Talk to an experienced physician or hospice nurse to help arrange for ethical and compassionate end-of-life care consistent with Catholic teaching. Our team can answer questions about appropriate transition to hospice/palliative care vs. continuing life-sustaining treatment, help write advanced directives, answer questions about hospice care from a Catholic perspective, plan a virtual meeting with your current treating physician or nurse, answer questions about DNR, POLST, and much more.

Pediatric End-of-Life Care and Hospice Clinicians in North Dakota

Kathleen Berchelmann, M.D.
Pediatrician │Chair, Department of Pediatrics

Dr. Berchelmann treats patients from birth through young adulthood for medical and behavioral health needs.  She is available for virtual primary care. She also provides vaccine and medication consultation.

*Languages: English

Rebecca Sweeney, M.D.
Pediatrician

Dr. Sweeney sees patients from birth through young adulthood for medical and behavioral health needs.

*Languages: English, Spanish 

David Wachs, M.D.
Family Practice Physician

Dr. Wachs sees patients of all ages for all general medical needs and behavioral health. Dr. Wachs has a special interest in infertility care and family planning as well as geriatrics and end of life care from a Catholic perspective.

*Languages: English

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Matthew Estrade, MA, MBA
Gerontologist

Matthew coaches care partners (caregivers) of persons living with Alzheimer’s or related dementias in strategies to make the best of a challenging situation. Appointments are typically for care partners so that they can speak frankly, however, they may include the person living with dementia if that is preferred. He also facilitates care partner support groups online to help them find fellowship and brainstorm solutions together. Support groups are also offered for persons living with dementia in the early stages. To Matthew, it is a privilege partnering with families to see what can be done to live life to its fullest.

*Languages: English

Craig Turczynski, Ph.D.
Reproductive Physiologist │Chair, Department of Men's Fertility Health

Dr. Craig Turczynski is an expert in the field of reproductive physiology, having formerly run an IVF, andrology and assisted reproductive technology lab. He left the IVF field and now helps couples who desire to achieve pregnancy restoratively, while under the guidance of their physician. He offers counseling to men who are concerned about their fertility and provides consultation to the couple’s health care team for how to interpret semen analysis and other fertility test results. When male factor is identified, he will research specific diagnostic and treatment options which can get to the root cause but are sadly not offered because of the aggressive use of IVF. He can also teach and coach the couple on use of the Billings Ovulation Method® or review other charting data to help them identify the optimum time to conceive when male factor exists. Dr. Turczynski is uniquely qualified to help couples who are considering or struggling to understand assisted reproductive technology. He will provide information that fertility centers never tell their patients. 

Cassondra Moriarty
International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, Certified Family Planning Instructor │Chair, Department of Lactation Consultation

Cassondra provides family planning education using sympto-hormonal methods with FEMM and Sympto-Thermal. She also provides lactation consultation and breastfeeding support.

*Languages: English

Stacey Nagle
CCL/STM Method Instructor

Stacey Nagle provides fertility awareness instruction and coaching to women through a lifetime of fertility (teens through perimenopause).

*Languages: English

Katherine A. Hernandez
FertilityCare Practitioner

Katherine Hernandez sees women from adolescence until menopause to address their fertility needs.

*Languages: English, Spanish

Gillian Izlar
Creighton Model FertilityCare Teacher

Gillian sees patients for Creighton Model natural family planning.

*Languages: English

Marilyn Wachs, BSMT
CFCP

Marilyn will see clients desiring to achieve or avoid pregnancy as well as women desiring to use CrMS and NaProTECHNOLOGY for gynecological issues.

*Languages: English

Therese Rodriguez
Creighton FertilityCare Practitioner

Therese sees couples facing infertility, subfertility, recurrent miscarriage for it's medical and spiritual relational implications. Teens, young & adult women seen for PMS, irregular & painful cycles. Cycle synching strengths of cycle patterns for women: teens through peri-menopause.

*Languages: English, Spanish

Rosemary MacKenzie
NFP Instructor

Rose sees women interested in learning how to monitor their hormones for health promotion and reach their fertility goals of avoiding or achieving pregnancy using the Marquette Method or STM Method of NFP. She has extensive experience with the Mira monitor and clear blue fertility monitor.

