GRIEF CERTIFIED PEER-TO-PEER
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Ask them about their style.
Tell them briefly about you.
They may or you may ask to start with an initial meeting. In person is the best way to assess if you are a match.
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Grief Educator and Spiritual Director
Work Sacramento CA 95825 United Stateswork
Cell Phone: 916-712-2250cell
Work Email: rcanby@msn.comINTERNET
Professional Certifications and Licenses
2025 Grief Educator Certificate, David Kessler
2019, Spiritual Director Certificate (Christian Contemplative Tradition), Shalem Institute
1991, Juris Doctorate, Willamette University College of Law
Services Offered
I lead grief support groups in Northern California and also work with people one-on-one.
Ten years ago, I suffered the loss of a husband to Alzheimer’s Disease. I was his primary caregiver and have a special affinity with those who suffer the many ambiguous losses accompanying a diagnosis of dementia.
After my husband’s death, I re-assessed my life and my priorities. I left my law career and trained as a spiritual director. For the past eight years, I have had the privilege of accompanying others on their unique spiritual journeys, most often meeting them once a month for an hour. It was my grief that led me to enter spiritual direction and I find that path to making meaning is not uncommon.
I live in California but my clients live all over the country, so I use Zoom.
Professional Certifications and Licenses
- Certified Grief Educator by David Kessler (US)
- Certified Death Doula and End-of-Life Planner by Going with Grace with Alua Arthur (US)
- Trained Palliative Care Volunteer in the Canton of Fribourg (Switzerland)
Services Offered
Da VanCi deathdoula
Navigating End of life, Grief and Loss
As a death doula and a grief educator, one of my primary goals is to create spaces for open communication, education and normalization around grief, death and dying. Da VanCi deathdoula is about keeping an open mind, growing, and sharing the knowledge and experience I’ve gained along the way. Creating new ways to guide people through their mortality and the challenges that death and grief can bring into our lives.
Available online and in person:
Safe and supportive spaces for connection, reflection, and honest conversation, all at your own pace
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Compassionate peer-to-peer grief support
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Heart-centered grief circles
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Facilitated death cafés under the name BITE THE DUST
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Professional Certifications and Licenses
- Certified Grief Educator with David Kessler and Grief.com
- Certified Teacher for The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death
- Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist specializing in perinatal health, trauma, grief and loss
- Licensed Interfaith Minister
- Certified Stillbirthday Birth & Bereavement Doula/Chaplain
- Certified PAIL Advocate
- Trained with Resolve Through Sharing Gundersen Health in Perinatal Bereavement
- Certified Childbirth Educator
- Midwifery Birth Assistant
- Trained Trauma Professional- PESI
- Birth Trauma Certificates with Resilient Birth, Dancy Perinatal, Praeclarus Press
- Certified Usui and Karuna Reiki Master Level Teacher & Practitioner
- Certified CREATION Practitioner
- Certified Theta Healing Practitioner
Services Offered
- Individual Grief & Loss Support — Virtual
- Specialization in Perinatal Bereavement and Birth Trauma
- Grief Workshops and Professional Trainings in Perinatal Loss as a Teacher with The Institute for the Study of Birth, Death, & Death — In-Person & Virtual
- Energy Healing, Meditation and Hypnosis
Professional Certifications and Licenses
Services Offered
Online/In person pet loss grief support.
Professional Certifications and Licenses
Registered Nurse
Certified Grief Educator
Services Offered
Grief peer to peer for all losses
Parent grief support group
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Professional Certifications and Licenses
Certified Grief Educator
Sound Healer – IPHM Certified
Level 1 Holumina Breathwork Facilitator
Services Offered
Maria (She/Ella) works with the Great Spirit as an energy medicine healer, sound bowl practitioner, with focus on spiritual coaching and grief, due to the acknowledgement that death exists in all life’s experiences.
Coming from Chicanx – Mexican American roots, healing in traditions throughout my own upbringing and initiated through rituals as a mujer de conocimiento is the most sacred way I walk this path – as well as gathering in community. It is the way I was raised, and creating space like this for others feels like coming back home.
I pledge to show up with integrity and in service, with a full heart for my clients. I walk beside them on their own journeys of self-love, self-fulfillment and rediscovery. In Spanish, “te acompaño” speaks to me so much. It translates, to I accompany you on your path. I find that it is how I can best describe my purpose in healing work.
I hold space for the other with the intention of accompanying in love and without judgement. Only then can someone go to the spaces needed for deep healing. Only in the shadows can we call on ourselves and others to assist as we illuminate our deepest wounds. After years, I finally understand my place in this well-being world, in the way I move and why the owl medicine arrived to guide me in this work.
Work 318 Warwick Ave Essington PA 19029 United Stateswork
Work Phone: 610-742-0674work
Work Email: dotsie2721@comcast.netINTERNET
Professional Certifications and Licenses
Certified Grief Educator with David Kessler, Certified Family Recovery Specialist, and Co-Facilitator of Grief Group with Steps4hope.org.
Services Offered
Offering Peer based One on One Sessions both in person or via Zoom.
Professional Certifications and Licenses
Grief Educator (ID: 105550) 2021-22
B.S. in Psychology- Old Dominion University 1990
Masters in Physical Therapy- Old Dominion University 1998
Energy Healing Practitioner- Delphi University of Spiritual Studies 2016-17
Services Offered
It is my honor to provide healing sessions that allow you to show up just as you are and express the pain you are experiencing. Together we will explore those places within that need witnessing, care, attention, and healing.
Personally, I have experienced grief around the loss of both of my parents. I also worked for 16 years as a physical therapist with infants and toddlers (birth-3 years old), which involved families who experienced the loss of their child.
I currently work as multi-modality energy healing practitioner.
Services may be provided online via Zoom video call.
Work Chesterfield Chesterfield VA United Stateswork
Cell Phone: 804-350-8825cell
Work Email: Ndavis7728@aol.comINTERNET
Professional Certifications and Licenses
Grief Educator
Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC)
National Certified Counselor (NCC)
Services Offered
Grief For groups and individuals
Therapy for families, adults and couples
Parent Educator
Work Wimberley TX 78676 United Stateswork
Work Phone: 5129832383work
Professional Certifications and Licenses
Doctorate of Education, University of Houston
Mid-Management Certification for K-12 Schools, Texas
Certified Grief Educator by David Kessler at grief.com
Volunteer Moderator for Tender Hearts with David Kessler
Services Offered
Grief Mentoring using Creativity to Process Grief: both one-on-one and small group
Creative Retreats and Workshops to Process Grief: using both painting and writing experiences
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