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Death doulas, also called end-of-life doulas, death companions, or death midwives, are non-medical support people for a dying individual and their caregivers (be they loved ones, family, chosen family, or others). Doulas provide a wide array of support based on their own expertise and the needs of those they serve. Additionally, death doulas serve individuals throughout the lifespan wherever death-related concerns are present. https://www.phillydeathdoulas.com/services daily 0.75 2022-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62227f791224532f2c1b387f/332da2f9-6850-44b3-9eb4-f49d04473d61/salt+trails+altar.jpg Doula Services - Built to your specifications A death doula is a non-medical support person who serves a dying individual, their loved ones, and/or their caregivers. Prior to medicalization and the emergence of professionalized death care, most people died at home where members of their community or family would tend to them and serve as a peaceful presence. 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We assist people in all stages of life with advance care planning, resolving death anxiety, supporting grief, education and social justice activism, and other related issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62227f791224532f2c1b387f/1646953285694-PG12G9WM0OE7V1XX63VD/unsplash-image-ABrC7X4_gLY.jpg Doula Services https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62227f791224532f2c1b387f/1646953166397-IV7JBHXGYYYPC0LGLT2L/unsplash-image-V6UJIenfLME.jpg Doula Services https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62227f791224532f2c1b387f/1646953212189-NVH5RQOIP1SCBHGGPHVS/unsplash-image-LPu9x914Z3k.jpg Doula Services https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62227f791224532f2c1b387f/1646953540338-6RWMP0AYTNT15NDIBAQ1/unsplash-image-5frMHnKrx1E.jpg Doula Services - End of life care as unique as you are. The Philly Death Doula Collective seeks to provide care that enables the individual to live as fully as possible, even when the medical prognosis is terminal. Every transition from life to death is sacred and unique. We believe everyone deserves a good death. We are currently located in Philadelphia and are willing to travel to serve your needs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1618497259178-6XJGK9GR6YAVBQL5L519/20140301_Trade-151_012-2.jpg Doula Services https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694583486-2PQT0LQ193RL7MCB6DX4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Doula Services https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1607694644871-IC85FNH781UNZSZEGHDR/Aro+Ha_0428.jpg Doula Services https://www.phillydeathdoulas.com/faqs daily 0.75 2022-03-17 https://www.phillydeathdoulas.com/the-collective daily 0.75 2025-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62227f791224532f2c1b387f/d0f266ca-2672-44dc-bcd8-45d879d6369b/untitled+%2812+of+30%29_websize.jpg The Collective - Kai Wonder (they/them) Kai (they/them) is a passionate human. They meander through life with their heart on their sleeve, ready for that deep meaningful experience with a stranger, a client, a friend or anyone who likes to be open and vulnerable. In 2016, Kai's beloved mother was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and their father died unexpectedly. This began a personal journey of grief and loss that changed their life and led them to the professional path they are on today. They attended INELDA's end of life doula training in 2017. Kai graduated with their MSW from West Chester University, Philadelphia Campus in 2019. Their current full time work is supporting people who have had recent unexpected death in their family, through grief therapy, support groups, and non-traditional grief support as well. Here at the collective, in addition to taking private death doula clients and doing our ongoing grief and death doula education, they started the very successful Grief Circle in their cozy living room. Once the pandemic hit, they moved Grief Circle to Zoom and began offering it twice a month, one to anyone walking with their grief and a second offering for those working the front lines/in healthcare. Now Grief Circle is offered once a month. (More on the Grief Support page!) Additional credentials: LSW https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62227f791224532f2c1b387f/07c3f030-512a-4a5d-8ad2-5c1f41909454/untitled+%2814+of+30%29_websize.jpg The Collective - Nicki Cowan Nicki (she/they) is a social worker, therapist, and ritualist. A reverent lover of wonder, rites of passage, and mystical experiences, Nicki arrived at grief and death work via birth work. In her work as a death doula supporting individuals, families, and communities, she strives to be tender, creative, and rock solid in liminal spaces and along wild edges. Nicki brings years of experience as a hospice social worker and is currently pursuing her PhD in Psychedelic Studies and Transpersonal Psychology. She looks forward to supporting individuals and families in exploring safe, legal, and ethical approaches to expanded states of consciousness. Nicki is also passionate about supporting her fellow queers in their living and dying. Nicki is a cis white woman and aims to ground her work in anti-racist and non-pathologizing frameworks. She lives in Old City with her rakish cats and in her spare time enjoys being around fires, in water, and cavorting through the woods. Additional credentials: LCSW MPH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62227f791224532f2c1b387f/bc076de5-2d70-4214-93a1-cc8057a8da6a/B87D93F0-FEC8-4058-80F3-FE2C0FCF5D46.jpeg The Collective - Lenée A. Voss Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62227f791224532f2c1b387f/f9fec99a-55e6-4952-b251-a7ccc21c8c47/untitled+%2816+of+30%29_websize.jpg The Collective - Lori (Elle) Zaspel Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62227f791224532f2c1b387f/6ac09adc-7ce0-408b-8116-3f80176ca413/IMG_0261.jpeg The Collective - Collo O’Brien Collo specializes in providing organizing services with a compassionate touch. Ideal for those experiencing a significant life transition or loss, I support clients by holding space for their grief during our sessions. Although the act of organizing is a task based practice; be it decluttering, sorting, discarding or implementing a new system, this practice may provoke a wide spectrum of emotions and memories that often invite an opportunity to be vulnerable and work through whatever feelings emerge. Collo has completed the Grief Immersion for Death Workers Course Facilitated by Will Daddario, PhD and Joanne Zerdy, PhD of Inviting Abundance, and continually investigates how to best serve clients experiencing grief within our work together. With almost two decades of experience in healthcare and a lush background in movement arts, I approach this work with creativity, empathy, and patience. For more: www.hellocollo.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62227f791224532f2c1b387f/43ff8d9d-fa8b-4298-a1e7-5bfad5a67062/PDDC+BIO+PIC.jpg The Collective - Naila Francis Even in her days as an arts & entertainment reporter interviewing musicians, writers, and artists ranging from Bobby McFerrin and James Earl Jones to Elizabeth Gilbert and Brandi Carlile, Naila had a knack for delving deep and inviting confidences. She was once asked by a songwriter if she were a psychologist because of all he revealed as they talked, while one of her editors was fond of saying, “Do people really tell you this stuff?” Naila’s since carried that innate curiosity, generous listening and warm compassion to her work as a tender at life’s thresholds. She’s a grief coach, death midwife, and ordained interfaith minister, as well as a founding member of Salt Trails, a Philadelphia collective making grief public and visible through community rituals. 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