Linda F Hochstetler

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Linda F Hochstetler

Social Worker, Consultant, and Workshop Facilitator helping Canadians make better decisions on death

I’m a registered social worker in private practice who wants to help you talk about your death and dying concerns. I am keen for the general population to feel more at ease around the topic of death and dying. I have more than 20 years experience providing counselling and social work conversations and discussions with individuals and family members. I am knowledgeable about Toronto’s palliative care hospital and home care services, as well as hospices and long-term care facilities. I help families discuss difficult topics together and complete Advance Care Directives and end of life wishes. I am an excellent problem solver and can help you listen to your heart and figure out what the next step is. Learn how to make well thought out decisions for end of life care. Clients tell me I am open, direct, positive, empathic, and fearless about talking about death and dying in ways that they have never experienced with any other grief counsellor. Issues I can help you with:
• Death & dying
• Uncertainty
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Grief and loss
• Changing relationships
• Making tough decisions

Who I work with:
• Individuals
• Couples
• Families
• Seniors
• Groups
• People who are dying, having health difficulties, or planning for their own eventual deaths
• People who are supporting others and their death and dying process

09/29/2025

Camino Reflections, Death Doula and Buddhist Clinical Groups, a Meditation Retreat on Dreams, and much more! -

What if your sense of self wasn’t something solitary or separate—but a living, breathing part of the whole? This weeklong meditation retreat invites you to discover the profound freedom and joy that comes from Interbeing: the awareness that we are not isolated individuals, but intimately connect...

05/27/2025

Lessons from the Camino (date change!), Death Doula/Grief Clinical Supervision Group, Buddhism 101 Classes, Last Aid, and much more! -

Exploring the Bardos: A Journey through Namgyal Rinpoche’s Teachings and Other Dharma Books on Dying and Death August 8-13, 2025 (weekend or 5 day retreat)

05/25/2025

I’ve never felt more alive than I was on every step of the 800 km pilgrimage of Camino de Santiago. My Camino Family gave me a surreal and timeless community of Love and Acceptance. The simple joy of walking, eating, and sleeping. Nothing else. No shopping. No outside needs. Living outside. Just one step after another on the most beautiful path to the Santiago Cathedral. If you’d like to hear more about my journey, dm me privately and I’ll invite you to attend my Zoom talk on June 6 at 7pm. ❤️🥾❤️🍷❤️🇨🇦❤️

03/26/2025

Walking the Camino, Living without Fossil Fuel, Death Doula/Grief Clinical Supervision Group, Buddhism 101 Classes, Last Aid, and much more! -

Exploring the Bardos: A Journey through Namgyal Rinpoche’s Teachings and Other Dharma Books on Dying and Death August 8-13, 2025 (weekend or 5 day retreat)

03/19/2025

We’re doing our part. Check out this sexy new electric air source heat pump. Not only does it qualify for $3000+ from provincial rebates, but it also reduces heating and cooling costs by 70% and this one comes with a full house HEPA filter. Love it! Let’s get off fossil fuels together.

02/20/2025

Lead a meditation retreat in the Sian Ka’an UNESCO Biosphere in Tulum, Mexico. The people, waves, and wildlife were stunning but the plastic swept up on the beach was heartbreaking. We cleaned up bags everyday, but more kept coming. I’m doubling down on my anti-plastic campaign. I’ve started a jar of colourful plastic lids I’m saving to make into my own mural and educational art piece. Don’t buy anything special for me, but please share any plastic lids of any colour that you have. And join in me figuring out the best ways to get our planet to change their addiction to plastic. ❤️🌊❤️

01/25/2025

Plugging in my new Volkswagon ID4. Total electric vehicle. Bye bye fossil fuels. Never believe that we don’t have options. Find one that works for your values and match your values to your dollars.

01/04/2025

They came. They played games. They hiked. They ate. They left. So it is with our wonderful family. Enjoyed every moment of this precious time together. ❤️🎄💚

11/27/2024

Location Updates, Meditation Retreats in Mexico and Ontario, Death Cafe Interview, and regular offerings -

Join us for a relaxing and transformative meditation retreat in the beautiful setting of a sacred biosphere in Mexico. Inspired by the teachings from Namgyal Rinpoche’s book, Suchness, this retreat is designed to help you explore mindfulness, inner peace, and compassion through simple guided medit...

10/21/2024

The miracle of reflections. Like nature’s kaleidoscope of fall colours. ❤️🧡💛🤎🧡❤️

10/07/2024

Last Saturday the universe lost this bright, radiant light - my dear meditation teacher, Qapel AKA Doug Duncan died suddenly. Feeling a bit unmoored by the hole his passing has left for me after 30 long, beautiful years together. ❤️🔥🙏🏼🌈❤️

09/13/2024

They say if you’re cold, put on a cap and sweater. So I did. Trying to stretch out the swimming across the lake ritual at the cottage. Water is down to 20 degrees but it still works.

Address

Village Healing Centre, 240 Roncesvalles Avenue
Toronto, ON
M6R1L3

Website

http://www.lindahochstetler.com/

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