Waves of Joy Ultimate Costa Rica Family Adventure Retreat 2025

Stacy is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in private practice in Santa Barbara, CA, providing guidance and support to individuals, couples and families going through major life transitions. Stacy specializes in grief as a divorce coach, bereavement counselor and death doula, assisting and empowering her clients to do their best to practice compassion for themselves and others, be mindful, maintain healthy boundaries, experience awe and make meaning in their lives.

Stacy expanded her focus, both spiritually and professionally, and pursued more specialized training around grief and loss, becoming a death doula in 2021. She is a member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) ‘End-of-Life Doula Council’ where she provides volunteer grief support virtually to clients throughout the United States. At home in Santa Barbara, she and her husband Mike hold community grief rituals at the beach in proud partnership with the acclaimed Waves of Grief Collective.

Stacy is a firm believer in the power of community and interconnectedness. She promotes the healing power of compassion and acts of loving kindness, believing that grace, gratitude and genuine respect can in fact make the world a more loving and peaceful place. She believes her family and friends would tell you she works hard, lives fully, and loves with all her heart.

Stacy either creates or collaborates in the development of all TwoCan Retreats. It is important to note that although Stacy hosts and facilitates retreats for TwoCan Retreats, she is not providing therapy at any time during the retreat.

For more information on Stacy’s personal grief journey and background, click here.

When Michelle Q. Slavik takes her surfboard into the water, she does it for herself and her two boys in honor of her late husband. She also paddles out for others who are grieving their loss. Michelle is a certified surf therapy provider with a background in building infrastructure and integrated systems to deliver much needed medicine to underserved communities. As Director of Clinical Operations Excellence at Global Blood Therapeutics (now Pfizer) and co-founder of the Waves of Grief Collective™, her passion continues to drive awareness into cultures breaking down stigma surrounding mental health. “Growing safe spaces for this language of grief and loss to flow, and supporting others to be seen and heard, is the honor I can pay back to those we love.”

For more information on the Waves of Grief Collective™, click here.