Grief

Grief is not an illness, a weakness, or a failure to “move on.” It’s the mind and body’s natural process of adapting to loss. When we grieve, our relationship to the world — and to ourselves — changes. Therapy offers a space to understand that change with honesty and compassion.

The common idea that grief is a process consisting of specific stages that one moves through and then finishes is wrong. Grief is not something to complete or recover from; it’s a lifelong process of learning how to carry the loss. Over time, that weight can change, but it doesn’t disappear. What matters is learning how to live with it in a way that honors what you’ve lost while allowing life to continue.

Grief shows up in many forms: sadness, anger, numbness, guilt, relief, confusion, even laughter. None of these are wrong. They’re the mind’s way of finding a new balance when something or someone deeply important is no longer there. In therapy, we look at how grief lives in your body — in sleep, appetite, energy, or focus — and how to make room for it without letting it consume you.

There is no timeline for grief, and no single way it should look. Together, we explore how to stay connected to what was lost while also making space for what’s ahead. Sometimes that means finding meaning, sometimes it simply means breathing through the next day.

Healing doesn’t mean forgetting. It means learning to carry love and loss in the same heart — to let grief become part of the story of your life, without it defining the whole story.