Menu
Kathryn “Kat” Primeau, MSW, is an integrative grief specialist, educator, speaker, and end-of-life practitioner based in Los Angeles. She specializes in grief integration, anticipatory grief, existential loss, dementia caregiving, and creative approaches to navigating life after loss.
Through her work as the founder of Good Grief Doula, Kat supports individuals, families, and organizations with personalized, evidence-informed grief support that blends psychosocial education, emotional processing, meaning-making, mindfulness, and creative practice. Her approach is grounded in both professional training and lived experience, helping clients navigate grief with greater self-understanding, resilience, and connection.
Kat earned her Master of Social Work (MSW) degree in 2026 and brings interdisciplinary training in grief education, end-of-life care, mindfulness, peer support, and community-based care models. She is a Certified Grief Educator trained by David Kessler and a NEDA-proficient End-of-Life Doula trained through Going with Grace, founded by Alua Arthur. She has also studied Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) through UMass Center for Mindfulness and is a member of Geriatric Social Work Education Consortium (GSWEC). She is also a credentialed minister and has facilitated grief and support spaces for organizations including Tender Hearts, Skirball Hospice, The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, and Laughter for a Change.
Kat’s work was shaped in part by her experience as a long-distance caregiver for her father during his journey with early onset dementia, as well as the profound personal losses that followed. After sitting bedside for her father’s death in 2017 and navigating compounded grief throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, she felt called to create spaces where grief, death, and healing could be approached with greater honesty, creativity, and compassion.
Before entering the grief and end-of-life field, Kat built a career in music, theater, and community arts. She continues to integrate storytelling, ritual, humor, mindfulness, and creative expression into her work whenever appropriate. She is also a writer, performer, and collaborator with the musical comedy collective Robot Teammate and performs dream pop music with her spouse, Chris, in their band, Sumeau.
As a mother, artist, caregiver, and grief practitioner, Kat is passionate about helping individuals and communities develop a healthier relationship with grief, death, caregiving, and emotional vulnerability—transforming conversations around loss into opportunities for connection, meaning, and growth.