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Patricia (Pat) Sheveland
Minnesota,
United States of America
Learn more about Patricia (Pat) Sheveland
Patricia (Pat) Sheveland has been in the healing profession since she was in her teens. Pat sees herself as a holistic healing guide for families, helping them find healing of mind, body, and spirit from the impact of emotional trauma such as grief and abandonment.

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As Pat stepped into her second half of life, she realized her soul purpose: to be a light for those who grieve. As a child born to grieving parents, Pat understands firsthand the impact long-term buried grief from the death of a child can have on the family as a whole, including the trauma of having the family broken apart through divorce and abandonment. For over a decade, countless clients have found peace and purpose in their grief with Pat’s compassionate guidance.

Pat specializes in providing family group grief coaching.

She is a professionally certified coach through the International Coaching Federation, the founder and lead faculty of The Confident Grief Coach School, a qigong teacher and mentor coach providing grief coaching certification for coaches and other helping professionals. She is a certified funeral & celebration of life celebrant, and the three-time Amazon best-selling author of How Do I Survive? 7 Steps to Living After Child Loss, Living Life in The Middle: The Caregiver’s Guide to Healing, Hope and Harmony Through Multigenerational Living and The Confident Grief Coach: A Guide for Helping Clients Process Loss. She and her family live in Minnesota.

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Credentials

  1. Advanced Certified Grief Coach

  2. Mastery Level Certified Grief Coach

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Barbara DeMers
Shakopee,
Minnesota,
United States of America
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Barbara owns and operates a hair salon where her spirit filled presence behind the salon chair awoke her passion and understanding of energy. Barbara offers integrative energy healing along with grief and loss coaching services to empower her clients to realize their Divinity allowing the innate shift for healing to occur.

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Her passion is to create an energetic environment for harmony and peace thereupon revealing the Truth of who we are.
She has certificates in many areas including: HT Practitioner, IET Master Instructor, Pranic Healing, Craniosacral Therapy, Cosmic Inner Diamond Healing, Reiki Master, Ordained Minister and Certified Grief Coach.
To learn more about Barbara and her personal offerings, please visit her website.

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Credentials

  1. Certified Grief Coach

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Cami Thelander

Loss of a parent

Life transitions

Health crisis

Anticipatory grief

Scandia,
Minnesota,
United States of America
Learn more about Cami Thelander
With a unique, body-centered approach called Embodied Grief Support, Cami provides holistic healing for life’s deepest losses. Having lost her father to ALS at age 11 and her stepfather to cancer at 15, she intimately understands the profound impact and deep pain of grief on both mind and body. After struggling for years with the limitations of traditional treatments, she began her own healing journey, seeking alternative methods that finally provided the relief and resilience she needed.

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Today, Cami offers Grief Coaching, Craniosacral Therapy (bodywork), Grief Yoga, custom essential oils, and mindfulness techniques to help clients confidently navigate life after loss. Her holistic approach leans into the body’s inherent wisdom, supporting wellness on all levels—physical, emotional, and spiritual. By integrating body-centered practices and transformational grief coaching, Cami helps clients manage stress, rebuild emotional resilience, and discover effective coping tools for healthy grief processing. Her compassionate, embodied approach empowers clients to move within grief, restoring a sense of purpose, balance, and well-being that honors both loss and life.

In addition to her holistic healing services, Cami is an educator and Community Engagement Leader with the Confident Grief Coach School, where she trains and mentors others in holding safe, compassionate spaces for grief.  Cami’s work is grounded in extensive training, including End of Life Doula training with INELDA, Advanced Grief Coach Certification and B.R.E.A.T.H.E. Program Facilitator, and professional credentialing as an ACC-certified Life Coach through the International Coaching Federation. She is also a certified NLP and Timeline Therapy® Practitioner. By integrating these modalities with her Embodied Grief Support approach, Cami brings a deeply intuitive, body-centered lens to grief work—meeting people where they are and guiding them through healing with authenticity, care, and profound respect for both loss and life.

