Consulting and Training for Organizations

I partner with healthcare organizations, educators, nonprofits, and community leaders to strengthen support for people navigating grief, loss, burnout, serious illness, and life's most challenging transitions.

Through consulting, strategic guidance, trainings, and keynote presentations, I help organizations build the knowledge, confidence, and systems needed to respond with compassion and effectiveness.

Organizations Commonly Partner With Me To:

Build grief-informed systems of support
Strengthen staff confidence around difficult conversations
Address burnout, compassion fatigue, and secondary trauma
Develop bereavement and psychosocial support programs
Support grieving children, families, and communities
Improve communication during times of crisis, illness, and loss

Consulting Services

Program Development & Strategic Guidance
Support for organizations seeking to strengthen bereavement, psychosocial, pediatric palliative care, or grief-support initiatives.

Grief-Informed Organizations
Assessment and consultation to help teams create policies, practices, and cultures that better support employees, families, and the communities they serve.

Professional Resource Development
Creation of educational materials, training curricula, toolkits, and grief-support resources tailored to organizational needs.

Community & Systems Initiatives
Consultation for communities, coalitions, nonprofits, and healthcare organizations working to improve grief literacy and access to support.

Signature Consulting Engagements

Grief-Informed Schools Initiative
Helping districts strengthen support for grieving students, families, and staff through professional development, strategic planning, and practical tools for responding to loss and crisis.

Healthcare Team Support & Resilience Program
Training and consultation focused on grief, communication, burnout, compassion fatigue, and staff wellbeing in healthcare and helping professions.

Community Grief Capacity Initiative
Strategic guidance for communities, coalitions, nonprofits, and healthcare organizations seeking to improve grief literacy, expand resources, and strengthen systems of support.

Keynote & Speaking Examples

When the Hardest Things Happen: Creative Approaches to Grief, Loss, and Change
In the hardest moments, traditional language often fails, especially for children and families. Drawing from decades of clinical experience, this keynote introduces creative, developmentally attuned approaches to grief support, including storytelling, ritual, and expressive tools that help people process what cannot be fixed.
The Weight We Carry: Burnout, Moral Distress, and Secondary Trauma
Behind burnout is often unacknowledged grief, cumulative loss, and the emotional toll of caring. This keynote helps professionals understand the deeper drivers of burnout and offers actionable strategies to sustain themselves, support one another, and create healthier, more resilient work environments.
Grief-Informed Leadership: Building Resilient Workplaces
Grief, loss, illness, and major life transitions show up in every workplace, yet most leaders are unprepared to respond. This keynote equips leaders and teams with practical, trauma-informed communication tools to support employees, navigate crises, and build cultures rooted in clarity, compassion, and resilience.