Grief Therapy for Adults in Washington
I offer online grief therapy for adults across Washington who are grieving, anticipating a loss, or trying to find their way after a death or other significant loss.
Grief can rearrange your life in ways other people may not fully understand. It can affect your body, relationships, sense of time, identity, beliefs, work, and the way ordinary days feel.
Grief Isn’t Just Sadness
I work with adults navigating many forms of grief and loss, including:
The death of a spouse, partner, parent, adult child, sibling, friend, or loved one
Anticipatory grief before an expected death
Grief related to terminal illness or your own approaching death
Sudden or traumatic death
Caregiver grief
Family grief
Pet loss
Suicide loss
Overdose loss
Accidental death
Grief after a medical crisis or other unexpected loss
Loss that feels complicated, unfinished, or hard to talk about
You don’t need to know whether your grief is “normal” or whether enough time has passed. If you are hurting, disoriented, overwhelmed, numb, or carrying something you do not know how to hold alone, therapy may help.
Grief can look different from person to person, and it does not always arrive in ways that make sense. You may feel sadness, shock, numbness, anger, guilt, fear, relief, confusion, exhaustion—or several of these at once.
Sometimes grief is loud and overwhelming; sometimes it is strangely quiet. It may come in waves or surface months or years later, even when other people expect you to be doing better.
Grief can also bring unfinished conversations and complicated feelings about the person who died. Therapy can offer a place to hold what was said, left unsaid, wished for, or never repaired—without forcing resolution or asking you to grieve on anyone else’s timeline.
Who I Work With
When the Loss Was Sudden, Traumatic, or Complicated
Some losses happen suddenly or traumatically, leaving your mind and body trying to absorb what happened. This can follow suicide, overdose, accidents, sudden medical events, violent death, or other unexpected losses.
Traumatic grief may include:
Shock or disbelief
Intrusive images or memories
Guilt, regret, or “what if” thoughts
Anger at the person who died, yourself, others, or the situation
Fear that something else terrible will happen
Difficulty sleeping or concentrating
Feeling disconnected from your body or from other people
Avoiding reminders of the death
Wanting answers that may not be available
In therapy, you do not have to tell the story perfectly or protect me from the details, and you do not have to move faster than your nervous system can handle.
The work is not about forcing acceptance or finding a silver lining. It is about creating enough steadiness to be with what happened, tend to what it has changed, and slowly find your way forward.
Therapy for Anticipatory Grief
Grief can begin before someone dies. If someone you love is terminally ill, declining, or nearing the end of life, you may already be grieving while caregiving, making decisions, coordinating family, or trying to stay present.
Anticipatory grief can bring sadness, anxiety, resentment, tenderness, guilt, exhaustion, love, and fear—sometimes all at once. It can also feel lonely when others don’t understand that the loss has already begun.
Therapy can help you prepare for a death, navigate family dynamics, care for yourself, and make room for the emotional complexity of loving someone who is dying.
Pet Loss
The death of a pet can be a profound loss. Pets can be family, companions, sources of comfort, and part of the rhythm of everyday life.
When that loss is minimized by others, grief can feel even more isolating. Therapy can offer space to honor the bond and the grief that follows.
How Grief Therapy Can Help
Grief therapy doesn’t erase the loss or ask you to “get over it.”
Instead, therapy can help you:
Make space for grief without being consumed by it
Understand emotional and physical responses to loss
Work with guilt, anger, regret, numbness, or fear
Tend to trauma responses after sudden or violent death
Navigate relationships and family dynamics after loss
Find language for what happened and what it means to you
Rebuild parts of daily life
Stay connected to love and memory without being frozen in pain
Make room for both grief and life
The goal isn’t closure. It’s finding enough support and steadiness to keep living with what has changed.
I’m a grief therapist and certified death doula with experience in hospice, hospital, private-practice, and grief-group settings, along with death doula training through Going With Grace.
I bring a calm, warm, trauma-informed presence to people and families navigating grief, dying, caregiving, and end-of-life transitions.
My approach is calm, practical, trauma-informed, and nonjudgmental. In therapy, we may make room for feelings that are hard to name, tend to trauma responses, explore changes in identity or relationships, and find ways to stay connected to love and memory while continuing to live.
There is no right way to grieve. You don’t need to perform grief correctly, move at someone else’s pace, or make your loss easier for other people to understand.
About My Approach
Reach Out When You’re Ready
You don’t need to know whether therapy is the right next step before reaching out.
A free 30-minute consultation is a chance to share what’s happening, ask questions, and see whether grief therapy feels like a good fit.