Death Doula, Death Companioning & Soul Doula Care

Early Diagnosis • Serious Illness • Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) • VSED • Grief Tending • Licensed Psilocybin Facilitation • Healing Arts • Body-Oriented Coaching & Integration

Oregon + Nationwide

You Are Welcome Here

Life can change in ways that invite us into deeper reflection, heartfelt conversations, and new ways of relating to ourselves and those we love.

You may be processing a new diagnosis, living with a serious illness, supporting someone you care about, tending grief, or considering what care, support, and choices feel most aligned for you moving forward.

For some, these conversations begin with a diagnosis, a loss, or an unexpected change. For others, they include caregiving, aging, dying, death, and end-of-life planning. Sometimes they arise through a growing awareness of mortality and a desire to engage more consciously with the dying process.

Whether you are surrounded by family and community or finding your way without a strong support network, you are welcome here.

I offer grounded presence, practical support, education, and compassionate companioning for those living with illness, tending grief, caring for loved ones, making end-of-life decisions, and moving through life’s many transitions.

As a Death Doula, Death Companion, Grief Tender, and Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator in Oregon, I offer non-medical support for individuals and families living with serious illness, caregiving, advance care planning, end-of-life planning, grief, death, and the many transitions that accompany being human.

My work is rooted in cultural humility, spiritual autonomy, and respect for each person’s lived experience.

Who This Work Supports

This work may be supportive for:

• Individuals living with a new diagnosis or serious illness
• People approaching the end of life
• Those exploring Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) or Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED)
• Family members, caregivers, and chosen family
• Individuals with strong family and community support, as well as those moving through these experiences with limited support or on their own
• People preparing advance directives and end-of-life plans
• Those interested in green burial, natural burial, human composting, aquamation, home funerals, or family-led after-death care
• Individuals and families tending all expressions of grief before, during or after a death
• Those seeking licensed psilocybin facilitation and integration support
• People longing for a more conscious relationship with death, grief, legacy, and what is of most value and of the essence

All Are Welcome

I welcome people of all cultures, ancestries, races, abilities, spiritual traditions, faiths, genders, sexual orientations, relationship structures, and family configurations.

This includes LGBTQIA2S+ individuals, couples, families, caregivers, and chosen family.

Care is rooted in cultural humility, spiritual autonomy, and respect for each person’s lived experience.

Companioning Through Early Diagnosis

A diagnosis often brings many things into focus.

It can be a time to gather information, strengthen support systems, clarify priorities, and tend to the emotional, relational, and spiritual realities that accompany change.

Support may include:

• Preparing for appointments and conversations with providers
• Clarifying wishes, values, and priorities
• Strengthening communication with loved ones
• Exploring available resources and support systems
• Advance care planning when desired
• Emotional, relational, and spiritual support

Not every diagnosis leads immediately toward end-of-life planning. Often, companioning begins by helping people feel informed, connected, supported, and resourced as they orient to what lies ahead.

A Way of Being With

This is non-medical companioning care that attends to the practical, emotional, relational, cultural, and spiritual dimensions of serious illness, caregiving, grief, dying, death, and life’s many transitions.

Together we create space for:

• Reflection and discernment
• Practical preparation
• Heartfelt conversations
• Grief and love
• Connection and belonging
• Presence and support

Care is shaped around your values, relationships, traditions, beliefs, and the path that feels most aligned for you.

Medical Aid in Dying (MAID)

Medical Aid in Dying is a legal end-of-life option in Oregon under the Oregon Death with Dignity Act.

MAID allows a qualified person with a terminal illness to request and receive medication that they choose to self-administer in order to bring about a peaceful death.

Support May Include

• Understanding eligibility requirements and timelines
• Orienting to forms and documentation
• Preparing for conversations with providers and loved ones
• Clarifying wishes, values, and intentions
• Exploring timing, setting, and practical considerations
• Emotional, relational, and spiritual support throughout the process

Preparation for a Planned Death

Death is a natural part of life.

