Ladybird Morgan

Ladybird is a registered nurse, clinical social worker, registered craniosacral therapist practitioner and co-founder of The Humane Prison Hospice Project. She has 20+ years’ experience in hospice and palliative care, addressing trauma, mental health challenges and repercussions of sexual violence. Ladybird guides medical practitioners, families, caregivers and institutions around the world on how to be present to difficult experiences by remembering, embodying and responding from the deepest place of truth. Ladybird also co-facilitates Commonweal’s Cancer Care Help Program: Healing Circles, UCSF’s MERI Center’s Last Acts of Kindness and is a study therapist with a University of Washington study of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy.

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