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This is a warm place to land — especially if your grief hasn't had one yet.
Hi, I’m Nicole 💖
Not long ago, I was exactly where you are — searching for support, for a place to land, and for proof that deep grief could heal.
In a few short years, I lost my partner Christian to brain cancer, my dog Assi, my mother, and my job.
After I lost Christian, I missed the small things most. Morning coffee together. Walking our dog, Assi, through the park.
The ordinary moments that were suddenly, unbearably gone. My world had shattered — and I quickly discovered how few people knew how to show up for me in it. Not because they didn't care, but because most of us were never taught how to sit with grief — our own or anyone else's.
That's when I realized: we don't have a cultural fluency for loss. And someone needed to help bridge that gap.
That's why I became a grief coach — to sit with you in it, and help you find your way through.
You don't have to do this alone. I’m here to support to you.
“Where there is deep grief, there is deep love.”
-Anonymous
Who I work with
I work with anyone navigating loss
Grief doesn't check boxes before it shows up. Whether your loss came with sympathy cards or silence, whether people "get it" or not, you deserve support. If you're grieving, this space is for you.
That said, I have deep personal experience with losses that often slip through the cracks—the grief that doesn't always get casseroles.
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When you lose your person, your real person, but you don't get the social recognition, the rituals, or the legitimacy. Your grief is real. And here, you don't have to prove it.
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Pets are more than just animals; they’re part of the family. Yet, when they pass, you’re expected back at work the next morning. How do you move forward when everything reminds you of them?
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Not all grief comes with a funeral. Losing a job can mean losing your identity, your purpose, your stability—sometimes all at once. That's grief. And here, we call it what it is.
Learning how to carry both grief and groceries.
How I work
No matter its source, your grief is normal, natural, and has a safe place with me.
Grief is not a problem to solve; it's a profound human experience to be witnessed, held, and integrated. And frankly, you've probably had enough people trying to fix you.
My approach is designed to offer you the structure, safety, and support needed as you move through your grief at your own pace.
As a certified Grief-to-Gratitude coach, we’ll work from giving yourself full permission to grieve, through honoring what you've lost, to eventually finding meaning and gratitude on the other side.
Despite what we all have heard, grief doesn’t follow a timeline, and I won’t prescribe how you should heal or push toxic positivity. Instead, we’ll focus on the impacts of loss and help you reconnect with yourself, your needs, and your emerging identity at your own pace.
Quick note: I'm a certified Grief-to-Gratitude coach, not a therapist. If you need clinical support, I can point you toward grief therapists I trust. Some people work with both and there’s no right or wrong answer here.
“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable, can be manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become … less scary.”
-Fred Rogers
Why this work matters
Here's what I believe: unprocessed grief takes up space. A lot of it. When we're carrying losses we were never given the tools to process, we're exhausted and too depleted to think freely, create, or connect.
And when we heal? We get our energy back. Our clarity. Our capacity to imagine something different—and to actually build it.
Grief work isn't separate from collective healing. It's the foundation.
We're living through political crisis, collective trauma, and uncertainty that compounds the personal losses we're already carrying. When we're overwhelmed by both our grief AND the world's grief, we shut down. We doom-scroll. We burn out. We react instead of respond.
But here's what I know: the people who process their grief don't just survive—they show up. They have the emotional capacity to support their communities, to think creatively about solutions, to act from love instead of fear.
This is why your grief, even the grief that feels "small" or "insignificant" compared to what's happening in the world, matters so much. You can't pour from an empty cup. And you can't build a better world while drowning in unprocessed loss.
Grief work is how we reclaim the energy to build something better: for ourselves, for our communities, and for the generations coming after us.
That's why I do this work.
Get in touch
I would be honored to support you in your grief journey.
Conversations about dogs, wine, travel, and how many cups of coffee you drink per day are also welcome. ☕