About Willow

About Willow

I walk beside people in some of the most deeply human times of life, through grief, change, and the thresholds of dying and inner transformation.

You may be here because something in your life is shifting, because you are facing death, tending grief, or feeling called toward a deeper relationship with life.

I serve in the community as a licensed psilocybin facilitator, death worker, certified death doula, and grief tender based in Eugene, Oregon.

When someone chooses psilocybin as a pathway, I companion them as a facilitator through preparation, their day of ceremony, and integration. My approach is non-directive and attuned to what is.

As a death worker and doula I offer non-medical, biopsychosocial and spiritual support to  individuals and families as they orient to end-of-life choices, including medical aid in dying (MAID) and voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED). As a death worker and death doula based in Eugene, Oregon, I attend planned deaths and offer steady, grounded presence you can feel and lean into, with care for what is close to your heart.

I’m here to honor your autonomy and support you in staying close to what feels true. Your voice is held with dignity. Your pace, your inner truths, and how you come to be with your experience are respected.

This work is steady, respectful, and deeply human, without pressure to be anywhere other than where you are.

As a healing artist, my work is informed by holistic embodied practices, wisdom and connection to an eclectic plethora of energy modalities, work as a former LMT and Yoga Teacher and incorporating sound, movement, breath, and silence into sessions when they are called for and may serve clients.

I work with the body, the senses, and the unseen aspects of experience, through sound, silence, breath, movement, or simply shared presence.

I approach this work with relational care, attuned to what may emerge and the intelligence within your experience.

In community, I gather with others around grief, aging, and mortality.

At Soul Fire Temple, I co-facilitate grief circles, and at the Campbell Community Center I host Death Cafés, Conversations About Age and Change, and grief education offerings.

I also offer community outreach and grief support in Eugene and surrounding areas.

For the past four years, I have participated in and helped hold one and two day community grief ceremonies in honor of the Dagara lineage and the teachings of Sobonfu Somé.

This has deepened my understanding of communal grief tending, ritual, and the importance of being witnessed.

My path into this work began early, with a natural draw toward grief and the transitions of life and death.

Through my own experiences, including long term recovery, navigating complex systems, relational rupture, and meeting intergenerational trauma directly, I’ve come to understand how layered and personal healing can be.

I care deeply about child safety and about creating relationships and spaces where people are treated with respect and dignity.

I value the art of community and social care, how we show up for one another, collaborate, and take part in building systems of care that are responsive, inclusive, and rooted in real relationship.

Over time, I’ve moved through experiences that have asked me to slow down, listen more closely, and grow into how I show up with others in spiritually mature and emotionally intellegent ways.

I hold a deep respect for ritual, for the wider ecological web of relations, and for ways of living that remember connection, with one another, with community, and with the more than human world.

For over a decade, I have worked as a Waldorf early childhood educator in outdoor and indoor Kindergartens.

Being with young children continues to shape how I listen and hold space, with patience, imagination, and respect for each cycle, phase and stage of life.

I volunteer with hospice and End of Life Choices Oregon, and continue to deepen my work through ongoing study.

You are welcome to work with me in the way that feels most aligned, through death companioing , licensed psilocybin facilitation, grief tending, community grief circles, healing art sessions, coaching sessions or a weaving of these paths together.

This work is for those who are ready to meet life, death, and change with honesty, care, and presence.

You are welcome here, exactly as you are.

Your unique, living map will reveal and shape itself through your story, your heart and your choices guiding the way. 

If you feel a resonance, you’re invited to reach out.

I am here to listen.

 My Background Includes

• Founder of Soul Fire Temple
• Licensed Psilocybin Facilitator in the State of Oregon #FL-D83A4719
• Psilocybin Facilitation at Ripple Journeywork in Eugene,OR. Please visit www.ripplejourneywork.com
• Student at The School of Thanatology with The Art of Dying Institute
• Body-Oriented Coaching, The Somatic School
• Nature-Based Integration Coaching through Earth-Based Institute
• Subtle Winds Psilocybin Facilitator Program, Eugene, Oregon
• Peaceful Presence Project Death Doula Training
• End of Life Psychedelic Care Death Doula Training
•  Soul Passages Soul Doula Training
• Community Grief Ceremony Assistant and Co-Facilitator
• Volunteer with End Of Life Choices Oregon
• Volunteer with Brighton Hospice
• Waldorf Early Childhood teacher and assistant roles (indoor and outdoor home-based and school programs)
• Mother of Two
• Singer and song weaver of soul medicine songs
• Lead vocalist, songweaver and Creatrix of StarryRootz (albums available at starryrootz.bandcamp.com)
• Ecstatic Dance and Nature Enthusiast
• Ritualist
• Certified Kundalini Yoga Teacher
• Graduate of The Barbara Brennan School of Healing
• Graduate of Educating Hands School of Massage