Meet Our Team
Every member of The Abbey is professionally trained in clinical-level spiritual care, with advanced preparation in grief support, trauma awareness, and neuropsychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches.
We have extensive experience offering care in hospitals, palliative care settings, higher education institutions, and end-of-life environments, companioning people through crisis, loss, meaning-making, and major life transitions.
Each practitioner brings a unique specialty—ranging from theology, grief and bereavement care, psychedelic integration, and end-of-life support—allowing us to offer thoughtful, personalized care shaped around your story and your needs.
It’s our pleasure to meet you.
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Christianne Zeiger, M.Div.
Christianne is the founder of The Abbey Spiritual Care & Counseling and is a clinical chaplain in Kenai, Alaska with experience serving palliative and end-of-life patients through various organizations on the Kenai Peninsula. She is a grief support specialist who brings a deep respect for every person’s story, offering in-home and virtual grief and spiritual care for those seeking comfort, clarity, or steady companionship during difficult seasons.
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Don Chalmers. M.Div.
Don is a clinical chaplain and ordained pastor from Scotland, now living in Walnut Creek, California. He offers virtual spiritual care and in-home support through the Walnut Creek and East Bay area, walking with individuals and families through grief, doubt, and the tender questions that often arise in seasons of transition and loss. Don has a particular heart for supporting men—offering a grounded, non-judgmental space for processing identity, emotion, and the pressures that often go unspoken.
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Jude Higgins, Ph.D.
Jude is a clinical chaplain, end-of-life-doula, and certified psychedelic therapy practitioner in Salt Lake City, Utah. She walks with individuals navigating grief and transition, helping them connect with their inner healing intelligence. With a specialty in multi-dimensional integration and tools like sonic induction, she supports clients in exploring and integrating non-ordinary states with grounding compassion. She offers virtual care and in-person sessions in the Salt Lake City area.
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.”
Henry Nouwen