives during her pregnancies. They not only provided a beautiful model of care, but also encouraged her on the path to midwifery. A 2005 Seattle Midwifery School graduate, Carolee preceded her midwifery education with certification as a doula, childbirth educator, and lactation educator. During this time, she helped found a hospital-based lactation clinic. Breastfeeding support remains an important part of Carolee's work as a midwife and now as an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). She returned to Bastyr University in 2017 and earned a Master of Arts in Maternal-Child Health Systems, where she focused her studies on breastfeeding accommodations in the workplace.
Carolee believes in the sacredness of birth. She hopes to partner with women and their families throughout the passage to parenthood to support their birth journey. She believes this is best done by building a close, respectful relationship that honors the family's inherent knowledge of birth while providing research-based information and parent-centered encouragement.
Carolee shares her life with Jay, her husband of over thirty-five years, and together they enjoy the empty nest while cheering for their four adult children and four grandchildren through life's adventures. Their loving support and births have made her the midwife she is today.
Paige Murphy, LM, CPM
Paige (she/her) was drawn to midwifery from an early age, though she would not realize it until years later. Seeking to understand how we come to be in this world from a scientific perspective, and how societal and environmental structures influence this process, she began her education by earning a Bachelor of Science in Health Studies at the University of Waterloo. After completing her undergraduate degree, she knew midwifery was the only approach that truly resonated with her, so she enrolled at Birthwise Midwifery School in Bridgton, Maine. She believed that, as a midwife, she could provide evidence-based knowledge, guidance, and support so clients could feel confident and empowered to make decisions that are right for them, while also creating space to listen to their bodies, trust their intuition, and connect with their inner wisdom.
After completing her training, Paige volunteered as a midwife at a hospital in Kenya. This experience allowed her to learn from a different healthcare system and culture, deepened her appreciation for the many ways people experience pregnancy and birth, and affirmed how universally powerful birth is. Paige has also practiced midwifery in Alberta, Canada, caring for families both in the hospital and out-of-hospital settings. This experience cemented how valuable the individualized care and trusting relationships midwives can uniquely provide are to her practice, regardless of place of birth. In 2025, Paige joined the team at Around the Circle Midwifery. She is incredibly grateful to be part of a community that values relationship, education, autonomy, and truly client-centered care. She believes it is an honor to walk alongside families through this transformative experience. She aims to provide care that respects both the knowledge we gain through education and the innate wisdom each person carries within themselves.
Originally from rural Ontario, Canada, Paige isn't in the office or at a birth; you can find her in the woods or on the water. She especially loves exploring the Pacific Northwest’s many national and state parks, camping and paddle-boarding with her dog, and finding a spot to swim whenever she can, no matter how cold. At home, she loves a quiet evening with her partner, reading books and listening to music, watching a new show, or taking comfort in a favorite movie.
Anneliese Peterson, LM, CPM
Anneliese (She/Her) earned her BA from The Evergreen State College in 2010. She was called to birth work while living abroad in Nicaragua, where she felt strongly that she wanted a skill set that transcended the language one spoke, the culture one came from, or the religion one practiced. Being with families during such an intimate, transformative, and vulnerable time felt like the ultimate calling.
Her path to midwifery took many turns, including spending years commercial fishing in Alaska to save for midwifery school. She attended Birthwise Midwifery School in 2017 while working and learning across the country. Along the way, she worked with midwives in Maine and New Hampshire, the Amish community in Western New York, and Cajun families in Lafayette, Louisiana.
She completed her preceptorship at Around the Circle Midwifery in 2021. Throughout this journey, she also became a mother, welcoming her first baby in June 2020 during a global pandemic.
Anneliese is passionate about serving her community and believes deeply in midwifery's role in reducing health disparities and improving maternal health outcomes. She believes that out-of-hospital midwifery, while not the right choice for everyone, can be a safe and empowering option for low-risk families seeking an unmedicated birth. She values birthing people's autonomy and believes in shared decision-making, supporting families in understanding their options and trusting their intuition and bodies while recognizing when additional intervention or a higher level of care is needed.
For Anneliese, midwifery is about so much more than birth. She loves taking the time to educate and support families throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, helping them feel informed and confident in their choices. She has a particular passion for lactation support and loves helping families navigate the often beautiful, challenging, and deeply personal experience of feeding their babies. Most of all, she believes that midwifery is not only about the birth of a child, but also the birth of parents and a family. She feels immense gratitude for the people who invite her into this sacred part of their lives.
When Anneliese isn’t at work, she usually chases her wild six-year-old daughter and keeps up with her sweet almost-two-year-old son. She is married to an amazing woman who's also a pilot, and together they share a deep love of travel, adventure, and exploring new places. You’ll often find their family hiking, road-tripping, traveling, or wandering somewhere in nature. Life outside of midwifery is just as full of adventure—and she wouldn’t have it any other way.
