I’m Rachel, a death doula and conflict facilitator living in London, UK. I support individuals and families in finding their way through the conversations our culture teaches us to avoid. I offer facilitation services that create space for the tender and essential discussions around end-of-life, because these conversations have the power to connect rather than divide.

The most transformative conversations often happen in the spaces between: between life and death, conflict and connection, fear and love. In my practice, I combine my training as a death doula* with my training as a mediator and conflict facilitator. This unique combination allows me to help people navigate the complex relational challenges that arise around end-of-life.

I know from personal experience that illness and death can fracture familial bonds, and that it can be incredibly difficult to reconnect after encountering multiple layers of loss we struggle to articulate. Our culture doesn’t make this easy; we’re taught to avoid these conversations entirely. I create space where exploring these depths and finding our shared humanity within them feels natural again.

I’m a trained death doula with Going with Grace, and a facilitator with Peaceful Solutions, where I trained in mediation. I am grounded in the belief that whose deaths matter, and how we die, is deeply political, and I see end-of-life issues as inseparable from questions of justice.

I’m also a documentary filmmaker. If you’re looking instead for that work, click here.

*A death doula is someone who supports those at the end of life and their loved ones through the emotional, logistical, and spiritual aspects of illness and death. Philosophically, the role of a doula is to help bring agency back into the hands of the people, in a time when life transitions like birth and death have become institutionalized and medicalized in our society. It’s not about replacing experts and professionals who offer valuable support and knowledge, it’s about remembering that we are also our own experts in how we live and die, that we know innately how to care for one another and we have more choices available to us than we may realize.

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