Embark on your journey
with Elizabeth
Helping people and organizations awaken possibility, create clarity, act intentionally, and evolve meaningfully.
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GIVE YOURSELF THE GIFT OF TRANSFORMATION
Counseling
Whole-person counseling to help you navigate life’s transitions, heal, grow, and move forward with greater clarity, peace, and purpose.
Consulting
Strategic consulting to help leaders build and evolve mission-driven organizations with greater clarity, alignment, and impact.
The Voyages Process of Transformation
Embark on Your Journey
Elizabeth’s approach has evolved through decades of learning, experience, and walking alongside people and organizations through meaningful change. Awaken, Embrace, and Evolve weaves wisdom traditions with evidence-based models to create a unique kind of support—one that helps you find clarity, take meaningful action, and stay open to what’s possible. Whether the journey is personal or organizational, the goal is the same: to create space for healing, growth, and transformation that feels true to who you are and where you want to go.
Awaken
Awaken
Embrace
Embrace
Evolve
Evolve
ABOUT ELIZABETH
Elizabeth, MSW, MTS, MSNP ’27, has devoted her life and career to helping people and organizations discover what’s possible by centering our shared humanity. Drawing on decades of experience in spirituality, healthcare, education, executive leadership, and civic service, she brings compassion, curiosity, and strategic insight to help clients navigate change, create clarity, and move toward meaningful transformation in their lives and work.
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California Outstanding Volunteer Award
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Charting Your Own Exit / MAiD Forum with Senator Catherine Blakespear
A community forum hosted by Senator Catherine Blakespear focused on discussing Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) and other end-of-life choices.
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VITAS Hospice
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The Elizabeth Hospice
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City of Hope Hospital
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Cedars Sinai Hospital
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Compassion and Choices
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Rising Stars: Meet Elizabeth Uslander of La Jolla
Interview with SD Voyager: Today we’d like to introduce you to Elizabeth Uslander.
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Deborah Kobylt Live
Making end-of-life decisions can seem scary, and often patients and family members put it off – until it’s too late. This interview discusses passing with dignity, medical and emotional support for the patient and also family members.
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Wall Street Journal
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San Diego Union Tribune
Elizabeth Uslander, co-founder and CEO of Empowered Endings, said public interest in using medical aid to end a patient’s life was there when she moved to California 10 years ago.
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Authority Magazine
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The Women We Admire’s Top 50 Women Leaders in San Diego
Honored for her entrepreneurship, leadership and service to her community, Elizabeth is grateful to join this list of outstanding women in business.
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Dying with Dignity with Elizabeth Uslander on Conversations with Joan
Joan Herman, host of Conversations with Joan, dives deep into the often avoided topic of end-of-life care with Elizabeth Uslander, Co-Founder and CEO of Empowered Endings.
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LA Times Español – Abogan por el derecho a la muerte asistida en el Día de Muertos
In this bilingual interview, Elizabeth advocates for understanding and access to End of Life Options in the Latinx community.
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Transformational Grief: Elizabeth Uslander on the Lighting the Path Podcast
Elizabeth Uslander, Co-Founder and CEO, joins Jerry Fenter, host of the Lighting the Path Podcast, for a heartfelt discussion exploring the complex landscape of transformational grief.
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Spirituality is Medicine for the Soul: Elizabeth Uslander on the Lighting the Path Podcast
In this recent episode of the Lighting the Path podcast, Jerry Fenter delved into a deep discussion with Elizabeth Uslander, Co-Founder and CEO, shedding light on various aspects of end-of-life…
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Igniting the Spark: Honoring Life Through Empowered Endings
Igniting the Spark with Stephanie James Elizabeth Uslander, MSW, MTS, the Co-Founder and CEO, recently joined Stephanie James on her podcast Igniting the Spark for an enlightening conversation centered around…
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WHAT CLIENTS ARE SAYING
Elizabeth lights the way for so many. I am grateful that her remarkable life leaves little prints on mine. She helps me to celebrate my life, my love and my light, always.
AC
Elizabeth is a fountain of sacred, unconditional love. She sees and speaks the gentle truth. She lights the fire and walks through it with you.
EM
I feel a sense of awe about the gifts that Elizabeth has. My husband and I have seen counselors and talked to a lot of people, but they’re never done what she is able to do. She is able to understand our complex experiences with very little information. She connects with each of us on a human level in a very profound way. The way she understands and navigates our dynamics is amazing.
KM