Grief &
End Of Life Care
Death is not a problem to be solved. Neither is grief. They are part of what it means to be human, and yet we live in a culture that rarely makes room for either.
I work with people navigating loss, serious illness, and the end of life. Whether you are grieving, accompanying someone who is dying, or facing your own mortality, this work is about bringing care, presence, and steady companionship into some of the most tender moments in one’s life.
Grief &
End Of Life Care
Death is not a problem to be solved. Neither is grief. They are part of what it means to be human, and yet we live in a culture that rarely makes room for either.
I work with people navigating loss, serious illness, and the end of life. Whether you are grieving, accompanying someone who is dying, or facing your own mortality, this work is about bringing care, presence, and steady companionship into some of the most tender moments in one’s life.
Grief Coaching
Grief is not only the loss of a person.
It arrives with the end of a relationship, a career, an identity, a way of living. It arrives when something that mattered deeply is gone. All of a sudden, you find the ground beneath you has shifted, and you are standing in the loss, disoriented, confused, and heartbroken.
Grief coaching offers a dedicated space to be with what you are carrying -- to process emotion, develop language for an experience that often resists words, and make meaning from loss in a way that honors both what was and what is still possible.
Grief coaching is a collaborative relationship with no fixed agenda and no prescribed path. We move at your own pace, follow what is alive for you in each conversation, and rebuild the ground beneath you as we go. Some people come with a specific loss in mind. Others come with a more diffuse sense that something has ended, and they haven't yet found their way through. Both are welcome here.
End of Life Doula
Most people have never heard of a death doula — or if they have, they aren't quite sure what one does. Simply put, a death doula offers non-medical support to individuals and families navigating serious illness and the dying process.
Where medicine addresses the body, doula work attends to the whole person: the emotional, the relational, the spiritual, and the practical.
What this looks like in practice varies enormously depending on where someone is and what they need.
Conversations and planning
Sometimes the most valuable thing is a series of unhurried conversations that make room for what matters, what is feared, what is hoped for. This kind of space is rare, and it may be the first time for many people to speak about dying openly and without rushing toward resolution. This work can include care planning, advance care plan, legacy work, and after-death planning. Each is its own terrain, and we follow what is most alive and most needed.
Presence and companionship
Sometimes support looks different, more present, more sustained, more in person. It takes the form of vigil and companionship, supporting family members, holding space for ritual and meaning-making, and ensuring that the person and family are not alone. Grief is already present in these moments, and I bring the same care to the family as to the person at the center.
WHY this work
My understanding of grief and end-of-life care has been deepening for several years.
What began as something personal has led me to believe that how we care for the dying, and how we grieve, shapes not just individuals but families, communities, and the culture.
Bringing care, presence, and compassion into life’s most tender moments makes what feels undigestible, digestible. It is culture making.
And that is why I am here.
If you are carrying grief or facing end of life, for yourself or someone you love, I'd welcome a conversation.
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