Lactation Therapy: Advanced Clinical Skills w/ Lisa Lahey, Maya Bolman

Lisa is a holistic family nurse practitioner with more than 26 years of experience and baby expertise. Lisa worked in the hospital for 17 years in labor and delivery, postpartum, NICU, and perinatal services before starting her own private practice. Lisa is trained in feeding therapy, infant massage, craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, and myofunctional therapy working with babies to adults. Lisa has an established private practice Advanced Breastfeeding Care and Wellness that provides expertise in tethered oral tissues and oral habilitation, breastfeeding medicine, and pediatric well visits. The focus is helping parents optimize feeding and development across the ages and stages of development birth to age 3.
Lisa recently expanded her office space with an added studio that offers infant massage/float spa and yoga.
Lisa is a contributing author of the book Tongue Tied and lectures internationally on oral function/therapy and lactation issues. She has continued to hone her skills through education and training that align with her passion and pursuit of healthy children and families. Lisa is a proud mom to 5 children, a native of Indianapolis, Indiana who loves to sing, travel, bike, and hike in her free time.

Maya Bolman was born and raised in Minsk, Belarus. She was certified as IBCLC in 2001 and currently works as a lactation consultant at Senders Pediatrics and Breastfeeding Medicine of Northeast Ohio. Maya is well known internationally for her work promoting hand expression and breast massage to health professionals and parents. She recognizes that teaching these basic tools helps empower them to work through breastfeeding challenges including engorgement, plugged ducts, separation from the infant, and milk supply concerns. She has worked with Dr. Ann Witt to create an instructional video “The Basics of Breast Massage and Hand Expression” and conducted research on the effectiveness of Therapeutic Breast Massage in Lactation (TBML) both in the office and as a treatment at home for mothers. Maya Bolman is the proud owner of “BreastKindness”, LLC which is dedicated to empowering parents and consultants through education; supporting their goals; teaching simple and effective techniques.