About
Maia Gibb
Transition & Death Doula · North Vancouver, BC
About
Transition & Death Doula · North Vancouver, BC
I've spent my life learning how to navigate thresholds — and how to help others do the same.
I've walked this path myself — through losses that broke me open and remade me. This work isn't theoretical for me. I know what it is to carry weight that seems impossible, to need someone simply present while life keeps demanding.
For over a decade, I ran a holistic home care practice grounded in Feng Shui, aromatherapy, and energy clearing — learning firsthand how physical space holds and shapes our inner life. I have served as a hospice volunteer, sitting with the dying and their families. And I am a lifelong student of ancestral practices that understood grief as something to be moved through the body, not managed by the mind alone.
I believe we can tend to grief without removing ourselves from life. The dishes, the clearing, the walk outside — these become the container. The alchemy happens in the doing.
I draw on cross-cultural ancestral wisdom — Indigenous, Celtic, Taoist, and Mayan frameworks — not to perform ceremonies that aren't mine, but to offer maps and reference points that help you reconnect to your own instincts. The goal is to awaken what you already carry.
I use narrative medicine because our stories shape our experience. The meaning we make determines what we can bear. Together, we expand the story to include what your five senses alone cannot show you.
I am a companion for the crossing. I will not rush you or tell you what you should feel. I will hold space for all of it — the love, the rage, the confusion, the strange beauty that sometimes appears in the midst of loss.