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Grief & Loss Therapy: Finding a Way Forward Without Leaving What Matters Behind

You can grieve in your own way. Therapy gives you room to talk, remember, and move forward without forgetting what matters.

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About this service

Grief & Loss Therapy

Individual therapy for bereavement, traumatic loss, anticipatory grief, relationship endings, identity loss, and major life changes.

I provide individual therapy for adults experiencing grief and loss. This may include the death of someone they love, traumatic or unexpected loss, anticipatory grief, divorce or the end of a significant relationship, loss of a career or role, changes in health or independence, loss of identity, or other major life changes.

Grief is deeply personal, and there is no “right” way or timetable for experiencing it. It may involve sadness, anger, guilt, relief, numbness, confusion, anxiety, loneliness, or moments of happiness followed by guilt.

What it is

Individual therapy for adults experiencing grief and loss after death, traumatic or unexpected loss, relationship endings, changes in health or independence, loss of identity, or other major life changes.

Who it serves

Adults at different stages of change and recovery, including people who are unsure whether they want complete abstinence or are simply recognizing that a substance or behavior is becoming a problem.

How it starts

I begin by understanding what the behavior does for you, what need it meets, what feeling it quiets, and what happens immediately before and afterward.

If your concerns are connected to past experiences, trauma therapy for adults in Missouri can provide a broader starting point.

Common experiences

What You May Be Experiencing

  • “Everyone keeps telling me I need to move on.”

  • “I should be over this by now.”

  • “I don’t know how I’m supposed to do life without them.”

  • “Nobody wants to hear me talk about it anymore.”

Grief-informed care

There is no right way or timeline for grief

Treatment is individualized around the person, the loss, and what they need. We may work on processing emotions, guilt or unfinished business, adapting to changes in identity and daily life, rebuilding connection and routines, addressing trauma, and finding ways to remember or honor what was lost.

Grief does not require a relationship to have been perfect. Someone can miss a person and be angry with them, love someone and feel relief after their death, or grieve a relationship while knowing ending it was necessary. More than one thing can be true at the same time.

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Approaches & tools

Support for carrying what matters forward

Grief is as individual as the relationship or experience being grieved. Tools are chosen around the person, the nature of the loss, and what moving forward means to them.

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Therapy approaches and tools
Finding a way forward

A way forward without leaving what matters behind

Grief can create isolation and disrupt everyday life. Therapy can support gradual reconnection with people, routines, activities, responsibilities, and sources of meaning without suggesting that doing so means the loss matters less.

The goal isn’t to forget, stop loving, or return to exactly who you were before the loss. It is to find a way to carry what mattered with you while still allowing yourself to live the life that remains.