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I'm a doula, Advanced Care Planner and End-of-Life Community Educator — I support individuals and families around the dying process with presence, planning, and compassionate guidance. Whether someone is facing a terminal illness or simply preparing for the future, I help create meaningful, supported transitions, legacy projects, and space for what's often left unsaid.
Susan believes dying deserves the same dignity and care given to the beginning of life. She offers compassionate, non-judgmental, non-medical comfort care shaped around each person’s advance care plan, values, and wishes, while helping ease the weight carried by loved ones.
Death, Dignified is an end-of-life education and doula practice serving Greater Austin, Central Texas, and remote clients. Kirsten provides non-medical support for individuals and families from early planning through serious illness, active dying, family communication, vigil, memorial, and legacy considerations.
Through The Quiet Harbor, Amanda offers gentle, grounded, non-medical support to individuals and families navigating dying, death, and grief. Her work centers on presence, education, advocacy, honest conversations, thoughtful planning, emotional support, and meaningful connection.
Ashley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker licensed in over 40 states, and an IEOLCA Certified End-of-Life Doula. She holds certifications as a Master Certified Addiction Professional, International Alcohol and Drug Counselor, NASW Gerontology Certificate, Qualified Clinical Social Worker, and in Accelerated Resolution Therapy for trauma.
Karen Carlisi offers End-of-Life Doula, MAID Support, Grief Support, Advance Care Planning support. Open the profile for training, availability, and contact details.
Sandi is a certified end-of-life doula serving the Flathead Valley. She believes strongly in bringing art and music into spaces where uncertainty abounds, as well as recording stories that future generations can return to as they make sense of where they came from.
Hello! My name is Kaitlyn, and I am an End-of-Life Doula dedicated to providing support for individuals and families navigating the end-of-life journey. I have experience caring for older adults, specializing in end-of-life care for those with dementia. Every person’s story, needs, and wishes are unique, everyone deserves their death to be tailored to them and treated as more than a medical event. I offer caretaking support, dementia care, legacy planning, emotional presence, and guidance for families as they navigate this transition.
Aaron Deisher offers End-of-Life Doula, Dementia Support, Pet Death Doula, Grief Support support. Open the profile for training, availability, and contact details.
My name is Helen Dunkle and I am an End-of-Life Doula, Elder Care Doula, and Advance Care Planning guide. For over two decades, I have walked alongside individuals and families across hospice, home-care, and community settings; providing support through aging, serious illness, and the final stages of life often, sitting at the bedside and helping families understand what their loved one is experiencing.
I am a certified end-of-life doula, offering sacred death planning and compassionate support for individuals and families navigating serious illness, dying, and grief. My work honours each person's unique wishes, values, and beliefs — ensuring no one walks this path alone.
Hi, I'm Marni Purnell, RN, MSN, and the founder of Hand to Heart End-of-Life Doula. With years of experience as a Hospice Registered Nurse, I guide patients and families through life's most profound transitions. As a trained End-of-Life Doula, Reiki Master, and Ordained Minister, I blend clinical, emotional, and spiritual care into a truly holistic approach.
Wednesdae Reim Ifrach is an end-of-life doula, board-certified art therapist, and counselor who integrates somatic inquiry with radical, community-based care. Specializing in queer-affirming and trauma-informed support, they guide individuals through the existential complexities of death, dying, and grief using poetry and art to facilitate legacy work and body reclamation.
Jaime is the founder of End of Life Navigation Services, a travel-themed death doula practice created to help individuals and families navigate death with more comfort, clarity, and intentionality. With training through INELDA and Doulagivers, she brings a warm, accessible approach to end-of-life care, advance care planning, and grief support.
Kim B. Jones is an author, grief specialist, and heart-centered educator. Through her SMILE approach and GriefTelling practice, she helps people identify and give voice to hidden emotions, regrets, and sorrows, creating space for peace, forgiveness, and love.
Since 2000, Sage Lewis has worked worldwide with people and animals. She is a Certified Life Coach (CPCC), Animal Communicator/Intuitive, Animal Hospice Consultant, INELDA & IEOLCA Trained Death Doula (People & Pets), Certified Tellington TTouch® Advanced Practitioner, and Shamanic Practitioner. Her passion is supporting peaceful transitions through life, death, and beyond.
Rachel is a licensed social worker, psychotherapist, and end-of-life doula. She serves on the board of End of Life Options DC and volunteers with hospice. Her dedication to this work is rooted in her personal experience accompanying her aunt through Vermont’s MAID process, inspiring her commitment to helping others create a peaceful and empowered end-of-life journey.
Julia (she/her) is an end-of-life doula and death educator, supporting individuals, families, and communities in navigating death with presence, connection, and dignity. Her path to this work is both personal and professional: she experienced the death of her mother at a young age and has since accompanied several loved ones through their final days, learning firsthand the power of compassionate presence.
