If you’re here, you’re grieving. You’re learning to live without someone important, or your beloved pet. You’re hurting, feeling alone and misunderstood, and want someone who gets it.

You’ve come to the right place. I know what that feels like. Long before I was a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, I was just a girl on the brink of adulthood, grieving the sudden death of her dad.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t know what I was doing back then in my grief. Maybe I tried some of the grief coping skills you’re doing now: ignoring it and hoping it goes away on its own, drowning it in alcohol or self-medicating with other substances, or filling the emptiness with unsatisfying relationships that are better than being alone.

What I can tell you now after graduate school, licensing hours and exams, and plenty of grief continuing education credits, is that grief doesn’t go away. It’s not meant to. But we can integrate grief into our lives.

We can befriend it using some IFS-inspired parts work. We can address the trauma around sudden loss with EMDR. We can support you and your partner, family member, or friend as you learn to live with loss. We can give your grief a community in one of my many grief groups.

However we decide to support it, know you don’t have to grieve alone. I’m here to help.