​Amanda Halpin, RN, NP, IBCLC

registered nurse, adult nurse practitioner, lactation consultant

Amanda trained as a masters-prepared adult nurse practitioner with a focus on integrative and complementary healing at UCSF, graduating in 2011. She then practiced primary care and internal medicine for seven years before pursuing additional training in lactation care. She completed the 120-hour BreastEd series via Health e-Learning's International Institute of Human Lactation, followed by over 500 hours of supervised clinical care in lactation support, then certification as an IBCLC. Happy to work with any family, she has a special interest in blending her skills to support families whose parenting journey includes complex medical situations. She continues to work as a nurse practitioner in a clinic focused on complex chronic disease management in the public health safety net. She lives in San Francisco with her two children.


A sampling of Amanda's recent lactation-related training and continuing education:

• ​Untying Ankyloglossia: The impact on infants and children. With Dr. Bobby Ghaheri in Portland, Oregon at OHSU School of Dentistry, October 2019.
• Structure and Function: How the Infant’s Structure Affects the Infant’s Function. With Jaye Haleryn via live video program. September 2018. 
• Sessions of the 2018 Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine international conference in San Francisco. 
• the Impact of Tongue-Tie on Breastfeeding and the Cranio-facial Skeleton. With Dr. Bobby Ghaheri in Berkeley, CA, September 2018.