Peacemaker, grief tender & founder of Cooperative Co-parenting Solutions and TwoCan Retreats, Stacy McCrory holds space for individuals, couples and families going through major life transitions. She specializes in the areas of divorce, co-parenting and blended families as well as trauma, grief and loss; and, assists clients with improving communication, reducing conflict and creating healthy boundaries.
Stacy provides support and guidance through psycho-education and coaching, and empowering clients to heal themselves using mindfulness, self-compassion and EMDR therapy. For over 25 years, she has served as a treatment provider, administrator and client advocate in both public and non-profit mental health settings (inpatient, outpatient, institutional, forensic), and in private practice. She has spent much of her career in clinical and supervisory roles, serving marginalized and underserved populations in the community mental health field, including advocacy, oversight and development for adult and juvenile mental health programs, as well as consultation on topics related to divorce and high-conflict co-parenting, grief and loss, abuse and trauma and women in leadership.
Stacy's expertise includes: Certified Divorce Mediator, Collaborative Divorce Coach and Child Specialist, a longstanding member of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts (AFCC), The International Academy of Collaborative Divorce Professionals (IACP) and Collaborative Practice, and California (CP-Cal), made up of interdisciplinary professionals dedicated to improving the lives of children and their families through the resolution of family conflict.
In 2021, Stacy pursued more specialized training in mindfulness and self-compassion, grief and loss, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and conscious dying, becoming an end-of life doula, and studying with Francis Weller and other soul activists throughout 2023 and 2024. She is a member of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s (NHPCO) End-of-Life Doula Council and volunteers her time as a doula with Dying in Grace in Santa Barbara, in order to be of service, expand awareness and deepen the nuderstanding of life, death and the sacred journey that lies ahead for us all.
Also a mother, stepmother, grandmother, parent educator and former childcare provider, Stacy has dedicated her life to enriching the lives of children. She is a firm believer in the healing power of community, interconnectedness and acts of loving kindness, believing that compassion, grace, gratitude and genuine respect for the planet and all beings can indeed make the world a more loving and peaceful place. Some of her most rewarding work has been facilitating transformational retreats in Costa Rica with her husband through the business they founded in 2019, TwoCan Retreats. At home in Santa Barbara, they enjoy co-facilitating community Waves of Grief™ circles at the beach in proud partnership with the acclaimed Waves of Grief Collective™ and hosting regular potlucks with friends and singing around the fire.
Grief is a constant teacher, and I am a curious and insatiable student. It’s a great honor to walk alongside people grieving and/or anticipating loss. I hope one conversation will lead to others, that communities will become more fluent in the language of grief and loss, and more and more people will feel better equipped to cope with the inevitable.
NOTE: 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. Stacy either creates or collaborates in the development of all TwoCan Retreats retreats and activities.
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