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Justine is a death-positive innovator with over a decade of experience in end-of-life education and care. Her work is grounded in the belief that everyone deserves choice, dignity, and agency at the end of life. She partners with her clients to reflect on why we’re here, prepare for a time when we won’t be, and to live fully to the end.
She believes that life’s transitions are profound moments to be acknowledged—and should be honoured as such. Rites of Passage imbue significant life events and transitions with meaning, purpose, and symbolism. Radical life transformations can turn your world upside down. They are also full of potential: opportunities to reconnect with yourself and rediscover who you are, through the process of uncovering what matters most.
At the heart of her practice is a mission to shift the cultural narrative around death—encouraging open dialogue, early planning, and wholehearted engagement with dying. By softening emotional barriers and challenging societal stigma, Justine helps create more meaningful, empowered experiences through illness, caregiving, grief, and loss.
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Justine is a reverent lover of awe; finding inspiration in the grandeur of nature, the intricacies of small daily rituals and the complexities of human experience. In her spare time, she enjoys being in community around the fire, exploring unmapped hot springs and rambling through the high desert.
Justine arrived at death work; professionally via western medicine (Bach. Applied Science, Physiotherapy, University of Sydney) and her work in palliative care with the Scared Heart Hospice, Darlinghurst. Subsequently, she trained as a Death Doula with Alua Arthur (Going with Grace), Zenith Virago (The Natural Death Care Centre) and Dr Sarah Kerr (The Centre for Sacred Deathcare).
Death has informed her on a personal level. Emotionally, as she lived the slow and premature demise of her father; spiritually, through her commitment to Buddhism. And more recently, through her lived experience of her own mortality as it pertains to her responsibilities as a single mother by choice.
As a qualified psychedelic-assisted therapy guide , Justine believes that psycho-spiritual care (including psychedelic-assisted therapy) is crucial to supporting the entirety of the human experience, especially during phases of transition, illness, grief, and existential distress at end of life.
