How to Become a Grief Coach: Training & Certification

If you're thinking about becoming a grief coach, you may be wondering where to begin. Do you need a degree? Is certification required? What kind of training prepares you to support grieving people? And how do you know whether this work is right for you?

In many places, you can provide non-clinical grief coaching without a counseling degree or clinical license. However, working responsibly with grieving people requires appropriate education, practical skills, and a clear understanding of professional boundaries. Grief coach certification programs vary widely, so choosing the right training is an important part of preparing for this work.

I'm Heather Stang, a thanatologist, author, and creator of the 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System. I've worked in grief education and support for more than 20 years and received the 2025 Clinical Practice Award from the Association for Death Education and Counseling.

In this guide, I'll walk you through the steps to becoming a grief coach, what training and certification involve, and how you can prepare to support people experiencing death and non-death losses.

Interested in Becoming a Certified Grief Coach?

My 12-week live Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification combines contemporary grief education, mindfulness-based practices, and hands-on facilitation experience.

The program is designed for therapists, social workers, hospice professionals, coaches, death doulas, yoga therapists, and others who want a structured approach to supporting people through grief.

You'll learn the 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System, experience the practices yourself, and develop your skills through guided practice and feedback.

The next live online cohort begins February 5, 2027.

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What Is a Grief Coach?

A grief coach is a professional who provides non-clinical support to people experiencing loss. While many people associate grief with death, grief can also accompany divorce, estrangement, illness, caregiving changes, job loss, retirement, and other significant life transitions.

Grief coaching combines education, compassionate listening, reflection, and practical tools. A coach might help someone understand common grief responses, prepare for a difficult anniversary, develop a mindfulness practice, explore changes in identity, or reconnect with activities and relationships that matter to them.

The goal is to help people learn to live with grief, rather than attempting to fix their feelings or move them through a predetermined sequence of stages.

Effective grief coaching recognizes that each person's experience is different. Some people want to talk about what happened. Others need practical support with sleep, concentration, relationships, or everyday responsibilities. Many need different kinds of support at different times.

A grief coach must also understand the boundaries of the role. Non-clinical grief coaching does not include diagnosing mental health conditions, providing psychotherapy, or treating trauma unless the practitioner holds separate qualifications that authorize those services.

For a closer look at the role, read What Is a Grief Coach?.

What Does a Grief Coach Actually Do?

Grief coaches work in different settings depending on their training, experience, and professional qualifications. Some offer individual sessions, while others facilitate support groups, teach workshops, partner with community organizations, or incorporate grief education into an existing profession.

A grief coach may help people:

• Understand the physical, emotional, cognitive, and social effects of grief.

• Develop mindfulness, self-compassion, and emotional awareness practices.

• Use journaling and reflection to explore difficult experiences.

• Prepare for holidays, anniversaries, and other meaningful dates.

• Establish supportive routines when sleep, concentration, or daily activities become difficult.

• Explore changes in relationships, identity, and purpose.

• Maintain continuing bonds with someone who has died.

• Communicate their needs and establish healthy boundaries.

• Identify additional sources of community, personal, or professional support.

For example, someone grieving the death of a spouse might want to explore loneliness and changing relationships. Another person experiencing a similar loss might need help establishing a manageable daily routine.

Someone grieving a divorce may be struggling with the loss of a shared future, financial security, friendships, their home, or their sense of identity.

Our role is to listen carefully, ask thoughtful questions, and offer support that fits the person rather than assuming we know what they need.

How to Become a Grief Coach: 7 Steps

There is no single professional pathway into grief coaching. Some people come from counseling, healthcare, hospice, spiritual care, or education. Others have backgrounds in coaching, mindfulness, yoga therapy, or community support.

Whatever your starting point, these seven steps will help you prepare for the work.

Step 1: Understand Why You Want to Support Grieving People

Many people become interested in grief coaching after experiencing a significant loss. Others have spent years helping people navigate difficult circumstances and want to develop more specialized skills.

Personal experience can deepen your understanding of how profoundly grief changes someone's life. However, your experience of loss will always be different from the experience of the person sitting across from you.

Begin by reflecting on what draws you to this work.

Would you like to offer individual support, facilitate groups, or incorporate grief education into your existing profession? How comfortable are you listening to difficult emotions without trying to change them? What happens within you when someone expresses anger, guilt, despair, or confusion?