Preparation often includes practical planning, authentic conversations, expressions of love, and creating conditions that support dignity, choice, and connection.

Support may include:

• Advance care planning and end-of-life planning
• Legacy and life review work
• Family meetings and conversations
• Ritual, music, prayer, silence, or storytelling
• Planning who will be present
• Preparing the physical environment
• Creating a sense of steadiness leading into the day

Planned Death Day Companioning

On the day itself, I offer:

• Grounded presence
• Gentle orientation and support
• Attention to pacing and flow
• Companioning for loved ones and caregivers
• Support for cultural traditions, spiritual practices, and personal wishes

The focus remains on the person at the center and the experience they wish to create.

After a Planned Death

Following a death, there is often much to tend.

Support may include:

• Grief tending and bereavement support
• Family integration sessions
• Embodied practices for grounding
• Legacy reflection and remembrance
• Ongoing individual or family support

Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED)

VSED is a conscious decision to stop eating and drinking, allowing the body to complete its natural dying process over time.

This path often benefits from steady support for both the individual and those who love them.

Support may include:

• Preparation and orientation
• Emotional and relational support
• Care team coordination
• 24-hour care planning
• Family support and education
• Grief tending and integration

Green Burial & After-Death Education

Many people find comfort in understanding their options before a death occurs.

Whether planning ahead for yourself or supporting someone you love, I can help orient you to the choices available and support conversations about what feels most aligned with your values, beliefs, environmental considerations, and wishes.

Support may include:

• Green burial education
• Natural burial education
• Human composting (Natural Organic Reduction)
• Aquamation (alkaline hydrolysis)
• Cremation options
• Home funerals and family-led after-death care
• Traditional burial options
• MAID and VSED planning considerations
• Advance directives and end-of-life planning
• Connecting with local resources and providers

My role is to help you understand your options so choices can be made with greater clarity and confidence.

After-Death Care & Family Companioning

The hours and days following a death are held with reverence and care. 

Families are often surprised to learn that there may be time to slow down, gather, and be with their loved one before transportation takes place.

Support may include:

• Companioning family members immediately following a death
• Guidance around family-led after-death care
• Washing, bathing, dressing, or anointing the body when desired
• Creating rituals of farewell
• Holding vigil with family and community
• Education about Oregon after-death options
• Supporting transportation and disposition planning
• Companioning children and loved ones through the process

Many families find that spending time with the body after death supports a more gradual and supported transition.

Home Blessing, Clearing & Transition Rituals

Following a death, some individuals and families appreciate creating a ritual to acknowledge the transition that has occurred and support a sense of grounding, peace, and continuity within the home.

Support may include:

• Home blessing or transition rituals
• Energetic hygiene and clearing practices
• Prayer, song, silence, or candle-lighting ceremonies
• Honoring cultural and spiritual traditions
• Creating an altar or remembrance space
• Family rituals of release, gratitude, and remembrance
• Support in reorienting to the home following a death

These rituals are always guided by the family’s beliefs, traditions, and wishes.

Collaborative Care

When desired, I work alongside:

• Medical providers
• Hospice and palliative care teams
• Therapists and counselors
• Spiritual care providers
• Family members and caregivers
• Community support networks

This collaborative approach helps create continuity, communication, and support for everyone involved.

Additional Support

Grief Tending & Bereavement Care

Grief  is non-linear. Grief is individual, collective, ancestral and ecological in nature. Grief expresses itself in many forms. It comes in waves and a multitude of expressions. There is no wrong way to grief. The grieving process like the dying process is very intimate, natural and unique to each one of us.

Whether you are anticipating a loss, supporting someone who is dying, or learning to live with the absence of someone you love, grief deserves companionship, witness, and care.

Embodiment & Nature-Based Integration

Grounding through the body and connection with the natural world.

