Ladybird Morgan

Ladybird is a registered nurse, social worker, and palliative care practitioner with over 20 years of experience supporting individuals through life’s transitions.

She specializes in end-of-life care and works as a counselor and educator with Mettle Health, a Learning Facilitator for the Synthesis Psychedelic Practitioner Training Program, and privately, as a biodynamic craniosacral practitioner. Ladybird also guides those exploring healing through entheogens. She co-founded The Humane Prison Hospice Project and has contributed to organizations like Doctors Without Borders, The Zen Hospice Project, and Insight Out’s Guiding Rage Into Power. She was also a co-investigator for a University of Washington study on psilocybin therapy for clinicians during the COVID-19 pandemic. Ladybird’s work is shaped by her dedication to contemplative practices and inner freedom. She currently lives in Maui.

Topics, Expertise and Experience

• Chronic and Terminal Illnesses

• Recent Diagnosis Navigation

• Cancers, All Types

• Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)

• Dementias

• Eating Disorders

• Medical Aid in Dying

• VSED: Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking

• Preparing for End of Life

• Caregiver Overwhelm

• Bereavement Due to a Death

• Anticipatory Grief

• Coping with Loss of Any Kind

• Education on Psychedelics

Types of Support

• Communicating Choices with Family and Friends

• Emotional Aspects of Living with Illness

• Reclaiming Control and Agency

• Identifying your voice and applying it to decision-making

• Relationship Audits

• Finding your way back to who you know you are

• Defining a new compass for life outside of illness

• Discussing shame, fear and confusion due to loss and illness

Who should work with Ladybird?

• Individuals living with an illness

• Individuals caring for another person

• Families navigating illness as a group

• Couples/Partners navigating illness

• Clinical providers in need of peer support