Sanyika Williams

Sanyika Williams, a New York native and has been a Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula, and doula mentor local to Houston since 2017.  She specializes in birth support, lactation and early postpartum with an emphasis on healing the postpartum body. Her 1st doula experience was when she was volun-told by a friend to be her doula. It was that experience where she heard her calling.  She became a doula to help birthing people have positive memorable births. She soon realized there was a much bigger problem in the community and United States as a whole with the maternal mortality rate. This shifted her passion as a doula to also be an intentional birth advocate. She serves the Greater Houston area physically and others virtually, supporting birthing families, educating them and reminding them of their power to birth on their terms. She also enjoys photography and has incorporated birth photography into her birth worker skill set. Sanyika believes everyone who wants a doula deserves one. As a result has created an Empowering Birth Scholarship to support families that would not have otherwise had doula support. It didn’t take her long to realize there are more wombs than she as one doula can handle and thus she birthed her 4th child in 2024, Here for You Doulas, LLC, a Doula company that supports doulas as they support birthing families. 

In 2023 Sanyika supported her client through a stillborn birth. It literally shifted how she viewed miscarriages, infant loss and those who go through it. In that moment she was grateful to have a Missing Pieces care package for her client. Soon after she prioritized learning more about supporting families who experience pregnancy and infant loss and now instead of shying away from it, like most people do, she leans into it to offer a hug, an ear or just space for the grieving person(s). She dedicates this compassion to her angel doula baby, Ella Marie.  She is honored to join the Missing Pieces Support Group as a board member to bring more awareness of this meaningful organization to birth workers both near and far. 

Sanyika lives in Houston, TX with her husband, two children and her mother. Sanyika proudly holds the (Boy and Girl)  “Scout Mom” title and has an unusual joy for selling Girl Scout cookies with her daughter.  She is a tea aficionado who enjoys family time, traveling, listening to podcasts, dancing, bowling and reading, but in the form of audio books, because…mom life.