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Credentials

  1. Certified Grief Coach

  2. Advanced Certified Grief Coach

Reflections

As I was working with craniosacral therapy clients, I noticed that the people that were coming to me were processing grief (much like I had, when I was learning this modality). Out of a desire to learn how to emotionally support my clients in addition to the bodywork, I found The Confident Grief Coach School and knew this would be a powerful addition to my practice.

Training with the Confident Grief Coach School was surprisingly transformative for my own grief journey. Even though my losses happened many years ago, there are always more layers to explore, and this program stirred up some things within me that were asking for healing! I felt incredibly supported by the community and felt much more confident in myself to be able to move within my own grief with an abundance of tools and resources.

The B.R.E.A.T.H.E. model integrates beautifully into my work with craniosacral clients. It has been a wonderful addition to my toolbox as a holistic practitioner. I see the most transformation in my clients who undergo the full coaching program (following the B.R.E.A.T.H.E model), in addition to receiving craniosacral therapy. Of course coaching can be used on its own, and the same with bodywork, but to marry the two in a supportive program has worked wonders in my clients' lives. There are endless ways to take this coaching model for grief out into the world!

This program has prepared me to feel confident working with others in their most painful times of their life -- something that I could not have said without the support, guidance and training from the Confident Grief Coach School. I feel proud to be a professional in the grief and loss space, and have no doubt about the profound impact that grief coaching has in our communities. We need more people doing this work -- whether they choose to use it with friends and family, or as a business, the B.R.E.A.T.H.E. model changes lives for the better.

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Cindy Hawthorne
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What guides me most in my coaching approach is that I want to see and hear my clients’ needs each time we meet. There are no judgements, no conclusions, only a safe and fluid space. The hardest part in getting unstuck is the first step! The client is the player in their story. They set the direction and goals. It is hard to learn to feel and trust yourself again when the world is full of so many opinions. Assisting them in achieving their needs and goals at their pace is so special. I was giving that gift, during varies times of grief in my life. Paying it forward in some small way feels right.

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Life has given me so many adventures! My adventures include personal grief, teaching, youth ministry, Mission trips, and goal setting with Physical Therapy clients. Helping People help themselves is why I became a Certified Grief Coach. Teens, Adults, and Professionals, sometimes get stuck with fear, doubt, or grief, which is where we can work together to achieve forward movement or acceptance. One of my gifts is the ability to hear and see
a client where they are. I journey with them as they make choices, find the courage to conquer fear, and set positive boundaries that facilitate the changes they desire to succeed.

All of that led me to start my company, Cindy’s Collective Coaching for You (CCC4U). The motto of my company are the four “C’s”:

  • Choice: One must choose to become unstuck and want something more.
  • Courage: When one makes even the smallest step, it requires courage and faith.
  • Chance: One gives one permission to take a chance or try a new way of seeing and doing things.
  • Change: Change is the goal that lets one see a bright light and a clear path to completeness.

Just send Cindy Hawthorne an email to set up a free 20-minute conversation about individual or group programs.

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Credentials

  1. Certified Grief Coach

  2. Advanced Certified Grief Coach

Reflections

Through all the chaos of life, you have a choice to participate so use it.

“Happiness depends on what happens, joy does not” - Oswald Chambers

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Cindy Upton
Alexandria,
Louisiana,
United States of America
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Cynthia (Cindy) Upton is a Certified Grief Coach and B.R.E.A.T.H.E. Program Facilitator trained through the Confident Grief Coach Program and credentialed through the International Coaching Federation as an Associate Certified Coach (ACC).

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Cindy evolved into the grief coaching journey through personal life-loss experiences. Having met grief at an early age through the death of a teenage brother, Cindy learned the pain of family grief. As an adult, she experienced the heartache of becoming an adult orphan, navigated the loss of family through divorce, and sought new purpose in response to the solitude of an empty nest.

Her heart intention became to partner with individuals and families adrift in grief but ready to re-orient to a new reality. The tools through the Confident Grief Coach Program help individuals learn to B.R.E.A.T.H.E and find a way to H.O.P.E. on their journey.

