Meet Lori
Just as each of us travel many roads along our life path, my journey to becoming an end-of-life doula included many stops along the way.
Looking back, each of those experiences played an essential role in helping me discover my passion for and commitment to this important work: assisting, guiding and accompanying individuals and families at this most vulnerable stage of life.
For as long as I can remember, I've been drawn to supporting people and communities. Early in my career, I served as a speech-language pathologist, helping people and their families navigate life changing brain injuries in hospital and community settings. While raising my own family, I discovered a passion for digital storytelling, founding a small business focusing on sharing family stories through video documentaries and photo montages. After learning how future generations will be impacted by the ravages of climate change, I made
another shift and dedicated my work to education and advocacy around environmental issues. This led me towards a greater understanding of the structural inequities that exist in our society and a personal commitment to social, racial and disability justice.
A long-ago hospice volunteer, my interest in exploring issues around death and dying resurfaced as I supported a dear friend through her own end-of-life journey. This work is dedicated to that beautiful friend, Caren, who inspired me to pursue this path by declaring, "I wish I had a death doula."
May her memory forever be a blessing.
Credentials & Trainings
- National End-of-Life Doula Proficient, National End of Life Doula Alliance (NEDA)
- Quality of Life Care Doula School of Accompanying the Dying (Certified End-of Life Doula)
- Holding Space Grief Consultant Training, The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death
- Grief Work, The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death
- Certified Grief Doula Specialist Program, International Doula Life Movement
- Certified Life Planning Specialist Doula Program, International Doula Life Movement (in process)
- Navigating Pet Death, The Centre for Sacred Deathcare
- Companion Animal Transitions: Introductory workshop on supporting humans & their animals through life’s transitions: aging, illness, dying, death, and continued connection, Sacred Crossings
- Training for End-Of-Life Doulas and Bedside-Attendants, American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying
- Medical Aid in Dying and Doulas, A Sacred Passing
- REIKI Level 1 & 2, Danielle Stimpson, Independent REIKI Master Teacher
