Grief, Mourning, and Bereavement Counseling | Washington & Florida
Now serving clients over Telehealth in Washington state and Florida
Accepting new clients as of November 2024
Grief is non-linear. There are no stages to follow, time limits or expectations on what your experience of grief looks or feels like.
Grief can be multi-layered, it can come with trauma either before, during or after the loss.
Grief can be surprising in the way it invades or creeps up on us. It can be haunting and disarming, sometimes it can be consuming.
Grief leaves unseen scars on the heart, mind, and body.
Grief shifts over the passing time.
Grief is a journey of its own.
Grief recovery is the process of holding and working through the stories of the past, in the present moment, and slowly thinking, daring, to dream about a future. A future that now has been, inevitably, shaped by the experience of death.
After years of my own journey with grief, my personal and professional experience shows me that it doesn’t always get easier but it does get different, and sometimes that different can be experienced as better or easier.
This therapeutic space is a space where we together, holding the weight of your loss, can find and create rhythms of self-care, mourning, marking and meaning-making.
Where all the feelings about grief, death, and loss can be held and explored without judgment or expectation. The anger, relief, shame, gratitude, guilt, ambivalence…
A place to be seen in the midst of the confusion of the lost. A place to shift through your experience, to rage, to laugh, to feel all the things that family, friends, culture, no one, tells you that you can or cannot feel.
In Blackwater Woods
by Mary Oliver
Ares of grief addressed and not limited to:
Sudden loss
Unexpected loss
Loss of someone to whom you had a complicated relationship with
In relationship with a terminally ill person
Ending of a season of life or relationship
Grieving the end of your own life or loss of facilities
Intersection of grief/bereavement and trauma
Disenfranchised grief (i.e., loss of a loved one to suicide, overdose, identity, ex-spouse or ex-partner, estrangement from family, abortion, lifestyle, incarceration, deportation etc)
If you do not see your grief listed, please click here to see if I can still be of service.
Grief therapy also addresses:
Trauma
Addiction
Codependency and caretaking
Building a sense of self and identity
Eating disorders and disordered eating
Self -harm
Domestic violence
Family of origin
Interpersonal relationships
Stress and anxiety, burn out, secondary trauma
Spiritual abuse
Creating Safe coping skills
Mindfulness and meditation
DBT Skills