
Portland Grief House
Death Care Workers
Grief House death care workers offer a compassionate, practiced, diversely knowledgeable community we can can come to for support while we and our loved ones move through death, funerals, final dispositions and beyond.
In their company we hope to find paths to deeper, richer connections to the ends of our lives.

Alex Wilson
Death Doula/Therapist
Alex is a death doula with a background in social work, community organizing, somatics and breath work. She created Healing the Land, an emergent practice, out of the desire to help heal and build community through nature. She designed and leads the Community Death Support course at The Grief house where she offers 1:1 somatic support for grievers.

Elena Gardella
Marriage and Family Therapist licensed in OR and CA
Elena has been working with individuals and families for over 12 years, using somatic psychotherapy and EMDR. She offers IADC to assist grievers who are struggling with their loss to have a sense of connection with their deceased loved ones.
Elena speaks Spanish and is happy to work in Spanish or English.

Serena Trexler
Licensed funeral director and deathcare guide.
Serena weaves earth, spirit, and remembrance through home funerals, natural organic reduction and natural burial. She tends sacred farewells and a gentle return to the earth for humans and animal companions.

Kirstin Hoops
Licensed Massage Therapist and Death Doula
Blending modalities like craniosacral therapy, myofascial release, and deep tissue, Kirstin provides compassionate touch and somatic support to both the dying and those who grieve to facilitate peace, dignity, and holistic well-being during end-of-life transitions and the subsequent journey through grief.

Jojo Donovan
Tarot, Reiki, Death Care
Jojo Offers grief work, embodied magic, readings, and grounded guidance for times of collapse.
They support in vigil and ritual planing and offer spiritual, energetic and practical death companionship for individuals and their families.

Alyson Day
Transition Coach
Alyson Empowers individuals to embrace transformation, thrive amidst uncertainty, and unlock their full potential even in the most difficult season of life.

Laura Green
Play & Imagination Companion
Laura offer support for play and make-believe, which are sometimes useful friends for death. If death is a part of your daily life and you're interested in exploring non-linear ways to interact, reach out! Laura is happy to sit and think over possibilities, set up play dates and support you in dreaming up new ways to be with death.

Jamie Thrower
Death Doula
Jamie offers practical and emotional support for dying people and their families. She provides end of life planning, legacy, ritual & ceremony guidance, and vigil planning. She also assists terminally ill Oregonians in all stages of the process of accessing Medical-Aid-In-Dying/Death with Dignity.

Marci Donaldson
Death Doula
Marci Provides compassionate presence, physical care & logistical support for those at end of life who wish to have a choice in pursuing a death through Medical Aid in Dying in the state of Oregon

Heather Dorfman
LMSW
Heather offers grief care and death support that reconnects folks to the more-than-human world. She includes gentle, somatic and sense-based practices, art, journaling to build and nurture your connection to the web of being for care, support, and guidance.

Belle Chesler
Death Doula
Belle offers practical, creative and social support, help with respite care, vigil, ceremony & legacy planning and death cleaning.
She brings deep presence, attunement, and compassion to her work.

Lisa Snyder
State-Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator
Lisa supports individuals who are dying or facing a diagnosis and would like to explore a psychedelic journey as part of their end-of-life plan. She also offers psilocybin journeys for people moving through grief and loss.

Tina Tau
Dream Work
Tina offers dreamwork to all people including those interacting with their death or the death of their beloveds.
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Patty Montoya
Energetic Healing
Patty offers spiritual guidance, mediumship and energy healing for those who have suffered from trauma or grief to support you on your healing journey.