Grief Therapy for Adults

There’s no “right” way to grieve. There’s only what’s true for you.

Serving Arizona, California, & Idaho

 

“I don’t know who I am without this.”

“Life just feels dull now.”

“This isn’t how I expected grief to feel.”

“Everyone else has moved on and I haven’t.”

 

When life is changed by loss, lots of things can come up…more than just sadness.

Grief is a highly individual experience. If you’re wondering what you’re feeling or experiencing is “normal,” please know that there is no right or wrong way to go about this.

Sometimes it shows up like anger or irritability: you used to be a patient, conscientious person and now feel like you don’t recognize yourself. Other times, you feel the impacts in your ability to connect to others: you feel like you can’t relate to people any more, or experience resentment watching others go on with daily life when yours has been forever changed.

Grief can also look like:

  • Depression or severe sadness

  • Questioning meaning or purpose

  • Feeling like you’re just “going through the motions”

  • Isolating from others

Grief comes in many forms. I’m here to support you through whatever kind of loss you may have experienced.

 

  • Death of a loved one or pet

  • The anticipated death of a loved one

  • Breakup or relationship loss

  • Infertility or miscarriage

  • Job or career changes

  • Infidelity in an intimate relationship

 

How grief counseling works

My approach to grief therapy includes holistic, body-based methods—strategies that can help us get more quickly to the root of your feelings and address them. I don’t believe you should need years of grief “talk” to make forward progress on your journey; instead, I want to support your mind and body in moving more quickly through the necessary steps to begin experiencing change in your day-to-day life.

Regardless of the method(s) you and I decide to use, you will always be the one guiding our work together. You can choose how little or how much to share, what you want to focus on in specific sessions, and what our goals will be.

Brainspotting

Brainspotting can help identify where a difficult emotion or experience is stored within your neurobiology and get “unstuck” from it.

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing helps process painful memories and decrease the emotional response to them.

Somatic Experiencing

Grief often requires you to “re-wire” how you experience the world. Somatic Experiencing can support your brain and body in this process.

Not moving on, but moving through.

I’m here to support you on this journey.

 
 

Common questions about grief therapy

 

  • Grief can be caused by the loss of anything in life—the loss of expectations, health, relationships, and more. Some are subtle and some are significant, but they each have the potential to impact our relationships, the way we feel about ourselves, and the way we view our future and the world.

    Here are some common examples of losses that can result in grief:

    • The death of a loved one or pet

    • Relationship loss or breakups

    • Miscarriage or infertility

    • Chronic pain

    • Medical diagnoses

    • Natural disasters

    • Not getting a job or promotion

    • A loved one’s battle with substances or mental health

  • Grief can be incredibly isolating, and it can feel like you’re doing it all on your own. I believe that you deserve a place where you can openly share what you’re thinking, feeling, and wrestling with. This is, first and foremost, somewhere you can do that.

    My additional training in methods like EMDR, Brainspotting, and Somatic Experiencing means we have more tools in our toolbox to draw from on in our work together. They’re focused on addressing the ways that these experiences are stored in your brain and body—things that, if left unaddressed, may result in you struggling with your grief longer than you could otherwise.

  • It’s incredibly important that you feel comfortable with your therapist. Click this link to schedule a free consultation with me and have a chance to decide if we’ll be a good fit. I’ll answer any questions you have and, if we’re a good match, we’ll book your first appointment and begin our work together. (And if we’re not, I’ll gladly refer you to another clinician who might be!)

More questions? Check out my FAQs page.