Compassion, Support, and Healing for Grief and Loss
Grief Counseling in Los Angeles and throughout CA, as well as in Miami and throughout Florida
Uncover your resilience after a loss and find joy again with grief and loss counseling.
You’ve experienced a loss that left a hole in your life and your heart.
Whether it’s the death of a loved one, the ending of a relationship, or the loss of a dream that will never come to fruition, grief comes in many forms. Maybe it’s left you with a feeling of grief, including depression, anxiety, and anger. Or perhaps it’s left you feeling numb or overwhelmed by trying to figure out how to go on living without them. It’s hard to know how to continue your life when it looks so different now. Grief counseling can help you gain balance when you feel off-kilter. You can create a “new normal” as you work through your grief in therapy.
You may be struggling with getting out of bed each day, asking yourself, “why bother?” or shocked and angry that the world keeps going as if nothing has changed. You may be perfectly fine one minute, then burst into tears for “no reason.”
Or you might feel guilty if you laugh or smile, feeling disloyal to the memory of your loved one for being happy while you “should” be grieving.
Maybe you’re putting on a brave face at a family gathering full of children running around after you’ve just had a hysterectomy which left you unable to have children—ending your lifelong dream of becoming a parent.
Grief brings all kinds of feelings. Perhaps you’re both relieved at the end of a bad marriage and feeling like a failure simultaneously.
Grief comes with many losses and impacts our moods, relationships, and ability to work or concentrate on tasks.
There’s help for you with online grief counseling.
How I can help you cope with grief and loss-
Grief counseling can help you not only cope but rediscover happiness in life.
Through our work together in grief counseling, you’ll process the loss and all the feelings that come with it. The grief, the anger, the sadness, the loneliness, the guilt…all the emotions.
Together we’ll talk about ways of coping with the waves of feelings that come, sometimes seemingly out of nowhere.
You may feel fine then suddenly burst into tears at a stop sign, or you may know that your loved one’s birthday is coming up and the anxiety anticipating it is so great it feels like you can’t breathe.
We’ll work on ways to cope with both the expected and unexpected so that you can move forward with your life and find that spark of joy, that passion that makes life worth living.
Together we’ll process the meaning of the loss and how your life looks different now than you imagined it would.
We’ll also work on increasing your inner strength and developing your resilience.
Ultimately, we’ll help you create a life where you can invest in yourself and gain happiness and joy.
I’m here to help with all of life’s losses.
The death of a loved one
The loss of a friend group as you move into a new phase in life
The ending of a relationship
The loss of a job
The loss of a home, or the loss of your childhood home
The loss of a pet
Infertility- both primary infertility or infertility due to cancer or a hysterectomy
Miscarriage or abortion
Imagine if you…
Understood your feelings and learned how to respond to them.
Grief can bring confusing feelings. Not just sadness but guilt, anger, loneliness, and even relief. Together we’ll work towards understanding all your feelings, where they’re coming from, and how to handle them so they’re not overwhelming you.
Could stop your negative self-talk.
Often, people who are grieving are dealing with a lot of shoulds. I should be past this by now. I shouldn’t feel this way. I should be able to handle this better… There’s no right way to grieve, and there’s no set timetable for your grief. Through grief counseling, you can replace your negative self-talk with acceptance and compassion for yourself.
Felt joy and found meaning in life again.
You’ll learn to make room for your life’s grief and joy through grief counseling. You’ll find meaning in what you’re doing, and you’ll be able to engage in life the way you want to.
I want you to know:
Together, we can transform grief into growth.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Grief Therapy
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We’ll talk about the loss- the person, or the relationship, or the dream, and what the circumstances were around the loss. We’ll strategize ways to help you get through tough days like holidays and loss-anniversaries.
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When a loss is the result of a trauma, like a car accident, a murder or a war, or having watched a loved one suffer through a long illness, or a sudden death, the feelings of grief are complicated by the trauma. In that case, we might also do some EMDR work specific to the trauma. EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Recovery. It uses bilateral eye movements to help your brain resproces traumatic memories or experien ces so that you’re not reliving them. Learn more about it here.
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It’s different for each person, and is complicated by the relationship to the person you’ve lost. Some people feel better within weeks or months, but really, the first year is often the hardest. It’s a year of firsts- the first holiday/birthday/summer without the person is often the hardest.