Meet Katrina
End-of-Life Coach • BScN • RN • Founder of Calm Endings
Hi, I’m Katrina.
If you’ve found your way here, there is a good chance life feels heavier than it did before. Maybe someone you love is seriously ill. Maybe you are trying to understand what comes next while still balancing work, children, family, and everything else life continues to ask of you.
Or maybe you are facing your own diagnosis and simply want your voice, your wishes, and the way you live this chapter to matter.
Wherever you are, you are welcome here.
Why This Work Matters to Me
End-of-life care has always felt deeply meaningful to me.
Throughout my career, I have been invited into some of the most vulnerable moments of people’s lives — moments filled with fear and uncertainty, but also extraordinary love, honesty, connection, and peace.
I have also stood at the bedside of people I love as they died. Those experiences changed the way I see both life and death.
They taught me that while we cannot control everything about how life ends, we can prepare. We can have the conversations that matter. We can make wishes known. We can surround someone with the people, memories, rituals, and love that mean the most to them.
And when families understand what is happening, fear can begin to make room for presence.
Experience You Can Lean On
I hold a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and bring 14+ years of experience across hospice, acute care, neurosurgery, surgical care, care coordination, and other clinical settings.
I have cared for people through serious illness, complicated medical decisions, changing care needs, and the final stages of life.
But what stayed with me most was often what happened outside the medical tasks.
The daughter trying to understand what the doctor really meant.
The spouse terrified of making the wrong decision.
The family wondering what to expect next.
The caregiver carrying far more than anyone realized.
Those are the spaces where people often need more time, more explanation, and someone to help them put the pieces together.
My Approach
There is no single right way to move through serious illness or the end of life.
Every person brings a different story, family, culture, faith, spirituality, relationship, and set of wishes into this experience.
So I meet you where you are.
Some families need help understanding the medical language and knowing what questions to ask. Others need help talking about wishes, organizing caregiving, creating legacy projects, preparing children, exploring spirituality, or understanding what the final days may look like.
We begin with what matters to you.
My hope is never to tell you what your ending should look like.
It is to help you create one that feels true to the person living it.
A Little More About Me
Outside of Calm Endings, I’m a mother, wife, daughter, granddaughter, traveler, and someone who believes deeply in connection.
I believe in slowing down enough to notice the people we love. In laughter, music, stories, traditions, and ordinary moments that somehow become the ones we remember most.
I also believe that death deserves the same tenderness and intention we so naturally give to birth.
This work is deeply personal to me because life is deeply personal.
And when time becomes precious, I want families to spend less of it lost in fear and confusion — and more of it loving one another.
You Don’t Have to Navigate This Alone
You do not need to know all the right questions yet.
You do not need to have everything figured out.
You simply need somewhere to begin.
If you or someone you love is navigating serious illness, caregiving, or end-of-life decisions, I would be honored to walk beside you.
