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Trainer Directory

NEDA is NOT a training organization. The listings below are provided as a service to doulas seeking further education. Listing on this directory is voluntary and does not constitute endorsement by either NEDA or affiliated trainers. Any commerce between end-of-life doulas or trainers listed here and members of the public is a private transaction that does not involve NEDA or any affiliated individuals or organizations. To be considered for inclusion, please become a member and complete the application here. Please give us 48 hours to get your information listed. We reserve the right to edit the information sent to us for space constraints, consistency, accuracy and style. For assistance with your listing, contact info@nedalliance.org.

​For more information, read our 
Tips for Choosing an EOLD Trainer.

United States

Arizona

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Leann Thrapp, RN, NEDA Proficient
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Sun City West
Respecting Choices
480-773-4224

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.

California

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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
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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

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Sarah Hill
Alameda
East Bay Doula for the Dying
415-601-5968
eastbaydoulaforthedying@gmail.com
www.eastbaydoulaforthedying.com


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. 
This program is designed to help you, as a new end-of-life doula, grow your doula practice, both from a pragmatic nuts-&-bolts perspective of "setting up shop" to learning the tools that can help you deepen and grown your relationship with and identity as a doula. Ideally, you will already have foundational training in end-of-life work. Yet perhaps you have found yourself at a crossroads on what next steps to take to activate your wishes to pursue this path. Join me along with your community peers in a 6-week process of discovery.
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Patricia Jauchler, NEDA Proficient
Pasadena
On Bright Wings
818-667-1641
Trisha@onbrightwings.com
www.onbrightwings.com

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Karen Karnatz
Redding

Mourning Space
510-798-6973
Goodmourning@mourningspace.com
www.Mourningspace.com


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Brigitta Kastenbaum, NEDA Proficient
Los Angeles
Bridging Transitions
310-699-7591
birgitta@bridgingtransitions.net
bridgingtransitions.net
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Dianne McNinch
Long Beach
Compassionate Care
562-212-3355
diannetmcninch@yahoo.com


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Cheserae Scala, NEDA Proficient
Ojai
Bridging Transitions
310-391-6417
Cheserae@bridgingtransitions.net
www.Bridgingtransitions.net

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


​Karen provides
end of life and funeral specific education.




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Free monthly Zoom conversation open to all. We offer EOL workshops & retreats incl. Death Doula and Death Midwife Training, Sacred Aromatics, Rituals, After Death Tending, Mentorship, and a growing Student Community. Creating bridges to diverse communities and care systems, we offer education for tending to the emotional, spiritual, and practical needs of Conscious Living & Conscious Dying to all. 
Workshop to educate and relieve stress of the loved ones and the patient regarding the process of dying. I am a published member of ASTD, BA, MA, Chaplain, Reiki Practitioner, Aromatherapist

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​Free monthly Zoom conversation open to all. We offer EOL workshops & retreats incl. Death Doula and Death Midwife Training, Sacred Aromatics, Rituals, After Death Tending, Mentorship, and a growing Student Community. Creating bridges to diverse communities and care systems, we offer education for tending to the emotional, spiritual, and practical needs of Conscious Living & Conscious Dying to all.

Colorado

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Schakara Arrazola-Tiscareno
Pueblo
Love & WithStand
720-653-2660
Lovenwithstand@gmail.com
www.lovenwithstand.com
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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.
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Jan Booth, MA, RN, NC-BC
Westcliffe
703-282-0680
janetbooth15@gmail.com

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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. 
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Tarron Estes
Boulder
​Conscious Dying Institute
303-440-8018
info@consciousdyinginstitute.com
www.consciousdyinginstitute.com

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.

Delaware

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Tracy Dickerson, RN, BSN, MACM, MDiv, CHPN
Newark
Kairos Concierge Palliative and End-of-Life Doula Services
302-379-2793
                                  kairosdoulas@gmail.com

Tracy has over 30+ years of Palliative Care/Hospice/Geriatric experience in healthcare with 10 of those years in EOL education for hospice professionals, as well as community members. Her doula training program uses a modified curriculum from ELNEC (End of Life Nursing Education Consortium) along with a personalized hands on internship. Tracy been an ELNEC trainer for almost 10 years and was awarded ELNEC for Veterans trainer of the year in 2014.


