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United States
California
Alua Arthur, NEDA Proficient
Los Angeles Going With Grace 323-641-3687 support@goingwithgrace.com www.goingwithgrace.com |
In this unique 12 week online course, students learn the pillars of being with dying—emotional, practical, legal, and spiritual care—with videos from your instructor and a variety of experts in the field to create context for the work, curated exercises to deepen your practice, and assignments to further your skills. Students will be prepared to pass the NEDA proficiency assessment.
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Olivia Bareham, NEDA Proficient
Los Angeles Sacred Crossings 310-968-2763 olivia@sacredcrossings.com www.sacredcrossings.com/artofdeathmidwifery/ |
'The Art of Death Midwifery' is a 3-level, 75-hour training program for death doulas, spiritual counselors and home funeral guides; information, guidance and support to the death journeyer and family from terminal diagnosis through final disposition. Emphasis on the sacred, spiritual nature of the work; 20 participants max; 2x/yr Los Angeles. Also NYC, and Portland, OR.
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Andrea Deerheart, PhD, ELP
Nevada City The Heart Way 949-433-8228 deerheart@theheartway.org www.theheartway.org 
Elizabeth Horner, RN, NEDA Proficent
Encino [LA, Ventura Counties] HOPE End-of-Life Doula Training 218-349-4124 www.ourhouseofhope.org |
The End of Life (ELP) Practitioner training program is designed to provide a historical, ethical, mythological, psychological, religious/spiritual and clinical understanding to prepare the participants with the knowledge, skills and presence needed to address the practical, heuristic, psycho-social and spiritual dimensions of dying.
HOPE End-of-Life Doula Training offers an intensive 6 week series of classes to educate people on all of the aspects of caring for the dying. Some of our many topics include: the role of the doula in end-of-life care; exploring our own fears about death and dying; and the Social Model end-of-life care home model.
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Patricia Jauchler, NEDA Proficient
Pasadena On Bright Wings 818-667-1641 Trisha@onbrightwings.com www.onbrightwings.com |
On Bright Wings offers training in the complete end of life experience: aging, dying, and bereavement, with special emphasis on the use of creative arts therapies. I am a Registered Drama Therapist, Certified Thanatologist and Death Doula, Trained Bereavement Facilitator, Certified Dementia Practitioner
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Colorado
Schakara Arrazola-Tiscareno
Pueblo Love & WithStand 720-653-2660 Lovenwithstand@gmail.com www.lovenwithstand.com 
Tarron Estes
Boulder Conscious Dying Institute 303-440-8018 info@consciousdyinginstitute.com www.consciousdyinginstitute.com |
Schakara provides training that meets NEDA Core Competencies, 1:1 support and mentoring, Guidance/Support to death journeyer and family. Her credentials include Healing Touch Ordained Minister, Usui-Tibetan Reiki Ryoho Master, Love & Light Advanced Crystal Healer. She specializes in holding a sacred space, energy medicine, and soul spiritual connection.
Jan comes from a background of hospice & palliative care nursing and integrative nurse coaching. She is a faculty member for the end-of-life doula and coaching programs through the Conscious Dying Institute, leads workshops nationally on a variety of end-of-life topics, and provides end-of-life coaching to individuals, families, and caregivers.
The Conscious Dying Institute provides end-of-life literacy supporting the deep collective call to give and receive life-affirming care before, nearing and after death. Our transformational programs renew the purpose and art of caregiving as a spiritual practice, awaken innate healing gifts and talents, and create beautiful rites of passage guided by wishes and choices of families and patients. We offer certificates across the US and Canada to become an End-of-Life Doula.
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Connecticut
Lynn Martorell Gumbert
Falls Village Reflections Doula/Consultant 860-605-0330 lynn.martorell@yahoo.com |
Available as a consultant for End-of-Life Doula care and training for families
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Florida
Kristen Belayev
Freeport International Doula Life Movement 904-304-0262 Krissy.b@internationaldoulalifemovement.com www.internationaldoulalifemovement.com 
Hannah Fowler, RN
Key West Conscious Dying Institute 860-368-9154 hannah@eternalgracedoula.com www.eternalgracedoula.com 
Nada Frazier, NEDA Proficient
Ponte Vedra Beach/Jacksonville [NE FL] The Sacred Servant 904-402-7061 nada@thesacredservant.com www.thesacredservant.com |
We offer affordable End of life Training. We want to support others on their Journey to serve in the EOL community. Kristen is a Certified End of Life Doula and Certified Grief Facilitator.
