- Full scale support through illness and dying, from life administration to sitting vigil
- Advanced planning and legacy building
- Swedish cleaning / ritual preparation
- Full spectrum assistance with Medical Aid in Dying in New York
- Funeral officiating
- Fullscale Jewish end of life needs (see below)
This life takes us through so many chapters as we each make our ways through. I have found that the chapters at the end of life come quicker and more intensely. At the end of life, one of our most potent times, meeting our emotional and spiritual needs can be difficult to navigate. My doula toolkit allows me to listen, offer, share, hold, serve, and advocate. My doula toolkit can open space to prepare, understand, face head on (or from around the edges!), understand, and find caring connection. My doula toolkit can support a person facing end of life and their circle of care.
Which isn’t to say that a death doula can meet all of a client’s emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life. But when we open the space together, we can find even small ways that make a difference.
My services range from virtual support sessions, real-time support, in-person support for end-of-life including visits and sitting vigil, legacy building/memorial creation, home clean-out assistance, after-death care including shmirah (Jewish practice of sitting with the body), spiritual and Jewish religious rituals including shiva, and more. In person or from afar, these services are highly specialized based on what feels right for you and yours.
What does it mean to be an end of life doula?
Death is one of the most significant things we do, profoundly, alone. And yet we do not need to undertake the process alone.
It is my honor to work as a doula within a greater circle of care. I provide compassionate, trauma-informed, feminist emotional, logistical, and physical support for the full timeline of end of life.
I can meet you where you are, and to offer the care you need during end of life with humility, warmth, curiosity, vulnerability, pragmatism, and a sense of our creaturely nature.
Queer & Nonbinary Doula Services
It is my great honor to sit with and serve my queer, trans, and gay elders. The needs of our community are unique. Let’s talk about ways I can meet these needs.
Jewish Doula Services
I am educated in Jewish practices across major institutional denominations and beyond. As with Judaism itself — belief in God is not required, but being Jewish is much more than that.
- Funeral, burial, and unveiling celebrant-officiant
- Help navigating funeral and burial logistics
- Offering Jewish text, liturgy, and music for everyday and ritual
- Shmirah (ritual accompaniment of the body after death)
- Shiva (days of communal mourning gathering) in person and Zoom facilitation
- Shloshim (a month following death)
- Kaddish (recitation of the mourners’ prayer)
- Yahrzeit rituals
For information about pricing, see my Sliding Scale Page.
