Grief Counseling
Grief reshapes us.
It asks us to slow down, to feel, and to live inside a world that no longer looks the same.
I support individuals, couples, families, and those grieving beloved animals through the full spectrum of loss — death, identity changes, chronic illness, rupture, transition, and the quiet griefs that often go unseen.
My approach blends depth psychotherapy, Buddhist psychology, trauma-informed care, and a lifetime of lived experience with early, profound loss. I hold grief as a sacred passage — a transformative process, not a pathology.
My Approach: Grief as Sacred Work
Author and psychotherapist Francis Weller writes that “grief is a skill,” something we must learn, practice, and be supported in.
His book The Wild Edge of Sorrow has been foundational in shaping how I understand and tend grief — not as a private burden but as a communal, ritual, and soul-centric experience.
I draw from Weller’s understanding of grief as a multi-layered process expressed through the Five Gates of Grief:
Everything we love we will lose
Places within us that have not known love
The sorrows of the world
What we expected and did not receive
Ancestral grief
This framework honors the complexity of human sorrow and recognizes that grief does not live in a single event, but in the accumulated places where love, longing, rupture, and unmet life intersect.
How I Work
My approach integrates:
Depth Psychotherapy - Exploring identity, meaning, unconscious layers, and archetypal themes within grief.
Somatic & Trauma-Informed Support - Attuning to the nervous system, grounding overwhelming emotions, and helping the body feel safer.
Spiritual & Existential Inquiry - Drawing from Buddhist psychology and contemplative practice. Your beliefs — whatever they are — are welcome.
Ritual & Soul-Tending - Simple, meaningful practices to help metabolize grief and honor what has been lost, inspired in part by Weller’s grief ritual traditions.
Grief for Animals & Animal Kin - Honoring the profound bond between humans and animals with full depth and reverence.
Coming soon:
Death-Doula–Informed Care - Gentle, grounded support for end-of-life processes and those walking alongside someone who is dying.
Why This Work Matters to Me
My relationship with grief began early: foster care, adoption at age 10, losing my biological mother at 13, carrying unanswered questions about my biological father. These early initiations shaped my understanding of loss, separation, and belonging.
In 2019, my life was blindsided by life-altering and disabling chronic illness that pulled me out of my comfort zone - and community - for 5 years. In 2022, I walked with my adoptive father, Paul, through his dying process — an experience that opened a deeper calling toward death work and soul-companionship.
I don’t meet grief as an outsider. I sit with you as someone who knows the terrain intimately and has been offering grief counseling and group support since 2012.
Who I Support
Individuals
Couples
Families
People grieving animal companions
Those facing their own mortality
Caregivers
Those living with chronic illness or identity-changing life events
Where We Meet
In my office
Online (Vermont clients)
Concierge sessions in your home for those grieving, caregiving, ill, disabled, or needing support brought to them