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