Our Affiliates
Graceful Passages- Dan Stein, he/him
Graceful Passages- Dan Stein, he/him
Graceful Passages- Dan Stein, he/him
Dan Stein MSN, is Inelda Trained. He offers a full range of Doula services, including Legacy planning, Guided Imagery, Vigil planning, and more. He sees patients from Montogomery, Bucks and Deleware County as well as Phildelphia.
I offer companionship, solace, and direction to individuals navigating the end-of-life experience. My holistic
Dan Stein MSN, is Inelda Trained. He offers a full range of Doula services, including Legacy planning, Guided Imagery, Vigil planning, and more. He sees patients from Montogomery, Bucks and Deleware County as well as Phildelphia.
I offer companionship, solace, and direction to individuals navigating the end-of-life experience. My holistic approach, devoid of medical interventions, encompasses emotional, spiritual, and practical assistance. My objective is to enrich the life journey of those approaching the end of their lives.
I extend my assistance to individuals embarking on the end-of-life voyage, as well as their close ones. Should you or someone you are acquainted with require a compassionate presence to accompany you/them during this significant journey, I am here to be that confidant, lending an ear, offering support, and providing guidance as needed. My aim is to foster understanding, empathy, and affection for those in their final moments.
Herons Flight Doula - Morgan Everitt
Graceful Passages- Dan Stein, he/him
Graceful Passages- Dan Stein, he/him
Morgan (she/her) serves as an End of Life Doula in Bucks County, Pa. Her practice, Heron’s Flight, was born out of her mother’s passing in 2016. With this deep personal connection to her work, Morgan is dedicated to providing a warm and supportive environment for the terminally ill and their caretakers. She is deeply passionate about easi
Morgan (she/her) serves as an End of Life Doula in Bucks County, Pa. Her practice, Heron’s Flight, was born out of her mother’s passing in 2016. With this deep personal connection to her work, Morgan is dedicated to providing a warm and supportive environment for the terminally ill and their caretakers. She is deeply passionate about easing the fear and anxiety that so often surrounds death.
Morgan’s background lies in providing at-home caregiving and companionship to individuals of diverse ages, cognitive abilities, and physical capacities. She received her initial doula certification at the Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC, and then continued to fall in love with this work through volunteering on their palliative care floor. Morgan now holds three program certifications, is a member of The National End of Life Doula Association, and has completed many specialty courses on topics such as dementia care and green burial practices.
Isabel Knight
Graceful Passages- Dan Stein, he/him
Belle Sandella
Isabel Knight is the Founder of The Death Designer provides end of life planning services, including funeral and vigil planning, digital account password management, advance directives, and assistance with reconciling fears of mortality. She takes a human-centered design approach, with a focus on promoting individual autonomy, sustainabil
Isabel Knight is the Founder of The Death Designer provides end of life planning services, including funeral and vigil planning, digital account password management, advance directives, and assistance with reconciling fears of mortality. She takes a human-centered design approach, with a focus on promoting individual autonomy, sustainability, and home deathcare options. Her goal is to create a more humane and equitable end of life experience for all.
She is also the President of the National Home Funeral Alliance, a board member of the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Pennsylvania, and the Program Director for the Jewish Association for Death Education. She helps doulas and death-positive businesses create a more inclusive and accessible experience for their clients through human-centered design workshops and also creates online courses and offers freelance graphic design work. You can find her on Instagram at @thedeathdesigner.
Belle Sandella
Sunset Companions - Russ Alexander, he/him
Belle Sandella
My name is Belle Sandella and I’m passionate about supporting individuals and families facing an end-of-life diagnosis or life transition with warmth, compassion and insight. My mission is to help clients find the strength and personal clarity to lean into living, embrace curiosity, and discover joy regardless of life stage or prognosis.
My name is Belle Sandella and I’m passionate about supporting individuals and families facing an end-of-life diagnosis or life transition with warmth, compassion and insight. My mission is to help clients find the strength and personal clarity to lean into living, embrace curiosity, and discover joy regardless of life stage or prognosis. Together in partnership, we will gently explore your life’s true meaning and legacy.
I believe the transition to end of life is a personal and sacred journey worthy of gentle care and consideration. The opportunity to do this important work is often overlooked until we are forced to deal with it. Why not begin the process on our own terms?
I have a unique skill set born from my professional experience as a registered nurse, hospice volunteer, personal caregiver, and reiki practitioner. These skills allow me to bring clarity and focus to others when it is needed most. I have been caring for individuals across the life continuum for over twenty years. It is my sincere honor to serve you and your loved ones.
I am trained through the International End-of-Life Doula Association (INELDA) and I am a member of the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance (NEDA). I am currently pursuing my INELDA End-of-Life Doula Certification.
Kim Schmucki
Sunset Companions - Russ Alexander, he/him
Sunset Companions - Russ Alexander, he/him
I partner with individuals to provide emotional, spiritual, and practical support at the end of life. I also serve loved ones during the end of life process, through early grief and bereavement.
I serve as a companion to people as they explore the meaning of their lives and their legacy. I’m here to help individuals consider their hopes
I partner with individuals to provide emotional, spiritual, and practical support at the end of life. I also serve loved ones during the end of life process, through early grief and bereavement.
I serve as a companion to people as they explore the meaning of their lives and their legacy. I’m here to help individuals consider their hopes and wishes for their death, educate about the process, listen deeply, facilitate legacy projects, assist with vigil planning, and be a reassuring presence.
