Whether you need support for your inner core or are looking to care for your outer world, you, your grief, and your stories will be heard and honored.
FINANCIAL EQUITY & INVESTMENT
Grief care accessibility is community care in action
Story Safe uses a self-selected sliding scale based on your lived experience and financial capacity. You receive the exact same level of dedicated, heart-centered care regardless of the tier you choose.
Supported Rate
- For clients navigating financial hardship, systemic barriers, or fixed incomes
Sustaining Rate
- For those with stable housing, steady income, and financial security
Supporting Rate
- For those with financial abundance who wish to directly subsidize care for others
Donate to Story Safe
Community care relies on collective resource-sharing. If you would like to support this work outside of a client relationship—or pay it forward after receiving coaching—donations are welcome at any time.
Your contribution directly funds reduced-rate coaching, community workshops, and accessible grief resources.
offerings & collective care
Individual Grief Coaching
Individual coaching provides a dedicated, highly personalized space to navigate the complex terrain of your loss without performance, judgment, or urgency. Using a Personalized Pathway (an open-ended, organic series tailored to your evolving rhythm and immediate needs) or the B.R.E.A.T.H.E. Program (a structured, 10-week narrative framework), sessions offer a heart-centered container for you to be held.
What We'll Do Together
Give Voice to Unspoken Loss: Unearth the language needed to articulate what feels unnameable
Honor Sacred Memories: Preserve and dignify your stories with your loved one in your ongoing narrative
Navigate Complexities: Hold space for mixed emotions, ambiguous relationships, and unspoken truths without comparative grief
Build Integration: Reconnect with your innate wisdom to discover meaningful ways to move alongside your grief in your new life-after
One-on-One Session Cost
A 90-minute session utilizing narrative reflection, storytelling tools, and voice/text support between sessions
• Supported: $115
• Sustaining: $175
• Supporting: $235
These are offered as single or continuous sessions
Who It's For
• Individuals carrying ambiguous, complex, or disenfranchised loss and seeking one-on-one support
• Anyone who feels their grief is unacknowledged by traditional frameworks or societal expectations
What's Included
Connection Call: A no-expectation conversation to ensure our alignment and discuss your needs
One-on-One Sessions: Dedicated 90-minute virtual or in-person sessions tailored to your pace and comfort
Integrative Reflection: Custom prompts, narrative tools, and intentional practices between sessions
The B.R.E.A.T.H.E. Program Cost
90-minute sessions includes Onboarding, 8 Curriculum Weeks, Integration & Transition Week, custom weekly reflection prompts, and voice/text support between sessions
• Supported: $750 or $75/week
• Sustaining: $1,150 or $115/ week
• Supporting: $1,550 or $155/week
Flexible bi-weekly or monthly payment plans are available across all three tiers
Sibling Storytelling Series
Though up to 85% of people have a sibling, sibling grief remains uniquely underrepresented—frequently overshadowed or relegated to the margins. The Sibling Storytelling Series is collective care acknowledging sibling loss as a shared experience rather than a private wound. As an opening into collective memory, meaning-making, and connection with our siblings, we honor the complex realities of siblingship in all its forms.
What's Included
Single Sunday Workshops: Held on the 4th Sunday of the month, these sessions offer regular touchpoints to write and share in a supportive space
Virtual Multi-Week Series: A structured, multi-week journey held each November during Worldwide Bereaved Siblings Month to bring together grievers across the world
In-Person Gatherings: Local workshops and gatherings in partnership with The Grief House in Portland, OR
Sibling Storytelling Sessions Cost
In collaboration with The Grief House, these sessions are held on the 4th Sunday of the month, these sessions offer regular touchpoints to write and share in a supportive space
• Together: $0
• Community: $10
• Pay It Forward: $15
The Grief House uses a different naming style for ticket prices but the care is the same
Who It's For
• Bereaved siblings surviving loss through estrangement, disconnection, distance, and death
• Siblings who long for dedicated spaces to speak about their sibling relationships without needing to shrink their experiences
The Intention
To dignify, amplify, and normalize sibling loss as a shared experience rather than a private wound and invite connection with our siblings that is otherwise inaccessible now or maybe ever
Companies & Organizations
Grief does not stay at home when we transition into our workplaces. Yet workplace cultures often struggle to support employees navigating significant loss, leading to burnout, isolation, and unaddressed trauma. In collaboration with organizations, Story Safe facilitates workshops that foster empathetic environments that recognize human complexity and honor personhood beyond titles.
