Susan Oshel, CPM, LM

Susan began serving families as a labor assistant working with various midwives in 1976. In 1981, after 5 years of training, she began practicing midwifery. Additionally, she has extensive training in vitamin and herbal therapies, menopause counselling and pelvic floor specialist.

Susan attained certification as a Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) in 1996 when it became available and has been licensed by the Virginia Board of Medicine since 2004.

In the past 47 years of attending births Susan is humbled to have been invited into every one, a very special invitation to a private celebration.

She is also fulfilling a dream to improve maternity care and birth outcomes around the world as the director of midwifery academics for Charis Childbirth, an international school for midwives, childbirth educators, doulas, postpartum doulas and lactation counselors. 

She’s happily married and has 4 adult children, 8 grandchildren and 9 great-grandbabies. She loves gardening, crocheting and graphic art.