Grief & Loss Support
Grief can show up in many forms—not only after death, but through life transitions, change, and loss that don’t always have clear endings. Grief counseling offers a space to slow down, make sense of what’s been lost, and feel supported while carrying what hasn’t yet had room to be felt.
Grief is a natural response to loss—whether that loss is a person, a relationship, a dream, or a sense of what might have been. While grief is often associated with death, it can also emerge during life transitions such as changes in health, retirement, unmet needs from childhood, or moving into an uncertain future.
Moving forward doesn’t require clarity — only permission to go slowly.
Many people continue showing up for others while quietly carrying grief inside. You may be the dependable one—keeping things moving forward while holding loss or longing that hasn’t yet had space to be fully felt.
Some losses are anticipated. Illness or gradual changes can bring anticipatory grief—mourning what’s shifting, even while the person or situation is still present.
Other losses are more ambiguous and harder to name—such as longing for an emotionally unavailable parent, identity shifts, or the loss of safety and predictability after major life events. Without clear closure, these losses can feel especially heavy to carry.
Grief doesn’t just take away what you’ve lost—it can quietly reshape how you see yourself, your relationships, and the world. Grief has no fixed timeline and is deeply personal, relational, and rarely linear.
Do any of these feel familiar?
- Holding yourself together for others while feeling unsteady inside
- Struggling to give yourself permission to fully feel your grief
- Difficulty keeping up with daily routines or responsibilities
- Withdrawing or feeling distant in relationships
- Feeling overwhelmed, numb, guilty, fearful, or self-critical
- Feeling pressure to be “strong” or avoid burdening others
Ways therapy can support you…
- Making space for your grief without rushing or fixing it
- Learning gentle ways to tend to emotional pain
- Getting to know the version of yourself shaped by loss
- Staying connected to others while you grieve
- Finding meaning and imagining a future that includes—not erases—your loss
Grief doesn’t need fixing—it needs space, safety, and someone willing to stay with you while you carry it. In a warm, attuned relationship, your story can be held with care, at your pace. You don’t have to carry this alone.
If any of this resonates, we can begin with a conversation. There’s no pressure to have everything figured out—just a place to start.
Begin with a ConversationOffering online therapy in California and Florida, and walk and talk sessions in the San Francisco Bay Area—meeting you where you are, at your pace.