Supporting grieving people involves learning about yourself as well as learning about grief.

Your curiosity, motivation, and willingness to reflect are good places to begin.

Step 2: Learn About Grief and Loss

Grief is a universal human experience, but it doesn't follow a universal pattern.

Loss can affect concentration, memory, sleep, physical health, relationships, identity, and someone's understanding of how the world works. Responses vary according to the circumstances of the loss, personal history, culture, relationships, available support, and many other factors.

Foundational grief education should introduce contemporary theories of bereavement, continuing bonds, meaning-making, and the ways people adapt to significant life changes.

It should also address non-death losses, including divorce, estrangement, infertility, caregiving transitions, and changes in health or identity.

Understanding grief theory helps you recognize possible experiences without imposing expectations. It also gives you a foundation for choosing appropriate questions, practices, and resources.

Step 3: Understand the Difference Between Coaching and Therapy

Professional scope is one of the most important subjects in grief coach training.

Grief coaches provide non-clinical education, reflection, and practical support. Licensed mental health professionals may also assess, diagnose, and treat mental health conditions within their authorized clinical scope.

A grief coach needs to understand the limits of their preparation and recognize situations that require additional assessment or support.

This includes knowing when grief and trauma may overlap, recognizing concerns about someone's safety, and understanding when to refer someone to a licensed mental health professional or appropriate crisis service.

Professional titles and permitted activities vary by jurisdiction. Your qualifications and the regulations where you work determine which services you can legally offer.

For more information, read my article on the difference between grief coaching and therapy.

Step 4: Choose Grief-Specific Training

General coaching skills can be helpful, but they don't replace grief-specific education.

Look for training that includes contemporary grief theory, ethical responsibilities, trauma-sensitive principles, practical support methods, and opportunities to develop facilitation skills.

Consider how the program teaches its material.

Will you watch recorded lessons independently? Attend live classes? Practice with other students? Receive feedback from an experienced instructor?

A comprehensive program may combine several learning formats so you can study foundational material on your own schedule while also participating in discussion and supervised practice.

The goal is to develop meaningful knowledge and skills. Completing a collection of videos is different from demonstrating that you can respond thoughtfully to another person.

Step 5: Practice the Tools Yourself

Personal practice is an essential part of the way I prepare helping professionals.

If you're going to guide someone through meditation, journaling, movement, or self-compassion practices, it's valuable to experience those methods yourself.

Personal experience teaches you what can happen when you encounter distraction, resistance, uncertainty, emotional discomfort, or relief.

It also helps you recognize that a practice that feels helpful to one person may not be appropriate for another.

When you understand these experiences firsthand, you're better prepared to explain practices clearly, offer meaningful choices, and adapt your approach.

Your own mindfulness practice can also support your professional well-being. Supporting grieving people requires attention to boundaries, emotional responses, and the resources that sustain you outside your work.

Step 6: Develop Your Facilitation Skills

Compassionate listening is an important foundation, but effective grief support involves more than listening.

You'll need to learn how to ask useful questions, allow silence, recognize overwhelm, and respond without rushing to offer advice.

One of the challenges for new practitioners is learning to be present with another person's discomfort. When someone begins to cry or expresses regret, anger, or loneliness, the instinct to reassure or fix the situation can be strong.

Facilitation skills help you recognize those impulses and choose a more thoughtful response.

If you plan to lead groups, you'll need additional preparation in group agreements, confidentiality, screening, pacing, participation choices, and managing different needs within the group.

Group facilitators must pay attention to individual participants and the group as a whole.

These skills develop through practice, reflection, and feedback.

You can learn more about how to start a grief support group and how to lead a grief support group.

Step 7: Build Your Professional Practice and Referral Network

After completing appropriate training, you can begin developing services that fit your skills, professional qualifications, and interests.

You might offer individual grief coaching, facilitate an eight-week support group, teach workshops, develop retreats, or incorporate grief-specific education into an established practice.

Think carefully about how you'll describe your services and communicate your professional scope.

You'll also need to consider fees, client agreements, confidentiality, professional insurance, administrative systems, and applicable regulations.

Relationships with therapists, hospices, funeral homes, healthcare professionals, faith communities, and other service providers can become an important part of your professional network.

Referral relationships are especially valuable when someone needs care beyond your qualifications.

