Grief Therapy for Middle-Aged Adults

Someone you love is gone, and that is really hard!

I help middle-aged adults process grief without feeling so alone.

My clients struggle like you do. Despite being kind, compassionate, and highly capable adults - living with the grief of a profound loss has felt isolating and exhausting.

Grief is a totally normal response to loss - but nothing about this feels normal.

When my clients first come into therapy, they are overwhelmed by the depth and range of emotions they are experiencing. They feel unmotivated to keep living. They feel deep sadness that they don’t have words for. They feel their despair is swallowing them. They are angry and tired and uncertain. They miss their loved one. They miss who they were before the loss. They are having a hard time functioning and they want their pain and suffering to end. They feel a loss of predictability. They are having difficulty returning to work. They feel anxious about the possibility of future loss. They long for their pain to be seen, but feel like they have to keep it together. They feel misunderstood and don’t want to just “get over it”. Some don’t understand why they are feeling grief emotions from a loss that happened a long time ago. Their other important relationships have been interrupted and they feel isolated and alone in their experience.

Grief has no timeline

Grief doesn’t end, it evolves. Whether your loved one died weeks, years or decades ago, grief may demand our attention when we least expect it.

My clients seek therapy from many starting points.

For some, their loved one died very recently and they know they want support processing their loss. Many experienced a significant loss decades ago and are only now able to start processing their grief in their middle and later ages. For others, a new loss has created an upsurge of grief and anxiety from a past loss.

You don’t have to navigate your grief and loss alone.

We live in a death and pain avoidant society and frequently our friends and family don’t know how to support someone who has experienced a loss. Having a skilled, compassionate and trusted therapist can help you integrate your grief, find clarity, feel hopeful and move towards reinvesting in your life.