Ore currently resides in Santa Cruz, CA and can serve in person in the Greater Bay Area from the East Bay down to Monterey, CA. They can also serve everywhere virtually to support folks with resources and to offer emotional and spiritual counseling.

Packages and Rates

End of Life & Grief Counseling

• One to One Hourly Sessions: $85-115 sliding scale

• Group Sessions: $100-$150 sliding scale

Accompaniment on the Journey to Final Passage

This offering is tailored to the needs of the patient and family and payment to be discussed based on the needs, time frame and specific circumstances and includes:

• End of Life Planning
  • Advanced Directive/Living Will support
  • Final Arrangements including burial/cremation, celebration of life & memorial plans
• Legacy Work and Life Review
• Emotional and Spiritual Counseling
• Respite Care for Caregivers and Families
• Guidance for family, friends and beloveds
• Bedside Vigil
• Closure rituals and rites tailored to your faith tradition

Here are some of the ways that we might work together

Wrestle:  past hurts, current and future practical worries and questions around finances, living situation, etc., grappling with death itself, existential questions, spiritual wreckoning, loss of faith and reclaiming of beliefs, family dynamics etc. 

Reconcile: coming to terms with your past to be able to be present with as much release and resolve as possible;  making peace with parts of yourself, relationships and the world, forgiveness of self and others, etc.  

Prepare:  physical, emotional and spiritual preparation for your death; releasing items you no longer need, exploring what you wish for your final days on earth- who, what, where, when and how; having all your documents and paperwork in order early so you can set it behind you and focus on what really matters.  

Gratitude: spending time in appreciation for your life, engaging in life review and dancing with practices to support you to find wholeness and completion no matter what the circumstances.

Surrender:  Much like our birth, we cannot predict the timeline for our death. Will it be sudden?  Will we be given a death sentence?  Will we have pain or will our mind go?  We can practice the state of surrender in our lives as dress rehearsal for our death.  And, when we have arrived at this phase, we have chosen what we need to be as comfortable as possible and we have worked through the difficulties and we can let ourselves release more and more to the process that is unfolding. 

Mystery:  Lastly, no one really knows what happens when we die.  Some of us might be very clear and that is beautiful.  Some of us have no idea and this may bring an assortment of feelings to the surface.  When we work through any doubts or unknowns, we might be able to embrace this unknown with more ease. We can practice having a relationship to the Mystery throughout our lives as another way to prepare us for this final moment…