A sustainable practice also requires continuing education, peer consultation, professional mentoring, and attention to your own well-being.

What Training Do You Need to Become a Grief Coach?

Grief coach training programs differ considerably in their content, format, length, and requirements.

Some offer introductory lessons through recorded videos. Others combine formal grief education with live teaching, practical exercises, and opportunities to receive feedback.

When comparing programs, look beyond the promise of certification and examine what the training prepares you to do.

Understanding Grief

A strong training program should introduce contemporary theories of grief, bereavement, non-death losses, and the many ways loss affects everyday life.

Be cautious of programs that present grief as a predictable sequence of stages or promise that clients will reach closure within a particular timeframe.

Grief education should help you understand complexity and individual differences.

Ethics and Scope of Practice

Professional ethics include understanding your qualifications, communicating your role honestly, respecting confidentiality, maintaining appropriate boundaries, and recognizing when referrals are necessary.

Training should also address the responsibilities involved in working with people who may be experiencing significant emotional distress or major life changes.

Trauma-Sensitive Support

Not every loss is traumatic, but grief and trauma can overlap.

A trauma-sensitive approach emphasizes choice, pacing, consent, and awareness of emotional and physical responses.

You should learn how to recognize signs of overwhelm, adapt practices, offer alternatives, and understand when additional professional support is appropriate.

Practical Tools and Session Structure

Knowing grief theory is valuable, but practitioners also need to understand how to apply that knowledge.

Look for training that provides usable practices, session frameworks, discussion prompts, journaling exercises, guided meditations, and recommendations for individual or group facilitation.

Practice and Feedback

Reading about compassionate listening and sitting with someone who is grieving are different experiences.

Partner exercises, guided practice, mentoring, and feedback help you develop your skills and recognize areas that need additional attention.

For more information, read How to Choose a Grief Coach Training Program.

Do You Need a Degree to Become a Grief Coach?

In many places, you can provide non-clinical grief coaching without a degree in counseling, psychology, or social work.

However, professional requirements vary by location, and some titles and services are legally regulated.

For example, professional titles associated with licensed mental health care may be protected under state law. Offering coaching does not authorize someone to provide psychotherapy, diagnose mental health conditions, or represent themselves as a licensed counselor without the required qualifications.

Not needing a clinical degree doesn't eliminate the need for professional preparation.

Someone entering grief coaching without a mental health background still needs grief-specific education, practical skills, ethical awareness, and an understanding of appropriate referrals.

People enter grief support from many backgrounds, including chaplaincy, hospice, nursing, education, coaching, yoga therapy, meditation, death care, and community service.

For a more detailed discussion, read How to Become a Grief Coach Without a Degree.

Do You Need Grief Coach Certification?

Grief coach certification is not universally required by law.

Unlike professional licenses regulated by government agencies, grief coaching certifications are generally awarded by individual training organizations.

A certification indicates that you've fulfilled the requirements established by the organization offering the credential.

Depending on the program, those requirements might include coursework, live attendance, practice sessions, assignments, assessments, or an examination.

Because standards vary, it's important to understand what a certification represents.

Ask what subjects the program covers, how students demonstrate their skills, and whether the training prepares them for their intended professional role.

Also pay attention to claims about accreditation and continuing education.

Educational accreditation, approval to award continuing education credits, and certification in a particular methodology are different types of recognition.

For example, the International Coaching Federation accredits certain coach education programs. That should not be confused with clinical licensure or automatic recognition of a grief-specific credential.

A meaningful certification should represent practical preparation and professional development rather than attendance alone.

Can You Complete Grief Coach Training Online?

Yes. Many grief coach certification programs are offered online.

Some are entirely self-paced, while others combine recorded instruction with live classes, guided discussions, partner practice, and feedback.

Online learning can make professional education accessible to people balancing work, family, and other commitments.

However, convenience is only one consideration.

Ask whether you'll have opportunities to interact with your instructor, practice skills with other students, and receive feedback on your work.

Recorded demonstrations and independent study can be valuable for learning theory. Live practice offers an additional opportunity to respond to another person in real time.

Because grief support is relational work, experience and feedback are important parts of professional preparation.

How Long Does It Take to Become a Certified Grief Coach?

The length of grief coach training depends on the program.

Introductory courses may take a few weeks. More comprehensive certification programs may extend over several months and include live instruction, personal practice, assignments, and assessments.

