Meet Our Providers
CEO, DNP, CNM, WHNP-BC
Sara Fawson
Sara is a Board Certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner and Certified Nurse Midwife with 18 years of experience in women’s health care and 8 years of midwifery experience. She graduated with a Doctorate in Nursing Practice from the University of Utah in 2016.
Sara’s goal is to provide meaningful midwifery care in her community. She hasbeen positively impacted by the care and support she has received from nurse midwives throughout her life. Sara strives to provide the same level of care to the women she cares for. She loves to help women through health and life issues, support their decisions, provide care throughout labor, and cheer them on when they give birth to their babies. She collaborates with other caregivers in her area to enhance birthing environments in hospitals and birthing centers to be supportive of women and their health care choices.
Sara recognizes birth as a natural and normal process and not a medical procedure. She advocates for women by promoting an environment that supports the process of birth and decreases fear and anxiety for childbearing women and their families. She offers care in an environment that is warm, welcoming, and supportive of individual needs and desires. She loves to be a health teacher and uses the most current and relevant research available to provide information to patients.
MSN, CNM, WHNP-BC
Aleisa Carlson
Aleisa is a Board Certified Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner and a Certified Nurse Midwife with over 20 years of experience. She received her Master of Science in Women’s Health from University of Alabama at Birmingham and her Nurse Midwifery education from University of Colorado.
Aleisa’s integrative approach works to identify and treat underlying causes of health conditions and empowers women through patient education to understand their bodies and to take control of their own health. She supports the body’s natural health and empower patients to collaborate in their care. In this way, care is personalized to each individual patient to optimize her health and well-being.
Aleisa Specializes in women’s health care in all ages and stages of life. She offers annual exams and pap smears as well as treating acute gyn problems such as vaginal infections, UTIs, irregular / heavy cycles, PMS, menopausal treatment, hormonal Imbalances, PCOS, insulin resistance ,thyroid conditions and many other common female concerns.
Aleisa has a special passion for humanitarian and medical missions; she has trained and led teams around the world including to Haiti after its devastating 2010 earthquake, as well as to Ecuador, Mexico, Zimbabwe, Eastern Europe, Ukraine and East Asia. She is married with two college age children. She loves learning new things and enjoys outdoor pursuits with her family including hiking, biking, pickle ball, traveling and visits to the beach.
CNM, IBCLC
Catherine (Cat) Palmer
Cat is a certified nurse-midwife (CNM) and internationally board-certified lactation consultant (IBCLC) who brings both hospital and birth center experience to Haven. She holds a B.A. in public health from Elon University, as well as a B.S. in nursing and a M.S. in nursing from Emory University. She obtained her lactation education through UNC Chapel Hill.
Cat was drawn to reproductive health through her work in public health, realizing that holistic, compassionate health care can transform the lives of not only birthing people, but of entire communities. Cat strives to offer her patients complete, unbiased information so that they can choose with confidence what is right for them and their families. Cat believes strongly in the core tenets of midwifery- respect of bodily autonomy, person-centered care, partnership, equity, compassion, and trust in the body. She is honored to be able to walk along side her patients and help families thrive.
Cat lives in Durham with her husband, daughter, and two cats. When she isn't midwifing she is reading, cooking, baking, practicing yoga, or visiting friends and family. She seeks beauty, humor, and new podcast recommendations.
DNP, CNM, WHNP-BC
Casey Hartell
Casey is a Certified Nurse Midwife and Women's Health Nurse Practitioner with over 10 years of experience in women's health and 2 years of experience as a midwife. She graduated with her nursing degree from UNC Wilmington and achieved her doctorate from Georgetown University.
Casey is passionate about providing respectful, comprehensive, sex-positive care to women, parents, and families. When not working, Casey can be found in her garden, playing outside with her daughter, or in the gym. But if she had her way, she would be curled up in a patch of sunshine with a good book.
Join us for one of our weekly Birth Center Tours and get all your questions answered.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9am or 1pm, you’ll:
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Tour our beautiful and luxurious birth suites
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Learn about our holistic, personalized model of care
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Meet our warm and experienced midwife team
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Get the inside scoop on birthing at our center
Don’t go through this journey alone! Bring your partner, family or friends - the more the merrier.
Give us a call at 919-322-0284 to reserve your spot!
We can’t wait to welcome you and be part of your birthing journey.