Death Doula
Danielle is a trained death doula and serves as a compassionate companion—offering presence, reassurance, and grounded guidance during a time that can feel overwhelming or uncertain.
Danielle is a trained, non-medical, professional who helps individuals and families navigate the emotional and practical aspects of dying. Danielle's role can begin months, weeks, or even days before death, and often extends into a period of grief support afterward, with the family/community.
While services may vary based on the families philosophy and the family’s needs, Danielle offers support in these areas:
Emotional and Psychological Support
- Providing a calm, consistent presence
- Helping the dying person express fears, wishes, and unfinished thoughts
- Supporting family members as they cope with anticipatory grief
- Encouraging open, honest conversations surrounding death
Practical and Logistical Guidance
- Assisting with advance care planning (wishes, values, goals)
- Helping organize important documents or final arrangements
- Offering options for legacy projects—letters, recordings, memory books
- Creating comfort plans for the final days or hours
- Providing respite care for the family
Spiritual and/or Secular Support
- Holding space for reflection, meaning-making, and ritual
- Collaborating with the individual’s spiritual traditions, if desired
- Offering a wide array of secular and scared support
- Providing guided imagery, meditation, or simple presence
Vigil Support During Active Dying
- Being physically present to support both the dying person and their loved ones
- Helping manage the environment—lighting, music, comfort items
- Guiding families on what to expect physically and emotionally
- Relieving caregivers so they can rest or remain emotionally present
Grief and After-Death Care
- Supporting loved ones immediately after death
- Helping with early grief needs and resources
- Offering rituals or memory practices to honour the person
Why hire Danielle?
- Danielle is a non-medical companion in your corner, instead of the medical side of end-of-life care, she is focused on the individual's humanity and ensuring the dying person's dignity, and the care of the family, right up to the end, and beyond.
- Danielle helps to restore a sense of control, peace, and choice - by being an advocate and by establishing connection.
- Danielle normalizes conversations around death, thus reducing fear - our society tends to shy away from conversations around death, but Danielle believes there is strength and unity in discussing all of life's transitions.
- Danielle aims to make her presence ease the burden on families, even if just by a little bit, by advocating in the forefront and the background, for the loved one and their family.
