Resources
Hospice
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
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
James A. Jones, Sound Legacy Law
Law Offices of Christopher A. Benson
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
David Ross, LMHC, CMHS, PhD, ACS, NCC
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
Oakwood Hill Funeral Chapel & Cemetery
Tuell-McKee Funeral & Cremation Services
Cremation Society of Washington
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.