I offer grief support for individuals and families navigating deep loss, with a focus on widows, widowers, and young or sudden loss.

My work combines gentle, non-clinical frameworks, creative expression, and practical tools for grief processing — including how to use AI as a safe, modern witness for hidden grief.

I work with clients both online (worldwide) and in-person (local to St. Louis).

I am a certified Grief Educator, having completed the 12-Week Grief Educator Certification through Grief.com. I support individuals and groups navigating the complex terrain of loss, with particular experience in traumatic grief. I am also a certified professional coach (PCC) with an extensive experience in helping people reach their potential professionally and personally.

For the past four years, I have worked with suicide loss survivors through the Distress Centre’s of Greater Toronto, facilitating support groups and providing one-to-one support. Walking alongside individuals and families after suicide has shaped my understanding of how layered, isolating, and complicated grief can be. My work is grounded in compassion, safety, and deep respect for each person’s unique grieving process.

While my specialty is supporting suicide survivors, I also work with individuals grieving other forms of loss — including sudden death, illness, complicated family dynamics, and other life-altering transitions. Grief is not something to “fix.” It is something to witness, honor, and integrate.

My approach combines education, emotional processing, and practical tools to help clients:

• Understand the nature of grief and traumatic loss

• Reduce isolation and shame

• Develop healthy coping strategies

• Rebuild meaning and connection over time

Whether in a group setting or through one-on-one support, I create a space where people can speak openly, feel understood, and move forward at their own pace.

Services Offered

Grief Group Facilitation
Facilitated grief support groups that provide connection, shared understanding, and guided reflection for those navigating loss. Specialized experience with suicide loss survivors and traumatic grief.

One-to-One Grief Support Coaching
Individual grief support sessions offering compassionate listening, personalized coping strategies, and structured guidance for those processing loss.

Maureen Johnstone, founder of RavenTree Coaching, guides emerging and seasoned leaders, at all levels, to embrace their natural leadership style, getting clear on who they are and what they stand for, so they can create desired change in their life, work, and community.  And in this post pandemic world, workspaces are calling for leaders to be emotionally resilient and to cultivate emotionally resilient places of work.  Maureen works with leaders through an approach of incorporating emotional agility, neuroscience, positive psychology, story work and Brené Brown’s groundbreaking work around courageous leadership and shame resilience.

Maureen brings an emotion centred, grief and trauma-informed way of holding space and working with clients, in both individual and groups.

Services include: 1:1 coaching and workshops for groups and teams.

Individual 1:1 Sessions

Group Workshops