Therapy for grief & loss
Grounded support for living alongside life’s heartbreak, pain and sorrow
It’s my belief and experience that grief is not something we fix or “get over” but something we learn to carry. It asks to be acknowledged and honored with compassion and care. In moments when we feel lost in “the dark woods” of grief, it can be helpful to resist the urge to close off and instead keep our hearts open and let grief in.
My aim is to help you learn healthy and whole-hearted strategies to feel and process the wide range of emotions that accompany grief while helping you also stay connected to what’s been lost and what still remains.
Grief Tending
“Unseen” Loss
If you’ve lived, you’ve lost. Some experiences of grief can go unnamed, unseen, minimized, or misunderstood. This doesn’t make it any less true. There’s no grief Olympics and there’s no one “right” way to grieve. This is a safe place to make room to tend to losses of…
Things we chose, things we didn’t
Pets and companion animals
Miscarriage, infertility, pregnancy loss
Mountain-related loss and high-risk sport
Healthcare worker and helping profession cumulative grief
The planet, wildlife and natural places
Romantic relationships, divorce, friendships
Identity shifts, job changes/retirement, aging
Anything we “should be over by now”
Anything we lost, or wanted but didn’t have
Some of My Teachers & Guiding Principles
If you love, you will grieve, no one gets through life unscathed by loss
Sorrow is sacred
There is no time limit for grief
Our capacity to grieve is directly related to our capacity for love and joy
Meaning-making is not about “this happened for a reason” but rather giving the ache space and meaning in your life
A heart that hurts is a heart that works
Poetry by Mary Oliver, Sara Rian
The works of Francis Weller, Tara Brach, Megan Devine