As a trained mental health counselor, I bring a grounded, empathetic presence to end-of-life care. Driven by the experience of losing my own grandparents, I work to ensure families have the guidance I wish mine had. My goal is to bridge the gap between clinical care and soulful transition, offering emotional tools and practical guidance from pre-planning through aftercare. Virtual appointments available.
Through Endless Grace, Anne offers compassionate, person-centered support to individuals and families navigating serious illness, dying, loss, grief, pet loss, and major life transitions. She brings a calm, caring presence while helping clients explore their wishes, find meaning, preserve memories and legacy, prepare for difficult conversations, and feel supported through times of uncertainty and change.
My approach to death doula work is grounded in compassionate presence, deep listening, and honouring each person's unique story. I support individuals and families through the dying process with care, intention, and a commitment to ensuring no moment is faced alone.
I'm Misha, an Iranian-American death doula and grief tender. My deathwork honors the sacredness of death and the transformative power of grief. I offer culturally-rooted support for dying people and their loved ones throughout the dying process. I also provide grief tending for personal, collective, and ancestral grief, teaching that grief is both an emotional process and an act of resistance.
Marianne Muzic-Lucenti, LCSW, APHSW-C, INELDA Certified EOL Doula is a clinical social worker with over 25 years of experience supporting children with serious illness and their families throughout complex medical journeys. Recognizing the need for death education, anticipatory guidance, and compassionate support throughout the illness journey, Marianne has spent the past 11 years providing end-of-life doula and vigil support. She facilitates legacy-building projects, supports goals-of-care conversations, and assists with advance care planning. Through education, compassionate presence, and expert guidance, she helps families navigate difficult decisions, prepare for the future, and create meaningful memories during and after a child's life. Her holistic approach supports families across the continuum of care—from diagnosis and complex decision-making through end-of-life and bereavement. Marianne trained with INELDA in 2024 and is a Certified End of Life Doula. She also supports adults interested in MAID in Queens and Nassau County, New York.
With 19 years of experience in hospice services, Amanda Netherton brings a rare blend of clinical expertise and soul-centered compassion to end-of-life care. As a Certified CNA and End-of-Life Doula, she specializes in holding space for the difficult conversations that often go unspoken, helping to reduce the fear and anxiety that can surround the dying process.
Walking alongside you at life's most sacred threshold, offering compassionate support for individuals and families navigating serious illness, dying, and grief is sacred work. I approach it with deep reverence for each person's unique journey, and with the belief that dying, when met with compassion and intention, can be profoundly meaningful and a beautiful passage. Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
Audrey Quick offers End-of-Life Doula, Advance Care Planning support. Open the profile for training, availability, and contact details.
Sarah Rabideau is an end-of-life doula and holistic healer based in Saratoga Springs, NY. Called to this work in 2021, she holds certifications through INELDA, the Academy of Oracle Arts, and IEOLCA's Pet Death Doula program, with years of continued study alongside the Shipibo and Qero people of Peru. Her practice weaves together energy work, Munay-Ki healing, and Reiki to honour the sacred journey of transition.
Shante Schuyler is the founder of Sacred Farewell: End-of-Life Doula, a heart-centered practice in Casper, Wyoming dedicated to supporting individuals and families through death, dying, grief, and life's sacred transitions. She also hosts the monthly Sacred Sip Café, creating gentle spaces for honest conversations about mortality, meaning, and living fully.
Beth Shepherd is an end-of-life doula and the founder of Still Waters, offering calm, compassionate, non-medical support for individuals and families navigating serious illness, aging, and end-of-life. She provides guidance with meaningful conversations, advance planning, emotional support, and presence during difficult moments.
Emmi Simpson is an IEOLCA Certified End-of-Life Doula and founder of Quiet Regards in Palm Beach, Florida. She offers steady, non-medical support shaped around your wishes, beliefs, and pace, including advance care planning, family conversations, legacy projects, grief support, and bedside presence. Her background in design and organization brings thoughtful attention to peaceful surroundings and practical details.
Elizabeth (Liz) Singer is the founder of LP Geriatrics, a Geriatric Care Manager, End-of-Life Specialist, educator, and President of the New York Society for Ethical Culture. She presents the Aspects of Aging lecture series while helping individuals and families navigate aging, dementia, long-term care, and end-of-life planning with compassion, expertise, and practical guidance.
I believe that death is a natural and sacred part of life. My journey as a death doula began after the death of my father, which taught me the profound value of a peaceful transition. Trained through IEOLCA, I provide emotional, spiritual, and practical support to individuals and their families. When we walk together, no one walks alone.
Canada
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Cynthia Brown offers End-of-Life Doula, Pet Death Doula, Grief Support, Advance Care Planning support. Open the profile for training, availability, and contact details.
Stephen has experienced success as a teacher, investment banker, social worker, author, cremationist, and Interfaith Minister. He created the end-of-life doula program at Rhodes Wellness College — approved by the BC Provincial Training Branch — and brings decades of experience supporting people through death, grief, and life transition.
