Resources

Hospice

What is hospice care?

How are palliative care and hospice care different?

How to choose a hospice provider

Washington State Palliative & Hospice Care Organization

Puget Sound Home Health & Hospice

Franciscan Hospice

Multicare Hospice

A Place to Die: A physical place where any person can stay while exercising their end of life choice with MAID or VSED

Estate Planning & Attorneys

Orbit Wills: Offers a streamlined online platform for the creation of binding legally documents at a package price, managed by Tacoma-based firm Narrows Law Group

Kampbell Legal Planning

Law Offices of Kate Jones

McCarthy Law Office

James A. Jones, Sound Legacy Law

Law Offices of Christopher A. Benson

Marine View Law

Luce & Associates

Dickson, Frohlich, Phillips, Burgess

Mental Health Services

Pride Counseling Northwest: Specializes in supporting members of the LGBTQ+ community

Gig Harbor Counseling Services: Therapist team specializing in grief, offering in-person and telehealth sessions

LifeStance Health: Find a therapist that takes insurance and/or offers telehealth

Circle of Life Holistic Care: Grief and life transition focused counseling and group therapy

Reisinger Counseling & Consulting: Experience with hospice as well as infant and child loss

Chelsea Kramer Therapy: Specializes in grief and anxiety, pregnancy loss and infertility, fat-positive

Kelly Peck, MA, LMHC

David Ross, LMHC, CMHS, PhD, ACS, NCC

Marjory Ware, LMHC, LMFTA

Bereavement & Caregiver Support

The GEN Grief Toolkit: Embodiment tools and rituals to support grief work in community

Yoga4Caregivers: YouTube channel with accessible yoga, meditation, breathing exercises, and mindful movement and other holistic wellness resources for caregivers

Tacoma Recovery Center: Recovery groups that touch on substance loss, death, relationships, loss of home, as well as family and/or financial hardships

Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital: Resources for families experiencing pediatric death, as well as camps for bereaved children

Star Legacy Foundation: Resources for parents and loved ones experiencing miscarriage, stillbirth and infant loss

Family Connects Pierce County: Provides low or no-cost nurse visits to families experiencing infant loss or partner loss related to childbirth

Seattle Childrens’ Hospital Journey Program: Bereavement resources for parents and loved ones experiencing pediatric death

National Alliance for Children’s Grief: Resources for children who have experienced loss of a loved one or caregiver

Resources for Survivors of Suicide Loss

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Available 24/7 via phone call, text or video (ASL)

Photography & Memorial Services

Big Stretch Photography: Specializing in family and pet portraits

Marie Wulfram Photography: Pet memorial portraits

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep: Free family and infant portraits for families who have lost a child to stillbirth or other neonatal complications

Lovely Photography by K: Lakewood, WA based photography offered through Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

Becky Langseth Photography: Seattle, WA based, offering bereavement and birth photography

Funeral Homes & Disposition

National Home Funeral Alliance

Funeral Financial Assistance from People’s Memorial Association

Return Home: Natural Organic Reduction Funeral Home

Recompose: Natural Organic Reduction Funeral Home

Mountain View Funeral Home

Gaffney Funeral Home

Scott Funeral Home

Scanlin Cremation & Burial

Tacoma Mausoleum & Mortuary

Oakwood Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery

Tuell-McKee Funeral & Cremation Services

Cremation Society of Washington

Neptune Society South Seattle

Education & Advocacy Resources

Check out my YouTube Channel for playlists of educational videos.

My Parents Are Dead. What Now?: Resources for dealing with the aftermath of the loss of a loved one

Compassion and Choices: Organization dedicated to improving care, expanding options and empowering everyone to chart their end-of-life journey

End of Life Washington: Free resources for end of life choices (including VSED), Death with Dignity (MAID), and end of life planning

The Conversation Project: Free resources for starting difficult end of life conversations with loved ones

International End-of-Life Doula Association

National End-of-Life Doula Alliance

Going with Grace Doula Training

Hospice Nurse Julie YouTube Channel: Thoughtful discussion of end-of-life medicine and patient care

Death Care Coach Katie: Shortform education about the medicine of end-of-life

Ask A Mortician (Caitlin Doughty) YouTube Channel: A real-life mortician answers questions about funeral and disposition practices in the United States

It’s OK that You’re Not OK Podcast with Megan Devine

Grief is a Sneaky B!tch Podcast with Lisa Keefauver

Recommended Reading

The Hospice Handbook: Nurse Debbie's Compassionate Guide to End-Of-Life Care

Hospice: A DIFFERENT TYPE OF HOPE: Criteria For Choosing Your Hospice Team Sooner

Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully

Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

View my extended “Doula Reading List” at King’s Books

View my extended “Doula Reading List” at Tacoma Public Library

Events

Click here to see my calendar of upcoming events.

Disclaimer: This list is not exhaustive and does not constitute a recommendation of services. If you have firsthand experience with any of the businesses listed here, positive or negative, I welcome your feedback.