Grief or Loss

Every day you are affected by loss and grief. Loss and grief can cause feelings of frustration, sadness, anger, hopelessness, and animosity. Together we create rituals and daily practices to support you in understanding your emotions, ways to honor your grief and loss, as well as, how to let go of what no longer serves you. I am currently studying the complexities of grief and death to add to your healing.

Personal loss can often leave us feeling lost, paralyzed or even denying ourselves the right to grieve. Feelings can be complicated and often times, our lives simply don't allow for the time it takes to work through grief, and sometimes even those that are closest to us don't seem to understand why we can't just "get over it". I help clients work through feelings of grief at their pace. I am also certified in Perinatal Loss to especially help moms who experience loss during pregnancy.

I work with you on continuing bonds, not letting go and moving on. Your loved one is still with you - whether you see that as in your heart or in spirit, there is much evidence that the continuing bonds model of grief is far more helpful than moving on. I also use a modified EMDR technique called IADC - induced after death communication. Feel free to ask about it.

Rage, frustration, denial, the surreal, deep sadness, love, longing, numbness, guilt, nightmares, strange dreams -- Grief can be a rollercoaster. And it can be hard to find the right support around this processes, particularly in a culture that sets up the expectation that we will be able to "move on" with our lives within a period of months. Your grief process is yours. Everyone deserves a space where their process and experience with grief will be met with compassion.

I have worked with individuals, families, and groups regarding the topic of grief and loss, in both the medical and mental health fields for the past 30 years. Grief and loss can be experienced as a result of death, relationship loss, occupational loss, and through health-related issues. I work with clients consistently that have experienced these issues.

I have worked in health care and educational settings. My graduate thesis was on the topic of forgiveness and my early work was in hospice. I work with individuals in private sessions and when able offer groups for grief and loss. I utilize psychoeducation and healing processes, often working with people in their first year of the grief and loss process.

I received grief training during my internship at Agape Hospice. I worked with individuals who had experienced the death or impending death of a loved one and it was an honor to work with clients who were grieving.

Certified Grief Informed Professional (CGP) through Evergreen Certifications. Grief shows up in so many areas of our lives, it's not limited to a death of a loved one. Big part of trauma healing is grieving. Grieving of what could have been, the support and protection we haven't received, what our life would have been if we didn't experience trauma, etc. Fertility issue lead to a whole range of grief reactions that need to be acknowledged and felt.

Grief is such a hard emotion to handle. I want to help you work through all those messy feelings and give you a sense of empowerment to move forward with your grief, knowing that you will never "move on" from losing your loved one.

Each person's experience of loss is unique. There is no "right" way to grieve, however it can feel overwhelming and isolating to navigate this journey. My hope is to support you in creating a safe space to experience your grief in a healing way, and to support you in whatever healing looks like for you. It often feels like we are told to move past, or get over our loss. The real work is perhaps to find a way to transform our lives to hold space for our loss in a sustainable way.

I specialize in working with climate- and eco-grief, as well as working with grief and loss in general.

Personal loss can often leave us feeling lost, paralyzed or even denying ourselves the right to grieve. Feelings can be complicated and often times, our lives simply don't allow for the time it takes to work through grief. Sometimes even those that are closest to us don't seem to understand why we can't just "get over it". I help clients work through feelings of grief at their pace. Including Perinatal Loss to help moms who experience loss during any stage of pregnancy.

I hold the belief that grief and loss are profoundly intricate experiences, showcasing diverse manifestations. In my practice, I actively engage with a spectrum of losses encompassing normal, complicated, anticipatory, disenfranchised, ambiguous, collective, delayed, and traumatic grief. These experiences extend beyond bereavement due to death, including losses involving relationships, shifts in identity, and other significant life alterations.

In reality grief and loss is the largest chunk of what I've always treated. The grief response is the response that humans have to change. Specifically I have helped many clients through grieving simple losses all the way to complex losses such as children, miscarriages, and stillborn.

Grief is complex in nature and impacts each one of us uniquely. In therapy, I like to provide my clients with a safe, nonjudgmental space to explore their symptoms and navigate through the stages of grief.

When we hear the word grief, we think of someone dying. Grief can be someone we love dying. It can also be a loss of a pregnancy, pet, job, youth, limb, or something important to us. You might be feeling lost, confused, sad, depressed, anxious, mad, or all of the above. All these feelings are normal and you don’t have to be alone. You also don't need a timeline to be over your grief. It would be an honor to walk with you as you unravel your emotions during your journey through grief.

I believe grief and suffering are woven deeply into the human experience. Grief over the death of loved ones, the death of a vision, the ending of a relationship, the loss of an identity, the loss of a home, a pregnancy... the list goes on. As humans, we deserve the dedicated space to acknowledge our grief and find new ways to respond to it.