Your professional background also matters.

If you're already a therapist, chaplain, coach, nurse, or other helping professional, you may bring useful experience in communication, ethical practice, or facilitation.

If you're new to professional helping work, you may need additional training and supervised experience before offering services independently.

Rather than choosing a program solely because it offers the fastest credential, consider the knowledge and practical skills you'll gain.

Time spent practicing, reflecting, receiving feedback, and learning to recognize your professional boundaries can be just as valuable as the formal course material.

Essential Grief Coaching Skills

Grief coaching requires knowledge, compassion, self-awareness, and the ability to respond to a person's experience without imposing your own expectations.

Several skills are particularly important.

Compassionate Listening

Grieving people frequently receive unsolicited advice about what they should feel, how they should cope, and when they should be doing better.

A grief coach listens without imposing those expectations.

This includes allowing silence, recognizing assumptions, asking thoughtful questions, and resisting the urge to offer immediate solutions.

Emotional Awareness

Grief can involve sadness, anger, guilt, relief, longing, confusion, numbness, and many other responses.

A coach needs to recognize emotional intensity while maintaining enough steadiness to respond thoughtfully.

This includes noticing your own emotional reactions and distinguishing them from your client's experience.

Self-Awareness and Boundaries

Your beliefs, personal history, and experiences of loss can influence your responses to clients.

Ongoing reflection helps you recognize those patterns and maintain appropriate boundaries.

This becomes especially important when a client's experience resembles something you've lived through yourself.

Trauma-Sensitive Facilitation

A trauma-sensitive approach includes explaining practices before beginning, offering choices, and respecting a person's decision to stop or decline an exercise.

Meditation, closing the eyes, and exploring difficult emotions may not be helpful for everyone at every moment.

Practitioners need to understand how to adjust the experience and recognize when a different approach is appropriate.

Practical Grief Support

People experiencing grief often need practical tools in addition to compassionate listening.

They may benefit from a bedtime routine, a brief grounding practice, support preparing for an anniversary, guidance on communicating their needs, or a journaling exercise that helps them explore difficult feelings.

The ability to select and explain a relevant practice is an important professional skill.

For more on these abilities, read Essential Grief Coaching Skills.

Why Grief-Specific Training Matters

Loss affects people in complicated and often unexpected ways.

Someone grieving a death may also be facing financial uncertainty, changes in family relationships, a loss of identity, or profound loneliness.

Others experience losses that receive little social recognition.

A person going through divorce may be encouraged to move on long before they've had an opportunity to understand what they've lost. Someone grieving estrangement may struggle to find people who recognize their experience as grief.

Grief-specific education prepares practitioners to recognize these circumstances without comparing losses or deciding whose experience is more significant.

General coaching methods sometimes emphasize goal setting, motivation, and forward progress. Those approaches may be useful in certain situations, but they aren't always appropriate for a person whose life has been fundamentally changed by loss.

Sometimes someone needs help taking a practical next step. At other times, they need an opportunity to remember, reflect, rest, or recognize that additional support is necessary.

A grief coach should understand the difference.

Education, practice, and experience help you make thoughtful decisions about the support you offer.

What Can You Do With Grief Coach Certification?

Grief-specific training can support several types of professional work.

The services you offer will depend on your qualifications, experience, professional scope, and interests.

Possible applications include:

• Individual grief support: Private sessions incorporating education, reflection, mindfulness, and practical tools.

• Grief support groups: Structured programs in which participants learn practices and connect with others experiencing loss.

• Educational workshops: Sessions focused on grief and the nervous system, mindfulness, self-compassion, journaling, or difficult dates.

• Retreats: Grief-focused experiences offered within broader mindfulness, wellness, or personal development programs.

• Book study groups: Facilitated discussions and practices based on grief education books and accompanying resources.

• Existing professional practices: Incorporating grief-specific knowledge and tools into work as a therapist, chaplain, yoga therapist, coach, educator, or another helping professional.

Some practitioners prefer individual work. Others enjoy the community experience of groups or the teaching format of workshops.

You may eventually offer several types of services, provided they fit your training and professional qualifications.

How Much Do Grief Coaches Make?

There is no single reliable salary figure for grief coaches because people work in different settings and offer different services.

Some practitioners work within established organizations. Others are self-employed or incorporate grief support into an existing counseling, coaching, education, or spiritual care practice.

