Laurie Hadden, CPM, LM, RN
Owner and Clinical Director

After having two birth experiences in the hospital setting, Laurie sought midwifery care and delivered her next two babies at home in the water. When Laurie felt compelled to begin birth work in 2010, she began working as a doula in the Coeur d’ Alene area. She worked at Dayspring Midwifery for nearly three years as a doula, birth assistant, and eventually as a student midwife. In 2013, Laurie and her family moved to Boise, and she was fortunate enough to join the Treasure Valley Midwives team to finish her clinical training. She was licensed as a Midwife in 2017. Laurie graduated from nursing school with her BSN in 2025, and now plans to pursue an Advanced Practice degree to broaden her scope of care.

Laurie is married and has five adult children, including a set of twins! She loves art, music, and getting into nature with her family.

Bri Smith, CPM, LM, MSM
Owner and Clinical Director

Originally from the Willamette Valley in Oregon, Bri first studied Business at Oregon State University. After learning more about maternal healthcare while at OSU, she felt called to pursue birth work. She was trained as a doula and childbirth educator before graduating in 2014 with a BS in Management. Bri immediately began her midwifery training, which included a year-long apprenticeship at a busy birth center in Tacoma, WA. She moved to Boise in 2016 to complete her clinical training at TVM. In 2017, Bri graduated from Bastyr University with a Master of Science in Midwifery and became licensed in Idaho. She is passionate about providing safe, compassionate, family-centered care and truly enjoys building relationships with clients.

Since becoming a midwife, Bri has welcomed a daughter and a son, both born into her own hands at home. She enjoys spending quality time with her husband and children, as well as snowboarding, hiking, paddleboarding, reading, doing puzzles, playing games, and working on DIY house projects.

Haley Keely, CPM, LM, MSM

Originally from the Midwest, Haley has been interested in maternal health and obstetric care since she was a teenager. After high school, Haley spent some time living in Jackson, WY and spent a year abroad. She eventually started midwifery training in 2021, and completed a two-year long clinical placement at TVM. She also enjoys herbal medicine and studied Botanical Medicine as part of her graduate program. Haley graduated from Bastyr University with a Master of Science in Midwifery and was licensed in Idaho in 2023. She spent her first year in practice as a fellow at TVM, and is now a staff midwife. Haley is passionate about providing safe, holistic, and personalized care.

While still in grad school, Haley had a home birth of her own! She loves to spend time with her daughter, her partner, and their dogs. She loves riding her e-bike on the Greenbelt, camping, listening to live music, and spending time outdoors.

Lindy Isaacson, CPM LM

Lindy was born and raised in the Treasure Valley. She has played piano for most of her life, and taught private piano lessons for years before ultimately feeling called to midwifery. Lindy completed over two years of clinical training with Treasure Valley Midwives, and graduated from Mercy in Action in 2024 with a Bachelor of Science in Midwifery. Lindy's main priority as a midwife is to empower, serve, and support birthing people, while ultimately keeping them safe in the process. She dreams of someday having a small, rural home birth practice in the Sun Valley area, but for now Lindy is enjoying working in a group practice model at TVM.

When she is not catching babies, Lindy loves to spend time outdoors with her husband and their dog, and enjoys running, hiking, fly fishing, and camping.

Hannah Hanson, CPM, LM

Hannah was born at home and grew up knowing holistic care as the norm. She spent four years working a remote marketing job and traveling the world before beginning midwifery training in 2015. Originally from North Carolina, Hannah moved to Boise to attend Mercy In Action College of Midwifery. Hannah completed her student clinicals at a homebirth practice in the Treasure Valley and stayed on as a licensed midwife for several years after graduating in 2018. She has been a part of the TVM team since 2022.

Hannah and her husband are adventure enthusiasts who love to travel and experience culture. Running, biking, and snowboarding make up Hannah's favorite pastimes.

Julie Dater-Twomey, CNM

After having an amazing birth experience with a midwife, Julie spent five years as a doula. She then decided to pursue midwifery, and attended Georgetown to become a nurse midwife and WHNP. She also has degrees in secondary education and history from the University of Portland, and was a history teacher in Boise for four years. Julie thinks pregnancy is truly a miracle, and always wants clients to feel supported and confident in their healthcare and parenting decisions.

Julie and her husband live in the Boise foothills with their three children and three dogs. In her free time, she enjoys being outdoors, reading, hiking, photography, crafting, and making art.

Darcy Clark, CPM, LM

Darcy graduated from Mercy in Action College of Midwifery in 2018 after completing her clinical training with several local home birth practices as well as a year-long clinical rotation with TVM. After licensure, Darcy first served clients in her own home-birth practice for a few years, before rejoining the TVM team in 2021. She is passionate about providing high quality care and making midwifery care accessible to all families. Darcy has taught several courses over the years at Mercy in Action, and is also fluent in Spanish!

Darcy is happily married and has three daughters who were born at home with midwives. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, reading, skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, camping, and being outdoors.

