Therapy for Grief
When loss has changed your world—and you need space to process it without rushing toward "closure."
Loss Doesn't Follow a Timeline
Grief isn't just about death, though that's certainly part of it. You can grieve the end of a relationship, a future that won't happen, a version of yourself you've lost, a friendship that faded, or even the realization that something you believed in wasn't real. Grief is what happens when something significant is gone and nothing can bring it back.
People expect you to move through stages, reach acceptance, find closure. But grief doesn't work that way. It comes in waves, shows up when you least expect it, and doesn't care about anyone else's timeline for when you should be "over it."
This might sound familiar:
You're going through the motions but feel disconnected from everything
Waves of sadness or anger hit you unexpectedly, even months or years later
You feel guilty when you have a good moment, like you're betraying what you lost
People keep asking how you're doing, expecting you to be better by now
You're grieving something others don't recognize as a "real" loss
You're stuck between wanting to hold onto memories and needing to move forward
You wonder if this sadness will ever actually lift, or if this is just how life is now
What Therapy Actually Looks Like
I work with grief using approaches that make space for the full range of what you're experiencing. We're not rushing you toward acceptance or trying to make the grief go away. We're helping you process it and find ways to carry it forward.
Making space for what you're actually feeling—grief isn't just sadness. It's anger, guilt, relief, numbness, confusion, and sometimes all of those at once. We're not forcing a narrative about stages or healing.
Understanding complicated grief—when the relationship was difficult, when there's unfinished business, when others don't validate your loss, or when grief gets stuck and won't move.
Processing what's been lost without rushing. Sometimes we need to sit with the reality of loss before we can figure out what comes next. This includes using narrative and Gestalt approaches to work through unfinished conversations or unresolved feelings.
Rebuilding meaning and identity—major loss often changes who you are and how you see the world. We work on integrating this loss into your life without letting it define everything.
Managing the practical impact—grief affects relationships, work, and daily functioning. We address how it's showing up in your life and what you need to navigate it.
My Approach
I use an integrative, trauma-informed approach combining narrative therapy, Gestalt work, ACT, somatic therapy, and psychodynamic therapy. What this means: we honor your specific experience of grief, work with both the emotional and physical impact, and don't impose timelines or expectations about how you "should" be grieving.
We also look at how past losses might be informing this current one, and how grief connects to larger patterns in how you handle difficult emotions or transitions. Sometimes grief brings up older wounds that also need attention.