Income depends on qualifications, location, experience, fees, client demand, referral relationships, and the services offered.

For example, I currently charge $150 for an individual grief coaching session.

That represents the gross session fee, not take-home income. Preparation, administration, marketing, insurance, continuing education, taxes, and time spent developing a practice all influence earnings.

A sustainable practice requires consideration of both your financial needs and the number of people you can responsibly support.

Is Grief Coach Certification Useful for Therapists and Other Helping Professionals?

Yes. Grief-specific training can be valuable for professionals who already support people through difficult life experiences.

Therapists may want a structured approach to grief education and mindfulness-based practices that they can integrate within their clinical scope.

Chaplains and spiritual care providers may appreciate practical tools that complement their existing work.

Yoga therapists and meditation teachers may want a deeper understanding of grief and how to adapt their practices for people experiencing loss.

Hospice workers, nurses, coaches, educators, and community support professionals may also benefit from additional grief education and facilitation skills.

For experienced helping professionals, certification may be less about changing careers and more about expanding the knowledge and resources they bring to their existing work.

My Approach: The 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System

I developed the 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System to provide a practical framework combining contemporary grief theory with mindfulness-based practices.

The system incorporates meditation, journaling, self-compassion, embodied awareness, and reflection.

Rather than treating grief as something people must complete according to a fixed schedule, the eight steps offer practices they can revisit as their circumstances and needs change.

The steps include:

1. Conscious Relaxation: Learning practices that help settle the mind and body.

2. Mindful Awareness: Noticing physical sensations, emotions, thoughts, and the broader experience of daily life.

3. Compassion for All: Developing greater kindness toward ourselves and others.

4. Skillful Courage: Learning how and when to approach difficult experiences with awareness.

5. Getting Unstuck: Recognizing recurring patterns of thought and emotion and exploring ways to respond differently.

6. Continuing Bonds: Exploring how important relationships continue to shape our lives after loss.

7. Allowing Transformation: Making room for changes in identity, relationships, and our understanding of ourselves.

8. Perpetual Mindfulness: Integrating supportive practices into everyday life.

At the heart of this approach is the recognition that we can develop skills for being with ourselves during difficult experiences.

This isn't about enjoying painful emotions, forcing acceptance, or finding something positive in every loss.

It's about learning to notice what's happening, recognize what we need, and respond with greater awareness and care.

The Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification teaches helping professionals how to apply this framework in individual sessions, support groups, workshops, and other appropriate professional settings.

What You'll Learn in the Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification

The Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification is a 12-week live online training designed for helping professionals seeking a structured, mindfulness-based approach to grief support.

Students learn the system through personal experience, focused study, live instruction, and practice with other participants.

The training includes:

• 12 weeks of live online classes: Join me on Fridays for two hours of teaching, discussion, mentoring, guided practice, and feedback. Recordings are available when you miss a session.

• Short weekly video lessons: Approximately 30 minutes of focused instruction each week, accompanied by a short quiz.

• Eight partner practice exchanges: Practice guiding the material and offering feedback with another professional.

• Personal mindfulness practice: Experience meditation, journaling, movement, self-compassion, and reflective practices before introducing them to others.

• Professional resources: Receive guided meditation scripts, session guides, discussion prompts, client worksheets, and home practices.

• Trauma-sensitive facilitation and ethical scope: Learn to adapt practices through choice, pacing, consent, cultural awareness, and recognition of professional limits.

• Certification assessment: Complete the program requirements and a 50-question multiple-choice examination, with up to three months after the last live class to complete it.

The February 2027 cohort runs from February 5 through April 30, with live classes on Fridays from 12 to 2 PM Eastern and no class on March 19. Enrollment is limited to 30 participants.

Plan for approximately four hours per week, including class or replay, video lessons, personal practice, and partner exchanges.

You'll learn to use the system in individual sessions and structured eight-week groups while incorporating your existing professional experience.

The training provides certification in my methodology. Your existing qualifications and applicable regulations continue to determine your professional scope.

Explore the curriculum, download the syllabus, and join the February 2027 waitlist

You can also read reviews and experiences from certification graduates.

Common Mistakes to Avoid When Becoming a Grief Coach

People enter grief coaching with different experiences, expectations, and professional backgrounds.