Florida

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Charon Collier
Jacksonville
The Good Death Experience
888-385-4440
info@thegooddeathexp.com
www.thegooddeathexperience.com
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Bridgette Elliott
Melbourne
Pinnacle Care
954-305-3583

Info@pinnaclecaremgmt.com
www.pinnaclecaremgmt.com
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Hannah Fowler, RN
Key West
Conscious Dying Institute
860-368-9154
hannah@eternalgracedoula.com                        www.eternalgracedoula.com
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The Good Death Experience, End-of-Life Doula Consultant Training Program is a 6-Week Course with a Certificate of Completion. Upon conclusion of our program, we work diligently to assist End-of-Life Doula Consultants with locating patients, families, palliative care teams, and hospice care services that are looking to connect with skilled and qualified end-of-life doulas.
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​As a licensed esthetician and makeup artist, my EOLD training includes full face and body aesthetic care for their clients.




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​End of Life Doula Training: Individuals, Communities and Healthcare Systems
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Nada Frazier, NEDA Proficient
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Ponte Vedra Beach/Jacksonville [NE FL]
The Sacred Servant
904-402-7061
nada@thesacredservant.com
www.thesacredservant.com
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Edlene Kaeiser-Hoult
Port St Lucie
The Life Before and After Agency
305-776-6537
lifeb4agency@gmail.com
www.lifeb4after.com

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.
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Provide the skills to: increase beauty, pleasure, and contentment as well as providing emotional and spiritual support. Initiating conversations about the dying process. Practicing self-care to reduce burnout and emotional fatigue. Demystifying the stages of the dying process. Acknowledging mysteries, miracles, and unexplained events. Creating Ceremony & Ritual, Community Building, Business Development Learning how to be with intense emotions, in self and others. Honoring others’ beliefs while staying true to your own. Be a steward of conscious death. Community building. Doula practice business development.

Georgia

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Narinder Bazen, NEDA Proficient
Atlanta
Nine Keys
678-568-1411
narinderbazen@gmail.com
www.narinderbazen.com

Created in 2018, Nine Keys is an intimate death midwifery apprenticeship program for small groups. The program 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.  

Hawaii

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Bodhi Be
Haiku
808-283-5950

bodhi@doorwayintolight.org
www.doorwayintolight.org
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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.  

Illinois

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Sara K Schneider, Ph.D.
​Oak Park
THE HUMAN JOURNEY®
312-593-2345
sara@the-human-journey.com
the-human-journey.com

THE HUMAN JOURNEY® certification program helps you cultivate your family facilitation skills. The unique THJ® Experience reliably brings families to belonging, meaning, connection, and deep listening -- enabling patients to let go in peace. Eight hours of lively small-group trainings include include guided practices, personalized coaching, ample peer and instructor interaction, and plenty of expert support for your growing facilitation skills.

Indiana

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Lauren Richwine
Fort Wayne
Death Done Differently
260-241-8961
Lauren@deathdonedifferently.com
www.deathdonedifferently.com


Kentucky

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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. 

Michigan

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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.

New Jersey

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Douglas Simpson for INELDA
Jersey City
201-540-9049
info@inelda.org
www.inelda.org



The International End of Life Doula Association trains, mentors, and certifies end-of-life doulas to serve dying persons and their loved ones with support and comfort beyond the usual boundaries of institutionalized care. With the mission “changing the face of dying” the organization is committed to eliminating the inequities that exist in end-of-life care and to making end-of-life doula services relevant and accessible to everyone. Currently the largest training body for doulas and organizations providing end-of-life services, INELDA has trained over 3,800 end-of-life doulas nationally and internationally. The 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization was established in 2015.

New Mexico

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Annette Gates, MEd
Taos

Brennan Healing Science Practitioner
408-761-1679
annettegates@gmail.com
www.annettegates.com
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Rose Gordon, BA, NEDA Proficient
Arroyo Hondo
Circle of Compassionate Care
505-310-2765

redroses@taosnet.com

www.circleofcompassionatecare.squarespace.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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Rose offers death doula and grief support services to individuals and families and experiential training and mentoring to new and aspiring Doulas. Her approach is based on three decades of education & direct work in end of life in the U.S. and elsewhere, including 5 years as Director and faculty for the Upaya Being with Dying Program and 10 years as Spiritual Care & Bereavement Provider & trainer of hospice volunteers. Her trainings cover topics identified as the NHPCO Gold Standard of Hospice Care enhanced with a variety of contemplative approaches. Her deep listening and steady, calm presence invites families and individuals to enter the Great Mystery of Living into Death.

