Consultant, Speaker, and Educator on Grief, Loss, and Resilience
I help healthcare teams, educators, and mission-driven organizations build stronger systems of support for people navigating grief, loss, burnout, and life's hardest transitions.
Consultant • Educator • Author • Thanatologist • Certified Child Life Specialist
Hello,
I'm so glad you stopped by.
For more than two decades, I've worked at the intersection of grief, serious illness, child development, and emotional resilience, supporting both families and the professionals who care for them.
My experience spans pediatric palliative care, hospice, healthcare, academia, private practice, and community-based grief support. Throughout that work, I've partnered with children, families, healthcare teams, educators, and organizations navigating some of life's most difficult experiences, including serious illness, death, caregiving, trauma, and major life transitions.
Today, my primary focus is helping organizations build the knowledge, confidence, and systems of support needed to respond to grief, loss, and change with compassion and effectiveness. Through speaking, training, and consulting, I translate research and clinical experience into practical tools that people can use immediately.
Whether I'm working with a healthcare team, a school district, a nonprofit organization, or a grieving family, my goal remains the same: to help people face life's hardest moments with greater skill, connection, and resilience.
I can't take away pain or loss. But I can help people and organizations learn how to navigate it.
Organizations Commonly Bring Me In To Address
Supporting Grieving Children, Families, and Communities
Grief-Informed Schools and Educational Settings
Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Sustainable Caregiving
Pediatric Palliative Care and Serious Illness
Resilience After Loss, Change, and Adversity
Creative Approaches to Grief and Healing
Building Grief-Informed Organizations and Systems of Support
Training & Background
With more than 20 years of experience supporting children, families, healthcare teams, and communities, my work bridges clinical practice, education, and systems-level change. Drawing from thanatology, child development, palliative care, resilience research, and trauma-informed approaches, I translate complex concepts into practical tools that people and organizations can use immediately.
Advanced Degrees, Certifications, & Trainings.
Ph.D., Integral & Transpersonal Psychology
M.A., Transpersonal Psychology
M.A., Thanatology/Community Public Health
B.A., Child Life
Certified Child Life Specialist
Fellow in Thanatology
Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach
Compassionate Bereavement Care® provider
Certificate in Creative Expression
Ongoing training in Infant Mental Health, Infant Parent Psychotherapy, & Therapeutic Play Techniques
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— Dr. Maria Montessori