Grief, trauma and the rituals we make around death
Grief, traumatic stress, and the rituals we make around death have run through my whole working life: in the counselling room, alongside first responders, at my family’s funeral home, and now in research and in teaching the people who do this work.
Clinical counselling
Thirty years supporting people through grief, traumatic events and stressful life experiences.
First responder mental health
An Occupationally Aware Clinician, endorsed by the BC Professional Fire Fighters’ Association.
BCPFFA endorsedFuneral service and celebrancy
A third-generation funeral director and Certified Funeral Celebrant at Bowers Funeral Home, est. 1947.
Doctoral research
A Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies at UBC Okanagan on the practices and emerging role of funeral celebrants in Canada.
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