Death Doula Offerings
Erin’s Death Doula offerings can support individuals, couples, or families at any stage of loss including unspecified death timelines for both humans and pets. Erin offers support for anticipated loss (i.e., terminal illness, medical timeline, natural end-of-life), spontaneous loss (i.e., miscarriage, loss due to accident/suicide), active loss (i.e., missed miscarriage, abortion, individual is in the last weeks or days of life), and post-loss grief (i.e., death has occurred). Erin also supports individuals who are reconciling the themes of death and dying related or unrelated to an active grief experience. Erin is also available for death exploration consultations to support individuals, couples, or families confronting fear of death, end-of-life planning, or general exploration of death and dying.
Please note that Erin does not provide medical care under any circumstances. Erin is a non-medical death Doula.
How Erin helps as a Death Doula for an Individual Actively Dying or Experiencing a Pregnancy Loss:
Source of empathetic, compassionate presence: baring witness to your journey in-person or virtually.
Supportive person to talk openly and honestly about death including but not limited to fears related to dying, regrets, grief. Erin can assist with facilitating reconciliation opportunities, end-of-life wishes, pet homing, and more.
Resources: Erin is able to offer educational tools to address concerns related to dying (i.e., resources for creating a will, list of end-of-life considerations). Can assist in educating family members on caregiving practices for end-of-life.
Advocate: Erin can serve as an advocate for you at end-of-life.
How Erin helps as a Death Doula for individuals or family members experiencing Death-related Loss of a Loved One:
Empathetic, compassionate presence. Able to support you as you support your loved one.
Supportive person to talk about death and grief with as you lose a loved one.
Resources: help understanding responsibilities and tasks that you may be responsible for during and after the loss of a loved one; help connecting you with grief resources.
How Erin helps Individuals, Couples, or Families Explore Death/End-of-Life Planning/Fear of Death:
Erin can consult on end-of-life planning (ideally, we all plan for the end long before the end is near).
Erin can consult on topics pertaining to death and dying; this is particularly helpful for individuals with a strong fear of death.
Pregnancy Loss (All Stages- Abortion, Miscarriage, Stillbirth)
Complete Support: Before, During, & After
This offering is ideal for the individual or couple through all stages of abortion, miscarriage, or stillbirth.
You Receive:
75 minute Zoom/phone calls (frequency customized to your needs-price varies accordingly)
unlimited messaging support for the duration of our collaboration
legacy support
care coordination
non-medical comfort practices
individualized support with tasks associated with your loss (follow-up appointments, funeral arrangements)
1 customized hypnosis meditation (recorded and available for lifetime access)
customized resources and education specific to your loss and relevant grief information according to your needs
ritual and memorial support (option to preform a loss ceremony)
option for presence during abortion, miscarriage, or stillbirth (additional fee)
option for energy healing, hypnosis, and meditation (additional fee)
In-person support is available for NY and CT residents (additional fee).
This service will be customized based on your preferences.
Price varies based on individual’s needs and whether appointment is virtual or in-person.
Individual Session: Before, During, Or After (75 minutes)
This session is ideal for the individual or couple who would like a single support session to explore concerns, questions, and grief pertaining to before, during, or after pregnancy loss.
This session is ideal for the partner in pregnancy loss. Erin can help the non-pregnant individual navigate grief and ways to support their loved one experiencing the physical process of pregnancy loss.
This session can incorporate Reiki and/or hypnosis.
Death (All Stages- Spontaneous & Anticipated)
This offering is ideal for individuals preparing for their own death or for individuals, couples, families preparing for the death of a loved one. This service can also be used after a death has occurred. As an end-of-life doula, Erin can support both the individual dying and the family together or separately. Every offering will be customized and tailored to meet your needs and wishes appropriately.
This service does adapt according to your timeline. Many individuals choose to begin this service the moment they learn about a terminal illness, however, there is no right or wrong time to bring in a Death Doula. Please reach out for a discovery call to receive a more holistic understanding of how Erin can help.
Generally, the following offerings are included:
55-75 minute Zoom/phone calls
unlimited messaging support
resources and education specific to your needs and area; guidance around end-of-life process and after death
legacy support
ritual & ceremony
care coordination
non-medical comfort practices
for families; grief support after death
support with tasks pertaining to death (end-of-life responsibilities for family members)
non-judgmental listening and support for accepting death
option for energy healing, hypnosis, and meditation support
prices varies depending on individual needs and whether services are requested virtually or in-person
End-of-Life Consultation & Death Exploration
End-of-Life Consultation:
There are a lot of choices we can make to prepare for an empowered and aligned end-of-life journey. When we make these decisions long before we need them, we have so many more opportunities. As a Death Doula this is one of my greatest hopes; to help you have an empowered, aligned death that you have created for yourself. This consultation can help you grasp some of the big decisions you can begin to make now, before you need them, to ensure you are empowered and aligned. We will explore the documents to have in place, the key decisions you will want to make, the conversations to have with loved ones, and every thing in between. This consultation can be a single appointment or a series of appointments depending on your needs.
Individual Session:
Connection and Exploration on Where you Currently Are with Death: Accepting Death
Care Planning: Key Information on Documents to Establish
Support Exploring End-of-Life: Ritual, Legacy, & Personal Wishes
Death Exploration Consultation:
Whether you have a fear of death or would like to explore death and dying this session can help support these goals. Whether you have questions pertaining to the physical process of death or questions regarding your own death this consultation meets you exactly where you are.