Sarah Knopp

BCPA
Living Before Dying Corporation
Sarah

Sarah Knopp

BCPA
Living Before Dying Corporation
Advocate Location
Berkeley , CA 94709
Specialty
Medical Guidance
Other Services
Special Care & Aging
TeleAdvocacy Available
Offers FREE Initial Consultation
Medicare Requests Accepted
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How I Can Help
As an independent advocate I am here to represent you and your goals. We begin with honest, direct conversations about your goals guided by your beliefs — and to make sure these are the ones driving the plan.

After becoming clear on what you want. Not what the system expects, not what’s easiest — what matters to you. From there, we build a plan together and work with your clinical team to align it with your real treatment options. At any time if your goals change we will adjust the plan. I can even attend appointments if your support cannot attend. This is full service advocacy.

Whether you’re newly diagnosed, mid-treatment, managing a chronic illness, or supporting someone you love, I bring both professional training and lived experience to every conversation. You don’t have to translate your fear into the right words alone. That’s what I’m here for.
Important Information About Me
  • I offer a FREE Initial Consultation
  • I offer TeleAdvocacy Service
  • I am insured
  • My geographical area of practice is USA
Why I Became A Professional Health Care Advocate
In 2014, I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer and given six weeks to live. What followed was a decade of fighting — more than 160 rounds of infusions, multiple biopsies, brain surgery, a full hysterectomy, and more appointments than I can count across four major cancer centers. I’m still here. And I believe fully that it is possible to lead a rich, meaningful life while managing a serious chronic illness.


My advocacy began the way most do — with myself. I had to learn how to navigate a system that wasn’t designed with the overwhelmed patient in mind. I had to figure out how to speak up, ask harder questions, and make sure my own goals were part of the conversation. Over time, I started doing the same for friends, then peers, then people I’d never met — in the U.S. and in Europe.

What I know from that experience is this: having an advocate who has been there — not just trained, but there — changes everything. I didn’t have that.

I am here to help you.
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Formal Education
Teikyo University
Additional Skills
My deepest expertise is oncology navigation, grounded in personal experience navigating metastatic breast cancer across four major institutions — Mt. Diablo Medical Center, Epic Care, UCSF, and Stanford Health Care. That journey gave me fluency with large academic medical systems, community oncology settings, and the gaps that exist between them.

Beyond breast cancer, I have direct experience supporting clients with lymphoma, sarcoidosis, Parkinson’s disease, advanced dementia, and complex multi-condition cases requiring navigation across specialties simultaneously.

My credentials reflect the full arc of serious illness. As a Board Certified Patient Advocate (BCPA), I bring professional standards to every engagement. My death doula training through INELDA means I am equally comfortable supporting patients and families through advance care planning, end-of-life conversations, POLST, hospice, and palliative care transitions — the conversations most people avoid until it’s urgent. As an ICF-credentialed coach, I help patients clarify goals, build self-advocacy, and navigate the emotional weight of a life-altering diagnosis. My Stanford PATHS Certificate and ACS LIONS Program training round out my formal preparation in patient navigation and health systems.

I volunteer on the Stanford Healthcare Patient and Family Advisory Council (PFAC) and serve as a PCORI Ambassador, keeping me connected to patient-centered research and institutional quality efforts. I am affiliated with Hope Cancer Network and have co-presented on the patient experience alongside oncologists at Stanford.

I have supported patients and families in Europe as well, and have experience facilitating cross-system communication for clients managing care across international boundaries.

My practice is especially well-suited to patients who feel unheard, overwhelmed, or lost between appointments — and to families carrying the coordination burden alone. I speak the language of both the clinic and the kitchen table, and I bring genuine lived experience to every conversation I have the privilege of joining.
Professional Affiliations
BCPA
ACS LIONS
PFAC- Stanford
Peer Mentor-Cancer Hope Network
Member-NAHAC
Member-APHA
PATHS-Stanford
Resilience and Life Coach- Symbiosis
Death Doula- Inelda