Grief and Loss Support Groups
You may find that being with others who have experienced the death of someone close may be helpful through your healing process and provide hope and healing.
I offer process groups supporting those grieving the death of someone close.
The groups in my practice are:
Young children (ages 4–6) grieving the death of a parent or sibling within the last 18 months
Teens (ages 14–17) grieving the death of a parent or sibling within the last 18 months
Adults (up to age 40) grieving the death of a parent or sibling within the last year
Adults (over age 40) grieving the death of a parent or sibling within the last year
Adults (age 30–50) grieving the death of a spouse or a partner within the last year
My groups provide a safe and comforting environment. Group is a place where you can safely express your grief and where you might not feel so alone in your pain.
You might be here because someone close to you has died or because a spouse or partner has decided to leave your relationship or because the career you thought you wanted hasn’t worked out the way you might have hoped it would. Traumatic events like these can leave us with unpredictable and intense feelings that we don’t know how to understand or control.
What Am I Feeling?
All the feelings you experience after a death or major loss constitute grief. Grief comprises a variety of experiences after someone close to them has died or something has changed or ended. You are here because that has happened to you. The intensity of your grieving process and the form it takes often catches you by surprise. You are not alone as most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about either of these life changing events.
Each grieving process is unique in its form and duration. There is no ready-made fix for grief but having a safe space and someone with whom you can express the full range of emotions and actions that make up your grieving process will certainly help. With time and working together, we can find a way to balance the memory of your loss with living a full and meaningful life.
Type of Grief
Most people associate grief with death. The grief following the death of someone close is bereavement. Bereavement can leave us with deep existential and spiritual questions about the fairness of the universe. It also creates practical difficulties as we assume new responsibilities that once belonged to the deceased person in the midst of grieving. I help clients find ways to stay connected to their loved ones while adjusting to life without them.
We can also grieve breakups, estrangement and career transitions or changes. Major losses like these can bring up the same kind of existential, spiritual and practical problems that come with death and grieving them is just as legitimate.
“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”