New York

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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.
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Henry Fersko-Weiss
Warwick

845-988-6767
henryferskoweiss@gmail.com
www.henryferskoweiss.com






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Suzanne O’Brien, RN
New York
DoulaGivers
support@doulagivers.com​
www.doulagivers.com

This live, Zoom end-of-life doula training combines lecture, case examples, guided meditations, discussion, and experiential exercises. Over four weeks, you will explore the dying process and learn how to provide emotional, spiritual, and basic physical comfort to the dying. Come and learn with the person who sparked the development of the contemporary end-of-life doula movement. He cofounded and led the International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA) until the end of 2021, and has been doing death doula and hospice social work for 25 years. 
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Suzanne B. O’Brien, RN is the proud Founder and Creator of the award-winning program Doulagivers: End of Life Doula Training, Eldercare Doula Training, and Doulagiver Care Consultant Training. “Awarded Worldwide Leader In Healthcare” by the International Nurses Association for creating Doulagivers, she is also an end of life educator, consultant and a #1 International Bestselling author. Today, Suzanne runs the global campaign "How to Care for Someone Who is Dying" The Good Death One Million People Trained where she gives free family caregiver End of Life Doula Trainings live every month online and to date has trained 126,348 families worldwide.

North Carolina

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Carrie Forbes
Stantonsburg
Eastern North Carolina End-of-Life Doula Support
252-689-8734
gingerlemongirl@gmail.com
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Linda Golymbieski
Marshall

Sacred Passages Death Doula Program
828-776-3786
lindagomusic@gmail.com
www.Linda-Go.com

We provide bereavement support, EOL community training, and evidence-based EOL online resources.



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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. 

Ohio
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Lori Asmus, NEDA Proficient
Cincinnati
Hospice of Cincinnati
513-246-9168
lori_asmus@trihealth.com
www.hospiceofcincinnati.org/volunteer

HOC Navigators includes Hospice, Palliative and Grief Programs. We serve annually over 6,000 patients and a team of over 600 end of life and advanced illness practitioners. Volunteer Doula Training is provided free of charge to HOC Volunteers who have served 100 hours in a patient facing role for at least one year. Training includes Vigil Bedside Presence, Life Review and Legacy Creation; Spiritual Care; Bereavement and Anticipatory Grief, Nutrition, Ambulation, Dementia Care, Comfort Touch; Guided Imagery; Introduction to energy, art and music therapy. Instructors include professionals in hospice nursing, social work, chaplains, counselors and other volunteer doulas.

Oregon

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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
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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

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.


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Lily Myers Kaplan, MA, Ordained Minister
Jacksonville
Spirit of Resh Foundation
510-390-1098

lilymyerskaplan@gmail.com​
www.reshfoundation.org
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Pamela Stone
Sandy
Soulpassage
503-545-8024
pamela@soulpassage.net
ww.soulpassage.net


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

This five-week Death Doula training is offered by Pamela Stone RN, Death Doula and Reiki Master with 30 years' experience in tending the dying.

Pennsylvania

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Patty Burgess
Bensalem
Doing Death Differently

267-428-6677
info@teachingtransitions.com
​www.doingdeathdifferently.com
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Jamie Eaddy Chism, DMin
Philadelphia
Thoughtful Transitions
215-701-3668
DrJay@thoughtfultransitions.org

www.thoughtfultransitions.org
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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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Thoughtful Transitions provides an intimate learning experience through webinars and mentorship. Allowing up to four beautiful humans for each learning experience, Dr. J provides a radically inclusive transformative space to explore spiritual, emotional, psychological, physical, cultural, and practical aspects of end-of-life care for the dying person and their community. 
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Lin Roussel, BA, LPN, LMT, LE, NEDA Proficient
Lititz
BellaTouch
717-271-6669
lin@massageCEadvantage.com
www.massageceadvantage.com/EOLS

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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 fand includes hands-on practice and NEDA core competencies.


