Individual Grief Counselling
Everyone grieves in their own way and in their own time. Sometimes people grieve for years without seeming to find even temporary relief. Adapting to a loss can be extremely challenging and can even feel like a betrayal. This reasoning can leave you feeling stuck. I will guide you on how to reorient and restructure life after a loss and maintain a connection to loved ones and what was lost. Grief counselling isn’t a miracle cure for dealing with loss. It won’t help you forget about a deceased loved one or avoid the pain of loss. Instead, it can help you understand, accept, and manage grief to live a full life.
Advanced Care Planning
For individuals interested in proactively planning for their end of life, including creating advance directives, discussing final wishes (away from the legal space), and ensuring a peaceful transition. I facilitate the creation of a care plan for the family, including distribution of chores, meal plans, medication administration, "watch over" shifts, final event procedures. It’s the person’s very own blueprint for dying which truly reflects their choices and wishes. The plan can be updated and changed at any time to reflect changes in circumstances, views and opinions, and to reduce fear and distress.
Assistance For people With Life-limiting or Terminal Illnesses
Those diagnosed with a terminal illness who may benefit from emotional support, guidance in making end-of-life decisions, and companionship during their final stages. These visits provide private support in your home, care home or hospital. Assistance may include any or all of the following: mediation and advocacy so that the dying person’s wishes are honoured, implementation of the dying person’s vision of ideal last months, weeks, and hours of life, creating sacred space for dying, comforting touch and aromatherapy, bedside presence.
The active-dying phase can be fragile for the family, and I am here to support everyone for the best outcome.
Companion Care For Elderly
Seniors who are approaching the end of their lives and desire assistance with planning, emotional support, and addressing concerns related to death and dying. You may be healthy, well, and living at home. You may be living with a family member. Or you may be resident in a nursing home.
Facilitating Legacy and Life Review Projects
Legacy projects are a way to create a physical remembrance of personal and family story and values and to inspire the future. It is intended to be passed on to the next generation or be left as a memorial, a gift to those left behind. I will assist you with: exploration of life story, conducting life review sessions, transmission of values to the next generation, creating a physical artifact.
