Our team
Get to know our team of skilled, professional and compassionate hosts who you’ll see and meet in The Grief Gang membership.
Amber Jeffrey
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Hello! I’m Amber, the creator and founder of The Grief Gang. I’m sorry you have to be here but know you’re in good company!
I’m plastered all over this website so I won’t take up too much of your time here but you’ll probably see me a lot in this membership in support groups and workshops. I look forward to meeting you (and seeing some of you again!)
I am a grief facilitator and community leader. My work, knowledge, passion and dedication over the past 6 years with Grief Gang has grown through the copious amount of hours I have spent on the front line with individuals in this community and their grief. This has been through modalities such as social media, workshops both online and in person, group circles and 1:1 mentoring.
I’ve sat with over 300+ grieving hearts since starting the mentoring arm of TGG in 2023 and it’s lead me to starting this membership.
I wanted to build a trusted home for the many, not just the few. To bring education, creativity and play to the conversation of grief. We’ll have fun here, lots of it- whilst also talking about the tough stuff. Both can co-exist!
Welcome to the insides of my brain and heart. I hope you like it here! I’m beyond excited to what we’ll cultivate and create here as a community x
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You’ll find me in most support groups and workshops!
danielle westcarr-jourdan
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I am an MBACP Registered Integrative Counsellor & Therapist, Wellbeing Facilitator, and
Eco-Therapist with over a decade of experience supporting children, young people, and adults across the NHS, higher education, corporate, and charity sectors. My work has taken me from youth-focused organisations like The Mix and Place2Be, to community-based groups such as the Black Wellbeing Collective, and into corporate and educational settings including That Day Ltd, Goldman Sachs, and Sir George Monoux College. These varied experiences shaped my belief in accessible, community-rooted support and ultimately led me to create Simple Therapy, a non-profit organisation providing low-cost and free mental health and wellbeing spaces that foster connection, combat loneliness, and invite people to explore grief and life offline.
My clinical experience spans anxiety, racial identity and racial trauma, childhood trauma, grief and loss, and relational therapy. Whether I’m counselling 1:1, facilitating workshops, or hosting therapy-led and grief walks in nature, I bring a grounded, warm, and thoughtful approach to every space I hold.
I come to grief circles not only as a therapist but as a full-time griever. I lost my sister, Kennedi, in April 2024 to domestic violence, an experience that reshaped my understanding of grief despite having spent years supporting others through loss. My own bereavement has given me a new lens: one that honours the complexity and messiness of grief. My loss has deepened my belief in community, honesty, and shared humanity, and I am committed to supporting others as they honour their people and the parts of themselves that grief changes.
Outside my professional world, I am a foodie, an outdoors lover, a loud-music listener, a traveller who has explored 26 countries (with Thailand at the top of the list), and forever a big sister to Kennedi.
In every grief circle, I aim to create an inviting, grounded, and gently uplifting space where people feel seen, safe, and supported, exactly as they are. I look forward to griefing it out together with you.
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You’ll see Danielle in various support groups and particularly in sibling loss groups.
Elena miller
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Hey Grief Gang, I’m Elena.
I’m a Psychotherapist and Counsellor (UKCP accredited) with a specialism in bereavement and grief support. I trained in an integrative therapy model, underpinned by the arts and creativity which means I blend a range of approaches/techniques and work in a relational, holistic way. My clinical experience includes working with complex trauma, childhood/young adult bereavement, grief, loss and attachment/relationship difficulties. As a therapist, I strongly believe in the healing power of relationship and community and the potential that all people have to transform their pain given the right support.
My personal experience with bereavement began with the shock death of my dad when I was age 5. I spent my childhood without any tools or specialist support to know how to process my loss. In my 20s I felt compelled to explore my grief and loss in a way that wasn’t available to me as a child which revealed just how complicated and layered grief can be. Since I have experienced further losses in adulthood, I’ve deepened my understanding of how grief shapes us and the challenges that come with integrating loss into our current lives. Ultimately, due to my early life experiences, my career as a therapist was destined to happen and I feel honoured to be trusted by people in the depths of their grief and pain. My own experience has given me the passion to gently witness, contain and connect with people when they feel at their most vulnerable.
When I’m not working as a therapist or in the grief community, you’ll find me watching football (Arsenal fan here), lifting (heavy!) weights, dancing my heart out to Beyoncé or any old school music and finding the best spot for a spicy margarita! I’m a true believer in finding your authentic form of expression!
