V Cooper MA, M.Ed., GC-C

(she/they)

My background as an award-winning storyteller and master's-level educator informs my flexible, creative, empathetic approach to Grief Work Support. I bear witness to your grief, act as a steward as you learn to move through your new experience, and provide resources for individuals, groups, and organizations anticipating, confronting, sharing, and processing a vast array of challenges.

Certification programs in grief counseling and end of life care broadened, deepened, and demystified the understandings of grief that I gleaned from years of caregiving and hospice work, but it is my own lived experiences navigating bereavement without resources aligned with my identity, beliefs, and values that uniquely position me to support others through loss and transition.

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I am a queer, neurodivergent, chronically ill, GenX, Ashkenazi Jewish femme living on Lenape land, but I can work with people wherever they may be. I am a single, child-free orphan and a survivor of domestic and sexual violence.

No loss or change is frivolous if it is affecting you.

No subject is taboo.

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I enjoy gardening, knitting, reading, petting dogs, and learning ASL.

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I am not a licensed therapist.

I do not diagnose or prescribe.

I am not a mandated reporter.