Texas

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Anna Adams, NEDA Proficient
San Antonio
International Doula Life Movement
210-721-3422
anna@internationaldoulalifemovement.com
www.internationaldoulalifemovement.com
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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.



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Sonja Koenig
San Antonio
TX Doula Movement, LLC
210-316-0488
doulasupport@txdoulamvmnt.com
www.txdoulamovement.thinkific.com
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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.

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Deanna Cochran, RN
Austin
CareDoula® School 
​hello@certifiedcaredoula.com
www.certifiedcaredoula.com

Deanna’s groundbreaking doula training is the premier End-of-Life Doula Certificate Program in the US. A founding member and 1st VP of NEDA and inaugural member and 1st Chair of the NHPCO End-of-Life Doula Advisory Council (2.5 years), Deanna’s work from the early 2000's helped set the foundation for the explosive doula growth we have seen in recent years. She continues to mentor trailblazers using her signature CareDoula system (due to her personal attention with each student, enrollment is limited).

Vermont

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Anne-Marie Keppel
Craftsbury Common
Village Deathcare Citizen

802-533-7721
annemariekeppel@gmail.com
www.stardustmeadow.com

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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).
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Emily Ruff
East Barre
Sage Mountain Botanical Sanctuary
802-479-9825

emily@sagemountain.com
www.sagemountain.com/end-of-life

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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.  
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The University of Vermont End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate
Burlington
​                                   800-639-3210
                                   learn@uvm.edu
                                   go.uvm.edu/doula

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.

Washington

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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 mission is to guide and assist people towards a more conscious dying experience while honoring individual autonomy. We work to create and sustain authentic partnerships in death care through consent, inclusivity, and active interruption of harm and violence. Acting on these core values includes building access-focused, anti-racist, and gender-inclusive environments, doula training, workshops, story sharing, community events, and resources. While collaborating with many local, national, and international institutions ASP educates, collaborates, and shares ways to be supportive non medical companions through paid and free educational offerings.

Wisconsin

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Elizabeth Humphries, MSN, RN, CNM
Madison
608-770-2730
Seasons of Life, LLC
Liz@seasonsoflifemadison.com

www.seasonsoflifemadison.com

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Felica Turner-Walton
Madison
608-205-8260
​All Things Phee

Felica@allthingsphee.com

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Mystala Turpin
Milwaukee
414-238-8789
Death Becomes Her llc
Deathbecomesherllc@gmail.com
www.deathbecomesherllc.com

Felica provides training based on the 5 stages of black grief and social determinants of black grief. Certified Grief Educator Grief Support Specialist Peer Support Specialist

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Mystala provides instruction on lasting legacies through art and momento mori traditions, African/pan-African death traditions.

International

Australia

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Annetta Mallon, Ph.D., MSW, LCSW
Tasmania
Gentle Death Education and Planning 

+6 141-270-2833
info@gdep.com.au
www.gdep.com.au

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Helen Callanan
Sunbury
Preparing the Way End of Life Doula Training
+6 1413917574
helen@preparingtheway.com.au
                                   www.preparingtheway.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.

​Certified and Non-accredited a. Free – 1 hour Exploring End of Life - Your Way b. 9 hour – Foundation Workshop End of Life Doula training – death and doula literacy c. 4 day – Intensive Course End of Life Doula Training Nationally Accredited Qualification course d. 10966NAT Certificate IV in End of Life Doula Services

Canada

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Sarah Kerr, PhD
Calgary, Alberta
Soul Passages
403-771-7409
sarah@soulpassages.ca
www.soulpassages.ca
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Karry Sawatsky
Elora, Ontario
​Modern Deathcare
519-400-9359
moderndeathcare@gmail.com
www.moderndeathcare.ca


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.
Are you a heart-centered Death Doula ready to create and launch profitable services you’re aligned with that attract clients, resulting in a sustainable income? Are you wondering what your next steps are and lacking support as you guide clients? Modern Mentorship is a 12-week step-by-step live online training program specifically designed for Death Doulas to develop their offers and receive mentorship.

New Zealand

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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.

South Africa

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Keshnie Mathi
Randburg, Gauteng
The Wellness Specialist
+27 614627419

connect@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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