Private End-Of-Life Family Advisory
When your family needs someone who can hold the whole picture.
Private, highly personalized support for families navigating terminal illness, caregiving, end-of-life, loss, and the transition that follows.
Chloé Miller, MA, LMFT, LPC serves as a dedicated point of contact for families who need someone beside them to help coordinate the human side of end-of-life care—from family communication and care logistics to bedside presence, legacy projects, memorial planning, and support through grief.
Our AdvisoryOne Trusted Person Through an Extraordinary Season
A terminal diagnosis doesn't arrive neatly into a family's life.
There are physicians and hospice teams to communicate with. Family members to update. Visits to coordinate. Decisions to make. Memories to preserve. A goodbye to plan. And life outside the diagnosis doesn't stop. Careers continue. Children need parenting. Families may live across multiple cities or states. Siblings have different capacities, relationships, opinions, and responsibilities. Often, no one person is responsible for holding the whole picture.
That is where I come in.
I work privately with families as a dedicated advisor and point of continuity throughout the end-of-life transition—helping organize what needs to happen, facilitating communication, being present where the family cannot always be, and helping preserve the meaning of the time that remains. The goal isn't to replace the professionals already caring for your family. It is to help your family move through the experience with greater coordination, presence, dignity, and care.
Private Family Advisory
The human side of end-of-life care deserves its own advocate.
Families facing a terminal diagnosis often find themselves coordinating an increasingly complex network of professionals. Physicians provide medical care. Hospice provides end-of-life care. Attorneys advise on legal matters. Financial professionals oversee wealth and estate considerations. Funeral professionals handle arrangements after death. Each has an important role.
Families are often left responsible for everything between those roles: communication, coordination, presence, family dynamics, logistics, memory-making, the goodbye itself, and the months of transition that follow.
Private End-of-Life Family Advisory provides one consistent relationship across that entire experience.
One person who knows the family.
One person who understands the larger picture.
One person who stays.
The Arc of Support
Every family's experience is different. Support is designed around the needs of the family rather than a predetermined checklist.
Entering the Season
When a terminal diagnosis changes the landscape of family life.
Support may include family intake and planning, establishing communication systems, identifying immediate needs, coordinating care logistics, organizing family responsibilities, and beginning conversations about what matters most during the time that remains.
During the Season
As care becomes part of everyday family life.
Support may include coordination with existing care providers, family liaison and updates, visit planning, bedside presence, caregiving logistics, family communication, and beginning legacy projects. For family members living elsewhere, this can also mean having a trusted person physically present when you cannot be.
The Threshold
As a loved one approaches the end of life.
This is often when families need continuity most. Support may include bedside and vigil presence, communication among family members, coordination with existing hospice and care professionals, assistance navigating immediate practical needs, and helping the family prepare for what comes next.
The Gathering
A life deserves to be remembered as a life—not reduced to logistics.
I help families thoughtfully create and coordinate the gathering that follows, from intimate celebrations of life to larger memorial experiences. This includes ceremony development, storytelling, speakers, family participation, visual and legacy materials, vendor coordination, and overall experience planning.
After the Season
Death changes a family long after the gathering ends.
Support can continue through the months that follow with family check-ins, grief companioning and facilitation, milestone support, family conversations, and continuity as the family begins adapting to life after loss.
What I Can Hold With Your Family
Depending on the engagement, support may include:
Family Coordination
Creating structure around responsibilities, communication, visits, caregiving logistics, and the many moving pieces surrounding end-of-life care.
Family Communication
Helping information move clearly between family members while creating space for different needs, relationships, and ways of coping.
Care Navigation
Helping the family organize and coordinate around the medical, hospice, caregiving, funeral, and other professionals already involved in care.
Presence
Providing consistent, trusted presence during periods when family members cannot physically be there themselves.
Legacy
Helping preserve stories, memories, traditions, photographs, recordings, letters, recipes, values, and other pieces of a person's life that a family wants to carry forward.
Memorial & Celebration-of-Life Planning
Helping translate a person's life into a meaningful gathering through ceremony, storytelling, family participation, logistics, and experience coordination.
Grief Companioning
Remaining alongside the family after death as relationships, roles, traditions, and everyday life begin to change.
Our WorkWhat This Work Is — And What It Isn't
Private End-of-Life Family Advisory is designed to complement the professionals already supporting your family.
This is not legal counsel. This is not financial or investment management. This is not medical care. This is not hospice care. This is not psychotherapy.
I do not replace your family's physicians, hospice providers, attorneys, wealth advisors, accountants, funeral professionals, or mental health providers. Instead, I work alongside the appropriate professionals while helping your family hold what exists between them:
Family coordination. Emotional support. Care navigation. Presence. Communication. Legacy. Continuity.
For Families Who Cannot Put Their Entire Lives on Hold
Many of the families I work with face an impossible tension:
Someone you love needs you—and the rest of your life still needs you, too.
You may live in another state.
You may be leading a company or managing a demanding career.
You may have children at home.
You may have siblings scattered around the country.
You may already be traveling back and forth.
Or you may simply realize that being someone's daughter, son, spouse, sibling, or parent is different from becoming the person responsible for managing every aspect of their final months.
You should still get to be family.
My role is to help carry the structure surrounding the experience so your family has more capacity for the relationship itself.
Private End-Of-Life Family Advisory
When your family needs someone who can hold the whole picture.
Private, highly personalized support for families navigating terminal illness, caregiving, end-of-life, loss, and the transition that follows.
Chloé Miller, MA, LMFT, LPC serves as a dedicated point of contact for families who need someone beside them to help coordinate the human side of end-of-life care—from family communication and care logistics to bedside presence, legacy projects, memorial planning, and support through grief.