Member Profile

My name is Merridith Crowe. I’m a trauma-informed life coach, end of life coach, and alternative therapist. I’m trained in various modalities including the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model — a non-pathologizing approach that views our inner conflicts not as disorders, but as parts worthy of understanding.

When my clients grapple with grief, identity, meaning, or mortality, I meet them in the trenches, offering deeply connected support that is spacious, possibility-focused, non-judgmental, and free from diagnosis. My practice often feels like therapy—reflective, emotionally attuned—while remaining firmly rooted in the pillars of coaching.

I believe that life and death are sisters, growth is possible even into death, grief accompanies all change, and pain can fuel positive transformation.

I help clients facing many challenges including, but not limited to:

- Addressing trauma, PTSD, and C-PTSD
- Healing from childhood or adult abuse/neglect
-Overcoming and repairing primary relationship difficulties
-Strengthening healthy communication and conflict management
-Healing from relationship loss or betrayal
-Contemplating, preparing for, and/or moving through divorce/uncoupling
-Initiating or coping with parent or child estrangement
-Preparing for and navigating the death and dying process
-Coping with grief and finding meaning after loss
-Addressing relationship attachment styles and establishing healthy polarity
-Developing healthy parenting and coparenting strategies and habits
-Pursuing strategic life planning and managing significant change

I hold certificates with the Internal Family Systems Institute and the International End of Life Doula Association (see FAQs for understanding re: doulas). Further, I have training in relationship polarity, attunement, appreciative inquiry, trauma-informed care, crisis communication and management, diversity, equity, inclusion, and more. I’m also an active hospice companionship and vigil volunteer.

Before becoming a coach, I served 20+ years in human service nonprofits, including 3+ years as a COO and 6+ years as a founding CEO. Prior to joining the nonprofit field, I worked as an adjunct professor and residence life professional.

My practice is inclusive, interfaith (atheists, agnostics, humanists, etc. welcome, too), sex-positive, and consent driven.