Grief & Loss
Grief
Whether you are grieving a person, relationship, or version of yourself, grief is a complex human experience that deserves space to be felt. Sometimes we grieve our past, present, or future when life does not happen the way we hoped or anticipated. Our society has a difficult time understanding and making space for these emotions, which can make grief an isolating experience. No matter what grief looks like for you, your feelings are valid and important to tend to. Guided by a trauma-informed lens, I support women with grief by providing validation, education, emotional granularity, and containment.
Fertility challenges & perinatal loss
Fertility challenges are an emotionally, financially, relationally, and physically consuming process, which creates a strange parallel when the world is continuing to go on around you. Grappling with the unknown while giving so much of yourself can create understandable emotional highs and lows. Therapy can be a powerful tool for caring for yourself throughout this process and holding space for the highs, lows, and in-betweens of fertility treatments.
Pregnancy and infant loss involve a level of heartache and confusion that there aren’t words to describe. Brene Brown refers to this experience as “disenfranchised grief” in her book Atlas of the Heart, because these losses are not often witnessed, acknowledged, or understood by others (Brown, 2021). I support women through these painful experiences by helping understand these emotions in order to practice self-compassion during difficult moments. We also strategize how to self-advocate and support yourself through the social gymnastics of hard conversations at work, home, and other relationships.
Brown, B. (2021). Atlas of the heart: mapping meaningful connection and the language of human experience. First edition. New York, Random House.