End of Life Doula Training: Individuals, Communities and Healthcare Systems
Nada Frazier is an End-of-Life Doula in Advanced Mentorship & Educator, certificate from Quality of Life Care. The Sacred Servant supports business clients and EOLD students with: hospice staff consultation and training; training and mentoring end-of-life doulas and end-of-life doula trainers; leading end-of-life education & workshops; and inspirational speaking. |
Georgia
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Created in 2017, the Death Midwifery Journey is an intimate course with only two new journeyers accepted per month. It is a self-paced study that honors the journeyer's unique offerings to our world and asks them to navigate their own stories about death. The course begins by reflecting on our own mortality and relationship to the death culture and journeys through the many places Death Midwives may find themselves holding space. The course ends by preparing the Death Midwife to confidently teach a family or community about Home Funerals.
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Hawaii
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Bodhi Be is an ordained interfaith minister (Sufi Ruhaniat International); Executive Director, Doorway Into Light; Funeral Director; End-of-life and bereavement counselor, casket maker, hospice volunteer, home funeral guide
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Bobbi Bryant, NEDA Proficient
Kapa'au Inspired Endings 805-558-0628 bobbi@inspiredendings.org www.inspiredendings.org |
Bobbi Bryant teaches the critical information and skills to compassionately guide and prepare clients for the unfolding of the end of life journey through the practical, physical, spiritual, and emotional realms. Her experience training and mentoring patient volunteers for hospice organizations led her to create a multi-faceted heart-centered training co-facilitated by medical practitioners. Course are both online and in-person through lectures, videos, discussion, role-playing, patient profile work, and group exercises. NEDA core competencies are interwoven throughout the training to assist in obtaining the proficiency badge.
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Idaho
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Practicing Hospice End of Life Doula Clinician and Certified Hospice and Palliative Nurse Assistant, Nancy is the owner and operator of 11th Hour Care, PLLC, having taught end of life education and practice to individuals, families, facilities, C.N.A. students, and others, and served as a No One Dies Alone volunteer. Trainings include extensive EOL education, proper care and hands-on practical training.
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Iowa
Leann Thrapp, RN, NEDA Proficient
West Des Moines Respecting Choices 515-474-4300 newhavenhealing@gmail.com www.newhavenhealing.org |
Leann is a Registered Nurse with 15 years of high risk labor and delivery experience and resolve through sharing grief counselor. She has also had 15 years of hospice experience, and Respecting Choices Trainer/Instructor, and Reiki Master. She's dedicated her career to end-of-life care and support.
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Kentucky
Susan Flynn, MS, MBA, CCC-SLP, NEDA Proficient
Louisville [Kentucky/Southern IN area] Gentle Journey Life Coach 502-418-4241 susan@gentle-journey.com www.gentle-journey.com |
Susan offers community end-of-life education, workshops, planning, posthumous services, and mentoring of end of life doulas. Susan has over 45 years experience with death, dying, end of life issues with families and communities. She is a medically based speech language pathologist by trade with specialties in end of life needs throughout the spectrum of life, from pediatric care through elderly passings. She is a certified end of life doula with a NEDA Proficiency Badge.
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Massachusetts
Leimary Llopiz
New Bedford International Doula Life Movement 774-510-9886 Leimary@internationaldoulalifemovement.com www.internationaldoulalifemovement.com |
We offer affordable end of life support, Grief Facilitation, and Chaplaincy services.
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Michigan
Patty Brennan, NEDA Proficient
Ann Arbor Lifespan Doulas 734-663-1523 patty@lifespandoulas.com www.lifespandoulas.com |
Patty Brennan is the visionary and owner of Lifespan Doulas, offering comprehensive professional training and certification for birth, postpartum and end-of-life doulas, as well as business development guidance and mentoring. Hybrid end-of-life doula training includes both self-paced and interactive/live on-line training that meets NEDA core competencies. Patty has trained 2000+ doulas over the past 22 years and is NEDA Proficient. She is the author of The Doula Business Guide and accompanying Workbook, 3rd Editions (2019).