*Languages: English

Susan M. Robinson, M.S., NBC-HWC
National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, Fertility Educator (FEMM)

Susan sees adolescents and adults for health and wellness coaching and weight management consultations. She also sees adolescent girls, adult women, and married women and their spouses for fertility education through FEMM.

*Languages: English

Gianna Moulton, MSPAS, PA-C

Gianna sees women and couples interested in the Marquette Method of NFP, including those with PCOS, endometriosis, PMS/PMDD, and those in the postpartum and perimenopause periods.

*Languages: English

Jamie Hobor, BS, CFCP
Certified FertilityCare Practitioner

Jamie Hobor sees all women anytime between their first and last period. Husbands/fiancé’s are encouraged to attend for natural family planning purposes. For young women (i.e., pre-teens and teens) mothers or another support person are welcome to come for health monitoring.

*Languages: English

Caitlin Hanson
Certified Birth Educator

Caitlin meets with pregnant women in all stages of pregnancy and until approximately 12 weeks postpartum for additional support as they navigate motherhood.

*Languages: English

Leah Moretz
FEMM Teacher

Leah works with women and girls of all ages, from pre-puberty through menopause. She encourages women's partners to be involved in the sessions as well. Leah teaches clients from all states.

*Languages: English

Ana Schmude, MA
Certified Billings Ovulation Method® Instructor

Ana teaches couples and women to chart their menstrual cycles through the Billings Ovulation Method (BOM) to conceive or postpone pregnancy while also identifying potential reproductive or other health issues that a Fertility Awareness Methods (FAM) expert physician can promptly address.

*Languages: English, Spanish 

Vicki Braun, M.Sc., CGP
Fertility Educator/Natural Family Planning Instructor

Vicki Braun sees patients who are interested or in need of fertility education, achieving or avoiding pregnancy, as well as understanding women's and teenagers' fertility. She is available for virtual education.

*Languages: English

Estela Cordova
Instructora Método de la Ovulación Billings

Estela acepta a mujeres que desean conocer sobre su fertilidad y a parejas que desean utilizar Planificación Familiar Natural para concebir o posponer un embarzo.

*Languages: Spanish

Susan Miller
Billings Ovulation Method Instructor

Susan sees girls, women, and married couples who are wishing to learn to chart their cycles for medical knowledge or to avoid, postpone, or achieve pregnancy.

*Languages: English

Ferely Correa
Billings Ovulation Method Instructor

Ferely works with couples/women who wish to achieve, postpone or avoid pregnancies, providing training on Natural Family Planning Billings Method.

Ferely trabaja con parejas/mujeres que deseen lograr, posponer o evitar embarazos, dando entrenamiento en el Método Natural de Planificación Familiar Billings.
*Languages: English, Spanish

Kim Cole
Certified Billings Instructor

Kim sees women and couples experiencing all phases of the continuum. Regular Cycles, Irregular Cycles, Breastfeeding, Coming off Hormonal Contraceptives, Perimenopausal and Stress. Couples wishing to achieve or avoid or looking for help understanding how to chart fertility.

*Languages: English

Monica Bergeron, CFCP
Certified Fertility Care Practitioner

Monica provides Natural Family Planning training and FertilityCare education for women and couples using the Creighton Model.

*Languages: English, Spanish

Lynn Knapke, MA, IAPOC, CHES, DBH(cand.)
Behavioral Health and Wellness Clinician

Lynn sees male or female adults or youth, religious sisters, and couples for behavioral health needs assessment plus wellness-life coaching. Lynn’s care is deeply whole-person and roots-oriented; with specialties in family-related issues, sorrowfulness, and insecurities. PraiseMoves (or Latin) exercise may also be requested by women (at least age 8; may be wheelchair-bound).

*Languages: English

Darci Blackstock
Health Coach

Darci partners with adults interested in improving health and wellbeing.

*Languages: English

Kristen Moore, CHWC
Certified Health and Wellness Coach

Kristen sees adults and adolescents for health and wellness consultation and weight management.

*Languages: English

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