Gentle grief support to help you process, rebuild and grow around loss
I am not accepting new clients at this time.
For immediate grief support, you can consult my colleagues at Adventuring Loss.
It can be difficult to find grief support that doesn’t rush, bypass or invalidate your grief.
Be companioned as you walk through the complexity of life after loss.
There is so much healing that occurs from having a space for truth telling about what it’s really like to have to rebuild our sense of self and our life after a profound loss.
Hi! I’m Marie, a certified Death Doula (Institute of Traditional Medicine in Toronto) & Grief Coach who walks the path of healing with women who have suffered a profound loss. I specialize in creating brave spaces for women to be seen, heard and witnessed in the fullness of their experience of loss.
My approach is based on the assumption that you are the expert of your own grief and my work focuses on guiding you back home to yourself so that you can find meaning in your life in the “after”.
Having lost my partner to cancer, my guidance and coaching comes from both education and personal experience which allows me to deeply relate to my client’s experience of grief and loss.
I am the founder of Empowered Through Grief, a coaching practice and community that provides a space for education, healing and post-traumatic growth for people grieving all types of losses.
Why should you seek out grief support?
Finding the right kind of support and tools to process the complex and layered emotions and beliefs associated with grief will help you make sense your experience.
I specialize in creating brave spaces for women, where you can tell the truth about what it is really like to be living through loss. Through our work, you’ll explore all of the manifestations of your grief and process the emotions and beliefs that come with loss without judgement or platitudes. I guide you with compassion as you redefine your identity, process difficult emotions, develop coping skills and find meaning in your life in the “after”.
Grief is a lonely experience but you don’t have to do it alone. Let’s make sense of your loss together.
This work is flexible and meets you where you are at.
Sliding scale pricing is available to promote accessibility.
Please note that what is offered at Empowered Through Grief is education and coaching around grief and loss only.
We offer you a space to be seen, heard and companioned in your experience of loss.
Through the use of story telling, education about grief, finding meaning in continuing bonds and self care, you will gather new tools, practices and ways of thinking that will assist you in coping with grief.
Grief coaching can be used in conjunction with, but is not a replacement for, trauma-specific therapy, therapy or mental health counselling. If you are experiencing trauma, depression and/or suicidal ideation, it is best to consult with a doctor or other mental health professional for appropriate interventions as these are outside of the scope of what Empowered Through Grief can provide.
Diagnosing and treating mental health disorders is outside of our scope of practice.
The results or outcomes of grief coaching can not be guaranteed as grief is individual and unique to each client.
If you are not satisfied with the service provided or if this type of grief support does not meet your needs, you can terminate our work at anytime and you may request a referral to other grief-specific resources and practitioners that we collaborate with.
What My Clients Are Saying
“I started working with Marie 2 years into my grief journey.
I had read all the books, done all the therapy but my life still didn’t feel like “me”.
In working with Marie, I was hoping to gain something new that I had not found elsewhere and I did! She has helped me realize that I had been living in victim mode and helped me consciously step out of that mindset and into a life of gratitude.
This has been transformational for me and has helped me look at my healing through a new lens. I am the creator of my life and creating a life that aligns with the new me has brought me total clarity and purpose”
— Jennifer
“Thank you for creating such a beautiful and sacred space. I have learned so much.
You are such a bright and beautiful guiding light for us on this earthly plane and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing so openly about your love and loss of A, for doing the hard work of processing all of the strategies and knowledge you have gathered surrounding grief so that you could so lovingly share this information with other women.
Your hard work, empathy, kindness, and care make grief a wee bit easier to navigate. Your work is a calling and I call you an angel here on earth.”
— Maureen
“What I most want to express is gratitude for all that I have learned through the process of working together.
I have gratitude for you, for your commitment to my healing and for holding a safe space for me to have genuine and truthful conversations about the grief of watching my beloved die but a part of me as well.
You have continuously held the belief that he will never leave me. The tools you shared have given me the opportunity to delve into the roots of my anxiety and avoidant behaviours. With awareness comes healing.
No longer do I awake crying because I awoke. I do not feel the desperation I once did”
— Mary Beth
“I am so thankful to have been able to dive deep together and for the safe space you have created through our work.
It is getting me more in touch with myself every day.
Your intimate and hands on coaching and the safe space has truly been life changing..”
— Anita
