Grief counseling for the losses you are still carrying
I offer grief counseling online across Florida, with a somatic approach, because grief is physical: the heavy chest, the fog, the exhaustion. All losses are welcome here, including the ones other people stopped asking about.
Grief is not only about death, although losing someone who is irreplaceable is one of the hardest types of grief to experience.
Grief is also about the divorce that ended a future you had already furnished. The parent who is alive but was never really there. The friendship that quietly dissolved. The health you used to trust. The version of yourself that existed before everything happened. Our culture hands out permission slips for exactly one kind of grief and leaves the rest to be carried in private.
You will not have to justify your loss here. If it mattered to you, it matters in this room.
Grief work with me is not about stages or timelines. It is about making enough room for the waves to move through, tending what your body is holding, and slowly finding the shape of a life that carries your love and your loss together. Some sessions are tears. Some are stories. Some are learning to breathe and feel calm again. All of it is the work.
Why grief counseling here includes your body
Grief is a full body event: the chest that aches, shoulders that carry loss like a load, the fatigue of metabolizing what happened. Somatic grief counseling works with those places directly, gently, so your body does not have to hold the wave alone. If this is your first encounter with body based work, my writing on grief in the body is a soft place to start.
Related: When grief lives in the body | Everyone I work with | Life transitions
Grief is love with nowhere to go. We make somewhere for it to go.
Grief questions
How long after a loss should I start grief counseling?
Whenever you want support. Some people come in the first raw weeks, others come years later when the fog will not lift. There is no correct timing and no expiration date on grief.
Is it normal that my grief feels physical?
Completely. Exhaustion, chest heaviness, fog, appetite changes, and even pain are common. Your body is doing enormous work; counseling helps it carry the load differently.
What if I feel numb instead of sad?
Numbness is grief too. It is your system dosing reality to survivable amounts. We work with it patiently, and feeling tends to return as safety grows.
You do not have to carry this alone
A free 15 minute consultation, from wherever you are in Florida.