As an end-of-life doula, I am trained to watch and listen deeply in order to provide personalized and nonjudgemental care. I am available to support you in your home, care facility, or hospital, and my services complement the care you receive from family and friends, your hospice team, and other health care providers. I can help you create a non-medical comfort plan to convey your wishes for a “good death.” Your comfort plan includes how you might prefer the last days of life to look, sound, and smell, and who you would like to be present. I will advocate that your wishes are followed as closely as possible with your circle of support, paid caregivers, and clinicians.

I will help your family recognize the signs and symptoms of approaching death and can help connect with community resources for additional caregiving support. When death becomes imminent, I am available to provide presence at the bedside, to provide emotional, informational, and psychological support, and to provide respite for caregivers. At the time of death, I can assist in providing last acts of care for the body and facilitate rituals according to your wishes. Following death, I can work with the family through early grief, bereavement, and healing.

Guidance and support services include:

• Coaching and respite for caregivers and circle of support

• Liaise with medical and hospice care teams

• Advocacy for end-of-life wishes and care plan

• Personalized guided imagery, visualizations, and breathing exercises

• Education about terminal illness and death processes

• Connection with community resources

• Support for people choosing Medical Aid in Dying or Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking

• Plans for post-death care

• Rituals to process loss and grief