GRIEF COUNSELING.

Culture, spirituality, ethnicity, and religion shape a family’s values and beliefs—forming the foundation of one’s worldview. From within this system, children observe family members participating in loss rituals that help accept the loss and grieve a loved one’s death.

These early experiences can influence how we respond to loss in the future. One of my first tasks as your grief counselor is to invite you to share your first experiences with loss. This self-narrative helps me understand your core beliefs, values, and worldview.

While each individual responds to loss uniquely—and each loss evokes a unique response—our worldview and belief system buoy our early coping strategies throughout our life’s journey.

I meet you where you are in your grieving process, assuring you that grief does not have a set of stages or a timeline. We work together to identify personal metaphors for your grief, and I provide validation for your wide range of emotions—a counselor may be the only one who does.

I encourage you to experience, heal, and grow from the pain and sorrow you experience in loss as human and pet parents, spouses, partners, adult children, friends, colleagues, and the world at large.

You can make meaning out of loss, identify ways to continue to strengthen your bond with your loved one, and reengage in life on your timeline—no one else’s.

Through the integration of healing talk therapy, expressive arts, and meaning-making exercises, you are able to share your loss stories, find meaning in your loss(es), and reconstruct a life that helps you maintain continuing bonds while reconstructing your new life.