What's Included
Custom Interactive Workshops: Experiential sessions on grief integration, narrative reflection, and navigating disenfranchised loss in community
Grief Literacy & Culture Consulting: Guidance on designing empathetic bereavement policies, manager toolkits, and compassionate response plans
Storytelling Facilitation: Guided group reflection to build trust, empathy, and collective care across teams
Custom Proposals
Organizational partnerships and custom workshops are scoped based on team size, format, and duration.
Custom proposals and sliding scale rates for non-profits are available upon inquiry.
Who It's For
• Companies, non-profits, creative teams, and educational institutions looking to deepen their grief literacy and trauma-informed practices
• Leadership teams seeking compassionate, structured support for their communities during or after organizational loss or crisis
The Intention
Online Workshops: Custom-designed virtual sessions tailored specifically to your group’s culture, context, and current needs
In-Person: Available locally across the Portland, OR metro area; I’m also available for non-local travel when hosted and supported with travel accommodations by host organization
Frequently Asked Questions
Currently, health insurance plans don't cover grief coaching. To support financial accessibility, Story Safe offers self-selected sliding scale tiers, flexible payment plans, and itemized receipts if you wish to check with your Flexible Spending Account (FSA) or Health Savings Account (HSA) provider for potential reimbursement.
You know your financial landscape best, and Story Safe isn’t asking for proof of income, verification, or explanation. During your post-Connection Call intake form, you’ll select the rate (Supported, Sustaining, or Supporting) that aligns with your lived experience. Every client receives the exact same dedicated care regardless of the tier chosen.
Grief coaching is a collaborative, forward-moving relationship focused on honoring your story, processing loss through narrative tools, and discovering meaningful ways to move alongside your grief in your life-after. Grief coaching is non-clinical and doesn’t diagnose or treat mental health disorders.
If you’re navigating deep trauma, active clinical depression, or need psychiatric support, therapy may be the best fit (or, grief coaching can complement your existing therapy). If you’re unsure, you’re encouraged to book a Connection Call and see if our alignment feels right for you right now.
There’s no prerequisite state of readiness. You don’t need to have your story organized, and you’re invited to share only what you feel safe sharing. We’ll move at your pace—whether that means exploring a single memory or simply making space where you don't have to pretend you're okay.
Yes, the Sibling Storytelling Series honors sibling loss in all its forms—including loss through estrangement, distance, disconnection, death, and beyond. Your experience as a sibling is valid and welcome here.
The Connection Call is a no-pressure conversation for us to meet, discuss what brings you to grief coaching, and explore which offering feels most supportive. There’s nothing to prepare and no obligation to become a client—just space to share your story and experience our alignment.
Individual coaching and group workshops are primarily held virtually via secure video or phone links, making them accessible wherever you are. Local in-person gatherings and organizational workshops are also available in the Portland, OR, and Vancouver, WA areas.
SAFETY & CRISIS SUPPORT DISCLAIMER
Story Safe Grief Coaching is a non-clinical coaching service and is not a substitute for professional therapy, counseling, or emergency crisis care. If you or someone you know is experiencing acute distress, mental health crisis, or thoughts of self-harm, please reach out for immediate, 24/7 support:
- Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call or text 988 (US & Canada)
- Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741
- International Support: Please contact your local emergency services or visit findahelpline.com