Hannah Brown, CPM, LM

Hannah was born at home into a family where birth was attended by midwives and was a normal life process. She became genuinely invested in midwifery care when she learned about the global health disparities that pregnant and birthing families face. Hannah grew up in Idaho and attended Mercy In Action College of Midwifery and completed her clinical training at a birth center in Fairbanks, Alaska. Since graduating in 2017, Hannah has practiced as a midwife in Asia, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho.

Hannah enjoys adventuring with her husband and dogs. She loves the outdoors, and some of her favorite activities include fly fishing, backpacking, lifting weights, and practicing circus arts.

Kluane Tozier, CPM, LM

Born and raised in Alaska, Kluane and all her siblings were born with midwives. While in the Mercy in Action midwifery program, Kluane had the opportunity to apprentice at the same birth center she was born at in Alaska! After graduating in 2017, she immediately traveled to the Philippines to work alongside local midwives for five months. She is licensed in both Alaska and Idaho, and has extensive experience in both birth center and home birth settings. Kluane is passionate about educating and empowering women and families, and giving them safe, individualized care.

In her free time, Kluane enjoys traveling, finding cute coffee shops, spending time with friends, and being outdoors.

Sophie Tobeck, CNM

Sophie grew up hearing birth stories, as her mother was a nurse at a birth center. However, she was not originally called to birth work. Sophie attended nursing school with the goal to first become a missionary. After graduating from Northwest Nazarene University in 2004, Sophie worked as a nurse in several different areas of Idaho, while using her vacation time for short-term mission trips to Ethiopia. In 2009, she moved to a small town in rural Ethiopia where she worked as a medical missionary for six years. Sophie fell in love with pregnancy and childbirth during her time in Africa. When she moved back to the US, she enrolled at Frontier Nursing to become a Certified Nurse Midwife and finished her clinical training at TVM in 2017.

Sophie was married in 2022 and has since had two home births of her own. Sophie loves to travel whenever she can and enjoys cooking, reading, and starting (but generally not finishing) whatever craft has most recently captured her interest.

Anna Marie, Lactation Consultant

Born at home into a family where talking about birth and breastfeeding was the norm, it is no surprise that Anna Marie became a lactation consultant at a birth center. Anna Marie has a broad variety of experience between breastfeeding all five of her children, becoming an RN, working as a postpartum nurse, and now as an IBCLC. She is passionate about supporting families, and Anna Marie finds it incredibly rewarding to empower parents to take ownership of their own parenting and breastfeeding journey.

When she is not visiting new parents and babies, Anna Marie enjoys paddle boarding, camping, puzzling, and playing games with her kids and partner. She has also perfected the art of the afternoon nap.

Opall Taylor
Receptionist

Bio coming soon...

Ruth Huffington
Clinical Assistant

Ruth was born and raised in Idaho, living in Idaho City her whole life. She graduated from Boise State in 2025 with a Bachelor’s of Health Science degree. Ruth is currently integrated into the practice as our Clinical Assistant, but her ultimate goal is to go back to school to become a midwife.

Outside of TVM, Ruth spends her time with friends and family. She enjoys paddle boarding, camping, and being outdoors with her dog, Chloe.

Shannon Kelley
Administrative Director

Shannon was born and raised in California, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Communications at California State University Sacramento. Shannon worked in the technology industry for a number of years, and after starting a family she redirected her focus into healthcare administration. Shannon has experience in medical billing, managing a chiropractic office, and is a member of the American Academy of Professional Coders. She has also assisted several healthcare clinics with planning, marketing, human resources, and billing. Shannon loves the midwifery model of care, and strongly believes every person deserves to have the standard of care that midwives provide.

Shannon enjoys cooking for her family, friends, and the Treasure Valley Midwives team, as well as spending quality time with her family and friends, and attending her three sons’ sporting events.

Fiona Tetz, Senior Student
Mercy in Action

Fiona has lived in the Treasure Valley for her whole life, and for the last nine years has lived on a small hobby farm with her parents caring for chickens, cows, and horses. Her passion for midwifery stems from the logic that pregnancy and birth is a natural event, and facilitating physiologic birth is in harmony with nature. Her passion has since grown to include autonomy and accessibility in maternity care. Fiona is trained as a doula and is currently enrolled in her third year at Mercy in Action College of Midwifery. She has been with Treasure Valley Midwives since 2024, and she loves participating in the care of our clients. Fiona loves to travel, go on walks or hikes with her Australian Shepherds, sing, and read. Her dream is to have a homestead in the mountains with lots of happy animals.

Jessa Freeman, Senior Student
Mercy in Action

Jessa was born and raised in Long Beach, California before moving to Boise to begin her clinical training at TVM in 2024. Before enrolling in midwifery school, she studied political science for two years and worked at a law firm. A strong passion for advocacy and human rights sparked an interest in maternity care and led her to pursue birth work. She is excited for the opportunity to bring together her background in social sciences with her passion for holistic, client-centered care to the families she encounters. Jessa is currently a third-year student at Mercy in Action, with plans to graduate at the end of 2025.

When not in clinic or at a birth, Jessa enjoys hiking, snowboarding, reading, and walking on the Greenbelt.