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Grief-Informed Group Therapy There's a particular kind of loneliness that follows loss. Not the loneliness of being alone in a room. The loneliness of being in a room full of people (your family, your friends, maybe even your therapist) and realizing that no one can quite go where you need to go. That the depth of what you're carrying is more than the people around you know how to hold. If you've felt that, this is for you. Where This Work Began For years before I ran therapy

I didn’t come to this work by accident. I came to it the way so many of us come to what we’re meant to do—through something that undid me. Not all at once. Not in a single moment. But slowly, quietly, in a series of losses that hollowed me out and made room for something else. When my mom died, something in me broke open. She was my first home, my everything. And when she was gone, it felt like someone had reached inside and rearranged the furniture of my life. But that was o

There is a moment that comes for almost everyone navigating loss. You might be standing in a parent's house, drawers half open, photos in shoeboxes, forty years of someone's life stacked quietly around you. Maybe it is the question of what to do with their ashes. Maybe it is deciding whether to keep the Christmas ornaments, sell the house, or hold onto the sweater that still smells like them. And somewhere in that moment, something unsettling dawns on you: You have no idea ho

A quick note before we go further: My practice is called Seattle Grief Counseling . The name is simple shorthand — the words people tend to use for when they’re hurting and trying to find support. But what I actually offer is grief therapy . And that difference, subtle as it might seem, is worth understanding. Counseling helps you survive it. Therapy asks what it's changed in you. Many people imagine grief counseling as something structured. The five stages of grief  to move

Here you are, searching for a grief therapist. I'm so sorry you're in this place. Scrolling through websites and directories. Reading profiles. Trying to figure out who might actually help you navigate this strange, shifting terrain, when you barely have the energy to make the next meal or answer a text. It’s exhausting. And unfair. Almost cruel, that even asking for help requires so much effort. Before I tell you what to look for in a grief therapist, I want to tell you a st

After nearly 15 years of walking with people through profound loss, these are the truths I’ve learned—not from textbooks, but from...