Therapy for Grief and Loss
Loss Changed Everything in an Instant
You’re moving through an ordinary afternoon, doing something small and forgettable.
Rinsing a coffee cup. Reaching for your phone to tell them something, before you remember. Hearing three notes of a song in a checkout line.
And the wave arrives.
Some days it’s gentle, a steady ache that stays close but lets you keep standing.
Other days it knocks you flat and pulls you under, and you’re sure you’re going to drown in it.
Loss changed everything in an instant.
Maybe you’re mourning someone who died. Maybe it’s the end of a relationship you thought would last, or a life that was supposed to look one way and quietly became something else.
And sometimes it’s a grief the people around you don’t recognize as grief at all.
Grief doesn’t move in a straight line.
Your Grief Is Not a Problem to Be Solved
Grief isn’t a disease, and it isn’t something you just get over.
It’s a reflection of your love and your connection, and the loss is now part of you.
Your grief is the shape your love takes now.
The exhaustion is real, too.
Your emotions cycle fast through deep sadness, anger, guilt, numbness, and even sudden flashes of relief, and that rapid cycling wears the body out.
It leaves you foggy, raw, and more alone than anyone around you realizes.
There is no right or wrong way to do this.
Learn to Steady Yourself When the Waves Hit
This work asks something of you, and I won’t pretend otherwise.
But you don’t have to carry the weight alone, pretend you’re fine, or rush yourself through it.
Together we’ll make a patient, non-judgmental space where you can say your rawest thoughts out loud.
Your tears, your anger, your confusion, with no fear of being judged.
Your body gives you all kinds of clues about what you’re feeling, and we’ll start there.
I’ll teach you concrete DBT skills to steady you when the emotions climb too high to think clearly, so the exhausting ruminations loosen their grip.
Then, together, we’ll untangle the chaotic threads of what you’re feeling into something separate, organized, and manageable.
We’ll follow what you need, at the pace your grief actually moves.
The Waves Still Come, and You Can Stand in Them
The loss doesn’t leave. That was never the goal.
Your life grows wider around it instead.
The wave still arrives on the ordinary afternoons, while you’re rinsing that same coffee cup or hearing those three notes in a checkout line.
Only now you feel it coming, and you stay standing.
You let it move through you, the sadness and the love and the memory all at once, without going under.
The loss becomes woven into you, and it no longer defines your whole life or fences in what’s left of it.
Reach Out Today
When you’re ready to work through your grief at your own pace, reach out to me at (510) 913-3293 for a free 15-minute consultation.
We’ll talk about where you are and what support could look like for you. No pressure, just a conversation.
You deserve relief from this pain, and you do not have to carry it alone.
Let's Take the Hard First Step Together
Asking for help can feel difficult. It's also where everything starts to change.
I’ll give you a place to speak openly, without fear of being judged, and we’ll work toward what matters most to you. If you’re ready to begin, I’d be honored to walk alongside you.