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Merilynne Rush, MSHP, RN, BSN, NEDA Proficient
Ann Arbor The Dying Year 734-395-9660 thedyingyear@gmail.com www.thedyingyear.org |
Merilynne provides online, LIVE EOLD training that meets NEDA Core Competencies, individualized 1:1 support and mentoring to EOLDs, online Advance Care Planning Training, Home Funeral Guide Training, and How To Start a Death Cafe. She is a former home birth midwife, hospice nurse, experienced fee-for-service business owner, President of NEDA, dynamic speaker, and compassionate leader. Merilynne is endorsed by SageUSA.
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New Jersey
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The International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the end of life doula approach pioneered in 2003. Our six trainers collectively have decades of work as end of life doulas. They also have extensive backgrounds as hospice administrators, nurses, social workers, and business executives. This wide-spectrum of experience is woven into the fabric of every one of our offerings
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New Mexico
Annette Gates, MEd
Taos Brennan Healing Science Practitioner 408-761-1679 annettegates@gmail.com www.annettegates.com |
Dragonfly EOLD Program is designed for anyone wanting to learn about holding space for end of life transitions, learning about the human energy field, high sense perception, and boundaries. The certificate training takes 6 months, with monthly online classes and support groups, self-study curriculum, and two residential training weekends offered in New Mexico and Michigan.
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New York
Lynda Carré, NEDA Proficient
Saugerties Wellspring Passages 310-570-8365 revcarre@wellspringpassages.com www.wellspringpassages.com 
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Lynda is an Ordained Interfaith Chaplain with Palliative & Hospice End-of-Life Specialization. She provides Spiritual Care and Healing Arts practices, education, presentations, workshops, and retreats related to Wisdom Arts for Dying, Death Cafes, Death Doula Training, Home Funeral Guidance, Green Options, Celebrant Facilitation and Rituals.
International Doulagivers Institute provides education and certification EOLDs through education, training and compassion. Suzanne is the author of Creating Positive Passings & End of Life Doula Level 1 Caregiver Training — a guide to learning the invaluable skills of how to care for someone at the end of life, and holds the Worldwide Leader In Healthcare Award from the International Nurses Association.
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North Carolina
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Sacred Passages Death Doula Program is 30 hour online and/or in-person training program that offers YACEP accredited hours. It is divided into two sections : Shamanic Practices in preparation for EOL and Let Go Yoga for Trauma Release. This program is designed for anyone interested in the shamanic practices and methods of death doula work and the rituals for creating a beautiful EOL transition.
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Oregon
Erin Collins, RN, BSN, CHPN, NEDA Proficient
Bend The Peaceful Presence Project: Compassionate Presence Training 541-647-8636 erin@thepeacefulpresenceproject.org https://peacefulpresence-courses.thinkific.com/courses/peaceful-presence-info-session |
We offer a 3-module Volunteer Doula training and an 8-module Professional Doula Training for anyone called to cultivate Compassionate Communities. We are NEDA-Proficient doulas, and this training prepares you for the NEDA proficiency exam.
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Elizabeth Johnson, MA, NEDA Proficient
Bend The Peaceful Presence Project: Compassionate Presence Training 360-296-5616 elizabeth@thepeacefulpresenceproject.org https://peacefulpresence-courses.thinkific.com/courses/peaceful-presence-info-session 
Lily Myers Kaplan, MA, Ordained Minister
Jacksonville Spirit of Resh Foundation 510-390-1098 Lily@reshfoundation.org www.reshfoundation.org |
We have developed our 3-Module and 8-Module Compassionate Presence Trainings to respond to an observed need to cultivate a more compassionate, death-literate and supportive culture in our country. Our training is informed by evidence based research, current best practices and our practical experience as NEDA- proficient end of life doulas.
Lily supports all ages preparing for death, offering whole family Death Doula services, and companioning individuals/families through grief. She also mentors Death Doulas who are beginning their practice. Lily is a peaceful presence at the beside of the dying with three decades of guiding people through challenging life/death circumstances
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Pennsylvania
Patty Burgess
Bensalem Doing Death Differently 267-428-6677 info@teachingtransitions.com www.doingdeathdifferently.com |
Video-based online dual certification End-of-Life Specialist (CEOLS) Foundational Training in hospice volunteering, offering CEUs for nurses, LPN's, LVNs, Aides and Massage Therapists nationally. She is an end-of-life educator and trainer and works with hospices across the US. NEDA and NHPCO EOLD Council member, and Professional Doula International (PDI) founder.
