My path here has been shaped by plants and goodbyes. I've been steeped in plant medicine for over a decade, with formal herbal study beginning at the Self-Heal School of Herbal Studies in San Diego in 2016. Not long after, in 2017, my Mom, my Dad, and my beloved father-in-law all died within ten weeks of each other. That grief cracked me open in ways I'm still tending to, and it's a big part of what brought me, eventually, to this work.

I began exploring home funeral education in late 2022 through volunteer work with the Home Funeral Alliance, and the following year began offering end-of-life support as a volunteer death doula with Emberlight: Center for Conscious Living and Dying in Swannanoa, NC. This past year brought a new piece: certification as a funeral celebrant through Insight Celebrants Life Tribute Professionals, which feels like a natural next step in learning how to serve families well.

I hold End-of-Life Doula and After Death Care Educator proficiency badges through the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance, and am a graduate of the End of Life Doula Specialist Program through the International Doula Life Movement. I also serve as a volunteer with the Trauma Intervention Program, offering emotional first aid and practical support to survivors in the immediate aftermath of tragic events. I see this as a path of lifelong learning, continually listening, growing, and finding new ways to serve.

I offer bedside vigil for the dying and relief for their weary caretakers. I sit with people in uncertainty, in the last stretch of a lifetime, making space for hard questions, deep sadness, and all the unexpected joy that can still unfold. I offer this support for families who want to bring more presence, meaning, and agency to the dying process. My approach is slow, grounded, and built on care.

I believe we already know how to do this. Not perfectly, not without support, but the capacity to show up for each other at the end of life lives in all of us. It's the remembering that's tricky. That's what I'm here for.

If you're looking for someone to walk alongside you or someone you love, I'm glad you found your way here.

Welcome.