I look forward to meeting you in a grief circle soon and holding you and the loved ones you’ve lost with warmth, care and compassion.
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You’ll see Elena in various support groups and workshops across the membership.
aurena Green
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Aurena is a licensed clinical mental health counsellor and registered yoga teacher.
She specialises in working with trauma and grief using brain- and body-based modalities to support individuals in remembering their wholeness. Aurena is a co-author of the Planet Grief card deck and is trained in EMDR, Internal Family Systems, Brainspotting, and sensorimotor therapy.
She takes a mindful and spirit-centered approach to her work with clients and community. More than this, she is a fellow griever and whole-hearted human who finds her deepest sense of meaning and connectedness when with others in the raw terrain of loss.
Find out more about Aurena here.
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You’ll see Aurena in support groups for mother loss, parent loss and future workshops.
Tanya wilkinson
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Tanya is a Grief & Life Transitions Coach and the podcast host of Death on the Daily. She supports high functioning, heart led humans to navigate grief, loss, difficult change and endings with care, connection, and clarity.
Drawing from her lived experience as a bereaved mother to her daughter Ngākau Raiona (lioness heart in her husband’s Māori language) who died 5 months into pregnancy. Plus having lost her daughter and three grandparents in the space of 3 years. Tanya has learnt the power of presence, grace and compassion in meeting ourself exactly where we are in grief. Plus the gifts when we are present with grief in the awareness it can bring to inform our forwards path.
Tanya’s own career path has been transformed due to grief. The grief of an earlier misscarriage the catalyst for her leaving her role as a global Head of Marketing for Formula 1 in 2021 to follow her heart and retrain as a coach. After grief shone a spotlight on her true values, purpose and what’s most important in life.
Tanya helps people tend to their grief with mindful presence and compassion. Making space for grief in any busy life. From this place, gently listening to all parts of you including the griefy bits that feel difficult to hold, uncovering clarity on what truly matters (and what doesn’t), discovering opportunities for growth through grief, and building a renewed sense of self.
Tanya’s style is warm, compassionate and deeply present. Meeting you holistically as an interconnected being - in body, mind, emotions and spirit. With a strong emphasis on nervous system regulation interwoven with open conversation about our grief.
Find out more about Tanya here.
DOTD YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@deathonthedaily
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You’ll see Tanya in various support groups and future workshops.
Hayley Collis
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I'm Hayley, a Therapeutic Counsellor, Grief Tender, and Breathwork Coach. I support people through grief and loss in 1:1 therapy sessions and also hold grief tending circles both in person and online.
My own relationship with grief began when I lost my Mum suddenly in 2013, when I was 24. That experience of feeling lost, isolated, and like the support around me didn't quite meet what I needed, is what led me to become a Counsellor. I wanted to offer others the tools, understanding and spaces I wished I'd had during those early days of grief.
Through the losses that followed, I realised that grief extends far beyond bereavement – it shows up in all the ways we navigate change, loss of identity, and life transitions that leave us feeling untethered. My search in finding the support I needed led me through therapy, reading books, listening to podcasts (Hello Amber & The Grief Gang!), spiritual practices like meditation and breathwork, and eventually to grief tending, where I found what had been missing: community. Being witnessed and held by others who truly 'get it' changed everything for me.
When I lost my Dad in 2023 at 34, becoming an 'Adult Orphan' deepened my understanding of grief in ways I couldn't have imagined. It reinforced that grief is deeply woven into the fabric of life, and further ignited my passion to support others navigating what can be such a lonely journey – especially in a culture that still struggles to talk about grief openly.
It's both my Mum and Dad that I bring with me to the circles I hold. Their love, their memories, and the ongoing relationship I continue to nurture with them both. Like many others who do this work, I'm here because of them, which feels bittersweet.
My Approach
The spaces I create are warm, grounded and rooted in the belief that your grief is welcome exactly as it is. You won't need to apologise for your tears or worry about being 'too much'. I weave together gentle sharing, simple rituals, and embodiment practices (like breathwork and meditation) to help us connect more deeply with our grief and with each other.
I truly believe in the power of grief in community – there's something profound about being held by others who understand, without needing to explain yourself. These spaces can honour both the sorrow and the love that lives within us, and my hope is simply to hold the container with care and compassion while we tend to our grief together.
I look forward to meeting you in circle soon.
With love,
Hayley
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You’ll see Hayley in various support groups, particularly in Parent Loss (both) and other parental loss circles.