A Calm Presence During Difficult Times
My passion is to hold compassionate, sacred space for you to navigate life’s most profound, challenging, and transformative moments.
Guided by a professional chaplain with experience in illuminating pathways through grief and loss, and the art of meaningful ritual, I provide heart-centered support to individuals, families, organizations, and communities seeking healing, connection, and presence.
CHAPLAIN SERVICES
Grief And Loss Support
I specialize in guiding individuals and groups through the process of grieving and mourning. Are you navigating the death of a loved one, the loss of a career, having a major life transition, or experiencing a loss that feels hard to name?
I can support you with:
1:1 Spiritual Care
1:1 Somatic Experiencing Sessions
Growing Through Grief Group Facilitation
End-of-Life Support, Memorial Planning & Guidance
Let’s Unpack Grief & Loss in Community
Let’s Unpack Grief & Loss in Community
Grief can feel isolating — but you don’t have to go through it alone.
Join our Growing Through Grief Group and find connection, compassion, and relief in community.
🕖 Every 2nd & 4th Monday at 7pm (PT) on Zoom
The next session starts on September 8
You're not alone.
Let’s grow through grief, together.
Growing Through Grief Support Group
Conversation Mediation
When communication breaks down, I serve as a neutral compassionate mediator to help bridge divides. Whether you’re navigating a family conflict, facing a sensitive team tension, or seeking deeper interpersonal dialogue, I provide a calm and grounded presence to help you move forward together or apart.
Ceremony & Ritual for Life’s Thresholds
Life presents moments that require us to pause, reflect, grieve, celebrate, or to begin again. These moments—whether joyful, painful, or complex—deserve to be honored.
I officiate personalized ceremonies and curate rituals that help you to mark these thresholds with meaning and care.
I understand that ceremony is not just about tradition—it’s a powerful, healing way to hold the depth of the human experience.
My Process
I listen deeply to your story and your needs. Together, we co-create ceremony and ritual that reflect your values, culture, and spirit. Each experience is designed to facilitate:
Acknowledgment of what has changed or needs to be honored
Release of what no longer serves or holds pain
Healing through connection, presence, and meaning-making
Example Rituals Include:
Grief and loss rituals
End-of-life blessings
Divorce or separation ceremonies
House Blessing Rituals
Reconciliation and forgiveness rituals
Milestone transition rituals (for career changes, menopause, midlife thresholds, retirement)
Wherever you are in the world, I bring heart, presence, and spiritual care to the places where life asks you to stop and tend to your soul.
Why Work With a Chaplain?
Interfaith chaplains hold space for all faith traditions, belief systems and for those with no faith tradition at all. We are trained to support your spiritual and emotional needs with deep presence, without judgment or agenda. This is your journey, we're here to witness you and to walk beside you.
Meet Chaplain Maude
I’m Maude—a chaplain, ritualist, facilitator, end-of-life doula, and somatic healer. My life’s work is to hold safe and sacred space for people moving through life’s most tender, complex, and transformative moments. Whether in the stillness of a grief ritual, the tension of a family discussion, or the sacred hush of an end-of-life blessing, I offer presence, compassion, and deep listening.
Rooted in the wisdom of my African American ancestors, I follow a calling to tend to what’s hurting, unspoken, or in need of healing. That ancestral wisdom guides me—spiritually and practically—as I walk with others through grief, transition, reconciliation, and renewal.
I hold a master’s degree in religious studies, am trained in clinical pastoral care and am a certified death doula. My approach is shaped not only by my education, but by a lifelong commitment to learning, traveling, creating, and seeking the sacred in everyday life.
Whether it’s facilitating a dying wish halfway around the world or sitting quietly with a family in mourning; I’m here to witness your truth, honor your story, and walk with you toward wellness.