Grief Therapy

GriefGrief can stem from a death close to us, or be lingering and unresolved from our past. Grief can be about things other than death, like loss of the life you pictured, or grief for the impacts of trauma and abuse. It can be all consuming, isolating and nonlinear. It does not follow a schedule and is ongoing work, it's a part of us. If there was a death in the family and we're parents, we're also managing the grief of our kids. Compounding it, most of the time people near us don't know how to truly support, and that can make things worse and lonely as the world keeps going. Therapy can offer a place to breathe, speak openly, and slowly find your way forward in a world that doesn’t look the same anymore. Anxiety and StressSometimes it’s a racing mind that won’t let you sleep. Sometimes it’s a stomach drop before every email, or a quiet panic that follows you into work. Anxiety is sneaky. It can look like irritation, exhaustion, restlessness, or perfectionism. And it often accompanies grief. For caregivers or those working in healthcare, the impacts can compound. What Does Grief Therapy Look Like Lots of things! And unique to you. Each of us responds to loss differently, so therapy should not be a cookie cutter approach. Our relationship to grief--whether related to a person, a diagnosis, a situation, ourselves, our past, our present, our future--this is utterly unique. We will always address deconstructing many of the myths about grief that are present in our culture. We address you as a whole person, and we will process verbally and somatically. Psychoeducation and learning is a big part of grief therapy to help with expectations and understandings of how our whole selves are responding, reacting, and processing our loss. We will also undo some of the cultural conditioning around the 'should' of grief. Sometimes 'old' hurts and losses get re-activated with new losses...that, too, is a part of grief work. Grief processing often includes:

• Talk therapy that can include CBT, EFT, ACT
• Narrative therapy
• Yoga grief therapy (coming in 2026! Limited spots, get on the wait list now)
• Access to community resources
• Anxiety and stress management
• Sleep regulation
• Mindfulness
• Nervous system regulation tools
• Trauma processing
• End of life care and hospice
• Somatic therapy