Grief Counseling
Grief is deeply personal. There is no single way to grieve and no timetable for healing.
For more than twenty-five years, I have worked with individuals navigating grief, loss, trauma, and major life transitions. My approach provides a compassionate space to experience grief as it unfolds, while finding ways to live with what has changed and carry forward what remains.
My own experience of profound loss deepened my understanding of grief in ways that clinical training alone could not.
A Personal & Clinical Perspective
When my husband of more than forty years died in 2023, I went from being the therapist sitting beside grief to the person living it.
In the beginning, healing wasn’t something I could imagine. Sometimes getting through the day meant doing only the next thing in front of me: getting up, making the bed, feeding Honey, drinking coffee, taking a shower, breathing, and allowing myself to feel whatever emotions surfaced.
As the weeks passed, I began incorporating some of the practices I had spent years using professionally. I began using EMDR to help settle my nervous system. Meditation and journaling became part of my own healing. And gradually, I began exploring not only how we live with loss, but how our relationship with someone we love may continue to evolve after death.
That experience changed the therapist I am today.
Induced After-Death Communication (IADC)
IADC is a therapeutic approach developed from EMDR principles that uses bilateral stimulation in the context of grief therapy. The process is intended to help reduce the emotional intensity associated with grief and, for some people, may be accompanied by a subjective sense of connection with the person who died.
IADC does not require a particular spiritual or religious belief, nor is any specific experience promised or expected. The work is approached therapeutically, with openness to whatever emerges for the individual.
