We use this first meeting to understand what you or your family are actually facing right now, not just the diagnosis or the situation on paper, but what's weighing on you. I explain how this work functions in practice, answer whatever questions come up, and we talk through what kind of support would actually help: someone to check in regularly, a specific piece of planning, or something else entirely. By the end, we've agreed on what comes next, whether that's individual sessions, a package, or one of the specific services below.

What happens in a session depends entirely on what you bring to it. Some people need to talk through a diagnosis they haven't fully processed yet. Others want help preparing for a hard conversation with family, or just someone to sit with while the fear is loud. Practical questions come up too: how to think about the weeks or months ahead, how to talk to children about what's happening, how to hold both hope and reality at the same time. There's no script. Sessions can be one-off or ongoing, and can be booked as a package if you know you'll want regular support over time.

This is a document that spells out your medical and personal care preferences for a time when you're no longer able to speak for yourself: what treatment you do and don't want, who you trust to make decisions on your behalf, and what matters to you beyond the medical facts. We build it together over four sessions, through conversation rather than a form you fill out alone, so it actually reflects your values and not a generic checklist. Having this in place also takes a heavy decision off your family's shoulders at a moment when they're least equipped to carry it.

Legacy work is about reviewing your life on your own terms and deciding what you want to leave behind, and how you want to be remembered. That review often surfaces the people, memories, and moments that matter most, and from there we figure out a form to hold onto them. For some people that's a recipe book for their grandchildren. For others it's going through their library and choosing which books to pass on and where. It can also be recording your own stories, writing the words for your own memorial service so your family doesn't have to guess, or simply sitting with your own life and making peace with it. There's no fixed format. It's shaped entirely around what you want to leave, and to whom.

I sit with someone through their final hours or days, so they're not alone, and so their family has permission to step away and rest, sleep, eat, or just breathe for a while, knowing someone is there. This can be planned ahead of time, so we already know what kind of presence you want in the room: music, quiet, particular people nearby, or none of that at all.

These sessions are for the people who are still here: family and friends, working through their own grief after someone has died. There's no set timeline for that process and no right way to do it. We meet for as long and as often as is useful to you.