Ground. Mourn. Renew.
Grief Counseling
with therapist certified in End of Life & Palliative Care.
in-person in Lafayette and Walnut Creek, CA,
virtual in San Francisco Bay Area and across CA & PA.
We grieve when what or whom we love is absent, dies, or disappears.
The end of an important relationship - a lover, a friendship, a mentor, or a pet.
The death of a loved one - your grandparent after long illness, your child prematurely, or your best friend unexpectedly.
The end of a career, a home, a place of belonging, or a nation you grew up in.
Losses due to aging and illness - changes in independence, moving into retirement.
Confrontation with mortality - a terminal illness or a past near death experience, or even ripples of past wars and atrocities in your family and lineage.
Maybe you’re struggling with…
grief is here…
Perhaps it feels like an endless black well, never filled no matter how many tears already shed.
Perhaps it lurks in the background with dullness - even when you are joking with your family and surrounded by loved ones.
Perhaps everything feels pervasively empty - absent of what or who you have lost.
Grief can be overwhelming. You can feel like you can’t get around it no matter how hard you try.
The sadness can pour out excessively or without warning.
Or, waves of lethargy and weighted fatigue, intrusive or fleeting memories, meander into dreams or excessive sleep.
Perhaps your loss JUST happened.
Perhaps you have HELD IT at bay and it keeps pouring back - since your childhood or your first relationships.
Perhaps it came out of NOWHERE.
Perhaps it just KEEPS BEING HERE and you don’t know why.
Managing this on your own isn’t working anymore.
Let your grief move.
This dedicated space to feel your feels.
A judgment-free, safe space to:
Imagine…
Process your loss.
Explore what it means to you.
Feel the changes and the jarring, fluid emotions with support.
Shore up resources, support, and care in your daily life.
Find and honor your rhythm for aloneness and time with others.
Experience shifts
from…
“you should be over it by now”
disorientation
keeping things at bay
overwhelm & dissociation
powerlessness
heaviness & stagnation
to…
strength & vulnerability
buoyancy & appreciation
presence with elderhood & ancestry
life reviewing, sharing, mourning, & rejoicing
acceptance of you and what you went through
spoken richness & embodied presence
Get in touch
Return to the aliveness of your backbone, your beating heart!
Discover renewal today!
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
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My approach to grief counseling is holistic, mindful, and somatic-based - strategies that will help you get to the heart of your feelings and tend to them. I support your body, heart, and mind to move stuckness with attunement and compassion.
I believe grieving to be natural - as natural as breathing, eating, singing, and walking. Moving through your grief with care opens deeper appreciation for your life. Tending our losses also extends space and capacity for the life to come.
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With grief & loss, our autonomic nervous system works to adapt to a new “norm,” where the old familiar internal & external landmarks are forever changed.
It’s like sitting on a chair previously steady now missing a leg or the back. Each time you “sit” there may be disorientation, unease, sadness, frustration, bargaining, and remembering how it use to be.
Losses require our bodies to adjust to how we are experiencing the world now. It takes time and kindness for our bodies to create new neural networks for the changed landscapes of our lives.
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Your emotions and thoughts about the loss are getting worse rather than better over time.
You find yourself with strong urges to keep busy so bad things won’t happen or so you won’t keep thinking about the loss.
You find yourself reaching for food, alcohol, drugs, social media, and unhealthy relationships to cope.
You feel more and more numb over time.
You don’t know how to process or feel stuck in your processing.
You feel like a shell of yourself even an extended period of time after your loss.
However big or small. Perhaps it nags, or you feel shame or embarrassment. This can be a safe, exploratory space to process, to release, and to return unconditional care to you and your loss!