Jessica Raschke

Jessica Raschke is a therapist, writer, artist, and educator dedicated to the exploration of meaningful existence through soul, mortality, and the complex poetics of human (and more-than-human) experience. Across psychotherapy, creative practice, teaching, and community engagement, she creates spaces for deep inquiry into the questions that shape how we live, love, grieve, and make meaning.

Drawing on backgrounds in holistic counselling and psychotherapy, grief and death literacy, the creative arts, and academia, Jess brings together existential, relational, and imaginative approaches to exploring life’s complexities. She is currently a Lecturer at Metavision.

A longstanding focus of her work is mortality as a gateway to meaning. Jess trained as a deathwalker with the Natural Death Care Centre and as a death doula with Preparing the Way (2016 and 2022 respectively). She is a passionate advocate for death and grief literacy and regularly facilitates Death Cafés and Mortality and Mystery gatherings.

Jess holds a PhD in Culture and Communication from RMIT University, following a Bachelor of Arts (Cultural Studies and History, Dean’s List) from the University of Melbourne and training in Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT. In 2023, she completed training in Holistic Counselling and Psychotherapy with Metavision.

Her artistic practice centres on participation, reflection, and the poetics of everyday life. LOVE LAND is a community-building planting project that has featured at various locations and events, including The CORRIDOR Project’s ERTHWRX24 and Bundanon’s MAKE GOOD FESTIVAL. Recent installations include Ruined Roads (featured at Way Out in Kandos as part of the Australian Walking Artists’ exhibition, Way Out Goes Way Beyond). In 2024, Ruined Roads and GRAVES, were featured at Articulate Project Space.

You can learn more about her here and get in touch with her here.