Expand your emotional care skillset
Answer your calling as an end-of-life doula and make a lasting impact in your community. Offered fully online, UVM’s end-of-life courses help you support the dying and their loved ones with compassionate care as a death doula or grief support person.
UVM’s End-of-Life Dementia Care Professional Certificate is a four-week online training for working professionals who support people living with dementia through the end of life.
Cost
$725Duration
4 weeksHow Often
Offered 3X per year
UVM’s Childhood Grief Support Professional Certificate is a 4-week online training that prepares you to help children process grief of all kinds, whether from death, divorce, incarceration, abandonment, or other significant loss.
Cost
$725Duration
4 weeksHow often
Offered 3X per year
Develop the knowledge, presence, and skills to guide individuals and families through end-of-life transitions with compassion, dignity, and confidence.
Cost
$895Duration
8 weeksHow often
Offered 4X per year
Learn how to design services, set pricing, manage client relationships, and market your practice to build a sustainable doula business.
Cost
$895Duration
8 weeksHow often
Offered 4X per year
Support pets and their owners through the final stage of life by offering comfort, guidance, and compassionate care during an emotional transition.
Cost
$895Duration
6 weeksHow often
Offered 3X per year
UVM’s Pet Loss Support Specialist Certificate is a 4-week online pet loss support training focused on helping others through animal bereavement.
Cost
$725Duration
4 weeksHow Often
Offered 3X per year
Deepen your understanding of grief across cultures, histories, and life stages, and learn effective approaches to supporting individuals through loss.
Cost
$895Duration
8 weeksHow often
Offered 3X per year
Gain the expertise to support children and families facing end-of-life, with sensitivity to developmental needs, family dynamics, and emotional care.
Cost
$600Duration
4 weeksHow often
Offered 3X per year
A loss, a health shift, a move, having a baby—life transitions can unsettle our routines, identities, and make the future feel uncertain. UVM’s Navigating Change & Life Transitions is an online course focused on embracing change of all types—unexpected or expected.
Cost
$725Duration
4 weeksHow often
Offered 3X per year
The first End-of-Life Doula program influenced by UVM’s Robert Larner College of Medicine faculty. Our program produces graduates recognized for their expertise and trusted by families seeking compassionate care.
Our program goes beyond professional training. Graduates leave not only ready to care for others but with deeper self-awareness and tools for self-care in end-of-life work. Many describe it as both a doula education and a journey of self-discovery.
UVM End-of-Life Doula alumni are affiliated with the Osher Center for Integrative Health at UVM, opening doors to additional learning and networking opportunities. When alumni join the Osher Directory, they gain broader visibility and connection within the integrative health community.
“LIFE CHANGING COURSE. I’m an RN who deals with death and dying, and this course made me realize how little we all know about how to offer peace and comfort.”
End-of-Life Doula Program alum
“For me, the most valuable part was the personal work into my own feelings and experiences around death and dying.”
End-of-Life Doula Program alum
“Our role as doulas is to help families stretch their definition of a good moment, even in the hardest times.”
Laura Delva, End-of-Life Doula Instructor
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