Connect with Your Inner Wisdom

Ann Walsvik, MDiv

Ann is a gentle healing listener with a spiritually grounded presence. She is gifted at creating a warm, welcome space to explore the complexities of one’s grief with curiosity, compassion and hope.

Ann has experience as a Spiritual & Grief Counselor in hospice, working with bereaved in individual sessions and as a facilitator of grief support groups.  She is certified as a Grief Support Companion through the program: Honoring Grief, Intending to Heal.

Susan Shands

Susan Shands, MDiv, (she/her) is an experienced grief worker, with over a decade spent working in hospice and healthcare settings as a chaplain and grief counselor. She brings a supportive, intuitive presence to facilitating grief groups, providing encouragement and validation while also gently challenging grievers to welcome the wisdom, softening, and transformation that grief gifts to us. With a deep awareness of the social dynamics of grief, Susan invites group participants to draw on the insight of ancestors, peers, nature, and self to discover healing through community.