Grief and Loss Therapy

Your whole reality changes after loss.

People have often told you, “Time heals all wounds,” but you don’t believe them. Your grief has become overwhelming, and it feels as if you can’t escape it.

You’re navigating a storm of emotions – not just sadness, but anger, guilt, regret, relief, joy, numbness. Then there’s the profound loneliness.

“Moving on” from your grief doesn’t feel like an option because it doesn’t seem to go away.

You’ve started to feel crazy because you wake up disoriented, never knowing what to expect.

No one understands your grief. Waiting longer, trying to “move on” – these coping mechanisms aren’t cutting it.

Whatever you’re feeling right now makes sense in the face of loss.

A loss isn’t just one thing, but many things: a sense of self, goals and visions, relationships you can never heal, experiences you hoped for and now will never have.

Grieving doesn’t look the same for everyone, either; it’s not about going through five stages and being done. Rather, it’s something that becomes part of your life.

So many things cause grief. It can sneak up on you without you even seeing it coming.

There are many types of grief.

We know that when someone dies, it’s okay to grieve. When we leave a marriage or a long-term job, it’s okay to grieve.

But there’s so much other loss. Many of us are feeling ecological grief as the climate crisis accelerates.

Collective grief is happening in communities that are being harmed through police violence, erasure of identity, and other ongoing oppression.

When we have a loss that is not socially acceptable to share, we may experience disenfranchised grief. And when you don’t get closure or the loss is ongoing, you might grieve in a way that’s not easy to explain or even understand yourself – this is called ambiguous grief.

How grief and loss therapy helps.

Grief is all-consuming at first, but over time, you will learn to grow around it. Using somatic, existential, and creative practices, you’ll be able to express your grief and find healing.

We’ll create space for you to feel all the emotions that arise, free of expectations or judgments.

In fact, the more deeply you let yourself feel all your grief, the more you can make peace with loss.

You didn’t choose grief, but you can choose what comes next.

Learn to work with your grief, rather than fighting it. Foster resilience so that you can move forward with your life from a place of acceptance rather than avoidance.

Grief changes us, and I will support you as your identity evolves.

You’ll learn to reconnect with your friends and family, and recommit to your goals. Even if you’ve lost a loved one, you don’t have to lose the relationship you had.

And most of all, come out of your grief stronger than you were before.

Send me a message now for a free consultation and start creating meaning in your grief.