Grief Coaching

I offer compassionate and heartheld grief coaching services for individuals, organizations, and communities touched by loss. Whether you're an individual seeking solace, an organization supporting grieving employees, or a community needing tools for healing, I bring both professional expertise and a deep personal understanding to guide you. Through supportive self-paced courses and programs, facilitated group sessions, 1:1 grief coaching, insightful workshops, or tailored training, we can work together to find pathways through the pain, towards healing, and ultimately, towards finding ways to live love forward.

I specialize in grief programs for parents. I help bereaved parents navigate grief, without guilt or fear of judgment, so that they can release self-blame and love forward with purpose and meaning after child loss. Grief doesn’t have an expiration date and neither does love. At Chingona Consulting, I guide parents through the lifelong journey of loss. This is for any parent who has lost a child, at any age, in any season of life.

I offer bereaved parents by a bereaved parent:

  • Self-paced grief courses and program.

  • A private online community of support and encouragement

  • Monthly online facilitated support groups

  • Group or 1:1 coaching programs

  • Customized retreats for bereaved parents and families

You are not alone. Healing is possible and your bond is forever. Explore the HeartHeld Method™ courses and programs I created to help bereaved parents navigate grief with compassion, purpose, and connection.

The HeartHeld Method™

Your Grief, Your Journey Coaching for Bereaved Parents

Losing a child shatters every sense of normal. As a mother who has walks this unimaginable path, I know the ache that never fully leaves, the way grief feels like wandering through a dense, endless fog. I offer grief courses and programs that honor both the depth of your loss and the possibility of gentle healing.

My Heart-Centered Approach

Grief is not something to “fix.” It’s a lifelong relationship with love and memory. I combine lived experience of a bereaved parent and professional training to create a safe, compassionate space where you can share, breathe, and begin to re-weave your life with my HeartHeld Method™. Together we focus on:

  • Presence & Validation –You are heard without judgment. Your story matters. Your child’s story matters.

  • Meaning MakingExplore rituals, practices, and personal narratives that honor your child and your continuing bond.

  • Tools for Daily LivingGentle strategies to navigate the “new normal”, triggers, anniversaries, and everyday moments.

  • Integration, Not Closure –Finding ways to live with love and remembrance, while carrying your child forward in your heart.

    “There is hope, even in the darkest times. You do not have to walk this road alone.”

    Dr. Maureen Rubalcaba- Bereaved Parent, Certified Grief Coach‍ ‍

Explore My HeartHeld Method™ Courses

STILL WITH ME Discover the HeartHeld Method™

A grief course for bereaved parents to begin healing without guilt or judgement so you can release self-blame and love forward while rediscovering your purpose and meaning in life after loss.

The HeartHeld Method™ Courses

The Heart Held Method™

Course 1: Heal Without Letting Go

Course 2: The Healing Bridge Between Grief & Life

Course 3: Reclaim Life After Loss

The HeartHeld Method™ Program

After the Goodbye™

Rebuild Life with Love & Meaning After Child Loss Using the HeartHeld Method™

Book cover titled "Hopeful Journey Healing Path" by Maureen C. Rubalcaba, Ph.D., featuring a sunset with flying birds and a background of soft pastel colors.

Hopeful Journey, Healing Path

As a bereaved parent and certified grief coach, I help parents navigate their grief and new normal without guilt or judgment so they can release self-blame, rediscover their purpose, and keep their child’s love forever present in their hearts.

My HeartHeld Method™ and this free guide, Hopeful Journey, Healing Path, opens a non-judgmental journey to help bereaved parents learn to live with grief rather than against it. You can reclaim your energy, honor your emotions, and embracing both sorrow and joy as sacred expressions of love. Get my Hopeful Journey, Healing Path guide today. You are not alone.