Finding Light in Loss

Grief is not a problem to be solved, but a personal journey to be honored. Together, we'll navigate your path forward with compassion, understanding, and hope.

You Don’t Have to Walk This Path Alone

Grief touches every aspect of our lives - our relationships, our work, our sense of purpose, and our vision for the future. It's one of the most profound human experiences, yet we're often expected to navigate it in isolation.

As your grief coach, I provide a safe space where your loss is witnessed, your pain is validated, and your healing is supported. Whether you've lost a loved one, a relationship, a job, your health, or any significant part of your life, your grief matters.

Together, we explore your grief through guided exercises, which can include breath work, written reflections, experiential activities, visualizations, and story telling. Our goal is to help you name what you have lost - both the obvious and less obvious - and how those losses have changed you.

But the work doesn’t stop there: this is coaching, and all coaching assumes forward movement with action. My role is to companion you through your grief, while gently holding that there is a life beyond your loss that is rich and full of purpose. Together, we can get you there.

Is Grief Coaching Right for You?

Many people wonder about the difference between grief therapy and grief coaching. Both are valuable, but they serve different purposes in your healing journey.

Grief Therapy 🏥

Best for:

  • Clinical depression or anxiety related to your loss

  • Trauma processing from the circumstances of your loss

  • When grief is significantly impacting daily functioning

  • Complicated grief that feels "stuck"

  • Co-occurring mental health concerns

Approach:

Medical model focused on diagnosis, treatment of symptoms, and healing psychological wounds.

Grief Coaching 🌱

Best for:

  • Processing normal grief responses to loss

  • Creating meaning from your loss experience

  • Designing a fulfilling life that honors your loss

  • Navigating life transitions after loss

  • Building resilience and post-traumatic growth

Approach:

Forward-looking partnership focused on growth, meaning-making, and conscious life design.

Still Not Sure?

Sometimes the best path forward involves both therapy and coaching, either simultaneously or at different stages of your journey. During our initial conversation, we can explore what feels most supportive for you right now. If grief coaching isn't the right fit, I'm happy to help you find appropriate therapeutic support.

Upcoming Group Grief Coaching Workshops

  • Grief Without God

    Summer 2025 - Dates & Time TBD

    Who is this for?
    Anyone finding it a challenge to express their secular grief in a religious world. These sessions allow us to base our grief in our human experience, without the need for fantasy or the supernatural. All losses welcome.

    How many sessions?
    Eight 90-minute sessions

    How many participants?
    6-10 participants

    Participation fee:
    $200 USD

  • Group Grief Coaching for Gay Men

    Summer 2025 - Dates & Time TBD

    Who is this for?
    This supportive community of GBTQ+ men will come together to support and coach one another through our grief, providing a space to build community and those with a shared identity. Whether you are working through the loss of a partner, a chosen family member, or some other profound loss for you - you are welcome here.

    How many sessions?
    Eight 90-minute sessions

    How many participants?
    6-10 participants

    Participation fee:
    $200 USD

  • Group Grief Coaching for Early Retirees

    Fall 2025 - Dates & Time TBD

    Who is this for?
    Early retirement is an exciting new chapter for many, full of possibilities and new choices. These sessions help to explore what you have left behind and lost from your pre-retirement life, to help inform what will be important as you design your new identity.

    How many sessions?
    Eight 90-minute sessions

    How many participants?
    6-10 participants

    Participation fee:
    $200 USD

  • Group Grief Coaching for Life Partner Loss

    Fall 2025 - Dates & Time TBD

    Who is this for?
    The loss of a spouse or life partner affects individuals differently, and can make you question all aspects of the life you had designed to be lived in for two. Join this grief coaching group to find a place to express and experience your grief, in addition to support in building your new chapter beyond your loss.

    How many sessions?
    Eight 90-minute sessions

    How many participants?
    6-10 participants

    Participation fee:
    $200 USD

  • Empty Nesters' Group Coaching

    Fall 2025 - Dates & Time TBD

    Who is this for?
    The kids are grown and out of the house. Your time is now your own and this is your chance to explore and take action on finding new and purposeful experiences. This coaching community honors and provides space for your loss, while supporting and encouraging you to go beyond the nest.

    How many sessions?
    Eight 90-minute sessions

    How many participants?
    6-10 participants

    Participation fee:
    $200 USD

Express interest in Group Grief Coaching

Let’s Clear Up Some Misconceptions

Myth: "You should be over it by now"

Truth: Grief has no timeline

Healing happens in waves, not on a schedule. Your grief journey is uniquely yours, and there's no "right" way to grieve or prescribed endpoint.

Myth: "Staying busy will help you move on"

Truth: Grief needs to be felt, not avoided

While activity has its place, true healing comes from creating space to process your emotions and honor your loss, not from running from them.

Myth: "Grief is only about death"

Truth: We grieve many kinds of losses

Job loss, divorce, health changes, moving, empty nest syndrome, lost dreams - all losses deserve to be grieved and processed with care.

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