Care that meets the moment.
Start with a free 30-minute introductory consultation. We’ll listen, explain the options, and help you choose the support that fits your needs.
Compassionate care belongs to everyone.
These are our standard prices. As a nonprofit, Sacred Passage will never turn someone away because of an inability to pay. Sliding-scale and no-cost support are available. Please reach out, whatever your financial circumstances.
Individual visits
Choose a single visit or a few hours of support. Each price covers the time and support described below; any travel or optional supplies are explained before booking.
End-of-life planning
A focused conversation to help put wishes and next steps into words.
- Talk through care preferences, important people, beliefs, and personal priorities.
- Explore vigil, funeral, or remembrance wishes, including funeral-home options, questions for providers, and relevant planning documents or community resources.
- Receive a written summary of the wishes and next steps discussed.
We focus on the priorities that fit within this visit. Legal documents and legal advice come from qualified professionals. An additional 90-minute support visit is $120.
Individual grief companionship
A one-to-one conversation with a doula about grief before or after a death. There is room to talk, share memories, or sit quietly.
- Talk about how the loss or anticipated loss is affecting daily life and what support would help.
- Choose a focus together: being heard, remembering the person, preparing for a difficult date, or sorting through an immediate next step.
- If wanted, use part of the session for a letter, simple remembrance activity, or resource guidance, including funeral homes, grief services, or other practical support.
The fee covers one session shaped around your needs. It does not include ongoing messaging or a completed legacy project. This is nonclinical companionship; licensed counselors provide therapy and mental-health treatment.
More about our approach to griefLegacy & memory
Work together on one meaningful way to share a story or preserve a memory.
- Choose a focus, such as a legacy letter, life story, memory collection, or keepsake plan.
- Spend the session gathering stories, organizing ideas, or working on a draft.
- Agree on clear next steps for the project.
The fee covers the session, not a finished book or edited film. Printing, materials, editing, and work between sessions are quoted separately and approved before work begins.
Vigil & bedside presence
$65 per additional hour
Three scheduled hours of nonmedical presence with the person who is dying and the people close to them.
- Companionship, emotional support, and family guidance.
- Agreed comfort activities, such as quiet presence, reading, music, or a personal ritual.
- Support shaped around the person’s wishes and care plan.
Time beyond three hours is $65/hour: four hours totals $365; six hours totals $495, before any agreed travel or supplies.
Additional time and overnight availability are arranged together. This visit does not include the separate follow-up support in the vigil package below.
Caregiver respite
Nonmedical companionship while a caregiver takes time to rest or attend to other needs.
- Quiet presence, conversation, reading, or other agreed comfort activities.
- A plan for the person’s support needs and how to reach their caregiver or care team.
- The number of hours agreed before the visit.
Two hours is $90; four hours is $180, before any agreed travel or supplies.
This is companion support. Medical care remains with the person’s clinical care team.
What we mean by grief support
At Sacred Passage, grief support means nonclinical companionship, practical guidance, remembrance, and community connection. We offer space for grief before or after a death, including the grief that can accompany serious illness and caregiving.
Someone to listen
Individual check-ins with room to talk about the person, the loss, or what life feels like now. We can help name support needs, think through a difficult anniversary, or identify one manageable next step.
Ways to remember
Writing a letter, sharing stories, choosing a simple remembrance ritual, or making room for important memories. Larger keepsakes and recorded projects are available through our separately priced legacy work.
Support for families & caregivers
Listening and nonclinical conversations about what family members or caregivers are experiencing, what matters to them, and what practical support they need through illness, dying, and the time after a death.
Resource guidance, shaped around you
Help exploring options that fit your wishes, circumstances, and budget - including funeral homes, burial and cremation providers, hospice, grief groups, licensed counselors, spiritual or cultural support, and practical community services.
We can help gather contacts, prepare questions, and identify where to turn for needs such as caregiving, transportation, financial assistance, or planning documents. You do not have to know exactly what to ask for; we can start with what feels difficult and explore next steps together.
