Welcome!
(and thank you for your curiosity)

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. 

How I Support You

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

  • 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

My Approach to Coaching

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  • Like a traditional therapist, I’m formally trained and credentialed to safely navigate grief, trauma, and complex emotions. Furthermore, my practice is grounded in evidence-informed methods that integrate psychology, behavioral science and therapeutic frameworks. My stigma-free approach is fully tailored to your desired pace, personality, and story.

    Our sessions will be a reflective space, where ethical boundaries are maintained and radical openness is encouraged. Generally, traditional therapists and life coaches focus on exploration of the past or exclusively on career-related objectives. As a coach and alternative therapist, I offer a past and future-focused, whole-life perspective—addressing relationships, work, identity, spirituality and purpose as interconnected pieces of the puzzle. In our sessions, I’ll explore your present concerns, help you set goals, track your progress, and offer practical solutions for long-term, sustainable transformation. Further, my support is wrap around with real-time continuity support between sessions.

  • To create a strong plan for the future, I help you truly get to know yourself by examining, understanding, and sometimes, rethinking key past experiences. Together, we’ll identify deeply rooted ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that block you from achieving your goals. By incorporating both past and present, my practice makes it possible for clients to build a more holistic plan for the future.

    Further, in between sessions, I provide you with ad hoc real time support, accountability prompts, and informal workshopping to help expedite and sustain desired behavioral change.

  • As your end of life coach, I provide emotional, spiritual, and practical support to those facing terminal illness or decline, their loved ones and caretakers, and people wishing to be proactive about end of life planning. During the active dying process, I am able to facilitate conversations with family, provide non-medical guidance, or offer bedside vigil services.

    Whether you’re seeking a coach to assist with end of life planning, or someone to serve as a reliable, compassionate companion in preparation for and during passing, my approach to end of life care is fully customizable to your unique journey.

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

Lastly, if your needs ever exceed my expertise, I promise to let you know and provide information about additional or alternative support. In short, your wellbeing will always be my top priority.

My Experience

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, hospice companionship and bedside vigil support, and more. 

  • 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. I also hold a master’s degree in literature, which, if nothing else, exemplifies my commitment to understanding diverse human experiences, exploring new and different ways of thinking, and wide use of metaphor!

“A good coach will help guide you in your journey and challenge you to bring your full potential. A great coach, like Merridith, will help you realize the amazing self you did not even know was possible.

Merridith often sees what you cannot yet see.  She will gently challenge you to realize your full potential while striking the necessary balance of compassion and push – meeting you where you are and offering you the level of encouragement you need to move forward.”

—Renee

I’m a human just like you. 

My clients often call me MC or Merr. Some affectionately refer to me as the best kick in the pants they ever paid for, and some even call me the compassionate “big sister” and mentor they’ve always needed. All acknowledge my curiosity, authenticity, vulnerability, and commitment to walking the talk.

Accordingly, I strive to be transparent about my personal journey in all its agony and ecstasy.

    • I am a proud cycle of abuse breaking mother to a wonderful ‘tween, canine fur baby, and 50+ houseplants

    • Each day, I am grateful to contribute to a long-term romantic partnership in a blended family

    • I have done my own hard work to heal from abuse(s), burnout, and loss of self

    • I am no stranger to change or what it takes to begin anew

    • I am twice divorced and at least twice as wise

    • I was a single mom for close to a decade, and I still coparent

    • I know familial estrangement

    • I was a military brat, moved cities 12 times, attended 11 schools before high school graduation, and lived in 7 different states and abroad

    • I am passionate about lifelong learning and exploring best practices in relationships, psychology, spirituality, health, wellness, end of life care, and more

    • I will never ask my clients to do something I would not do or have not done myself

    • I have an ever-expanding hobby set including travel, spontaneous dance parties, great film and music, reading, cooking, hiking, scuba diving, and yoga

    All this said, our work together will truly be about you and your unique journey.  Thanks for reading!

Schedule Your Discovery Call Today!

During our 30 minute discovery call, we’ll discuss your goals for life coaching or end of life coaching, and determine whether my services are for you. We’ll also review pricing, packages, and whether a custom rate is most appropriate for your needs.

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