A fertility awareness educator in San Diego, serving clients nationwide.
Private fertility charting education. Conception-focused, evidence-based, non-religious. The Well certified, AFAP accredited. Sessions are virtual and the practice is rooted in San Diego.
If you are searching for a fertility awareness educator in San Diego, you have probably already realized that the options here sit in two camps. There is the secular, contraception-focused FAM teacher, often centered on family planning rather than conception. And there is religious natural family planning, often through the Catholic diocese, which can be excellent education but comes wrapped in doctrine.
There is a quieter lane between those two, and that is where Stone Fertility sits. Conception-focused. Evidence-based. Non-religious. Body literacy as a serious, secular practice taught one-on-one. That is what I teach, and that is what most of my clients in San Diego and beyond are looking for.
What a fertility awareness educator actually does
A fertility awareness educator is not an app. Not a clinician. Not a coach in the wellness sense. The role is closer to a music teacher than to a doctor. I teach you a skill, observation by observation, until reading your own body is something you can do without me.
Specifically, I teach the sympto-thermal method, which combines two real-time signs of fertility: cervical fluid and basal body temperature. I review your charts, cycle by cycle, and help you interpret what your body is showing you. I tell you when something in your charts warrants a conversation with your medical provider, and I work alongside that provider, not in place of them.
Education is the entire scope of the work. There is no diagnosis, no treatment, no prescription. The goal is your fluency. By the end of our work together, you do not need me anymore.
Three to four cycles of structured education and one-on-one chart review. Where most couples actively trying to conceive should start.
Schedule a Free 15-Minute ConsultWhichever path fits, the first step is the same: a free fifteen-minute call to talk through your situation.
My training and how I teach
I am a Certified Sexual Health Educator and Fertility Awareness Educator through The Well School of Body Literacy under Sarah Bly, CNM. I am accredited by the Association of Fertility Awareness Professionals. The training is grounded in evidence-based, secular body literacy. The Well lineage is one of the most respected in the FAM world, and the AFAP accreditation is the credentialing standard for educators outside religious traditions.
My academic background is in anthropology and education from UC Santa Barbara. The combination is intentional. Anthropology trains you to observe a system without imposing your assumptions on it. Education trains you to teach what you have observed. Together, they shape how I work with clients. I do not teach charting as a checklist. I teach it as the practice of paying attention.
Outside of fertility awareness teaching, I am a full-spectrum doula and have attended more than eighty births. I have worked with families through every season of reproductive life from preconception to postpartum, which informs how I teach charting. I am not just teaching you to read your cycle. I am teaching you a body literacy that will matter through pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause, and every season after.
No hand-offs, no group calls, no rotating educators. The skill that becomes yours is built in a single relationship.
Based in San Diego, working with clients nationwide
Stone Fertility is rooted in San Diego. Most of my San Diego clients are in North Park, Pacific Beach, La Jolla, Encinitas, North County, and Mission Hills. I work alongside midwives, naturopaths, acupuncturists, pelvic floor physical therapists, and functional medicine providers across the region, and I refer when clinical questions are outside the scope of my work.
Sessions are virtual. Charting is not a hands-on practice in the way that bodywork or acupuncture is, and virtual sessions give clients the privacy and schedule flexibility that one-on-one teaching benefits from. It also means clients anywhere in the United States get the same quality of teaching without geographical limits.
Talk through your situation with me directly.
A free fifteen-minute call. No pressure, no sales script. We talk through where you are and whether working together is the right fit.
Schedule a Free 15-Minute ConsultWhy this practice exists
I did not grow up learning how my own cycle worked. Most of us did not. Body literacy is not part of mainstream sex education in the United States, and it is rarely covered well in medical visits. By the time most women reach their late twenties or early thirties and start thinking seriously about conception, they have spent fifteen years using birth control they did not fully understand and tracking cycles through apps that never explained what was happening in their bodies.
That gap is the reason Stone Fertility exists. Not as a wellness brand and not as a contrarian rejection of medicine. As basic information that every adult should have access to, taught well, by someone who has done the training to teach it. The fact that this is not standard care is the strange part. The work itself is straightforward.
Want to start with a conversation?
A free fifteen-minute call to talk through what you are looking for.
Book a Free ConsultWorking alongside your medical team
Fertility awareness education is not medical care. I am not a physician, midwife, or fertility specialist, and I do not diagnose, treat, or prescribe. What I do is teach a skill and review charts. The skill is information that supports the medical decisions you make with the providers in your life.
In practice, my work tends to land in three places. First, before clients see a fertility specialist, charting often surfaces information that changes what tests get ordered or what questions get asked. Second, alongside a midwife or naturopath who is supporting cycle health, charting gives both of you longitudinal data to work with. Third, after a fertility workup, charting helps clients track timing and luteal phase health while they pursue clinical interventions if needed.
If anything in your charts suggests a clinical question, my role is to say so and recommend you bring it to a provider. The work is collaborative, not territorial.
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What sessions actually look like
Most clients start with a free fifteen-minute consult on Cal.com. We talk through where you are, what you are looking for, and whether working together is the right fit. If it is not, I will tell you and point you toward a better resource.
If we move forward, the first paid session is an intake. We map your cycle history, your goals, your timeline, and any clinical context that matters. Then we move into two in-depth learning sessions where you learn the sympto-thermal method itself: how to observe cervical fluid, how to take and record basal body temperature, and how to read the relationship between them on a chart. From there, we space out chart reviews across your cycles. You chart every day. We meet to review what your charts are showing.
All sessions are on Zoom. Email support runs throughout. The pace adjusts to your cycle, not to a calendar.
Common questions before booking
Do I need to be in San Diego to work with you?+
No. Sessions are virtual. The practice is rooted in San Diego, but I work with clients across the United States. Local clients sometimes attend in person for the intake session if it works out, though most prefer the virtual format.
Is this Catholic NFP?+
No. Stone Fertility is a non-religious, evidence-based practice in the body literacy tradition. The Well School lineage and AFAP accreditation are both secular. Religious natural family planning is excellent education in its own context, but this is not that.
Do you work with my midwife, naturopath, or OB?+
Yes. I work alongside medical providers, not in place of them. If you have a primary care team, I am happy to coordinate. If you do not have one and need a referral in San Diego, I can usually point you toward someone trustworthy.
How is this different from an app or a book?+
Apps record. Books explain. Neither can review your specific charts in your specific cycle and tell you what your body is showing. That kind of interpretation is the work of a teacher, and it is what makes the difference between charting that works and charting that does not.
What does it cost and do you take HSA or FSA?+
The Conception Charting Program is $997. The Extended Program is $1,497. Single chart reviews for returning clients are $175. I provide superbills for reimbursement, many clients use HSA or FSA funds, and payment plans are available.
If this lane is the one you have been looking for.
A free fifteen-minute call. We talk through where you are, what you are looking for, and whether working together is the right fit. If it is not, I will tell you that and point you toward something that works better.