Grief Coaching

You Don't Have to Walk This Path Alone.

Grief isn't something you get over. It's something you learn to carry — with more strength, more understanding, and more support. The reality is grief can feel heavy, physical, confusing, and exhausting. The goal is not to erase the weight or the pain, but to understand it, carry it, and discover a path forward.

How I Can Help

Support That Meets You Where You Are

Certified Grief Coach by David Kessler + grief.com

1:1 Grief Coaching

Personalized, compassionate coaching sessions designed to help you process loss at your own pace. Together, we create space for your grief and build a path forward that honors your unique journey.

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Certified Grief Educator by David Kessler + grief.com

Grief Education

Understanding grief changes how we carry it. Explore resources, articles, and insights that help you make sense of your experience and find language for what you're feeling.

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Trauma-Informed Creative Arts Therapy Program certificate, Antioch University

Expressive Arts

Healing through creativity. Utilizing art, writing, and movement as gentle pathways into grief — no artistic experience required, only a willingness to explore.

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Grief coach in a peaceful, natural setting

About Your Guide

A Compassionate Presence on the Path

I believe grief deserves more than a timeline. It deserves witness, patience, and a space where nothing has to be rushed or fixed.

My approach weaves together evidence-informed grief coaching with the healing power of creative expression — because sometimes words aren't enough, and art can reach where language cannot.

Whether you're newly bereaved or carrying a loss from years ago, you are welcome here. There is no right way to grieve, and there is no wrong time to seek support.

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Grief isn't something you get over. It's something you learn to carry — with more strength, more understanding, and more support.

— The Path Forward Journey

Grief Education

Words for the Journey

Understanding Grief

The Milestones We Never Expected Along Our Grief Journey

Grief changes us in ways we never anticipated. Along the way, we reach milestones of our own — quiet, unexpected markers of strength we never knew we had.

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Understanding Grief

The Grief Loop — and the Infinity Loop of Love

Sometimes grief pulls us into a loop — replaying memories, circling the same pain. Here's a gentle reframe that might help you carry it differently.

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Understanding Grief

Understanding the Five Stages — and Why They're Not the Whole Story

The stages of grief were never meant to be a roadmap. Here's what the research actually says, and why your experience doesn't have to fit a model.

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You don't have to have the right words or know exactly what you need. Reaching out is enough. I'll meet you there.

The Path Forward Journey

Grief isn't something you get over. It's something you learn to carry — with more strength, more understanding, and more support.

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You are not alone on this path.

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