End-of-Life Support

End-of-Life Doula Services
Complement the care of family members and friends, and palliative and hospice professionals, by securing help to ease anxiety, aid in comfort, and promote a personalized passage. Prepare for death and ensure the support to have any tasks required performed to ease the transition. This work can begin days, weeks, months, or years before nearing the end of life.  This important work of preparing for death can begin at any time.

End-of Life Doula services include:
Serving as companion to the client and her or his loved ones
Increasing quality life moments for client and loved ones
Helping to bring closure to unresolved issues
Facilitating life review process
Facilitating end-of-life planning
Planning the vigil
Suggesting interventions for comfort
Creating remembrances
Guiding client toward peace and acceptance
Helping client find meaning in life and contributions to life
Supporting client and loved ones through the end-of-life journey
Supporting client and loved ones through the process of grief

Death Cafe Circles
One conversation at a time, we transform our relationship to aging, mortality, dying and death, so we may transform also the way we live. Death Cafes are run in circle format, and everyone has a chance to share questions, ideas, experiences, concerns. The Death Cafe is an opportunity to discuss death without expectations. This is not a group therapy or grief counseling session. We can do that by appointment.

As an affiliate of DeathCafe.com, our meetings have no intention of leading participants to any conclusion, product or course of action. Our meetings are an open, respectful and confidential space where people can express their views safely over tea, coffee, and delicious cookies or cake–baked by me.

A Year to Live Circles
Based on Stephen Levine’s format of the practice of A Year to Live, we commit to the year-long group process of living a year as if it were our last and explore the many psychological, emotional, and spiritual aspects of consciously facing our mortality and deepening the contemplation on our own dying and the end of existence as we currently know and understand it.

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