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Credentials

  1. Certified Grief Coach

  2. Advanced Certified Grief Coach

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Elizabeth Adels
Spokane Valley,
Washington,
United States of America
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I am a Grief Coach guiding daughters through the grief of losing their mothers. I have over 30 years experience in the personal growth industry healing my own deep griefs and losses.

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I lost my own dear mother in Sept 2014 and through that deep valley of sorrow and tears I gained insight into how this loss affects daughters left behind. I became internationally certified as a Life Coach with iPEC in 2013 and I recently added a certification as a Grief Coach with Healing Family Grief and Pat Sheveland. Since then it has been an honor to hold sacred space for clients to feel and heal.

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Credentials

  1. Certified Grief Coach

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Geneva Livingstone
Hamilton,
Ontario,
Canada
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Hello Beautiful Hearts and Souls... My name is Geneva Livingstone though I prefer Coach G. I am a different type of healing coach that specializes in helping women in leadership overcome the constant trigger alarms after having experienced the excruciating pain of deep loss.

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It is my hope to help you learn to trust yourself with your heart and new emotions so that you can not move on but instead lean in and LOVE FORWARD

Safety, Love & Harmony,

Coach G xoxo

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  1. Certified Grief Coach

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Gloria Smith
Wisconsin,
United States of America
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Hello, I'm Gloria Smith, a Certified Grief Coach, B.R.E.A.T.H.E Facilitator, and Chopra Coach. My personal journey through loss, including the passing of my parents, fuels my commitment to helping others move forward in their grief.

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I help people find balance and peace in their mind, body, and spirit. Using methods like meditation, mindfulness, and personalized lifestyle changes, I aim to enhance overall well-being and bring more joy into your life.

My mission is to empower individuals in their grief journey, promoting personal growth and helping them discover strength, resilience, and renewed purpose. Let's embark on this transformative journey together.

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Credentials

  1. Certified Grief Coach

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Jill Stephenson
Claremore,
Oklahoma,
United States of America
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Jill Stephenson has been walking a grief journey since her early teens. Learning to carry her grief as a bereaved sibling when she was a teenager and then later as a bereaved mother after the death of her one and only child, she uses her experiences to shine a light on life and not death. This knowledge and her deep faith set her apart in her ability to help others know that survival is 100% possible.

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Jill's son was actively serving in the military when he died. She has connected with and been a mentor to military families all over the country in multiple capacities, for many years.

Through her numerous life adversities, Jill has drawn on her strength and made it her mission to instill positivity and hope to all who experience hardships and difficulty moving forward. Jill’s ability to empathize and connect with great loss will draw you in and make you glad you found her.

Jill is a graduate of the B.R.E.A.T.H.E. program and has also completed the Advanced Grief Coach certification program and recently earned a Chaplaincy Certification from the American Chaplains Association.

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Credentials

  1. Certified Grief Coach

  2. Advanced Certified Grief Coach

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Karla Vaughan
Shakopee,
Minnesota,
United States of America
Learn more about Karla Vaughan
Karla was brought to grief coaching after experiencing the sudden, unexpected loss of her husband of 33 years. Her grief was compounded by the cumulative grief of having lost her newborn son 25 years earlier.

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Realizing she needed to heal herself she discovered Pat Sheveland's B.R.E.A.T.H.E. Coaching Model for Grief™ program which helped her not just move on from grieving her loved ones, but to move forward with them.

This experience lit a desire in Karla to help others who have experienced loss in their lives. She is a graduate of the B.R.E.A.T.H.E. program, the Advanced Grief Coach certification program and the Grief Educator Program with David Kessler.

Karla transforms her own life experiences into a beacon of hope for those facing loss and hardship. With deep empathy and an open heart, she sees you, meets you where you are, and helps you find the strength to move forward.

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Credentials

  1. Certified Grief Coach

  2. Advanced Certified Grief Coach