About Elena:

Working through the deaths of my beloved son and mother, next to accumulating some years [on and off] experience, working with, and serving people with special needs, emergency care, severe illness as well as the elderly, I found there to be a dire need for loving and caring peer and grief support. A person to walk alongside the dying, their families and friends, to help educate, advocate, plan and create. A non- judging person to have the hard conversations with. One to listen, or simply just be with. A person closing gaps between what you want and what occurs… So I became a certified Death Doula. Combined with Yoga Teacher studies, it aided and still helps me in many different ways on my own healing path.

My mother passed away 3 months after my first child Ryan was born, in 2003, at 42 years. I founded “Holding Space” after my sweet boy also died, untimely and very unexpected at the age of 19.

For neither death was I prepared. Both were of different nature. Yet, the ultimate final -> The End, is equally hard. It is accompanied by so many things to consider, feel, and work through.

With deep honor and pleasure I would like to be a helping hand to You, and Your loved ones during this emotional and sacred time, to be Your advocate, to be Your voice.

May I walk this journey with you?