Ways to Work With Me

Every path begins the same way: a short conversation, free of charge. Reach out by email or through the contact form. We'll find a time for about fifteen minutes — just to meet, to hear a little about where you are, and for you to get a sense of whether this feels like the right fit. No pressure. No obligation. Just a conversation. From there, you choose what feels right.

Wayfinding the Threshold

One-on-one sessions for grief, transition and change

Sometimes what you are looking for is to be heard. To sit with someone who knows this territory and feel into what you're carrying — without necessarily knowing yet what comes next, or where it leads.

Wayfinding the Threshold is one-on-one work, shaped by what you bring and what you need. We meet over video call, or in person at my studio — a yurt beside the water and the cedar trees. You share what you're carrying: your story, the transition you're in, the loss you're holding, or the change you're moving through.

I listen — deeply, and with my whole attention. And then I offer back what I'm receiving: reflections on what I'm hearing, the patterns and shapes I notice, the things that may be sitting just outside your own immediate knowing. I mirror what you're carrying — not to interpret it or fix it, but to help you see it more clearly. Sometimes I share from my own experience, when it feels like it belongs. Sometimes what comes through is less from me than through me — messages, images, a sense of something wanting to be named. I follow what arrives and offer it honestly, without claiming to know more than I do.

And sometimes what arrives is laughter. I don't hold a solemn container. I hold an honest one — and honesty, in my experience, often has humour in it. The weight and the lightness can coexist. Usually they need to.

What you leave with is not a product or a plan. It's something subtler — a shift in how you're holding what you're carrying. A little more clarity. A sense of having been genuinely seen. Sometimes that's enough on its own. Sometimes it opens a door to something more.

Some people come once. Some return. Some find their way from here into a custom piece. None of that is decided in advance — we feel into what's needed as we go.

Part of what we can do together, if it feels right, is design and create ritual and ceremony to support your transition. Ritual is personal — simple, intentional practices you carry into your everyday life to mark what's changing and tend what needs tending. Ceremony is something we create and hold together — a deliberate experience designed specifically for where you are, to honour what's ending, or open space for what's beginning. Both can be part of this work. Neither is required.

You're welcome to bring objects that hold meaning for you: a feather, a stone, something that belonged to someone you've loved. Sometimes the things we carry in our hands help name what we're carrying in our bodies and hearts.

A session is $100 for one hour, or $150 for 90 minutes and can be either in person or over video call. We'll determine together what length and frequency feels right for where you are.

The Details

A Custom Creation

From your story to something you can hold

A piece made for you begins with Wayfinding the Threshold. One session, or several — however many it takes to understand the specific shape of what you're living and to feel into what wants to be made.

The making is ceremonial — not a ceremony enacted together, but a process infused with intention from beginning to end. This is medicine weaving: what’s real in you, woven together with what’s real in the materials, until something holds both. What is created is made on your behalf, held in the specific weight of what you've shared, and guided by Spirit as much as by my hands.

After our time together, I sit with everything. I let it settle and listen for what wants to emerge. When things begin to crystallize, I'll come back to you — a call, a message, whatever feels right — to share what I'm seeing and feeling. This is an opportunity for your input: the size, the materials, the shape, the aesthetic direction.

Some people want to be closely involved in these choices. Others grant me free range, which tends to allow the work to move more freely. Both are welcome. What I ask you to hold is that even with clear intentions set at the beginning, things shift in the making. What arrives through the work is not always what either of us imagined at the start. That's not a deviation — that's the work doing what it's meant to do.

From there, you decide. You can move forward, or sit with it a little longer. There's no pressure and no fixed timeline. When you're ready, I begin.

I work with natural materials gathered and processed by hand — birds found on roadsides and shorelines, their wings cured, feathers and bones carefully gathered — alongside shells, quill, stone, and wood — materials that were once part of living creatures, or that carry a deep life of their own.

