Conscious Dying was created with the core belief that death is not something that just happens to us, but that it’s something that we do and can move through with deep presence. My main goal as a death doula is to support and empower individuals and their loved ones to expand their innate capacity to be with their dying. You deserve someone who will hold space with you with care, skill, and compassion through death, dying, and grief.

Welcome, I am honored you’re here.

Offerings

  • End of Life Planning

    End of life planning is not only a gift to ourselves but to those we love. For a lot of people, getting their affairs in order is part of creating a peaceful death for themselves but oftentimes it’s a source of uncertainty and stress as they aren’t sure where to begin. I am here to help! Through several one-on-one meetings I will support you in working through an End-of-Life Plan that is reflective of your priorities and values. Additionally, it’s never too early to start—anyone at any point can complete an End of Life Plan since they can be easily updated as your life continues to change and grow.

  • Community Grief and Healing

    Community grief and healing support spaces are powerful ways for collective witnessing, processing, and metabolizing of grief. Be it grief from personal death losses, communal losses, grief from systemic oppression, etc. The truth is that we are not meant to hold grief in isolation—it’s meant to be held collectively where folks can receive the support they need from their communities. I draw on my experience as a skilled facilitator, popular educator, and community organizer to hold gatherings in movement spaces as well as in other community spaces. Through an initial consult we can collaborate in creating the healing container that you need.

  • End of Life Support

    End-of-life support provided by a skilled and compassionate death doula supports and empowers individuals and their loved ones to expand their innate capacity to be with their dying. It allows more space for people to create a death and dying process that works for and is shaped by them, and it builds on the existent community of support that's crucial in contributing to a more peaceful and present death. Everyone's experience, context, and areas of need are different which means that end-of-life support will look different from person to person. Through a complimentary consultation we will talk through the type of support you need, and together we can co-create a support package.

Payment

To center the most impacted communities of systemic oppression and make all services and offerings accessible to anyone, I offer a sliding scale payment option with the average service price ranging from $0-3000 (prices may be outside of this range in extenuating circumstances). Together we will figure out a payment that honors and meets your current financial context.

Death Café Dates

Spring & Summer 2025

Death Cafe’s are a space to collectively practice curiosity and vulnerability in the exploration of death, dying, and grief.

The goal of these seasonal Death Cafe’s is to promote open discussion surrounding the topics of death and dying where people can stand in their full humanity and truly own and explore the all-encompassing beauty of the human experience. The spaces are always co-created, and often are no-agenda, casual discussions.

  • April 22, 6-8 PM at Tryst Coffeehouse

  • May 14, 6:30-8:30 PM at Wine & Butter Café & Market

  • June 10, 6-8PM at Tryst Coffeehouse

Washington, DC

Testimonials

“Every death café at Congressional Cemetery is a unique gathering of humans showing up with and for one another. Each month we are honored to welcome a different facilitator and in August (2025) we welcomed Veronica from Conscious Dying D.C., who has been hosting Capitol Hill death cafes for some time. Thank you, Veronica, Congressional Cemetery, and the community who shows up for these warm, courageous and nourishing conversations!”

— Laura L.

“In 2022, I participated in the Grief in Action series that Veronica helped to facilitate for people who had been involved with DC’s Cancel Rent Coalition. Before the series began, when Veronica told me about the idea, I was blown away. I’d been involved in social justice fights of different kinds for 15 years, and no one had ever suggested that we dedicate time to grieving our collective losses. Veronica and her co-facilitators had tapped into a deep need that many of us were carrying without even knowing it. I was really impressed with the rollout of the curriculum. They engaged us with heavy subjects like illness, death, ancestral grief, our thwarted dreams. They took on these subjects in a way that was both intentional and supportive. Overall, I cannot recommend this program highly enough; I only wish I had had access to these tools and frameworks earlier in life.”

— Amy G.

“In the Fall of 2024, Veronica organized and facilitated a Grief in Action workshop for members of my organization, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, DC-Maryland-Virginia Chapter (NDWA-DMV), and she developed a robust workshop that included an impressive number of different modalities. She brought us teachings about types of grief, shared specific healing practices to combat and manage grief, led us in small group discussions to give everyone a chance to meaningfully participate and to share personally about their ancestorial lineage and how it is connected to ancestral grief. We received overwhelmingly positive feedback from our members after the workshop. They appreciated Veronica’s empathetic manner of connecting with them. They found the content accessible and relevant and she made sure that the materials and content she presented were ones that resonated and could be understood easily by our group. We have noticed that this meeting provided participants with an increased sense of resilience in a peak moment of grief and fear and one of our members appreciated the workshop so much they said, we all have so many stories to share, we need to do this every month!”

— Alana E.