Available End of Life Doula Services

Overview of services

Melanie offers a wide range of compassionate and practical end-of-life support services for individuals, families, and communities. Whether you're planning ahead, navigating a recent diagnosis, or dealing with a sudden death, support is available.

For more detailed information, please scroll down or contact Melanie directly for a free chat.

Key service categories

• End-of-Life Planning – Personalised support to help you plan ahead

• Practical and emotional support – At any stage of life’s final chapter

• Dying, death and after-death support

• Sudden death support – Gentle guidance when the unexpected happens

• Advocacy and education – Book a community presentation or group session

Practical and emotional support

Every journey is unique. Melanie can offer tailored support that may include:

• Gathering your support crew and coordinating help from family and friends

• Memory-making and legacy projects

• Support for carers, including respite options and referrals

• Liaison with medical professionals to help you understand your options

• Accompaniment to medical appointments

• Facilitation of family conversations and relationships

End-of-life planning support

Melanie provides gentle, step-by-step guidance through the practicalities of planning ahead, including:

• Understanding key documents: Wills, Advance Care Directives, Enduring Guardianship, Power of Attorney

• Clarifying values and wishes

• Creating a personalised end-of-life plan

• Helping you create your “bucket list” and supporting you to achieve it

Advocacy and Community Education

Melanie is available to present to, or conduct workshops with, community groups, professionals, carers and families about topics such as:

• What an end-of-life doula does

• Planning ahead with confidence

• Supporting someone who is dying

• Grief, loss and sudden death

• Dying at home and after-death care options

  Contact Melanie about speaking to your group or hosting a session

The Gift of Time

The most valuable gift Melanie can offer is time — unhurried, compassionate, and entirely yours.

When you engage her services as an End of Life Doula, you’re creating room to focus on what matters most in these precious moments. Melanie’s presence allows you to slow down, step away from the logistics and overwhelm, and truly be with your loved one. Melanie helps hold the practical, emotional, and spiritual weight of this time, so you can focus on love, presence, and peace.

With her support, you may find the space to:

• Spend quality time together — simply sitting, holding hands, or sharing stories

• Complete meaningful tasks or fulfill treasured bucket list wishes

• Reminisce about a life well lived, connect deeply, and express your love

• Say goodbye in your own time and your own way

• Begin to grieve and gently process your loss, knowing you are not alone

Pricing and packages

Service packages are available to suit a variety of needs - from one-off sessions to bundles of 5 or 10 hours or more.

To discuss pricing, packages or personalised options, please call Melanie on 0406 622 091 or use one of the buttons below.

Dying, death and after-death support

Melanie provides assistance and information before, during, and after death. Support may include:

• Planning for a home-based death (where possible and desired)

• Information about care of the body after death

• Assisting with funeral planning or alternative farewell options

• Holding vigil with the dying person and their loved ones

• Sudden death support, including liaising with the Coroner’s Office, funeral providers and other services

• Decluttering or clearing a home following death or downsizing

Photo courtesy of Mike Labrum.