Compassionate support in the face of loss
Grief Counseling for adults in Greenville, SC
You were not prepared for this.
You hold it together all day and burst into tears as soon as you get in your car. Or that song plays in the grocery store and now you’re crying in public.
Your emotions are always threatening to overwhelm you. You’re exhausted.
Maybe you’re feeling more anxious than you ever have. Fear and disorientation cloud everything. Even your relationships seem different lately.
“Will I always feel like this?”
Hope and happiness seem out of reach.
Maybe distressing memories come out of nowhere. You have trouble eating or sleeping, there’s brain fog, memory problems, and you can’t concentrate.
Your whole body feels your loss.
How can everyone around you continue their lives like nothing happened? Your new reality is unbelievable.
You don’t recognize yourself, you don’t know what to do, and you’re starting to think you might need some help figuring that out.
There’s room for your grief here
Honesty is important, and here’s the truth: this is as bad as it seems, and there’s no fixing the real problem. Someone or something is gone.
I’m not telling you anything you don’t already know, and I’m so genuinely sorry for your loss.
Here’s another truth: You may feel crazy, but your grief is a natural reaction to death, divorce, or any huge loss. You’re not going crazy, and there’s nothing fundamentally “wrong” with you.
So how can grief counseling help me?
Grief counseling is special because we aren’t fixing the problem, we’re focusing on what you can control:
How you cope with the sadness, anger, anxiety, fear, regret, longing, disbelief, and any other emotion that comes up.
How you learn to carry grief, so it won’t always feel overwhelming.
Living your life with your grief and taking steps now to ensure your future can include happiness and purpose.
Giving full presence to your grief: sharing feelings, memories, and anything else you need to process. This can be such a relief when people seem tired of hearing about your grief, or you feel self-conscious about needing to talk about it.
Providing practical support to help you make it through this season and the ones to come.
Healing can happen alongside your grief. Having a therapist with specific training and experience for your situation can make a difference for this time in your life.
Compassionate, skilled counseling to support adults experiencing…
If you’re shocked by the intensity of grief, you aren’t alone. Our culture doesn’t teach us how to grieve…people don’t really talk about life after the funeral. We often suffer in silence while putting on a brave face to the outside world.
Loss doesn’t come in just one form.
Heartbreak of all sorts goes unacknowledged: life transitions like job loss, a big move, death of a pet, friendship breakups.
Anytime our reality doesn’t match up with what we thought would happen in life, we grieve.
If you’ve been surprised by the experience of grief, whether it’s your first encounter with loss of this magnitude or the losses have piled up pretty high, you’ve come to just the right place to find support.
Defined as abrupt, unexpected loss. This includes out-of-order death like loss of a child, death by suicide, homicide, accident, or going through loss with medically intense circumstances, among many other situations.
Traumatic grief can come with symptoms like flashbacks to traumatizing memories, intense fear and anxiety, nightmares, trouble sleeping or eating, feeling numb, and avoiding things that remind you of your loss. It’s a waking nightmare, but there is a way forward.
Loss of significant relationship can be shockingly painful.
You question where it went wrong, who you are now, and what your future looks like. It requires a grief process all it’s own and specific tools for the journey ahead.
Divorce Recovery could include coping with painful emotions and physical symptoms, grieving the past, present, and future, getting in touch with your values, acting in alignment with those values so your self-respect remains intact, refreshing or learning communication skills, and boundary work.
I specialize in working with individuals who know the outcome of their relationship vs. those seeking discernment in whether or not to save the marriage.