Sessions may incorporate embodied listening, movement, breath, sound, ritual, reflection, and nature-based practices that support resilience, belonging, and integration.

Licensed Psilocybin Facilitation, Preparation & Integration (Oregon Only)

Licensed psilocybin facilitation is available through an Oregon licensed service center.

Support includes preparation, facilitation, and integration for those tending grief, living with serious illness, carrying end-of-life concerns, moving through significant life changes, or seeking greater connection, insight, and soul-level transformation. 

All services are grounded in consent, safety, cultural humility, and spiritual autonomy.

Location & Services

Based in Eugene, Oregon, I provide Death Doula and Death Companion services, Grief Support, Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) Companioning, VSED Support, Green Burial Education, Natural Burial Planning, After-Death Care Guidance, Family-Led After-Death Care Support, and Licensed Psilocybin Facilitation for individuals and families throughout Oregon and beyond.

Ongoing Companioning

Some people prefer support as needed.

Others appreciate ongoing companioning that offers continuity, relationship, and support over time.

Ongoing companioning may include:

• Preparation sessions
• Regular visits or check-ins
• Advance care planning and end-of-life planning
• Support during the dying process
• Vigil presence
• Family meetings and support
• After-death care guidance
• Grief tending and bereavement support

Care is shaped around individual needs, circumstances, values, and preferences.

When multiple sessions or forms of support are arranged together, a 15% continuity-of-care reduction is often available.

Investment in Care

$44–$88 per hour

Sliding scale is available based on individual circumstances.

I believe access to care matters and welcome conversations about what feels possible and supportive.

Additional Support

Additional time can be arranged when circumstances call for deeper presence or extended support.

Services are available:

• In person throughout the Eugene area
• Virtually throughout Oregon and beyond

Reduced Rates for Ongoing Clients

Clients receiving ongoing companioning support may access reduced rates for:

• Healing arts sessions
• Body-Oriented Coaching and Integration
• Legacy projects
• Grief tending
• Licensed psilocybin facilitation

Licensed Psilocybin Facilitation Sliding Scale: $777–$1888

15% reduction available for active death companioning clients.

Access to Care

Financial circumstances vary, and access to care matters.

If the listed rates feel out of reach, please reach out.

Sliding scale and flexible payment options may be available, and together we can explore what feels supportive and sustainable.

A Note on Care

Death companioning is rooted in relationship, continuity, and presence.

Whether we meet once or work together over time, care is shaped with respect for your pace, your values, your relationships, and the support that feels right for you.

Whether you are processing a diagnosis, living with serious illness, caring for a loved one, considering MAID or VSED, tending grief, planning for death, or exploring after-death options, support can be tailored to meet you where you are.

Connect

If you are wondering whether this support may be helpful, I invite you to reach out for a connection call.

Together we can explore your questions, circumstances, hopes, concerns, and what kind of support feels most aligned for you and those you love.

Whether you are processing a diagnosis, living with serious illness, caring for someone who is dying, considering MAID or VSED, tending grief, exploring after-death options, or seeking a more conscious relationship with mortality and the dying process, you are welcome to reach out.

A Closing Reflection

Death is not only a medical event.

It is also a human, relational, cultural, spiritual, and family experience.

Death is a natural part of life. Like birth, it can be understood as a labor—one that asks something of the person who is dying and of those who love them. It is also a ceremony, a threshold, and an opportunity to honor a life that has been lived.

Every death deserves respect.

Whether quiet or communal, expected or sudden, each person’s dying process carries its own stories, relationships, values, traditions, and expressions of love.

Whether you are living with a new diagnosis, approaching the end of life, supporting someone who is dying, exploring after-death options, considering MAID or VSED, tending grief, or seeking support through a psilocybin journey, you do not have to carry it alone.

My intention is to offer grounded presence, practical support, education, and compassionate companioning that honors your values, relationships, traditions, and unique way of meeting life, death, and all that unfolds between them.