Meet the Team

Providing a Fusion of Care for You and Your Family

Fertility Specialist | Coastside Health & Healing Birth Plan Consultant | Midwife, Birth, Postpartum & Death Doula and mentor | Herbal Consultant & Teacher | Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy | Cranial Sacral Therapy | Reiki Usui Master Teacher | Pregnancy Massage Therapist | Infant Massage for Parents and Caregivers Instructor | TCM Placenta Tincture & Encapsulation | Hospice Patient and Caregiver Treatment | Medical Breast Massage | Massage Therapist | Yoga Teacher | Prenatal and Postpartum Yoga | Mama Earth Parenting | BirthDance™ classes

SAMANTHA CORSIGLIA, CMwA

Director and Integrative Women, Children and Health Practitioner                         

Location: Half Moon Bay, Nevada City, and Virtual

Samantha is the Owner, Director, and Primary Integrative Health Practitioner at Coastside Health and Healing. Raised in the Sierra Nevada Foothills - a Fifth Generational Northern Californian- Samantha had the opportunity to follow her passions, travel, studying abroad. She fuses Ancient, Traditional Health Philosophies and modalities, together, to offer her clients Individualized Consultation and Therapeutic Treatment, as an Integrative Women, Children, and Family Health Specialist.

  • She is known as a Fertility Specialist-treating those Trying To Conceive, keeping prenatal people comfortable, she turns breech babies, encourages labor, provides labor support, puts  mamas back together-postpartum, give babes Cranial Sacral and Reiki to optimize feeding and balance after birth. She applies a fusion of hands-on therapeutic bodywork techniques, utilizing her custom made medicinal oils and liniments to treat those encountering menstrual pain, menopausal symptoms, organ prolapse, andropause, digestive, and prostate issues, the injured rancher, farmer, construction worker, beat up skier, snowboarder, surfer, kayaker, frisbee golf enthusiast, musician, dancer, equestrian, athlete, teacher, techie, caregiver, as well as optimizing hospice patients' quality of life.

    With her herbalist background, Samantha makes custom made medicinal tinctures, salves, ointments, liniments,  oils, cough medicines, utilizing food as medicine, (ie: broth, soups), for her clients.

    With her dance and yogic background, she teaches Appropriate Yoga for everyone, Prenatal & Postpartum Yoga with Infant Massage, BirthDance™, Parenting, and Prostate and Uterine Self Care Classes, encouraging a healthy balance of education and appropriate movement for the body.

    Her 30+ years of tenured experience and education has led her to bring her vision to fruition providing, full spectrum model of care utilizing her Village of Support team for a Coastside Birth Plan. It is within this model she feels parents and families, receive the complete support they require to stay integrally whole, unified, and thrive in their journey into Parenthood.
    Samantha is an Integrative Health Practitioner for ALL HUMANS. She strives to support, educate and empower those who seek to improve their own health stories, well being and thrive within our world.​

    Samantha’s Background:

    • 2018-Present-Founder of Coastside Birth Options, Providing Full Spectrum Model of Care & Education for families

    • 1998-Present-Founder of EarthDancer Wellness, Integrative Women, Children, and Family Health Practice

    • Lifetime Homesteader-Raising Livestock, Designing & growing gardens, orchards, Culinary & Medicinal Herbs, as a Master Gardener & Herbalist, Wildcrafting Native Medicinal Plants, and Educating adults and children.

    • 1992-Present- Veteran Parent & Homebirther

    • 2020-Certified Advanced Level: Type 1 Diabetes care, Virtual College, UK

    • 2006-2019- Creator of Mama Earth Parenting Classes for Pediatric Alternatives, Mill Valley, CA

    • 2018-Creator of BirthDance™ classes, lifetime dancer

    • 2017-Certificate Neonatal Resuscitation Program,  with Karen Strange, Los Altos, CA

    • 1999-2017- Veteran Custom Homeschooler

    • 2015-Certified Lighting the Path Yoga Teacher Training, with Pete Guinosso, San Francisco, CA

    • 2015-Certified Prenatal & Postpartum Yoga Teacher Training, Jane Austin, San Francisco, CA

    • 2013-2014-Hearts & Hands Midwifery Training; Birth, Postpartum Doula & Midwife Assistant, with Elizabeth Davis, San Rafael, CA

