Grief Recovery
Healing from Loss with Compassionate, Evidence-Based Care
Grief isn’t a problem to solve—it's an experience to honor. As licensed therapists specializing in grief and loss, we offer compassionate, clinically informed support to help you process your grief, integrate loss, and move forward with meaning.
Whether you're mourning a loved one, a relationship, your health, or a version of life you can no longer return to, therapy provides a structured, nurturing space for authentic healing.
What Is Grief Therapy?
Grief therapy is a professional, evidence-based approach to supporting individuals through the emotional, cognitive, physical, and existential effects of loss.
Unlike support groups or informal counseling, therapy addresses complicated grief, traumatic grief, and grief intertwined with anxiety, depression, or past trauma.
We are here to validate your experience, help you regulate overwhelming emotions, and guide you through sustainable, individualized healing—without rushing or minimizing your process.
We Support Clients Grieving . . .
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The Death of a Loved One
The hardest deaths to grieve are often those involving close relationships, sudden or unexpected deaths, and those that are difficult to understand or accept. Some of the most difficult include the death of a spouse, partner, child, parent, sibling or a friend. Suicide is also considered particularly challenging due to the stigma and potential for survivor guilt and blame.
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A Divorce, Breakup, or Estrangement
Significant losses of relationships, hopes, and dreams.
Loss of companionship and shared experiences (which may or may not have been consistently pleasurable).
Loss of support, be it financial, intellectual, social, or emotional.
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Pet Loss and Companion Animal
Deeply personal and valid experience, similar to the grief experienced after losing a human loved one.
While there's no set timeline for grieving, it's essential to acknowledge your feelings and allow yourself time to heal.
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A Miscarriage, Stillbirth, Infertility or Reproductive Trauma
Profound grief due to the loss of a desired future, and the emotional and social impact of these experiences. Grief is a natural response to loss, and it's important to acknowledge and allow yourself to feel your emotions. Miscarriage and infertility can lead to a range of emotions, including sadness, anger, anxiety, and even numbness.
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A Diagnosis, Chronic Illness, Disability, Caregiving Loss, or Life-Altering Event
Receiving a diagnosis of a chronic illness or experiencing a life-altering event can trigger grief, even in the absence of a death. This is because these events can involve significant losses, such as the loss of health, independence, physical abilities, and future dreams. This type of grief can be anticipatory, occurring before the full impact of the illness or event is felt.
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An End to a Career, Retirement, or Financial Loss
Grief therapy can help deal with the emotional impact of career loss, retirement, or financial setbacks, as these can be experienced as significant losses. It provides a space to acknowledge and process the associated emotions, explore coping mechanisms, and ultimately find a path towards healing and continued well-being.
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A Loss of Identity, Faith, Community, or Sense of Purpose
Common experiences during grief often lead to a sense of disorientation and confusion. Grief can disrupt a person's sense of self, leading to questions about who they are and what their place is in the world. Additionally, grief can challenge or erode deeply held beliefs and values, causing a crisis of faith or a loss of spiritual meaning.
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Multiple Losses (Cumulative Grief)
Deaths of loved ones, job loss, or other significant life changes, within a relatively short span.
Each loss contributes to the overall emotional weight, making it harder to cope with the overall impact. The experience of grief can also be amplified if the losses are related to each other or if the individual already has a history of loss.
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Generational or Ancestral Grief
to the sorrow and emotional burden that individuals may carry related to unresolved grief or trauma experienced by their ancestors, which can manifest in various ways. It's often an unspoken inheritance, potentially impacting the emotional and physical well-being of current generations
Grief is not just about death—it's about attachment and meaning.
Signs You May Benefit from Grief Therapy
Persistent sadness, guilt, anger, or emotional numbness
Difficulty functioning at work, school, or in relationships
Feeling "stuck" in grief, unable to reconnect with life
Physical symptoms like fatigue, insomnia, or panic attacks
Intense avoidance of reminders of the loss
Feelings of purposelessness or hopelessness
Rumination, complicated grief, or trauma symptoms related to loss
How Grief Recovery Support Helps
We create a nonjudgmental space to:
✅ Express your grief without censoring or minimizing
✅ Understand the brain and body’s natural grief response
✅ Learn emotional tools to regulate and process pain
✅ Rebuild trust in life, relationships, and yourself
✅ Gently explore meaning, identity, and hope after loss
✅ Release guilt and unresolved emotions
✅ Honor your story while creating space for new beginnings
Our Approach to Grief Recovery Therapy
Trauma-Informed and Evidence-Based
We integrate approaches such as Attachment Theory, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for grief, Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), and Narrative Therapy.
Whole-Person Care
We address grief at emotional, cognitive, somatic, relational, and existential levels—respecting your unique history, identity, and belief system.
Individualized Pace and Process
There are no “right” timelines or stages. We honor where you are and what you need.
Relational and Safe
Healing happens in relationship. Our sessions prioritize trust, authenticity, and emotional safety.
Specialized Grief Therapy Services
We have advanced training in:
Traumatic loss and sudden death grief
Grief in Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs), gifted adults, and neurodivergent individuals
Loss compounded by childhood trauma or neglect
Anticipatory grief and caregiver grief
Spiritual and existential crisis after loss
Multicultural and disenfranchised grief (e.g., LGBTQ+, nontraditional loss)
What to Expect in Grief Therapy
Initial Assessment and Collaborative Goal Setting
We explore your unique grief story and establish therapeutic goals based on your needs and values.
Flexible, Client-Led Process
Some clients seek brief grief therapy (8–12 sessions); others benefit from longer-term support. We'll work together to tailor your journey.
Ongoing Therapy Sessions (Virtual)
Sessions may involve talk therapy, somatic techniques, creative expression, trauma processing, or meaning-making exercises.
Client Reflections
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“I didn’t know how to breathe without her. This work gave me space to fall apart, and somehow that’s where I found myself again.”
—Lena, widowed at 41
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“Grief was silently running my life until I gave it a voice. This changed everything for me.”
—Eli, grieving the loss of a parent 10 years later
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“Grief therapy allowed me to finally feel my emotions without drowning in them. It gave me language, tools, and hope I didn’t believe were possible.”
—Daniel, grieving sudden loss of his brother
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“I thought therapy would try to rush me. Instead, it honored my grief exactly as it was—and that's what allowed me to heal.”
—Sophia, grieving the loss of a long-term partner
FAQs
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Yes. While all therapy offers emotional support, grief therapy focuses specifically on the complexities of loss—including trauma responses, identity changes, and existential crises—using specialized techniques.
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If your grief feels overwhelming, isolating, stuck, or complicated by trauma, therapy can offer significant relief and guidance at any point—weeks, months, or years after the loss.
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Yes. We provide secure, HIPAA-compliant online therapy sessions to make grief support accessible wherever you are.
"Grief is the echo of love in a world that has changed; it is not a wound to close, but a doorway through which the soul learns how deep it can feel, and still choose to live"
— Jamie Anderson
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You are not broken. You are grieving. And healing is not only possible—it is your birthright.
Let’s take the next step together.
✉️ flourishgracefully@icloud.com
📍 101 E 8th St, Suite 110, Vancouver, WA 98660
📱 360-723-6950