Several mistakes can interfere with developing a responsible practice, particularly when someone moves too quickly from personal experience or introductory education into supporting clients.

Assuming Personal Grief Is Enough Preparation

Your personal experience of loss may inspire you to help others, but it cannot tell you what another person's grief will be like.

Education helps you understand the diversity of grief experiences and develop skills for supporting people without relying solely on your own history.

Choosing Training Based Only on Price or Speed

Short introductory courses can provide useful information, but they may not offer sufficient practice or feedback for someone preparing to work independently.

Review the curriculum, teaching format, certification requirements, and opportunities for practical experience.

Trying to Fix Someone's Grief

The desire to relieve suffering is understandable, especially when someone is hurting.

But grief coaching isn't about eliminating painful feelings or persuading someone to find a silver lining.

A more useful question is often: What might support this person in the experience they're having right now?

Working Outside Your Scope

Grief coaches need to understand the distinction between non-clinical support and mental health treatment.

Recognizing your limits protects the people you serve and helps you build productive referral relationships with other professionals.

Neglecting Your Own Support

Grief support can be deeply meaningful and emotionally demanding.

Personal practice, professional consultation, continuing education, rest, and relationships outside your work all contribute to professional sustainability.

The way you care for yourself matters to the quality and longevity of the support you offer.

Frequently Asked Questions About Becoming a Grief Coach

Is Grief Coaching a Real Profession?

Grief coaching is an established form of non-clinical support offered by independent practitioners and professionals in related fields.

However, it isn't regulated uniformly as a separate profession, and training standards vary among organizations.

This makes transparency about qualifications, training, services, and professional scope particularly important.

Can I Become a Grief Coach Without Being a Therapist?

In many places, yes. You can provide non-clinical grief support without being a licensed mental health professional.

You'll still need appropriate education, clear professional boundaries, and an understanding of the regulations that apply to your services.

Is Grief Coach Certification Required?

Certification isn't universally required, but comprehensive training can help you develop grief-specific knowledge, practical skills, and a structured professional approach.

Certification doesn't replace any license required for regulated mental health services.

Can I Work as a Grief Coach Online?

Yes. Individual grief coaching, educational workshops, and some grief support groups can be offered online.

Online practitioners still need appropriate privacy practices, client agreements, referral procedures, and awareness of applicable professional regulations.

Can I Start a Grief Support Group After Certification?

Some certification programs prepare students to facilitate structured grief support groups.

Before offering a group, you'll need to understand participant screening, confidentiality, group agreements, facilitation methods, and procedures for responding when someone needs additional care.

Your training and professional qualifications should determine the type of group you offer.

What Is the Difference Between Grief Coaching and Grief Counseling?

Grief coaching generally involves non-clinical education, reflection, and practical support.

Grief counseling may include clinical assessment or psychotherapy when provided by an appropriately licensed mental health professional.

The services a practitioner can offer depend on their qualifications and professional scope.

Can I Add Grief Coaching to My Existing Practice?

Yes. Many helping professionals pursue grief-specific education to expand their existing skills.

For example, a therapist may integrate mindfulness-based grief practices into clinical work, while a meditation teacher may offer grief-focused educational programs within a non-clinical scope.

How Do I Choose the Right Grief Coach Certification?

Look for training that includes contemporary grief theory, ethical boundaries, trauma-sensitive principles, practical tools, and facilitation skills.

Consider the instructor's qualifications, opportunities for live practice and feedback, certification requirements, and whether the program aligns with the work you hope to offer.

Is Becoming a Grief Coach Right for You?

If you feel drawn to this work, consider both what you hope to offer and what you're willing to learn.

Grief coaching requires curiosity, preparation, practical skills, and the ability to listen carefully to experiences that may be very different from your own.

You might help someone understand why concentration has become difficult after a death. You might facilitate a group in which someone finally recognizes that other people are also grieving changes in identity, relationships, or their sense of the future.

Or you might guide a simple mindfulness practice that someone can use when difficult emotions arise in the middle of an ordinary day.

These moments matter.

Grief coaching asks us to meet people where they are, understand their circumstances, recognize our professional limits, and continue developing our skills.

If you'd like to explore a structured way to support people through death and non-death losses, I invite you to learn more about the Mindfulness & Grief Coach Certification.

You can also begin with my free grief coaching tools, which include practical prompts and resources for supporting grieving people.