Grief and Trauma Counseling

Loss and trauma are hard to overcome.

Are you grieving a loss?

Are you finding yourself triggered by a past trauma, causing a sense of feeling stuck or disengaged in your present?

Perhaps you have faced the death of someone you hold dear, experienced the end of a romantic relationship, lost a job, or continue to find yourself triggered by past traumas from an abusive upbringing.

Grief and trauma cause many debilitating effects.

Death, loss, traumatic experiences, and distressing life events often trigger a host of troublesome and sometimes debilitating effects.

These effects can cause social, physical, and cognitive symptoms, such as depression, sadness, anxiety, hopelessness, fear, confusion, numbness, loneliness, guilt, and anger.

They can result in frequent crying, appetite changes, sleep disturbances, social withdrawal, heightened impulsivity, confusion, and an inability to concentrate.

There is no reason to tough it out alone.

Grief and traumatic events are times in your life when you need someone to listen, interpret, reflect, and help you navigate life’s difficult passages.

I have first-hand and second-hand personal and professional expertise in issues of loss, life transitions, and trauma.

You have a willing listener capable of helping navigate this event in your life.

Through my past experiences and training, I have supported adults who have coped with a variety of losses to include the death of loved ones (adult child, spouse/partner, parent, or sibling) miscarriage, infertility, divorce, and a career identity.

As a Pastoral Clinically Trained Counselor, I can support your existential faith and spiritually related issues.

I have helped adults who have coped with a variety of traumatic experiences, including traumatic caregiving; warzone trauma; birth trauma; NICU trauma; rape and sexual assault; miscarriage; birth parent abandonment; and sexual, physical, and emotional abuse in childhood and adolescence.

Transition through your loss and trauma is possible.

I believe deeply in your innate resilience and ability to grow through life losses, transitions, and crises.

As your grief counselor, my overall mission is to serve as your grief companion and to help normalize your own grief experiences.

My main priority is to offer you compassionate, nonjudgmental listening, which moves you toward healing.

Sessions help you process your grief and trauma.

As a companion on your journey to process grief and trauma, we will approach grief and trauma counseling using existential, attachment-based, and dual-process grief therapy models.

These models include Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), psychoeducation, acceptance and commitment therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness or faith-based practices, and narrative approaches.

I employ in-session and in-between session exercises to support you in your grief processing.

Contact me today.

Remember, with help you will be able to overcome your grief and other traumatic events in your life.

Let me help you with the process.

Please call me at (571) 882-2925 or e-mail me.