    • 2013-Trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine Placenta Tincturing & Encapsulation, with Sharon Economides, LMW                   

    • 2009- Alive & Well Certified Pregnancy Massage Therapist, Corte Madera, CA

    • 2000-2006-Level Four Certified ATMAT (The Arvigo Techniques of Maya Abdominal Therapy) Practitioner & Self Care Instructor, with Rosita Arvigo, DN, Belize, Central America

    • 2001-2005-Certified Snowline Hospice Volunteer, Placerville,CA

    • 1997-2003-Certifed Reiki Usui Master Teacher, with Lynda Marinics, Camino, CA 

    • 2003-Ordained Minister, Universal Life Church, CA

    • 1997-2003-Certified Herbal Consultant & Teacher, EverGreen Herb School of Integrative Herbology, Advanced Western Herbology & Ayurveda, Placerville, CA. Fusing Traditional Chinese, Ayurvedic, and Maya traditions.

    • 2001-Trained Infant Massage Instructor for Parents and Caregivers, with Kalena Babeshoff, Sonoma, CA

    • 1998- Alive & Well Certified Massage Therapist, Corte Madera, CA 

    • 1994-1996 Trained in Cranial Sacral and Medical Breast Massage, Rincon Valley Chiropractic, Santa Rosa, CA

Heart Wisdom | Medicine Woman

ELENA SALAZAR

Location: Virtual  

Elena has over 27 years of experience in the healing arts. Her passion is to heal the wounds that bind us. Sessions are deeply personal, individualistic and transformative. She offers sessions for medicine integration, womb ritual for women that have experienced loss of unborn through abortion or miscarriage (psychedelic therapy).

  • In her free time she walks in nature (forest bathing) and rides a bicycle. She spends time in nature, beads quill's of feathers and believes meditation is an important part of her spiritual practice. She works with ritual, meditation, prayer and has a loving respect for the earth elements, herself, others and the spirit world.  She has recently been recognized as a diviner through the Dagra tradition (not divining for others at this point).

    Directly contact Elena | Phone: (650) 627-6077 | Email:  info@elenapsalazar.com

Board Certified Pediatrician | Classic Homeopath | Integrative Medicine Fellow

JELENA VUKICEVIC, MD, CCH, FAIHM

Location: Half Moon Bay, Virtual   

Jelena has over 30 years of experience working with children and families. Her passion for helping children reach their full potential by utilizing innate healing abilities, so abundantly present in all of us at a young age, is the leading principle in addressing the unique needs of every patient and family. She utilizes Western medicine, Classical Homeopathy and other healing modalities when indicated.

  • Jelena Vukicevic is Board certified pediatrician, Classical Homeopath and Integrative Medicine specialist with over thirty years of experience. She completed residency in pediatrics at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford (LPCH) after graduating with a medical degree from the University of Belgrade, Serbia. Her additional training includes a four-year program in classical homeopathy at the Institute for Classical Homeopathy (ICH) in San Francisco, earning a degree as a Certified Classical Homeopath (CCH), and Integrative Medicine Fellowship at the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine in La Jolla, California (AIHM), earning a degree as a Fellow of the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (FAIHM).

    She has had the privilege of working with wonderful patients and colleagues at UCSF, Stanford University, Welch Road Pediatrics, and Menlo Medical Clinic and always expresses deep gratitude to her patients and coworkers, acknowledging their role in her learning and growth. She practices on the Coast, where all that she learned over the years is applied to find the unique healing path for each patient.

    After finishing homeopathic school, she continued to study with renowned homeopathic practitioners, including Henny Heudens-Must (Studiecentrum voor Homeopathie, Leuven, Belgium), Dr. Farokh Master (Bir, Dharmashala province, India), Dr. Gheorghe Jurj (Romania), and Raquel Blach CCH, in Mountain View, California. In 2015, she became a certified practitioner of classical homeopathy (CCH) by The Council for Homeopathic Certification in the United States and registered with the North American Society of Homeopaths. In 2024, she completed a two-year fellowship at the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine (FAIHM) and joined the Health Volunteers Oversees organization (hvousa.org).

    In addition to her love for patients and their families, she enjoy hiking with family, friends, and dogs, knitting, swimming, and learning ways of healing, with great respect for nature and reciprocity.

    Directly contact Jelena | Phone: (650) 760-1699 | Email: jv@maverickpediatrics.com