Tiffany Heiges CNM, ARNP
Tiffany (she/her pronouns) graduated with a Bachelor of Nursing Science degree from the University of Alaska Anchorage in 2009. She immediately began a career as a labor and delivery nurse at an Indian Health Services hospital in Alaska. Assisting the births of the indigenous peoples of Alaska is an experience that she will always hold near and dear to her heart.
Throughout her decade of nursing, she has had the privilege of attending births in settings ranging from the smallest rural hospitals and birth centers to one of the largest high-risk hospitals in the country. She has learned from the many nurses, doctors, midwives, and families she has worked with just how special it is to support people in labor during this transformative time in their lives, and she carries with her the knowledge that birth can be better. Motivated to complete her midwifery journey, she began graduate school at the University of Cincinnati in 2016. Somewhere in the middle of completing a master's degree and continuing to work full-time as a nurse, she decided it would be a good idea to have a baby (I know; crazy, right?!) and birthed a gorgeous little human right here in The Birth House in the spring of 2018. That experience further affirmed her belief that parents can best birth away from the busy noise of a hospital. After graduating with her Master of Science in Nurse Midwifery in the spring of 2019, she had the opportunity to join the people who nurtured her through her pregnancy journey, and she jumped at it. She couldn’t be more excited to be joining Around the Circle Midwifery. In addition to her two degrees, Tiffany also holds certificates in lactation counseling, S.T.A.B.L.E. (neonatal hospital transfer), and intermediate and advanced fetal monitoring. While she is not currently attending births at The Birth House, she is currently offering wellness care, contraception management, and fertility support at Around the Circle Midwifery.
When she is not busy with women’s health, you can almost always find Tiffany outside with her wife Stephanie and daughter Charlotte. As a family, they enjoy camping, fishing, clamming, hiking, gardening, and just about anything else you can manage to do in the great outdoors. She also loves reading, is completely nerdy about all things birth, and spends as much time as possible on her yoga mat.
Lyndsay King, LM, CPM
Lyndsay (She/her) reflects on her journey into birth work as a collection of moments that drew her to this profession, rather than a single defining moment.
In 2016, after graduating from ASU with a Bachelor of Science, Lyndsay began assisting a home birth midwife practice in Arizona as a side job while teaching biology and working at a reptile sanctuary. It wasn’t until after having her first baby at home in 2018, following a multi-day labor, that Lyndsay realized that she was ready to pursue midwifery full-time. Reflecting on her own birth experience, she wanted to provide the same compassionate, patient care she received to other birthing people. Her background and passion for biology helped kickstart her midwifery education, and in 2020, she became a Certified Professional Midwife and started her own homebirth practice in Arizona.
In 2021, Lyndsay welcomed her second baby via cesarean after a transport to the hospital in labor. Although this birth turned out much different than she had hoped, she believes the experience of having both an unmedicated homebirth and transferring for a necessary surgical birth has given her a well-rounded experience that translates into her midwifery care.
Lyndsay relocated with her children to the PNW in 2022. One driving factor in this relocation was the vast scope of practice and general acceptance of midwives and community birth in Olympia. After a year and a half in Oly and working with ATCM, she knows she is where she wants to be.
As a midwife, Lyndsay’s passion is making her clients feel seen at every stage of pregnancy and postpartum. She acknowledges that every person experiencing pregnancy deserves to be met where they are with compassion, and every experience is unique and should be treated as such. Her passion for science and education comes through every time she has an opportunity to explain just how cool pregnancy and birth are.
Outside of Midwifery, Lyndsay focuses on spending time with her family and enjoying all the wonderful things the PNW has to offer.
Anne Teater, LM, CPM
Anne Teater (she/her) first witnessed the power of midwifery in 2013 as a nanny, after she was asked to be present during the home birth of the family’s second-born. She was deeply moved by the calm and tender care embodied by the midwifery model of care.
Anne began practicing as a full-spectrum doula in the greater Olympia area in 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her trauma-informed, community-based care centered around advocacy for those with mental health struggles, medical trauma, substance abuse, LGBTQIA+ individuals, folks on the spectrum, and so many more as they prepared for birth. In 2021, she joined Around the Circle as a birth assistant and, in 2023, transitioned into full-time preceptorship as a student midwife. After a three-year fellowship with Carolee Hall LM, CPM, IBCLC, and Lyndsay King LM, CPM, Anne earned her CPM and later her LM credentials and joined the practice as a staff midwife.
Anne focuses on mental health, believing deeply that caring for people as their midwife is a privilege, and brings a “harm reduction in all things” mentality to midwifery care. Anne believes birth is morally neutral, and that reproductive health is a judgment-free space. Through evidence-based care and education from a non-biased lens, Anne aims to help clients feel both empowered and held during their pregnancy and birth journeys.
When she’s not providing community care, Anne is an avid crafter and sewer, former boat-builder and plant medicine maker, lover of all things fun and beautiful, a gardener, and power auntie. You can also find her and her partner wrangling two giant floofs and getting on the water whenever they can.
Photos by Bonita Gabrielle Photography