Nicki Cowan

Three women outdoors, one wearing colorful dress with floral patterns and a beige jacket, holding glasses. Another holds a blue kite. Trees in background.

Ritualist | Grief Tender | Death Doula | Story Listener | Queer Companion | Student of Mystery | Therapist | Threshold Keeper

Nicki (she/they) is a therapist, social worker, and ritualist whose warm presence and deep capacity for witnessing are among her greatest gifts. A lover of awe, mystery, and wild places, Nicki came to grief and death work through her background in birth work and hospice care. They have supported individuals, families, and communities through life’s most tender thresholds, tending to sorrow, transformation, and meaning with creativity and care.

Nicki’s path has been shaped by years of immersive experiences—from their time in the Peruvian Amazon to an apprenticeship in Botswana, and from the rivers of Philadelphia to their current life between Maryland and the Netherlands. She is pursuing a PhD in Psychedelic Studies and Transpersonal Psychology, with a focus on ethical and expansive approaches to consciousness and healing. Nicki is especially passionate about supporting her fellow queers in living, dying, and everything in between.