As Your Doula, I offer:
Organization of end-of-life plans and health care directives - How do I get my affairs in order? what is the next step?
Support individuals in processing medical diagnoses - What does this mean? What do I do next?
Provide health care system navigation support - What do these services provide? What is right for me?
Educate on end-of-life options and choices - What feels best and most authentically my choice?
Provide guidance on sitting vigil and being present at the end-of-life - What is normal? How can I be involved?
Demystify the dying processes with grounded information - Supporting the care team in all the ways, getting through the hard days together
Offer rituals for emotional and spiritual support - What can we do to bring sacredness to this space and process, honoring what it is.
Plan farewell events and ceremonies - Living Funerals, Goodbye events - Can we honor this life in a thoughtful way?
Facilitate home funerals, ritual bathing and shrouding of the deceased - We want to spend more time saying goodbye
My Approach
I believe that dying is far more than a medical event — it is a profound human experience. That’s why I accompany the dying and the grieving as they navigate this tender transition, offering presence, support, and reverence. I hold space for the emotional, spiritual, and relational complexities of this time, honoring the whole being in the process of letting go.
I center the voice and wishes of the dying, because no one else can truly know what it feels like to die except the person experiencing it. It is their journey — their body, their identity, their relationships, their losses, their decisions. I walk alongside them with deep respect, allowing their truth to lead the way.
I support the family, chosen family, and community of the dying person. My role is not to replace these essential relationships, but to guide, inform, and reassure — helping to demystify the dying process, answer questions, and explore how each person wants to be involved.
As an end-of-life doula, my priority is to ensure that the dying person is feeling deeply witnessed, deeply cared for, and deeply honored - however that may be!
Dying needs to be heard and respected. I can’t take away the heartbreak and despair that comes with letting go, but I can be in it with you. Through nurturing the experience, I am here to witness and honor your life, walking through it, together.
Workshops and Group Facilitation
Conversations around death, demystify the process of dying, and grounding people’s perceptions in realities instead of projecting fear - this is what is group facilitation is best for.
I facilitate group workshops on end-of-life planning, supporting teams and leadership through grief, and life affirming workshops that touch on making choices that reflect how we want to live and die. This is a lot easier and more fun to do in a group!
Gathering with people and talking about what is so often taboo to talk about reminds us that death is natural, and the fears we have are shared opportunities to learn and connect.