Member Profile

An Oregon native, Jill has studied death and dying for several decades beginning with The Dougy Center in the 1980’s, Big Island AIDS Project in the 1990’s, crisis and residential work specializing in children and families, and a decade of hands on palliative care from 2012 through 2021. With a masters in counseling psychology and undergraduate degrees in sociology and psychology, Jill has over ten years experience teaching psychology for local community and professional colleges well as family dynamics, communications, and parenting classes. She has lead groups for caregivers, children in grief, as well as those facing chronic or acute illnesses. She provides online end of life doula care as well as in-person end of life doula care on the Southern Oregon Coast.