When a client faces a life-limiting illness, many therapists are adrift in unfamiliar seas. Our training might not always equip us to navigate the profound questions and emotions that arise in the shadow of mortality.

Therapists carry their own memories, biases, and feelings about death. How can we remain anchors for our clients when we too are weighed down by the gravity of the situation?

I offer expertise in end-of-life care, providing therapists with the guidance needed during these profound transitions. Whether it's supporting your client, a clinical consultation to you, or a collaborative meeting with you and your client, I'm here to help illuminate the path.

Bringing death and grief back into the everyday and knitting them into the social fabric is a special contribution of an end-of-life doula.

I am a skilled teacher and presenter, at ease giving talks or workshops at places of worship, at senior living residences, to hospice and medical teams, to gatherings of families and friends.

My topics range from introducing people to the profession of end-of-life doulas, speaking about the medicalization and marginalization of death, reviewing advanced directives, revealing how communities that differ by class or race have special dilemmas or needs around dying and death, sharing the power and creation of rituals, exploring family dynamics when a loved family member is dying—and more.

Although diagnosis, dying, death and grief are universal experiences, they are powerfully impacted by social class, race, religion, culture, gender identity and ableism—to name just a few social variables with real world consequences.

I have a passion not only for approaching individuals and families with cultural humility, but for uplifting assumptions, obstacles to equitable care and treatment, and blatant or subtle (but no less harmful) prejudicial and oppressive practices that create very different experiences of access to end-of-life care & of grief, dying and death itself.