Celebrants

Kirstie Atherton - Cheshire based

Kirstie Atherton - Independent Award-Winning Cheshire-Based Celebrant creating and delivering bespoke end-of-life rituals throughout the UK

It's just all because of love, isn't it?

However we have lived we all deserve the end of our breathing years to be marked somehow. Our breath impacted the world in some way, inevitably so too does its end. Something we humans have always needed to acknowledge. Something essential to the way in which we move into our grief. Something that matters more than we ever know before. 

I specialise in therapeutic narrative funerals. Entirely bespoke end-of-life rituals which weave together stories with a thread of healing.

Nuanced ceremonies which complete someone's life cycle in whatever way feels the most fitting reflection of them, their life and the lives which now continue without them.

Helping people to begin their grief journey with a ceremony which heals not hurts.

I am grateful to be:

• The first celebrant to be awarded Level 4 in Advanced Funeral Celebrancy
• Holder of a Masters Degree in Creative Writing
• Association of Green Funeral Directors' Celebrant of the Year 2022
• A member of my local Compassionate Communities Network
• Able to provide testimonials from families who have trusted me to support them