Grief Counseling, California
Grief doesn’t always look like sadness.
It can show up as anxiety, numbness, keeping yourself busy, exhaustion, or a sense that you’re not functioning like you used to. Whether your loss was recent or buried for years, it’s affecting your life in ways you can’t ignore.
Grief therapy gives you relief, support, perspective, and tools to help you understand your pain and start making space for healing. This is highly individualized work. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach.
What happens in grief and loss therapy?
Whether you’ve lost a loved one recently, are carrying old, unprocessed grief, are recent empty-nesters, or have unexpectedly lost your job, we'll explore how it’s showing up in your life now, and give you the opportunity and tools to move through it.
We’ll focus on:
Making sense of your emotions, especially when they don’t make sense to others or even yourself.
Processing the layers of loss (past and present) without judgment.
Learning tools to manage anxiety, depression, anger or numbness related to your grief.
Exploring how loss is impacting your sleep, focus, relationships, and self-worth.
Therapy works best when paired with action. I encourage and challenge every patient to take full ownership of their growth, practicing consistency, personal responsibility, and real-world implementation. Change comes from showing up, doing the work, and choosing to lead yourself forward every day.
What can grief counseling help with?
Language for Your Loss
You don’t have to explain it all, just start where you are. I’ll help you name what you’re feeling and help make sense of it, without pressure to move on.
Tools for Everyday Coping
Because grief affects more than your emotions, I’ll teach you strategies to manage the mental, emotional, and physical toll of grief and loss.
A Way Forward
Even when you don’t know what comes next, we’ll rebuild structure and strength so you can keep living without feeling like you’re staying stuck in regret.
Who is grief and loss therapy for?
This work is for anyone struggling to carry a loss, especially if it’s affecting your ability to function in daily life.
You may be:
Grieving loss of a person, pet, dream, health, opportunity, job or property.
Feeling like you’ve lost a part of yourself.
Struggling with complicated grief, delayed grief, or unresolved loss.
Feeling anxious, angry, depressed, or overwhelmed since your loss.
Holding unprocessed grief from years ago that’s resurfacing now.
Unsure how to keep going when everything feels different.
For patients who are interested, I offer the option of Christian counseling, integrating faith-based principles into the therapeutic process. This is always patient-led, respectful, and grounded in your individual values and beliefs.
What can change after grief therapy?
The pain becomes less painful. There’s space to honor the loss while continuing to live.
You can stop pretending you’re fine and begin to express the truth of your experience without fear of judgment or feeling emotionally overwhelmed.
Grief becomes something you understand, not something you fear, minimize, dismiss or avoid. You gain tools to move through it with more steadiness.
Daily life starts to feel manageable again—whether that means better sleep, focus at work, or more presence in relationships.
Your ability to enjoy life starts to return - without feeling guilty.
You begin to feel permission to heal at your own pace, in your own way, without pressure to “move on”.
What’s the process for getting started?
1
Book a consultation
We’ll talk briefly about your situation and how grief therapy with me can help.
2
Start structured sessions
We’ll meet weekly online, giving you consistent space to process your grief and regain stability.
3
Build a new kind of strength
Together, we’ll work through the layers of your loss and help you reconnect with life in a way that feels grounded, real, and true to you.
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