Kristina became a hospice volunteer in 2025 and knew she wanted to work in end-of-life care. She trained through the Institute of Traditional Medicine in grief education and contemplative end-of-life care, then became a Certified Advance Care Planning Facilitator through the BC Centre for Palliative Care. She offers primarily virtual support, with in-person support available in Ashcroft, BC.
I was drawn to end-of-life and grief support through a lifelong sensitivity to the quiet spaces where humanity reveals itself most clearly. For me, this work isn't just a profession—it's an extension of the way I see and feel the world. I have always been called to meet others with gentleness, to hold space for what cannot be fixed, and to witness people as they navigate life's most tender transitions.
Allison Russell is a Certified End-of-Life Doula dedicated to providing compassionate, heart-centered support to individuals and families during life’s final transition. With a background in healthcare, she brings a calm, grounded presence to her work and believes each person’s journey deserves to be honored with respect and compassion.
I am an end-of-life doula offering compassionate, non-medical support to individuals and families during one of life's most tender transitions. I bring a calm, grounded presence and a deep respect for each person's unique wishes, beliefs, and lived experience. Through my own experiences with loss and anticipatory grief, I have developed a genuine sensitivity to the emotional complexity of this time.
I am a Metaphysical Minister registered with CIMM, a certified End-of-Life Doula, Grief and Bereavement Coach, Reiki Master, and Energy Healer. As a spirit healer, I work in the tradition of the British pioneers. I'm also a Priestess of the Temple of Jord and the Temple of Hekate, and a practicing witch, honouring the sacred in all its forms.
International
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Charlie creates a supportive, person-centered space where clients can explore their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Alongside being a Certified End-of-Life Doula, Charlie holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling and is an ACT-Trained Clinician and Accredited Disaster Mental Health Counselor.
Elizabeth Chan is a Certified End-of-Life Doula based in Hong Kong. Her work sits at the intersection of end-of-life care, elder mediation, family dialogue, and dignity in later life. She offers calm, compassionate and practical support to individuals and families navigating serious illness, dying, grief, advance care planning, legacy reflection and difficult conversations.
I provide guidance, education, advocacy, and support with end-of-life planning, advance care documents, navigating treatment options for life-limiting illness, living wakes, legacy projects, home care and vigils, funeral preparations, and memorials. I visit you at home, in hospice, or in palliative care.
I am a death doula offering compassionate support through end-of-life, grief, and life transitions. My work is rooted in deep presence, cultural sensitivity, and a commitment to honoring each person's unique journey through death and loss.
I'm Darish, an end-of-life doula in Munich, supporting people in English and Russian, online and in person. I lost my great-grandmother, my grandmother and my mother, and I know how lonely it can feel when no one around you is ready to talk about death. After training with Death Foundation in 2024, I chose to become the person who is. I walk alongside people who are dying, families caring for someone they love, and anyone carrying grief, whether the loss has happened or is still coming. Together we can talk openly about fears and wishes, sort out the practical side, create a legacy project, or simply sit with what hurts. As a yoga teacher, I also help you notice where grief lives in the body. You don't need the right words or to be "coping well." Come as you are and we'll go at your pace🫂
Rafal Szaniawski is a certified Death Doula, Master Certified Coach (MCC), and grief practitioner. He accompanies people and families through the often difficult, profound, and deeply human experience of dying and loss. His approach is centred on presence, compassion, dignity, and creating space for honest conversations about death.
What Does an End-of-Life Doula Do?
An end-of-life doula, sometimes called a death doula, provides non-medical support to individuals and families navigating serious illness, dying, death, and grief. Their role may include emotional support, practical guidance, advance care planning, legacy work, vigil presence, family support, and help understanding what to expect as the end of life approaches.
End-of-life doulas work alongside hospice, palliative care, and other healthcare professionals. Each doula brings different training, experience, and areas of support, so finding someone whose approach reflects your needs and wishes is important.
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How do I find a death doula near me?
Use the directory filters to search by name, city, state or province, country, support type, client availability, or virtual services. Each listing includes the doula’s location and the kinds of support they offer.
What does a death doula do?
A death doula, also called an end-of-life doula, provides non-medical support to individuals and families navigating death and dying. Support may include emotional presence, vigil support, advance care planning, legacy work, grief support, education, and practical guidance.
What is the difference between a death doula and hospice?
Hospice provides medical and clinical care at end of life. A death doula offers non-medical support such as presence, emotional care, planning, legacy work, and family guidance that can complement, but does not replace, hospice or medical care.
The IEOLCA Doula Directory is a listing service. Inclusion in this directory does not constitute an endorsement of any individual doula’s practice, qualifications, or suitability for your situation. We encourage families to ask questions and take time to find a doula whose experience and approach meet their needs.