A whole-person approach to grief.
When loss happens.
Online therapy in Oregon for loss and heartbreak.
Grief can touch every part of you.
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Grief affects more than how you feel. It changes your routines, relationships, identity, and expectations for your present and future. Therapy can provide space to make sense of your loss and all that comes with it.
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Grief often doesn’t arrive predictably or follow a clear timeline. And it can involve disbelief, guilt, regrets, or living with the burden of things you wish you’d said or done. Therapy offers room for whatever is present for you, including feelings that may be difficult, unexpected, or contradictory.
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Moving forward doesn't mean leaving the loss behind or deciding that you're “over it.” Often times it’s quite the opposite and involves learning to carry grief with you. We can explore what you want from your experience and how to hold what you’ve lost.
Loss comes in many forms.
Loss can come in ways we don't expect. It can bring sadness, anger, uncertainty, and disorientation, even while it feels like coming home. It can also clarify what matters and change how we want to live, giving us the chance to know life and love more deeply. Therapy can support you in making space for grief and the meaning you want to carry from it.
Is grief counseling the right fit?
You are carrying old or compound grief that you never had room to fully feel.
A relationship is ending, leaving you to navigate between what was and what is now.
Changes in your health or abilities have altered how you move through daily life.
You are grieving the death of a person or animal you love and learning how to live without them.
You feel alone in your loss, with parts of grief that others may not fully recognize or understand.
“Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we
reach it.”
~ Joan Didion
What grief counseling looks like.
Grief is deeply personal, and it changes over time. It can break you open and affect the way you feel moving through the world. You may have good days and harder ones. Therapy is a space to talk honestly about where you are, without expectations about how you should feel or where you should be by now.
Moving at the pace of your grief.
Counseling may include talking through what happened, alongside body-based work. Grief is often held in the body as tension, numbness, restlessness, or other responses. Together, we can make room for those experiences and find ways of being with them, without rushing the process.
What we can work toward.
With counseling, you can…
Have your grief witnessed and supported without judgment.
Have space to hold both the pain and awe that come with grief.
Build a stronger connection with yourself and what you need.
Find greater awareness of how grief shows up in your body and daily life.
Look at ways to work with your nervous system when emotion or stress take over.
FAQs
Frequently asked questions
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We can talk about any loss you are experiencing. Nothing is too small. Grief can follow many kinds of loss, including (but not limited to) death, relationship changes, or changes in health or ability.
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There’s no right way to grieve. It’s common to have a mix of emotions with grief to sort through. Counseling is intended to help you make sense of what you’re experiencing and find ways to move through it that feel right for you.
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It depends. There is no set timeline. Some people come for a handful of sessions around a particular loss, while others find that longer-term therapy is helpful. It’s common that people don’t know how long it will take when they enter therapy.
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Counseling and healing doesn’t require you to move on from your loss or leave it behind. In fact, it’s the opposite - part of the work we do is finding ways to carry what is important to you and make room for it in your life.
Get in touch
When you’re ready.
Connection · Depth · Meaning
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