A Heartfelt Passage

Services

Services I Offer

Consult and Evaluation

Understanding, prioritizing and addressing your needs and concerns to create a personalized end of life plan congruent with your wishes, beliefs and values.

Support and Guidance

Providing reassurance, soothing and caring as well as facilitating deep conversations, relational healings and peaceful transitions for both you and your loved ones.

Choice Clarification

Generating together options for your care, environment and relationships; educating on choices for coping with changes, losses and the end of life process; pinpointing resources for advance directives and other financial and legal supports.

Legacy creation

Identifying and engaging in activities that facilitate meaning and purpose and create connection that will live on after your death. This might include activities such as written or video stories, photo collages, memory boxes, constructing an ethical will, establishing donations or scholarships meaningful to you.

Ritual Development

Creating thoughtful and individualized recognition practices to honor transitions in your dying process and end of life as well as to respect the grieving process throughout for both you and your loved ones

Vigil planning and vigil respite sitting

Outlining and planning for bedside presence as life ebbs including how you wish your bedside environment to look, feel, sound and smell and who you wish to attend you at this time.

Comfort Care

Supporting you and your loved ones and caregivers with physical, practical, emotional and spiritual care including guided imagery, meditation, music and other non-medical interventions to alleviate discomfort and provide respite.

Funeral and after death planning

Exploring options and assisting with arranging memorials and celebrations of life and loving final placement of your body.

Early grief support and grief processing

Helping your loved ones to review and process their experiences with you at the end of life and to prepare them for the grief journey ahead with compassionate support and guidance and grief education including referrals for longer term bereavement care as needed.

"Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone."

Get In Touch

I serve Contra Costa County (in-person and virtually) and am also available for virtual appointments and in-person on occasion to homes outside of Contra Costa County. I offer both an hourly rate and packaged rates for services. We can work together to customize our collaboration to meet your specific needs and areas of support interest. Please contact me for pricing details.