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End of Life Doula

Empowering your choices, supporting your loved ones, honouring your journey.

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    Gentle emotional, spiritual and practical support for anyone facing the end of life or supporting someone they love.

What is an End Of Life Doula?

An end of life doula provides non-medical emotional, practical and spiritual support to people approaching the end of life, known as travellers, and to the people who walk beside them.

An end of life doula can:

  • Offer steady, compassionate presence

  • Sit in silence with open heart and ears

  • Help reduce overwhelm, fear and uncertainty

  • Support communication between the traveller, their loved ones and their care team

  • Help families understand what to and not to expect

  • Provide personalised support before, during and after death

A doula does not provide medical care, or replace palliative care, hospice teams or any clinical services.

By complementing existing medical and palliative services, doula support helps individuals and families feel more informed, emotionally supported and grounded throughout the end of life journey.

Let’s begin with a gentle, confidential conversation

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Your choices

Guide your care

At Your Side Services

    • Presence visits

    • Life reflection, storytelling, meaning-making

    • Emotional or spiritual guidance

    • Creating peaceful, intimate environments

    • Reducing fear, overwhelm, and uncertainty

    • Education about the stages of dying

    • Support with confusion, grief, and anticipatory grief

    • Creating calm environments for everyone involved

    • Assistance with boundaries, decisions, and communication

    • Assistance with Advance Care Directives

    • Wishes and values-based conversations

    • Organising documents and plans

    • Exploring options and honouring personal values

    • Helping articulate what matters most

    • One-on-one presence in final days and hours

    • Maintaining a comforting physical and emotional environment

    • Guidance through changes and signs of transition

    • Rituals, music, grounding, and atmosphere creation

    • Liaison with medical teams, hospice, or facility staff

    • Coordination of supports and practical needs

    • Clarifying what’s possible at home, hospice, or residential care

    • Ensuring continuity throughout all stages

    • Supporting after-death rituals (spiritual, cultural, personal)

    • Assistance with funeral planning

    • Guidance on immediate next steps

    • Creating space for goodbyes, reflection, and memory-making

    • Upholding rights and choices

    • Ensuring experiences align with beliefs and values (cultural, spiritual, personal)

    • Acting as a supportive advocate for the individual and family

    • Phone consultations

    • Resources, guidance, and referrals

    • Clear, practical information without overwhelm

Support can begin at any stage of the journey. I provide flexible, personalised non-medical support that adapts to your needs, culture, values and wishes.

This may include emotional and spiritual support, help with Advance Care Directives and other relevant/legal documentation, family conversations, advocacy, vigil support, after-death care information and assistance arranging preferred end of life care.

Contact Sarah to learn more