about
Justine is a ritualist, death doula and qualified psychedelic assisted therapy guide.
She brings innate curiosity, generous listening and warm compassion to her work at life’s tender thresholds. She stands rock solid, safely holding us through liminal spaces, as we traverse along the wild edges.
She believes that life’s transitions are profound moments to be acknowledged, and therefore should be honored as such. Rites of Passage imbue signifiant life events and transitions with meaning, purpose, and symbolism.
Radical life transformations can turn your world upside down. They are also full of potential to help you reconnect with and rediscover who you are, through process of uncovering what matters most.
bio
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 (Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Mind Medicine Australia), 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.
