Her past and current roles at ABODE include Navigator, Volunteer, Doula, Doula Director, Podcast Host, and Resident Yoga Therapist. She leads ABODE’s award-winning End of Life Doula program and designed the End of Life Yoga Certification. Natalie has woven together her love of people and the ABODE community through the contemplative arts and grief-informed practices.

Claudia shares her calm, gentle and contemplative approach to care during our overnight shifts – typically the time most Guests pass away. She’s there to hold their hand and offer words of love and compassion and she walks them home. Claudia has been caring for people at end of life since she was 14 years old. “I was born to do this – I know I was,” Claudia says. “My experience all came together when my husband got sick last year. I knew what to do, and I was able to give him the love and care he needed most in his final days.”

Through a life lived across borders, I’ve come to appreciate the role cultural practices and rituals can play in holding and processing grief. My background as an educator and therapist has given me the capacity to listen deeply and sit with what cannot be fixed.

I walk alongside the guests and families at ABODE with all that I am.

My name is Jerry Romero Jr., and I am an end-of-life death doula based in San Antonio, Texas, offering compassionate, non-medical support to individuals and families navigating dying, death, and remembrance.

My work is grounded in presence, dignity, and care, while also being deeply shaped by my spiritual practices, including ritual, prayer, ancestral connection, and traditions that honor death as sacred transition. As a PhD scholar, my research explores the way social systems shape how we understand life, death, and the body, which deeply informs my approach to being a death doula.

In addition to my doula practice, I am deeply committed to expanding death literacy and community care, including my work through the SATX Queer Deathcare Collective. I approach this work with tenderness, cultural humility, and a deep respect for each person’s unique journey.

John has been with ABODE since the beginning. His love and attentive care for our Guests is a living example of our mission, vision and values. Some of John’s empathy for hospice patients and their families comes from his personal experience of caring for his first wife who died over 20 years ago from cancer, leaving John a grieving widower with their children – the youngest a six-month-old infant. John has dedicated more than 35 years of his life serving others globally through mission and non-profit work. His experience with caring for people in medically fragile situations as well as at the end of their lives since the mid-1980s has helped to shape him into a valuable asset to our team at ABODE. John is an ABODE Doula and Certified Grief Educator.

By holding space with kindness and presence, I affirm my sacred duty to guide each soul with love, through the gateway of life’s final chapter. I believe that the final chapter of life should be met with love, dignity and profound respect for each person’s wishes, ensuring their legacy is thoughtfully honored and celebrated, reflecting the deep reverence they merit in their final moments.

Along with her ABODE Doula work, Kristy is an Integrative Wellness & Conscious Transformation coach. She specializes in possession planning and organization, companion care, vigil planning and advance end-of-life planning.

Kristy lives in San Antonio and is open to serving the north and northwest side and surrounding hill country.