Grief or Loss

Grief is part of the human experience and it is something we all experiences at various points in life. It is painful, yet beautiful at the same time. As a former Hospice bereavement counselor, I have sat with clients in all different points of the grief process and I understand what the journey looks like. People often have a hard time relying on their support systems during grief. I'd like to help you cope with your loss and give you support as you walk through your own grief journey.

We all experience loss in our lives whether it is the loss of an influential person, job or experience. We even experience loss and grief with \'good\' things happen, we move, have the birth or adoption of a child, get a new job, etc. We often need help and compassion to sort through the various feelings and process the steps to help us move into places of acceptance of our new situations. Comprehensive grief work can help us get through and around change with compassion for ourselves.

Assisting clients to identify the stages of grief and their place within the stages, learn productive coping mechanisms, and provide healthy methods to be able to move forward. Grief over a loss may never truly leave you, but learning to live with your losses, honor your emotions, and celebrate your life, can make all the difference.

Life is constant change, and with change comes loss, and with loss comes grief. There is constant grief. And I'm incredibly passionate about supporting people in that. Some questions we'd explore together: What is your relationship to loss, goodbyes, and grieving? How do you feel about the way you relate to endings? What's working and what's not working for you in those patterns?

Any kind of grief and loss is breathtaking. You are left feeling shocked, forgetful and helpful. But grieving shouldn't be done alone. I am here to listen and give you the support to feel without judgment or expectations. Your grieving process will be validated and you will begin to find light, meaning, and purpose again. Even though you will forever miss your loss, you will find a new path. Your journey will continue and you will find joy again.

Loss is painful and complex. It can be accompanied by feelings of guilt or despair, and behaviors including avoidance, difficulty identifying your needs or setting healthy boundaries, irritability or angry outbursts, or isolation, to name a few. Grief and loss manifest so differently from person to person it’s impossible to predict its path. But you don’t have to work through it alone. With support, you can find a voice for your pain, overcome obstacles to joy, and move forward with confidence.

We are not often taught in our society how to hold, move through, and build relationship to our individual or collective grief. I enter into the work of grief and loss through my own intimate relationship to the life/death/life cycle. I understand that grief is a gift that creates a sacred portal into understanding the depth of our love. Grief brings us closer to what it means to be human, and we need more spaces that hold reverence to the sacred process of grief.

We will all experience loss in our lives, many times overs, and the heartbreak and journey through grief can be so lonely. To walk through a season of grief with the compassionate support of a therapist can help you to feel a little less alone while also giving you the courage to feel your feelings with a witness to your pain. Whether the loss is the death of a dear one, a pregnancy, a relationship, a job, or a home, we can find growth in loss to become even more aligned with ourselves.

We have multiple therapists who specialize in grief/loss on our team and we offer an ongoing trauma and loss therapy group. Trauma and loss go hand-in-hand and many of our clients have experienced traumatic loss.

There is no rule book for grief and loss. It can come in waves. It can look a lot different from person to person because we all grieve in our own unique way. I will walk with you through the trenches of grief through processing the loss you have experienced, and working with you toward a place of being able to move forward in a safe and effective way.

Grief is a complex emotional journey—a confrontation of loss in all of it's forms. Although we may tend to associate grief with a death loss, grief is an expansive term for a diverse range of losses—whether it's a transition to a new city, a loss of a friendship, a faith transition, or a late diagnosis of autism or ADHD in adulthood. Every loss deserves to be acknowledged and held with care and support.

Trained in Grief and Loss and a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, I can help you move through your loss and find joy and purpose again. I utilize the Grief Recovery Method to will help you work through your losses and identify what has been holding you back, areas where you have gotten stuck, and learning how to let go of the pain and suffering. I also am trained in Brainspotting and getting trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy.

I am a Certified Grief Informed Professional who is passionate about helping people process grief from the loss of a loved one and grief from a living loss, such as divorce. I am also trained in Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy.

I have specialized training in the Grief Recovery Method.

Therapy for grief and loss addresses complex emotions like guilt, anger, and loneliness, while honoring the uniqueness of each individual's experience. It helps navigate stages of grief, rebuild meaning and adjust to life without a loved one, retirement, physical limitations, and other life challenges. Cultural, spiritual, and relational factors are also key considerations.

I was previously a certified grief professional and have extensive experience in grief and loss. I also have experience in hospice work and end of life challenges.

Grief and Loss may be connected to the death of a person or animal, the loss of a relationship, or the realization that an experience in the past or present was not what was expected or needed. Together we'll explore how grief is affecting you, make space to process emotions, and get curious about different ways to cope.

Within all transformation, there is loss. But when it is loss we did not choose and which seems arbitrarily placed upon us, it deeply disintegrates our sense of trust and meaning within our daily lived experiences. I work with clients around losses of all kinds in my private practice, and prior to this worked within inpatient hospital behavioral health units with thousands of individuals to find meaning and hope in the wake of feeling devastation, bewildering change, and bereavement.

Focusing on the nuanced impacts of bereavement on personal and professional life, I specialize in understanding the psychological intricacies of mourning. I employ psychodynamic insights to explore how past losses influence current behaviors and emotional responses, and integrate CBT to restructure grief-related thoughts, with mindfulness to enhance present-moment awareness. I have found this approach most effective in fostering a balanced approach to healing from loss.