Meet our Team of Experts

Expert Support, Anytime You Need It – Guidance, Advice, and Care for Every Step of Your Parenting Journey

Our team brings together experts in child development, movement, and parent support—including play therapists, pediatric physical therapists, and experienced early childhood specialists.

We’re here to help you feel confident in how you support your child—offering clear guidance, practical tools, and insight into what matters most during the early years.

Stuart Childress

CEO & Co-Founder

Celita Lee

CMO & Co-Founder

  • Stuart Childress is the Owner and CEO of the Heybrook, a comprehensive platform and community designed to empower parents from preconception through postpartum. She holds an MBA from the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business and brings extensive experience across education nonprofits, healthcare startups, and large corporations, focusing primarily on program management, product development, and strategic leadership.

    Stuart is deeply passionate about creating meaningful impact by empowering women and parents through access to community, education, and resources. Her dedication to uplifting others drives her mission to develop innovative solutions that strengthen individuals and build thriving communities.

    Outside of her work at the Heybrook, Stuart is a proud mom to three young children, balancing her professional pursuits with her personal commitment to family and connection

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Director of Community Engagement

Jordan Davison

Program and Site Director

Meredith McKee Ruth

Dir. of Community

  • With a background in special education and over a decade as a in home-nanny, I bring together my expertise with a degree in Child Development and certification as a Postpartum Doula. Additionally, I volunteer as a Continuing Education Lead for a local non-profit, actively supporting doula learning initiatives in the Puget Sound area..

  • Meredith helps connect the dots between our members, benefits, expert providers and the larger community, in person and online! She is a mama to two littles, a maternity, newborn and family photographer, and an outdoor enthusiast. 

    She passionately supports other women and small businesses, and has previously worked for a letterpress designer, a chocolatier and a chef! 

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Laura Morin

Doula Support; Childbirth Educator

Dr. Becky Rousseau

Pediatric PT

  • Dr. Becky Rousseau is a board certified and licensed physical therapist with 5+ years of experience working in children's homes, clinics and schools. Becky enjoys working with kiddos and their families to help achieve their goals to functional independence while having fun. With her patient’s she saw a need for new families to learn how to connect, play and engage with their little one’s while helping develop emerging and upcoming gross motor skills. She is excited to teach you fun ways to bond and play with your kiddo’s without all the stress.

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Rebecca Michi

Sleep Solutions Sleep Support

  • Rebecca Michi is a children's sleep consultant and author specializing in gentle no-cry sleep support for families with children under 6 years old. With nearly 30 years of experience, she's helped thousands of families turn drama into dreamland. She lives in Seattle with her two teenage children (who are both off to college soon!), husband and German shepherd. She enjoys hiking, relaxing and being British; she loves nothing more than a cup of tea in the evening

    Learn more about Rebecca at Children's Sleep Consultant