Grief Certified Coach.

Susie Pitts, CMA, CGE Grief, Loss, Anxiety & Depression At the Center for Hope and Healing, Susie provides a safe environment where you can discover powerful support and tools for managing significant challenges in life. If you are feeling paralyzed, fearful, depressed, experiencing relationship problems, or burdened by grief from recent or old losses, Susie can help you feel back in control of your world.

Susie Pitts, CMA, CGE is a grief and loss practitioner who has dedicated her life to being present to those that are suffering from grief and loss and the hangover of anxiety and depression. “After 26 years of working in the hospice care industry, I have learned there are no time limits to this thing we call grief. Finding balance with your fears, resentments, and the memory of our loved ones can help us find the peace we seek”. Susie will walk with you on your grief path, listen to understand and witness your pain so you can express your feelings and release burdens of guilt, freeing yourself from old wounds to eventually integrate pain with love so you can find meaning in your life. Susie will provide mindful techniques like breathwork, meditation, gratitude markers, journal exercises, and other self-care methods that can help restore balance to your life. It is not that time heals our wounds; rather, it is what happens OVER time that helps to heal us. Susie offers a brief complimentary consult call to discuss your needs and to ensure we are a good fit for you. Susie works with adults only and cannot prescribe medications. Let’s chat about how you want your life to look and feel…then get there.

In addition to individual counseling, she also offers support groups that can be highly effective for creating new connections, learning about mindfulness, and creating a productive, fulfilling, peaceful, loving life.

I am dedicated to helping individuals and families navigate the challenging grief journey. As a certified grief coach and educator, I offer compassionate and personalized support through my business, Pain into Purpose Grief Coaching.

Services Offered:

1. Virtual 1:1 Grief Coaching: Personalized one-on-one sessions tailored to individual needs, providing a safe space for clients to express their feelings, explore their grief, and find pathways to healing.
2. Virtual Group Grief Coaching and Support: Providing a platform for group sessions that bring together individuals who share similar experiences, fostering a supportive community where participants can share their stories, gain insights, and support each other, enhancing the healing process.

RISE NW Program Manager

In addition to my coaching services, I serve as the Program Manager for RISE NW, a non-profit dedicated to supporting children who have experienced the death of a parent. Through RISE NW, I oversee in-person support programs for children and teens. This is a free service in Spokane, WA. 

Brian is a Grief Guide, Life Purpose Coach, and Mental Fitness Trainer. His client work consists of one-to-one customized sessions meeting you where you are. In addition, Brian often teaches classes.

Brian knows everyone’s grief is unique. He meets you where you are and tailors the work to what you need when you need it. Brian offers a complimentary thirty-minute consultation so that you and he can assess whether you are a good fit for each other before you commit to working with him.

In addition to helping with the loss of a person in your life, Brian helps with other types of grief events including the loss of a job, pet loss, divorce, illness, etc. Brian’s approach is based on over 60 years of experience in life, including all of these events and the passing of his 15-year-old daughter, Shayna Elayna Smith, at the age of 15, in 2015. Brian has worked with hundreds of parents through the Helping Parents Heal organization. He started his grief guidance and life coaching business in 2019 so he could reach more people.

Brian provides a safe space where you can safely share what you are experiencing. Brian shares techniques he discovered and developed after his devastating loss. Perhaps most importantly, he can help you understand that death is not goodbye and that your relationship with your loved one can continue. Any ending is a new beginning. Brian’s understanding is not a religious-based belief but a position based on reason and evidence. Brian doesn’t ask you to take his word for anything. He shares what he has discovered and allows you to draw your own conclusions.

Brian is on the board of Helping Parents, a non-profit peer-to-peer support group for parents of children who have passed. He is a sought-after podcast guest and public speaker having spoken at IANDS conferences, Helping Parents Heal, The Death Grief & Belief Conference, and more. He is the author of Grief 2 Growth and the host of the Grief 2 Growth podcast.

I am a certified grief educator, health and well-being coach, and advanced practice nurse entering the field with 20 plus years of health care experience in various settings.  I help clients create a path towards balance and quality of life throughout any stage of serious, life-limiting disease, at the end of life and in grief.  I reside in Maryland and provide one on one and group  grief education and coaching.  Services for out of area clients are available via zoom and google meets.

1:1 Online Service

Group Service

Life Coach Service

Personal Trainer Service

Youthful Energy Coaching

Grief Healing Coaching