Who is Lizzie?

I’m an outgoing, colourful, curious woman with strong ethical values and a lifelong fascination with what it means to be human. I am a big animal lover and advocate and have created a lovely little menagerie in our garden at home with foxes, birds, squirrels and much more. Being around nature feeds my soul.​

For almost three decades, I have worked in the energy industry and the last 20 have been very much based in Assurance activities, providing compliance and performance-based assurance across large organisations. I’m trained in process auditing and project management, skills that have taught me how to organise, listen, and bring calm clarity to complex situations.

Those same qualities now guide my work as an End-of-Life Companion and Doula.​

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Alongside my professional life, I volunteer at my local Hospice as a ward assistant and also with an Animal Sanctuary, helping to raise funds and deliver food for rescued animals. At Christmas I also volunteer to support Crisis at Christmas, supporting homeless folks, both street sleepers and those who are hidden and remain without shelter and the security of a home. All these roles remind me daily that care, for people, animals, and the planet, connects us all. ​

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I live in Havering, London, with my husband, our best friend, and collectively our dog and three cats. I’m also a daughter and carer. My Mum has Alzheimer’s disease and multiple comorbidities. Supporting her has deepened my understanding of love, vulnerability, and dignity heading towards and at the end of life with complex physical, emotional and spiritual needs.  My sister is fiercely fighting against advanced Ovarian Cancer and whilst she remains, at present, with no evidence of disease after a ferocious treatment regime, she fights daily with the potential that it will return. I have remained by her side with my heart and my practical nature to help her find her way through a distressing prolonged time as well as for me to work on being present and finding the joy in living well with her whilst I am able to.​​

My path hasn’t been straightforward. I grew up in York, North Yorkshire, and my early life held both beauty and pain. I experienced abuse and emotional neglect, which left deep marks on my body and spirit. I faced addiction and have also since found recovery; I’ve been sober since 2013. Therapy, medications, honesty, and self-compassion helped me transform my wounds into wisdom, and my pain into purpose.​

Through these experiences, personal, professional, and spiritual, I’ve learned to meet life as it is: tender, unpredictable, precious. Over the years, I’ve sat at the bedside of loved ones as they’ve died, both in expected and unexpected circumstances, including those dearest to me. Each death has taught me something profound about presence, truth, and what it means to let go.​

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Personally, I don’t see death as an end, rather as a transition in the return of my body to the universe that made me. Whilst that is my belief, it has no bearing on yours and I don't bring it with me in my work. Death is a natural phase of existence that can be approached with openness and peace.

My role, as an End-of-Life Companion and Doula is to help others do just that: to plan, to find comfort, and to shape their final days in a way that feels true to them, with them at the centre of the work that we do together. I bear witness, I hold space and I advocate. I will stand with you in the fear, the grief, the joyous moments, the calm and the confusion and help clear the way to what it is that you want.​

As an End-of-Life Companion and Doula, I offer emotional resilience, presence, practical guidance, and advocacy for dignity, choice, and calm. My hope is simple: that no one should have to face dying or grieving in a way that is not of their choosing and alone.