Where Death Over Drinks fits
Death Over Drinks is a community conversation about death, dying, grief, and mortality. People come to share perspectives, ask questions, listen, and connect. A person does not need to be recently bereaved to take part.
It is not a facilitated grief support group or group therapy, and the gathering does not include individual grief counseling. Our other community events may offer opportunities for remembrance, creative expression, or shared conversation; each event explains its purpose and activities.
Individual grief companionship is a separate, scheduled service. Clinical assessment, diagnosis, and treatment are provided by licensed mental-health professionals.
Individual sessions & pricingCare packages
One price for the visits, planning, and follow-up listed. The free introductory consultation is separate from these included visits.
Planning for Peace
Plus planning & follow-up
More time to explore wishes, organize a plan, and talk it through together.
Exactly what’s included
- One initial 90-minute planning visit.
- Two follow-up visits of 90 minutes each: 4½ hours of scheduled visits in total.
- Preparation of a personal planning summary, including values, care preferences, vigil or remembrance wishes, and agreed next steps.
- Help organizing questions and existing planning documents to discuss with the appropriate professionals.
- Two 15-minute phone or video follow-ups during the two weeks after the final visit.
- Visits may be virtual when suitable.
Additional 90-minute support visits are $120 each. Legal document preparation, completed legacy projects, and bedside vigil hours are separate.
Vigil Presence
Plus planning & aftercare
Bedside support with a shared plan and scheduled follow-up for the family.
Exactly what’s included
- Preparation of a vigil plan reflecting the person’s wishes, beliefs, and comfort preferences.
- Up to 12 hours of bedside presence with one doula at a time, scheduled across one or more visits.
- Family education, emotional support, and agreed comfort or ritual activities during those visits.
- Two 15-minute phone or video check-ins during the first 48 hours after death.
- Two 30-minute bereavement check-ins within the first month after death.
Additional bedside hours are $65/hour and agreed together. Scheduling and overnight availability are confirmed in the care plan; the package does not provide continuous 24-hour coverage.
Full Care Continuum
With defined hours throughout
Support from the first planning visit through the first month after death, within the visits and hours below.
Exactly what’s included
- Everything in Planning for Peace: three 90-minute visits, a personal planning summary, document guidance, and two 15-minute follow-ups.
- Everything in Vigil Presence: a vigil plan, up to 12 bedside hours, two 15-minute check-ins in the first 48 hours after death, and two 30-minute bereavement check-ins.
- Six additional hours shared between companion visits and care-team communication, arranged around the family’s needs.
- Two additional 60-minute grief-support visits within the first month after death.
The six extra hours are one shared allowance for visits and coordination. Check-ins are the scheduled contacts listed here. If needs change or more time would help, we agree on the next care plan and any cost before additional work begins.
What else might cost extra?
We explain the full price in writing before paid services begin, including any agreed travel or supplies.
Travel
The first 10 miles each way from your assigned doula’s starting location are included. Additional round-trip mileage is $0.65 per mile. For example, a visit 20 miles away involves 40 miles of travel; after the 20 included miles, the travel charge is $13. We confirm the route and charge before booking.
Optional supplies & custom projects
Special printing, keepsakes, candles, or other supplies are discussed and approved first. Larger legacy projects receive a written quote describing the finished item, the work included, and the total price before work begins.
Other providers
Our prices cover Sacred Passage’s nonmedical support. Funeral-home services, burial or cremation, legal work, and clinical counseling have separate arrangements and fees with those providers.
Community education & events
Public gatherings show their admission or donation details on the event listing. Organizations requesting a workshop or speaking engagement receive a written quote with the topic, length, preparation, and any travel included.
When plans change
Your care plan names the visits, hours, schedule, and price agreed together. Extra time or a larger project is discussed before it adds to the bill. If cost is a concern, tell us; sliding-scale and no-cost support remain available.
Let’s find the support that fits.
A free 30-minute introductory consultation is a chance to ask questions, talk about needs and finances, and explore the next step together.