For Individuals & Families
Private consulting to help you navigate serious illness, hospice decisions, family communication, and next steps.
Choose the support that fits your situation:
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When serious illness brings too many decisions at once, I help you understand palliative care, hospice, and other sources of support. Together, we clarify what matters most, identify questions for your care team, and outline practical next steps.
Includes one 60‑minute consultation plus a written summary of your best options, questions to ask your team, and next steps.
Best For: Individuals or families who feel overwhelmed, uncertain, or unsure where to begin.
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I help you prepare for informed conversations with your clinical team about comfort, symptoms, medications, and care priorities.
We review your current symptom experience, explore evidence‑based comfort strategies, and prepare a list of discussion points for your clinicians
You will leave with a clearer understanding of what to ask and how to advocate for the support you need.
Best for:Individuals and families who have questions or concerns about symptoms, comfort, medications, or changes in care- and want help preparing to speak confidently with their medical, hospice, or palliative-care team
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Cut through the confusion of hospital, hospice, and insurance systems so you know what’s available and how to access it. Together, we will identify the people, resources, and next steps that can help you move forward with greater clarity.
In one or two sessions, we map your current situation, identify key decision‑makers, and outline concrete next steps and resources.
Best for: Individuals or families feeling lost in complex or fragmented care, facing discharge decisions, or trying to understand what support is available.
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Serious illness can raise difficult questions about identity, fear, hope, legacy, and what matters now. These supportive consultations create space for values-based reflection and meaningful conversation, grounded in palliative-care principles.
Offered as a 3‑session series focused on values, legacy, and what matters most now.
This is supportive consultation and reflective dialogue, not psychotherapy, and can complement existing mental health care
Best for: Individuals living with serious illness, and loved ones who want a compassionate space to reflect on fears, hopes, identity, legacy, relationships, and what matters most in the time ahead.
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I help you identify and communicate the care preferences, values, and priorities you want loved ones and clinicians to understand. We can prepare for conversations about future treatment decisions, surrogate decision-makers, and advanced care planning documents.
Includes a 60‑minute session to clarify wishes, and a follow‑up summary with suggested language for advance directives and family conversations
Leave with a documented, values‑based plan for future care decisions that you can share with loved ones and clinicians
By the end, you’ll feel more prepared and less alone in making difficult choices.
Best for: Anyone who wants their wishes to be understood before a health crisis or change in condition.
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I facilitate a virtual or in‑person meeting, help set ground rules, and provide prompts to reduce confusion, conflict, and guilt. These sessions can help reduce misunderstandings, make space for emotions, clarify wishes, and identify meaningful and practical ways loved ones can help.
Bring family and close friends together for a guided discussion so everyone understands the situation, your wishes, and how to support you
Best for: families who want to get on the same page before or during hospice
“ Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend- or a meaningful day.”
— His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
For Clinical Providers & Organizations
Education, consultation, and program support for teams improving serious-illness and end-of-life care:
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I provide case-based consultation and tailored education for clinicians and interdisciplinary teams facing complex palliative and end-of-life care situations. Topics may include communication, family dynamics, existential distress, goals-of-care conversations, and hospice transitions.
Available as: Individual consultation, team consultation, case debrief, or focused educational session.
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Equip your team with practical, evidence-informed tools for communicating with patients and families, supporting meaning and dignity, and responding to the emotional realities of serious illness and dying.
Available as: Grand rounds, workshops, half-day or full-day trainings, and multi-session learning series.
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I partner with organizations to assess needs, identify opportunities, and strengthen programs that support patients and families facing serious illness. Engagements may include program review, staff development planning, care pathway design, and recommendations to improve patient and family support.
Best for: Hospices, health systems, clinics, and community-based organizations building or refining serious-illness services.
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I offer accessible talks and workshops that help communities speak more openly and confidently about caregiving, serious illness, hospice, death, and end-of-life planning.
Available for: Community organizations, nonprofits, faith communities, senior-serving groups, and public events.
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I provide research-informed education and consultation for clinicians and organizations seeking to understand the emerging role of psychedelic-assisted therapy in serious illness and palliative care. Topics may include current evidence, ethical considerations, patient-safety principles, team readiness, and questions for lawful institutional exploration.
NOTE: This service is educational and consultative only. I do not provide psychedelic-assisted therapy, dosing, prescribing, procurement, referral to unlawful services, or guidance outside applicable law and institutional policy.
SCOPE OF SERVICES
Dr. Hannah Whitmore Consulting provides education, consultation, care-navigation support, and professional training. Services do not replace medical treatment, mental-health care, legal advice, emergency services, or the recommendations of a client’s treating team. Psychedelic-related consultation is educational and research-informed only.
“ Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”
-Rainer Maria Rilke

