Grief and Loss Counseling
Healing grief is finding a way to express it.
Grief is a natural process to the experience of loss that brings intense feelings of sadness, anger, and even guilt. Often these feelings ease with time, allowing us to find new hope and joy in our life. There are times when it can be difficult to move forward and the experience of loss is a daily burden. Sometimes grief is delayed or prolonged. Other times we grieve something that no one wants to talk about.
Grief is common, but in no way simple.
Grief includes ambiguous losses, such as divorce, miscarrige or estrangment from children.
At times we have no external reaction or may not even recognize our sadness and anger coming from loss. It can come in intrusive memories, sudden and powerful emotions and even chronic depression.
Individual therapy provides specialized support for grief.
- Identify the full impact of a loss or series of losses
- Move through emotions of grief at your own pace
- Process traumatic experiences or internalized beliefs that prevent healthy grieving
- Build hope and forward movement
"Sometimes happy memories hurt the most."
The complex model of grief tells us that there is no linear process, that we do nat
“graduate” through stages, in fact we are tasked with figuring out what we hold on to while continuing to live and moving into our future life.
- Grief means accepting the reality of a loss
- Grief means experiencing the true pain of a loss
- Grief is adjusting every day to the new environment and life
- Grief is finding new purpose and meaning after loss