Every custom piece comes with a story written for you: what the piece holds, how it relates to what you shared, and what it might be pointing toward as you move forward. For many people, the story becomes as meaningful as the piece itself. It's Spirit offering language to what's often hardest to name.

Custom pieces are priced based on size, complexity, and materials. Most fall between $1,200 and $2,500, though they can be more or less depending on what the piece calls for. If you have a budget in mind, bring it to the conversation. I'll tell you honestly what's possible within it.

Payment can be made in full, or in installments — typically two or three payments over the course of our work together.

How long a piece takes depends on many things — its size and complexity, what materials are called for, where I am in my own process, and what Spirit is doing. Some pieces arrive in weeks. Others take longer. I'll keep you informed as the work unfolds. I ask for patience — not because I'm slow, but because I won't rush what needs time.

The Details

Before we begin

  • You have lost someone. Recently, or years ago. The door to that grief is still half-open — or you're finally ready to open it more fully. Maybe you've carried it quietly for a long time, not knowing what to do with it, not finding anything that quite held it. You want to honour the person you've lost in a way that feels true to who they were and what they meant. Not a memorial. Something alive. Something that keeps the relationship going in the form it's taken now. That might mean sitting together first, feeling into what's needed. It might mean having something made. Often it means both.

    You are in the middle of something changing. A divorce. A diagnosis. A career ending. A move. A relationship shifting shape. A version of yourself you've outgrown and a new one you haven't quite grown into yet. You feel the loss underneath the change, even when the change is one you chose. You're looking for something that marks the crossing — that says: this happened, and I am moving through it, and that matters. You might not know yet whether that something is a conversation, a piece made for you, or both. That's exactly where we start.

    You are stepping into something new. A change you've chosen. A life you're building. A version of yourself you're finally ready to inhabit. You arrive not in grief but in excitement — ready, even eager, to mark the beginning. That energy is equally welcome here. We work in whatever register is true for where you are. Joy, readiness, and aliveness are as valid a reason to come as grief.

    You are a practitioner, healer, or artist of any kind. You have found the medicine you carry — or you are finding it. You are offering it to others, or you are on the edge of that. You want something that deepens your relationship to it. That holds it, amplifies it, makes it more fully yours. Not something to explain your work to others — something to bring you into closer relationship with what you already are. A session, a piece, or both — depending on where you are and what you need.

    You've found your way to one of the Spirit-led pieces. Something on my website caught you before you understood why. A piece made without knowing who it was for, waiting. Something in you recognises it. That recognition is enough to start. Reach out and we'll go from there.

    You don't need to use words like spirit or grief to be the right person for this. You just need to be carrying something real — or moving toward something true. Both are welcome here.

  • What I offer sits outside the conventional mental health system — not beneath it, not as a supplement to it, but alongside it as something distinct. Earth-based, Spirit-led, ceremonial in nature. The kind of support that has existed in human communities for as long as humans have grieved, marked transitions, and needed to be witnessed. It predates the therapy room. It will outlast it.

    I am not a therapist or a grief counsellor, and I don't offer crisis support. If you are in acute distress or need immediate help, please reach out to someone who can provide that. What I offer is not the right container for that moment.

    But for the longer, slower work — the grief that has been sitting in you for years, the transition that doesn't have a clinical name, the part of you that knows something needs to be marked and honoured and held — this work can be exactly the right thing. Not instead of other support you may be receiving, and not dependent on it either. Depending on your own relationship to conventional care, this may be one strand among many, or it may be the primary way you choose to move through what you're carrying. That is entirely yours to determine.

    When we sit together, I am listening and accompanying — someone who knows this territory from the inside. When I make something for you, I am making it with intention, from materials that carry their own life, guided by what you've shared and by Spirit. Neither of these things is therapy. Both of them can change something.

    You don't need to share my understanding of the world or use the same language I do. If the word spirit doesn't work for you, set it aside. What matters is that you're moving through something real, and you're ready — even a little — to let it be seen.

    (For more on how I use words like spirit, ritual, and ceremony, see How I See the World in the Practice section or the FAQ)