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Lin Roussel, BA, LPN, LMT, LE, NEDA Proficient
Lititz BellaTouch 717-271-6669 lin@massageCEadvantage.com www.massageCEadvantage.com/bella-touch 
Tom Johnson-Medland
Mount Joy BAYADA Hospice / Tom Johnson-Medland, End-of-Life Doula 570-243-1047 tomjohnsonmedland@gmail.com www.tomjohnsonmedland.com |
Lin specializes in educating licensed massage therapists how to safely, gently and compassionately work with individuals who are facing the end of their lives. BellaTouch Transitions End-of Life Doula Course offers 30 NCBTMB approved CE hours and prepares the LMT to offer massage and support to the dying for a peaceful passing, and includes hands-on practice and NEDA core competencies.
Tom's teaching specialty is End of Life care, death and dying, grief and grieving, spiritual direction and formation. He has over 15 years experience as a trainer. |
Texas
Anna Adams, NEDA Proficient
San Antonio International Doula Life Movement 210-721-3422 internationaldoulalifemovement@gmail.com www.internationaldoulalifemovement.com 
Melissa Arocha
San Antonio International Doula Life Movement 210-412-0814 Melissa@internationaldoulslalifemovement.com www.internationaldoulalifemovement.com 
Sonja Koenig
San Antonio TX Doula Movement, LLC 210-316-0488 doulasupport@txdoulamvmnt.com www.txdoulamovement.thinkific.com 
Deanna Cochran, RN, NEDA Proficient
Austin CareDoula® School of Accompanying the Dying 903-354-0174 admissions@certifiedcaredoula.com www.certifiedcaredoula.com |
We offer affordable End Of Life training. We want to support others that want to work in this journey. I have over 25 years of experience working and caring for patients on hospice.
Providing training to aspiring doulas
This course provides you the necessary information to become a certified end-of-life doula, a senior care companion doula, doula consultant, birth doula, postpartum doula and/or lactation doula. Sonja has been an EOLD since 1991 and has a passion for those that are dying to have a peaceful passing and for families to have a peaceful journey with their dying loved one.
Deanna's experience as a Hospice RN and EOL Doula in Private Practice spans over 21 years. Her course, “Accompanying the Dying: A Practical Guide & Awareness Training” is the premier End-of-Life Doula Certificate Program in the US which set the stage for the movement. She also develops corporate EOL Doula programs and has been in leadership over the years including founding member and 1st Vice President of NEDA and inaugural member and 1st Chair of the NHPCO EOL Doula Advisory Council for over 2.5 years. She offers lifetime mentoring for practitioners who want comprehensive knowledge, learn the art of the practice, have EOL specific professional development strategies and personal, laser focused direction attention.
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Vermont
Anne-Marie Keppel
Craftsbury Common Village Deathcare Citizen 802-533-7721 annemariekeppel@gmail.com www.stardustmeadow.com 
Emily Ruff
East Barre Sage Mountain Botanical Sanctuary 802-479-9825 emily@sagemountain.com www.sagemountain.com/end-of-life 
The University of Vermont End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate
Burlington 800-639-3210 learn@uvm.edu go.uvm.edu/doula |
The Village Deathcare Citizen Course helps to train the individual to work independently and in partnership with others and their community to confidently and compassionately work in service for the one dying and to decentralize deathcare. Anne-Marie is a life-long meditator, author, community deathcare volunteer, home funeral guide and Reiki Master Teacher. She is a Life-Cycle Funeral Celebrant and certified as a Feeding Your Demons guide (Buddhist focus).
Emily Ruff is an herbalist, EOL Doula, teacher, and stewards a 600-acre wilderness sanctuary in Central Vermont. "Creating an Herbal Toolkit for End of Life Care" is a six week course that explores the history of using herbs for death and dying, a foundational knowledge of how to utilize teas, essential oils, simple nourishing foods and tonics, and flower essences at the end of life. We empower students to build a personalized holistic tool kit to support their work in these settings.
