Grief & Loss

This page explores how grief and loss shape our lives, and how therapy can help you work through grief while finding meaning and renewal.

Our Collective Grief

Many of us sense there is grief moving through our collective unconscious. We point to symbols such as politics or the environment as we attempt to understand what feels unsettled within us. Yet these explanations leave us unsatisfied and divided on how to move forward. 

When we step back and look at the entire system we live in, we can start to notice how our lives are rapidly changing. We are left confused and disoriented, not realizing the change we’re experiencing is a form of loss. 

Loss as Change

From an existential perspective, loss is one aspect of change. However, this explanation leaves out how deeply challenging and personal loss can feel. Loss can feel like the ground beneath our feet has shifted—or that how we understand ourselves has forever changed. 

If we pay careful attention to how loss impacts us, we can begin to see it as a guide—pointing toward the truth that all things in this life are impermanent. In time, as we work to understand ourselves and make meaning out of loss through grief, we might start to see how coming into contact with change can help us live a more authentic and present life. 

Grief and the Healing Relationship

Grief is the process we work through to digest and make meaning out of loss. It is a personal journey—like setting off into an unknown land rather than traveling down a familiar road. 

Historically, people turned to religion or shared cultural rituals to help make sense of grief. However, for many Americans today, those supports are harder to find. Even when available, the journey we take may never align with preconceived ideas of what grief “should” look like. 

Therapy can be a space to process and discover how you’re making meaning within grief. Rather than pushing or pulling you to grieve in a specific way, my role is to support you in discovering your own way—one that honors your unique experience and pace. 

Living with Grief

Just as grief is a process that is individual, there is no correct amount of time it takes to grieve. In the long arc of time, once we have worked through the acute challenges grief brings, we might even begin to notice a quiet beauty within the process—like how leaves change color in fall and then drop from trees, a cycle within which we can even find renewal.