Sunset Companions - Russ Alexander, he/him
Sunset Companions - Russ Alexander, he/him
Sunset Companions - Russ Alexander, he/him
My story starts with my Mom. She died in August 2012 after a long illness, while on hospice service. I had only minimal experience with death and dying, or about hospice service, prior to her death. Thanks to her hospice service, I found her last days to be a sacred time. That hospice experience led me to become a hospice volunteer in 2013.
Sunset Companions - Annie Wilson, she/her
Catherine Birdsall RN CRNP (She/Her)-Threshold Collective
Sunset Companions - Annie Wilson, she/her
I am an INELDA-trained death doula since 2020, and a choreographer and performer in Philadelphia since 2007. As an artist, I believe dying is a creative space, and I bring the skills I developed as an artist to serve folks who are: planning for their end of life and funeral, seeking ritual support during active dying, and grieving a loss
I am an INELDA-trained death doula since 2020, and a choreographer and performer in Philadelphia since 2007. As an artist, I believe dying is a creative space, and I bring the skills I developed as an artist to serve folks who are: planning for their end of life and funeral, seeking ritual support during active dying, and grieving a loss (death or otherwise).
I am CARES certified in end-of-life care for dementia patients, am Reiki 2 certified, and have studied with Sacred Grief, Going with Grace, The Grave Woman, and the Centre for Sacred Deathcare.
I volunteer at Penn Medicine hospice, the VA Medical Center, and the PA Debt Collective. I have previously volunteered with Prevention Point after my sister and brother-in-law died of heroin overdoses.
I believe there is a systemic dysfunction in how dying people and their loved ones are served, and my work as a doula is to both fill in nonmedical gaps of support and to transform the system so that those gaps no longer exist, including supporting community deathcare.
This Hallowed Wilderness
Catherine Birdsall RN CRNP (She/Her)-Threshold Collective
Sunset Companions - Annie Wilson, she/her
Naila Francis is a grief coach, death midwife and interfaith minister. Through workshops and one-on-one grief medicine sessions, she helps people explore the wilderness of grief so they can journey alongside their losses with more compassion, self-care and authenticity. She also provides support for those who are dying and their families
Naila Francis is a grief coach, death midwife and interfaith minister. Through workshops and one-on-one grief medicine sessions, she helps people explore the wilderness of grief so they can journey alongside their losses with more compassion, self-care and authenticity. She also provides support for those who are dying and their families including death care planning, companion visits, sitting vigil and home funeral planning. Naila is also a founding member of Salt Trails, a Philadelphia collective making grief public and visible through community rituals, and the co-host of Breathing Wind, a podcast about journeying introspectively through grief. Learn more at This Hallowed Wilderness.
Catherine Birdsall RN CRNP (She/Her)-Threshold Collective
Catherine Birdsall RN CRNP (She/Her)-Threshold Collective
Catherine Birdsall RN CRNP (She/Her)-Threshold Collective
I grew up in a rural community in the shadow of Mt. Monadnock, NH, where birth, aging, and death were intimate experiences for me. Funerals often took place at home and were beautiful and sacred community affairs which felt like a natural part of the life cycle. After working for many years as a Hospice Nurse then Geriatric Nurse Practit
I grew up in a rural community in the shadow of Mt. Monadnock, NH, where birth, aging, and death were intimate experiences for me. Funerals often took place at home and were beautiful and sacred community affairs which felt like a natural part of the life cycle. After working for many years as a Hospice Nurse then Geriatric Nurse Practitioner in Philadelphia area retirement communities and gaining extensive knowledge of institutional deathcare, I decided to leave clinical practice to be able to support dying people and their communities more holistically. I am a certified Herbalist, Flower Essence Practitioner, Reiki Practitioner, and Grief Support Specialist. Each person needs end of life care that reflects their unique situation, and I can provide systems-informed, compassionate support as individuals and their loved ones encounter death, look back at the story of their lives, and navigate their fears. Services include planning, medical decision-making support, vigil support as the end draws near, legacy and biography work, post-mortem in-home support for a meaningful farewell, and grief support.
Rebecca Maury M.D.-Threshold Collective
Rebecca Maury M.D.-Threshold Collective
Catherine Birdsall RN CRNP (She/Her)-Threshold Collective
Rebecca Maury, MD FACP is board certified in Hospice and Palliative Care and Internal Medicine, with over 20 years of experience caring for folks at the end of life. In her clinical work, she became aware of a gaping need for a different kind of presence at the bedside- one that was slower, more compassionate, and less focused on the medi
Rebecca Maury, MD FACP is board certified in Hospice and Palliative Care and Internal Medicine, with over 20 years of experience caring for folks at the end of life. In her clinical work, she became aware of a gaping need for a different kind of presence at the bedside- one that was slower, more compassionate, and less focused on the medical details of death and dying. Instead, the focus can turn towards a support into self-reflection, exploration of life's meaning, of opening and letting go. Death is inherently a time of loss, but it can also be an opportunity for tremendous connection and growth for the dying person and everyone who loves them; a rich and profound part of the human experience. She has recently completed death doula training with Sacred Crossings Institute. She has been practicing meditation daily for over 12 years and is also trained as an herbalist and bodyworker. She founded Threshold Collective with her friend and colleague Catherine Birdsall in 2021.