Emily Elizabeth Nussdorfer

It is with great sadness we report that Emily Elizabeth Nussdorfer passed away on July 14, 2026. Family and friends have been working with Help Hope Live to raise money to help finance unmet cancer-related medical expenses. 

In loving memory of Emily, Help Hope Live will continue to accept charitable donations to help defray uninsured costs that were incurred. Emily had chosen to fundraise with Help Hope Live in part because the nonprofit organization provides both tax-deductibility to the full extent allowed by law and fiscal accountability to contributors. Donors can be sure that charitable contributions will be used only to pay or reimburse medically-related and funeral expenses. 

To contribute to Emily’s memorial fundraising campaign, select the “Give” button or mail a check to Help Hope Live using instructions on this page. 

For more information, please contact Help Hope Live at 800-642-8399.  

In loving care and remembrance, thank you for your kind support. 

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Family and friends of Emily Nussdorfer are raising money for the nonprofit Help Hope Live to fund uninsured medical expenses associated with a Catastrophic Illness. Emily was recently diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer, Stage IIIC, and has just started rounds of chemotherapy. She will eventually need surgery to remove the cancer completely. She is a self-employed EMDR/IFS trauma therapist, mindfulness practitioner, and dance-movement therapist, and derives so much joy in helping people recover from psychological trauma using these modalities. She is currently writing a children’s book about a young girl’s mythic journey to save her village, and how she learns to face her fears and grow her courage and strength with the help of magical allies and guides she is led to on the way. Emily has chosen to fundraise with Help Hope Live in part because donations are tax deductible for contributors and will only be used to cover medical and related expenses. Because she is self-employed, her insurance does not cover much of the costs involved in this cancer treatment until she meets a very large out of pocket maximum, and she has high copays. This in turn makes it difficult for her to cover medical expenses and life expenses while going through this, as she will need to work reduced hours, and won’t be able to work at all during the month of surgery and recovery. The money raised willl help Emily to make it through this challenging period when she will need financial support. There are so many ways to give to Emily’s campaign through this program, with corporate or workplace matching as one wonderfully suppportive option, and all are tax deductible.

A little more about Emily: She loves to sing, dance, play piano, guitar, ride horses, speak Italian, read fantasy books, hike in the woods for hours, spend weekends by the sea, make delicious meals, and spend time doing all these things with beloved family and friends. Before this diagnosis, she had been actively growing a successful private practice and working on her children’s book, which she plans to make into a series for tweens. She has a lot more life to live and love to share, bucket-loads of loving and skilled service to give to this world, and lots of books to publish. Any donations you can contribute to support her through this challenging time will be so deeply treasured and appreciated.