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About My Clients
Times of transition can leave us feeling disoriented, uprooted and sometimes tug at old emotional wounds. If you are grieving the death of someone significant in your life, facing an uncertain diagnosis, an empty nest, the loss of a relationship, changing employment, or adjusting to a geographical move, it would be my honor to support you in exploring the layers of your loss, finding your footing again, and restoring your hope for a meaningful future.
My Background and Approach
I was drawn to grief work after the death of my mother from cancer when I was seventeen, and the ensuing desire to more deeply understand and make meaning out of my loss. Prior to beginning a private practice, my professional career has included work as a nursing home social worker, a hospice social worker and a hospice grief counselor. I approach grief not as a problem to be solved, but rather as a natural, human response to loss, and, as writer Jane Brody describes, "a process to be tended and lived through in whatever form and however long it may take." My counseling style is person-centered, deepening conversation to discover and honor one's inherent wisdom and capacity for healing. Our work together may incorporate mindfulness and self-compassion practices, as well as the use of writing and symbolic ritual as a means of expression, release and healing. Past clients have expressed particular appreciation for my genuine, thoughtful and creative approach to our work.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe our grief needs and deserves a witness. I believe it is vital to make space for acknowledging and exploring the painful aspects of loss and change, while also inviting room for possibilities of healing, regrounding and reconnection to life that, although forever changed by loss, can still have meaning. I believe in and, in my work, am continually inspired by human beings' innate capacity for healing.