Therapy for Grief and Loss
Everyone experiences grief and loss at some time in their life. Whether it’s the death of a family member, friend, or pet or something like the unexpected loss of a job or the end of a romantic relationship, grief happens.
Grief therapy helps support you while you learn to manage and integrate overwhelming feelings such as grief, guilt, anxiety, anger, or confusion.

Therapy for Grief and Loss

Everyone experiences grief and loss at some time in their life. Whether it’s the death of a family member, friend, or pet or something like the unexpected loss of a job or the end of a romantic relationship, grief happens.
Grief therapy helps support you while you learn to manage and integrate overwhelming feelings such as grief, guilt, anxiety, anger, or confusion.
Recognizing the Impact of Unattended Grief
Unprocessed grief can become overwhelming and isolating, especially as society puts pressure on us to “get over it already.” Sometimes, we try to hide or put away our grief in an effort to move forward. That might work for a while, though, it often has a way of backfiring in the long-term.
Some indicators that it’s a good time to get support are:

Feeling like your emotions, particularly grief, sadness, guilt, pain and anxiety, are taking over your life.
Experiencing emotional numbness or emptiness.
Increased difficulty in interpersonal relationships.
Confusion over your identity after your loss.
Hopelessness, loss of interest in favorite activities, and/or increased suicidal ideation.
Recognizing the Impact of Unattended Grief
Unprocessed grief can become overwhelming and isolating, especially as society puts pressure on us to “get over it already.” Sometimes, we try to hide or put away our grief in an effort to move forward. That might work for a while, though, it often has a way of backfiring in the long-term.
Some indicators that it’s a good time to get support are:
Feeling like your emotions, particularly grief, sadness, guilt, pain and anxiety, are taking over your life.
Experiencing emotional numbness or emptiness.
Increased difficulty in interpersonal relationships.
Confusion over your identity after your loss.
Hopelessness, loss of interest in favorite activities, and/or increased suicidal ideation.

“You don’t have to experience grief, but you can only avoid it by avoiding love. Love and grief are inextricably intertwined.”
— David Kessler

Our approach to Grief and Loss
At Resilient Self Therapy, we use a variety of approaches to grief therapy that are custom tailored to meet your needs as an individual. Each loss is unique and we believe your treatment should be as well. This may include talking about the loss and your relationships, exploring new tools to process your grief, and learning how your emotions and feelings are connected to your body.

Our approach to Grief and Loss
At Resilient Self Therapy, we use a variety of approaches to grief therapy that are custom tailored to meet your needs as an individual. Each loss is unique and we believe your treatment should be as well. This may include talking about the loss and your relationships, exploring new tools to process your grief, and learning how your emotions and feelings are connected to your body.
Common Questions about Grief and Loss
How long will grief therapy take? When will I feel better?
This varies from person to person and rarely follows a set timeline. We’ll be sure to discuss your questions and what you want to achieve when we begin treatment, but generally people start to feel more comfortable with their grief in 6 months to a year.
What about the stages of grief? Do they go in order?
The stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. These are a great outline for common emotions and reactions to grief and give us understanding of, say, sudden anger or denial. However they very rarely come in order and sometimes they even repeat. Sometimes people skip some stages altogether.
I’m afraid my grief isn’t “normal”, what do I do?
Everyone grieves differently, every culture grieves differently, and every loss may lead to different grief. Your grief may look extremely different than how others, or even you, expect it to look like and that’s ok. We’ll explore together in therapy so you feel more comfortable in your relationship to your grief.
Can grief therapy help with losses that happened a long time ago?
It doesn’t matter when you experienced your loss as therapy is able to help any point in the process. Therapy for grief and loss can have a positive impact, whether the loss happened last week or over 10 years ago.
Common Questions about Grief and Loss
How long will grief therapy take? When will I feel better?
This varies from person to person and rarely follows a set timeline. We’ll be sure to discuss your questions and what you want to achieve when we begin treatment, but generally people start to feel more comfortable with their grief in 6 months to a year.
What about the stages of grief? Do they go in order?
The stages of grief are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. These are a great outline for common emotions and reactions to grief and give us understanding of, say, sudden anger or denial. However they very rarely come in order and sometimes they even repeat. Sometimes people skip some stages altogether.
I’m afraid my grief isn’t “normal”, what do I do?
Everyone grieves differently, every culture grieves differently, and every loss may lead to different grief. Your grief may look extremely different than how others, or even you, expect it to look like and that’s ok. We’ll explore together in therapy so you feel more comfortable in your relationship to your grief.
Can grief therapy help with losses that happened a long time ago?
It doesn’t matter when you experienced your loss as therapy is able to help any point in the process. Therapy for grief and loss can have a positive impact, whether the loss happened last week or over 10 years ago.