I help adults navigate the challenging experience of coping with grief. Loss is often highly distressing and there is not a duration of time that grieving should take. However, we sometimes feel stuck in our grief or desire support. Because grief is a natural response to loss, the goal of our work together is not to "cure" your grief, but to help you find ways to adjust to your loss and cope with the stressors that accompany it. I also work with clients experiencing relationship and family-of-origin concerns and with individuals who would like to live more authentically and develop greater self-compassion and healthier boundaries. I have experience supporting clients through diverse aspects of grief and loss, from “common” grief to complications in grieving and anticipatory grief, as well as relationship loss, pet loss, family estrangement, and life transitions. My 13 years of training and research on grief and loss equip me to help people navigate these challenging life events. My approach is grounded in the belief that our prior life experiences shape how we cope with our current circumstances as adults. Gaining a more coherent awareness of how those dots connect and a more self-compassionate understanding of our life stories can help us to heal our symptoms at their roots and liberate us from the patterns keeping us stuck.
Qualifications: | University of Central Florida |
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Academic Suffixes: | PhD, NCC, LGPC |
Expertise: | Anxiety, Other, Codependency, Coping Skills, Depression, Divorce, Family Conflict, Grief, Life Transitions, Peer Relationships, Relationship Issues, Other, Self Esteem, Stress |