Valerie Nicholas
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My professional “calling” is to create End of Life Tributes/ Celebrations for the dying. Also known as “Living Funerals”. Living funerals offer a unique opportunity for not only the guest of honor to share life stories, but for others to share stories, thoughts, quotes, poems about how the guest of honor has impacted their life. Tributes can be intimate or large and held at any type of venue.
I interview the guest of honor and any family/ friends they desire to be present. I compile my notes into a professionally crafted ceremony to include wonderful stories, poems, quotes, music, etc. The guest of honor has the final approval of the celebration. I then officiate the celebration and provide a beautiful ceremony keepsake.
Other examples of legacy projects include: audio/ video interviews, letters, memory boxes/books, mementos, seasonal: holidays, ornaments, memorial gardens, anniversaries etc.
I am also a member of Rocky Mountain Life-Cycle Celebrants, a collective of celebrants certified by the Celebrant Foundation & Institute.
My services include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Advance Care Planning
- Celebrations of Life
- Funerals
- Grief and Bereavement
- Guided Meditation
- Home Funerals
- Legacy Projects
- Life Review
- Living Funerals
- Memorial Services
- Other: Essential Oils
- Reiki/Energy Work
- Spiritual Guidance
- Support for Caregiver
- Vigil Planning
Education & Training:
- Certified Life-Cycle Celebrant, Memorial Celebrant, Healing & Transitions Celebrant (Celebrant Foundation & Institute)
- Certified Advanced Care Planning Guide (University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus/ Denver Hospice)
- Trained End-of-Life Doula (INELDA)
- Hospice Volunteer (Denver Hospice)
- Neighbor to Neighbor Volunteer (Senior Resource Center)
- Certified Second Degree Reiki Practitioner (Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki, S.W. Denver Reiki)
- Certified Essential Oil Coach (AADP)
- Spiritual Practitioner Student (Centers for Spiritual Living)
- Bachelor’s Degree: Exercise Science/ Gerontology (Metropolitan State University in Denver)
Latest Posts
Member Spotlight – Valerie Nicholas 
Winter 2021
Valerie has always had an affinity for working with older adults, and she attributes this calling to her loving and influential grandparents. Valerie has been a life-long professional working with older adults and has devoted herself to end-of-life care as a hospice volunteer, life-cycle celebrant, and end-of-life doula.
Industry Spotlight – Palliative care, hospice care and end-of-life doulas Winter 2021
The What, When, & Why of supportive care at the end of life, & how end-of-life doulas can help.
Learn about some of the differences between palliative care, hospice care, and the services of end-of-life doulas.
Metro Denver and the Surrounding Area Colorado 80033 United States