End of Life Doula
Providing Services Across Brisbane, Redlands and surrounds
An End of Life Doula is a non-medical, non-nursing, non-allied health, and non-personal care worker role. As an End of Life Doula, Jacqui provides emotional, social, practical, psychological and spiritual support to persons who are well, newly diagnosed with life-limiting disease, living with an advanced life-limiting condition or frailty, those actively dying, and after-death support, ceremony and bereavement. This support extends to the individual’s support person/s e.g. family, friends or other. The End of Life Doula role does not replace the role of family and friends, and neither does it replace health professional and care worker roles. It complements all of these roles, often filling in the gaps. It is a valuable role that is part of the Australian health and wellbeing landscape and is an important part of building our community’s death and grief literacy.
Service Options
- assist you to get your affairs in order e.g., advance care planning discussions, end-of-life planning and documentation
- provide information and guidance, and proactively provide support that enables important life and end-of-life discussions to happen that reflect your choices, values, wishes, who and what matters most. This can include guiding discussions with family/friends/others
- assist with providing information and navigating services that can assist you
- assist with coordinating services
- advocacy services – support you/your person/your family to engage in important discussions with others e.g. health professionals and others
- provide end-of-life emotional, practical, social and spiritual support and information
- being present as a ‘life and end-of-life companion’ – through conversation, information, listening, comfort, and compassion
- act as an end-of-life advocate
- accompany to appointments (personal/medical)
- assist to ‘write’ your life story for personal reflection or to hand-down to your family across the generations
- facilitate relaxation therapies e.g., guided meditation
- provide information on end-of-life services and options, including after-death care
- co-craft “farewell messages” to loved ones
- be present during active dying ~ an ‘end of life companion’ for individuals and their persons
- provide respite during your loved one’s active dying phase (non-clinical)
- provide bereavement and practical information & support after the death of your loved one
- ceremony planning whilst you are alive e.g. co-crafting and facilitating living wakes/ceremonies of life
- discuss options and assist in planning and co-crafting funeral/memorial rituals & ceremony before/after death
- guide what to do after someone dies including after-death care of your loved one
- offer Funeral Celebrant services
Personal Consultations
Call Jacqui to discuss your individual needs
Death is part of life...
In our society we often disassociate death treating it with a separateness from being alive, when in fact death is part of life. We are all going to die. That’s a statistic we can’t change. Yet so few people don’t want to talk about dying or death; and few plan for it.
We plan for births, weddings, holidays, what car we want to buy, what suburb we want to live in; what house we will live in… yet few of us plan, prepare or talk about what we value most and what our wishes are if we are dying or after we are dead.
Although it is often personally confronting when faced with our own mortality; and it can be challenging to have conversations about death and dying with those you love, these are very important conversations to have.
When you do have these conversations and put your affairs in order, there is often a great “sense of relief” and satisfaction that you have been able to share this important information; and a recognition that by doing this you hopefully will reduce some of the burden of decision-making for those you love in the event that decisions have to be made on your behalf due to illness, accident or death.
Why not talk with Jacqui today to see how she might be able to assist you or someone you love?
For more information go to FAQ
End of Life Doula
Think of Jacqui as an end of life companion or end of life support person. But as an End of Life Doula, her role includes supporting well persons who want to proactively think about, plan, discuss, learn and document what is important to them in life and end of life.
And importantly, Jacqui is also there to support and advocate for the person who has an early or advanced life-limiting illness, and she is actively ‘present’ to deeply listen and hold conversations about life, dying and death, and after-death considerations and wishes. Jacqui offers end of life information, offers emotional support, advocacy and guidance, assists to navigate and coordinate services, helps you to explore legacy and life stories; and can also help co-craft funeral and memorial ceremonies whilst the person is alive; and officiate them – if they wish – after death.
She provides emotional, social, practical, and spiritual support for individuals and their loved ones, and ‘holds space’ with the dying person as part of natural life transitioning.
Did you know?
In Australia, and internationally, the role of the End of Life Doula (EOLD) – also known as a Death Doula, Deathwalker, Death Midwife, End of Life Consultant) is evolving as our society recognises how this role value-adds in promoting conversations, assists with planning, supports end-of-life care and bereavement.
An EOLD guides, supports and informs well people who wish to proactively put their end-of-life wishes in place, to those persons living with a life-limiting condition; those actively dying; their support person/s, after-death care, ceremonies and the bereaved.
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