Grief & Life Transitions

Some of the hardest things to navigate aren't problems you can solve.

A significant loss. A relationship ending. A career that no longer fits. A health diagnosis. A move that uproots more than just your address. The death of someone central to your life.

These aren't situations where more information or better strategies are the answer. They're situations where something has fundamentally shifted — and how you understood yourself, your life, and what comes next no longer holds in quite the same way.

Therapy for grief and transition isn't about moving on faster. It's about understanding what's actually happening, finding your footing in it, and building forward from where you actually are.

Who comes here

People navigating grief and loss

You've lost someone — or something — significant. A person, a relationship, a version of your life you expected to have. The loss may be recent or it may have been years ago and still unresolved. You may be functioning in most areas of your life while carrying something that hasn't found a place to settle.

Grief doesn't follow a timeline, and it rarely looks the way people expect it to. This work meets you where you actually are — not where grief is supposed to be by now.

People in major life transition

Something significant has changed. A divorce or separation. A career ending or shifting. Children leaving home. A move to a new place. Retirement. A health event that reframes how you think about time and what matters.

Transitions destabilize because they don't just change circumstances — they change identity. Who you are in relation to other people, what structures organize your days, what you're working toward. Therapy helps you understand what's actually being asked of you in a transition, and build from there.

People dealing with complicated grief

Some grief is uncomplicated — painful, but moving. Some isn't. Complicated grief gets stuck. It may involve ambivalence about the person lost, circumstances that made the loss traumatic or unresolved, a relationship that was difficult before the loss, or a loss that others don't fully recognize as significant.

This is the kind of grief that benefits most from structured, experienced support — not just time.

People in the aftermath of a relationship ending

Divorce and separation carry grief that is often underestimated — especially when the relationship was complicated, or when there are children, finances, and long-shared lives still entangled. The loss isn't just the person. It's a structure, an identity, a future that was assumed.

This work helps you understand what you're actually grieving, stabilize during what is often a destabilizing period, and build a clearer sense of what comes next.

What I bring to this work

Before working in addiction treatment, I spent years as a hospice social worker and led a bereavement program supporting individuals and families through end-of-life care and complex grief.

That experience gave me a particular understanding of loss — not just the acute grief of death, but the slower, less acknowledged grief that comes with illness, decline, and the anticipatory loss of watching someone change before they're gone. And the grief that continues, often in complicated forms, long after.

Most private practice therapists haven't worked directly in this space at this depth. I have — and it shapes how I sit with people in it.

What the work looks like

Grief and transition work here is neither open-ended nor rushed.

We start by understanding what's actually happening — what you've lost, what it meant, and what's making this particular grief or transition difficult to move through. That clarity matters. Grief that isn't understood tends to get stuck or displaced.

From there, the work builds forward. Not toward "closure" — that's not usually how it works — but toward a clearer relationship with what happened, a steadier sense of yourself inside it, and a realistic picture of what comes next.

The pace is determined by what's actually needed, not by an external timeline.

This work may be right for you if…

• You've experienced a significant loss and feel stuck in it

• A major life change has left you uncertain about who you are or what comes next

• You're functioning but carrying something heavy that hasn't found a place to go

• The grief is complicated — ambivalent, unresolved, or not recognized by others

• You want structured, experienced support, not just a space to talk