Katherine Sauerlender
LM, CPM, MSM
Department of Midwifery
School of Natural Health Arts and Sciences
Katherine serves as an adjunct faculty member at Bastyr University. She also provides prenatal, birth, and postpartum care to Seattle families and serves as a clinical preceptor at Seattle Home Maternity in Columbia City.
Katherine completed her clinical midwifery training with nurse-midwives and licensed midwives in San Francisco, Kirkland, Bellingham and Seattle. After graduating from Bastyr, she started a solo practice in Seattle.
Prior to pursuing midwifery, Katherine worked as a Spanish-English childbirth educator and doula in a community birth center in New York City. She has conducted and been a part of research projects concerning medical interpreting in the healthcare setting, breastfeeding attitudes and practices, and early childhood learning.
Katherine's teaching interests include evidence-based midwifery care, informed decision-making, medical ethics, and interpersonal communication skills.
Katherine believes that midwives are most effective as clinicians and counselors when they are self-aware, and thus this is a focus of her teaching. She strives to weave concepts central to midwifery care--informed decision-making, cultural humility and medical ethics--into her courses.
Education:
- Master’s of Science in Midwifery from Bastyr University
- BA in Anthropology from the University of Washington