Developed by the The Robert Larner, M.D. College of Medicine at The University of Vermont, the University of Vermont has partnered with Cabot Creamery Cooperative to launch a fully-online End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate that will help prepare you to meet the growing demand for end-of-life support as people live longer and the course of the average dying process continues to become increasingly gradual and anticipated.
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Washington
Lashanna Williams, NEDA Proficient
Seattle 206-494-0023 A Sacred Passing: Death Midwifery & Community Education info@asacredpassing.org www.asacredpassing.org |
A Sacred Passing's multi-course Death Doula program offers introductory and continuing education in physical, practical, spiritual/non spiritual, and emotional care of the living, the dying, and the dead. ASP's courses include in-depth discussion of intersectional identities, death care justice, support techniques, and all end-of-life options available; with the intention of creating a space for dialogue, relationship building, understanding, and engagement. Alongside conversations of nonmedical care, ASP focuses on uplifting the values of consent, humility, and accountability in each aspect of doula care. Our curriculum includes theoretical and practical skill building to broaden existing care practices. Reduced rate, sliding scale, continuing education credits, and community group payments are available.
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Wisconsin
Elizabeth Humphries, MSN, RN, CNM
Madison
608-770-2730
Seasons of Life, LLC
Liz@seasonsoflifemadison.com
www.seasonsoflifemadison.com
Madison
608-770-2730
Seasons of Life, LLC
Liz@seasonsoflifemadison.com
www.seasonsoflifemadison.com
International
Australia
Annetta Mallon, Ph.D., MSW, LCSW
Tasmania Gentle Death Education and Planning +6 141-270-2833 info@gdep.com.au www.gdep.com.au/ |
Annetta offers face-to-face intensive training at two levels, with relevant readings for each level’s modules of content, and masterclass specialist workshops for those wishing to deepen their practice skillset. She is a PhD, Clinical EFT practitioner, grief and loss psychotherapy specialist.
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Canada
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Sarah Kerr, PhD, has been in in full-time practice as a death doula and trainer since 2013. Her approach is guided by ancient wisdom teachings, nature-based spirituality, energy medicine, and consciousness studies. She teaches a comprehensive healing methodology of soul medicine that can be adapted to each individual’s unique spiritual values, and that serves the living, the dying, and the dead.
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India
Abhijit Dam, MD(AIIMS), FCCP, FPM, MSc.Pall.Med (Cardiff)
Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand Farishtey +91 8789976351 abhijitdam1@gmail.com www.kosishngo.org |
The term 'death doula' is not 'in vogue' in India, for the term death has its own negative vibes for the community. I have been practicing EOL care, vigils, bereavement care & ritualistic practices surrounding death & dying which is appropriate in Hindu, Bhuddhist & Sikh settings in a socially & culturally appropriate manner for the past 8-9 years. I routinely practice 'Phowa", chakra healing, & Kalavahanam. In addition, I offer discourses based on the Bhagvad Gita on death, dying & rebirth.
I have designed my rural Hospice to address these issues and have recently launched the first certificate course on death duola in India, naming it Farishtey. |
New Zealand
Georgina Langdale
Havelock North, Hawke's Bay The Centre for Nature Connection 64-21-1352639 georgina@centrenatureconnection.org www.centrenatureconnection.org |
The Natural Carer approach blends compassionate care techniques and care of the Soul, with the exploration of the ways Nature can aid wellbeing as one prepares for and journeys through end-of-life transitions. Training focuses on deepening communication and care via compassionate, conscious and contemplative techniques, with nature placed at the heart of training, and practicalities woven throughout it. Georgina is certified as a Death Doula and End-of-Life Coach through the Conscious Dying Institute, trained through Zen Hospice, and Four Winds in shamanic energy medicine.
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South Africa
Keshnie Mathi
Randburg, Gauteng The Wellness Specialist +27 614627419 training@wellnessspecialist.co.za www.wellnessspecialist.co.za/ |
In this culturally diverse and comprehensive 8-week doula course, learn via virtual live sessions followed by a 4 week immersion period and practicals The final part is via an online academy called TWS Life Academy which serves to revise the theoretical aspects (including business building) via an online support platform providing support documents and templates with life time access This training covers the worldwide perspective on palliative care, ethical best practices and the practical and theory around support for in the areas of emotional support, practical & advance care planning, compliance and ethical wellbeing, and spiritual care highlighting various cultures and belief systems.
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