About

My Background

I’m Jane Riccobono, NP, CNM. My approach to women’s health is feminist and spiritual. I have a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and became a Certified Nurse Midwife and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner through one of the top programs in the country, at the University of California, San Francisco. I’m also trained in two childbirth education modalities: Mindfulness Based Childbirth and Parenting (MBCP) and Centering Pregnancy. I trained with Nancy Bardacke, founding director of MBCP, and am an author on a research study on the program’s impact on childbirth outcomes.

My healthcare career evolved in tandem with my spiritual practice. I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to develop my own spiritual path with a number of accomplished teachers in powerful practice settings. My journey has taken me to the San Francisco Zen Center, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, India, and to becoming a yoga teacher through Prema Yoga Brooklyn. My own spiritual path informs how I help you access the transformative and enlivening aspects of wherever you are in your healthcare journey. What is your body trying to tell you?

My Story

I'll never forget walking out of that hospital at night after 36 hours at my first birth as a doula. I should have been exhausted. Instead, I felt like I'd been filled with pure life force—like the world was more vivid, more alive. I'd witnessed the sacred. And I'd also witnessed the heartbreak. I watched a woman in perfect rhythm with her labor—slow dancing through contractions, surrounded by love, completely in her power—until a nurse walked in and shattered it all with eight words: "Why would you endure the pain if you don't have to?"

The woman lost her resolve. Her beautiful ritual crumbled. And I realized: this isn't just about birth. This is about how we treat women's bodies. As problems. As diseases. As things to be managed, medicated, and moved along in 15-minute increments. I became a midwife and women's health nurse practitioner thinking I could change things from inside the system. But after years of watching myself become what I didn't want to be—rushed, burned out, unable to provide the care I knew women deserved—I had to choose.

I could keep trying to fit myself into a system that treats women's natural cycles as inconveniences to be suppressed. Or I could step into what I know to be true: that women's bodies are wise. That our cycles are sacred. That the pain we experience often carries messages we need to hear. That healthcare can be both scientifically sound AND spiritually profound. I choose to be the nurse, midwife and witch. 

Not witch as in charlatan or villain. Witch as in the wise woman healers who were persecuted for their knowledge. The ones who understood that bodies and spirits cannot be separated. The ones who knew that transformation often requires us to go through, not around. I bring my medical training— detailed knowledge of hormones, anatomy, pathology and pharmacology. But I also bring what the medical system tried to train out of me: the ability to sit with someone for more than 15 minutes. To light a candle and begin with breath. To recognize when someone needs meditation practice as much as medication. To see menopause as initiation, not disease. To honor pregnancy as sacred transformation, not just risk management.

You have a choice too. You can keep trying to find answers in a system that sees you as a collection of symptoms to suppress. You can keep accepting that 15-minute appointments where you're not truly seen or heard are "just how it is." You can keep believing you have to choose between legitimate medical care and honoring your body's wisdom. Or you can work with someone who refuses that false choice.

Imagine healthcare that gives you time. That starts with deep listening and sacred space. That combines real medical expertise with the spiritual wisdom your body craves. Imagine a provider who helps you understand your symptoms as messages, not just problems—while also offering appropriate treatment when needed. Imagine moving through perimenopause not as slow decline but as initiation into your wisdom years. Experiencing pregnancy as the spiritual journey it is while having medical support you can trust. Understanding your monthly cycle as sacred rhythm, not inconvenience. Imagine healthcare as partnership. As long-term relationship through all your cycles. As both practical and mystical.

If you're a woman who feels the disconnect between the care you're receiving and the care you truly need...

If you're exhausted by a medical system that treats your body as machine and your symptoms as noise...

If you're seeking a healthcare provider who sees all of you—body, heart, mind, and spirit...

Then I invite you to begin with The Foundation Session. Ninety minutes where you're fully seen and heard. Where your medical history and your life story both matter. Where we start figuring out together what your body is trying to tell you and what you truly need. This is healthcare for women who know we deserve better. Who are ready to trust our bodies again while having the medical support we need. Who refuse to sacrifice our wholeness on the altar of efficiency. The witches are returning. And we're bringing both the ancient wisdom and the modern science.

Welcome home.