Head of The Doula Guild and Co-Founder, West Boston Pod Leader

University of Vermont EoL Professional Certificate (May 2022)

I am a Doula, an artist and Reiki practitioner. My focus is on overall accompanying at end-of-life, including facilitating meaningful conversations, supporting legacy projects, and fostering family harmony; I also empower clients at all steps of life to navigate the process of organizing their affairs.

Within The Guild, I oversee the community's overall functioning, lead the West of Boston Pod, and organize and host the Doula Dialogues online events.

English, French, Italian

la-doula@la-doula.com | La Doula LLC

Doula Guild North Pod Leader

Death Doula & EoL Planner Certificate, Going with Grace (2022)

I am a death doula, grief guide, funeral celebrant, and community death educator. I started Human Condition Death Care to help people through a universal experience that we are all too often unprepared for, death. I work in Northern MA, Southern NH, and virtually. My services include:

Advance Care Planning (Living Will), Funeral Celebrant Services (Unique & Meaningful), Community Death Education, Legacy Projects, Sitting Vigil, Grief Support 

www.humanconditiondeathcare.com

Doula Guild Communications Lead, Compass Pod Leader

University of Vermont End-of-Life Professional Certificate (2023) and Companion Animal Death Doula Certificate (2025)

I am a death doula, therapist (LICSW) and Notary Public; I provide emotional, practical and educational guidance to people approaching end of life, and support them in having the best death possible. I also help family and/or friends through the end-of-life process of a loved one. Services I offer include end of life planning, legacy work, sitting vigil and bereavement support. 

In addition to my doula work, I serve as the Communications Lead within the Guild, where I help foster connection and shared purpose among our Doulas and the broader community.

I serve in the Greater Boston Area as well as online.

somervilledeathdoula.com

Doula Guild Steward and Boston Pod co-Leader

Going with Grace EOL Training (2025)

MSW, Boston College

I am an end-of-life doula providing non-medical, holistic support to individuals and their loved ones as they approach death. My work includes advance care planning, facilitated family conversations, bedside presence, and guidance for those navigating the end-of-life process.

I also co-direct Living While Mortal, where I guide conversations on end-of-life planning and making sense of life and death.

I work in-person in Greater Boston, as well as virtually.

www.estuarydoula.com | Estuary End-of-Life Care, LLC

Doula Guild Resources Librarian and Book Club Host

INELDA (2025)

I am a death doula, hospice volunteer, warmline volunteer, and writer. I live in Somerville, MA, and am available for in-person or online services. The center of my practice is presence and withness. I am also happy to assist with legacy projects and advance planning. I have personal experience with sudden death, gradual decline, and perinatal loss.

Doula Guild South Pod co-Leader

Licensed Massage Therapist, EoL Doula (INELDA, 2024), certified Jikiden Reiki and Sound Healing practitioner

I'm the founder of Still Within Collaborative Wellness Center in Norwell, MA, a space for heart-centered, integrative care. After a stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis in 2019, I took time to heal and train in Jikiden Reiki and sound healing, discovering their power in navigating illness and emotional recovery. In 2024, I completed INELDA’s End-of-Life Doula program. Now, I support others through cancer, healing, or end-of-life transitions, offering presence, empathy, and therapeutic care grounded in my own lived experience.

www.still-within.com

Doula Dialogue Host

Int’l EoL Doula Association (INELDA, 2023); University of Vermont EoL Professional Certificate (2022) with additional specialization in children (2025) and companion animals/pets (2024); EoL doula, elder care and care consultant training with Doulagivers (2023); National End-of-Life Doula Alliance badge of proficiency (NEDA, 2024)

I support individuals and families/caring systems in living well with life-limiting illness and making informed and empowered choices. My work addresses practicalities such as planning and advance directives; relational work such as legacy projects and interpersonal repairs; and spiritual/existential work including finding meaning, hope and coping with fear and uncertainty.

I also offer workshops for psychotherapists and community groups on normalizing and depathologizing grief, advance directives, Medical Aid in Dying, and our relationship to aging, illness and death.

My presence as a doula is shaped by hospice house experience, Buddhist practice, and my career as a Ph.D. psychologist working with individuals, couples and families.

I work virtually and in-person within 45-minute drive of Bedford, MA.

www.michelebograd.com

Doula Guild Boston Pod co-Leader

International EoL Doula Association’s Program (INELDA, 2023) , University of Vermont’s Companion Animal Death Doula Program (2024)

I am a grief educator, grief doula, grief coach, and a death doula, with a Masters in Social Work.  I am also an interior redesigner.

Through my various practices I specialize in grief support (anticipatory grief & post-loss); on-call emotional and practical support for people newly grieving an acute loss; designing peaceful, optimal, and functional interior spaces for end of life; end of life companion animal doula; ritual planning; and vigil sitting.

I work in Boston MA & virtually. 

lifebeyonglossgriefcoaching.com , cloud9redesign.com

Doula Guild South Pod co-Leader, Visits and Events Leader

Conscious Dying Collective (2025), The Insight Institute (2025), Empowered Endings End of Life Planning Certification (2026)

As a trained funeral celebrant and end-of-life planner, I help individuals bring clarity and certainty to decisions that matter most, including body disposition choices, funeral music and readings, celebration-of-life options, ash-scattering rituals, and the many ways a life can be remembered. With the aid of structured guides, we explore the practical, emotional, spiritual, and personal questions that shape end-of-life decisions . As a funeral celebrant, I also work with families to create personalized memorial services that honor their loved one.

I seek a deeper understanding of my own spirituality through practice with my Spiritual Director at Anam Cara Ministries, through a close relationship with my Unitarian Minister, and through my lifelong relationship with Catholicism.

University of Vermont End-of-Life Professional Certificate (May 2023), Doula Guild Co-Founder

I am a Doula experienced in preparing and leading ceremonies, alter making, and helping with after-death arrangements and follow-up.

I have lead a number events, including a Date with Death education series, Meet and Grieve events, and Advance Directive workshops.

Boston, MA (Jamaica Plain)

My life path has been shaped by profound personal loss. I bring deep insight and compassion to my work as a Death Doula, Spiritual Director, Trance Healing Medium, and Usui Reiki Master.  I have cultivated a diverse skill set in the healing arts. I hold a strong belief in the World of the Unseen, with over four decades of experience and communication connecting to the other side.

My work involves creating a peaceful environment, assisting with legacy projects, officiating at memorial services, and offering guidance to both the dying and their families. This holistic approach ensures that the transition is handled with dignity and mindfulness.

I work in the Boston Greater Area