Talia Schiff

Born and raised in the Bay Area, Talia Schiff is a certified nurse-midwife and women's health nurse practitioner who has been in practice since 2022. Most recently, she has been working at John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, providing care for women throughout the lifespan, with a special emphasis on pregnant populations.Talia provides evidence-based, patient-centered care rooted in the belief that women thrive when empowered to advocate for themselves. She engages in shared decision-making with every patient by listening and ensuring patients feel they are given space for their thoughts and questions. Before becoming a midwife, she worked as a birth and postpartum doula and childbirth educator. She loves to teach and takes time with each patient to ensure they feel ready for birth, feeding their baby, and the postpartum period. Having grown up in a multilingual home speaking Russian and Hebrew, she especially enjoys working with people from diverse backgrounds. As a mother of two who experienced two unmedicated births herself, Talia brings a different perspective to the birth world.In her free time, Talia enjoys spending time with her family and friends, playing piano, cooking, painting, gardening, and traveling.Talia trained at the University of California, San Francisco, and holds a Master of Public Health from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of British Columbia.