Grief Therapy in DE · NJ · MD · VA · FL · SC
Grief Therapy in DE · NJ · MD · VA · FL · SC
Is this grief? If you have ever asked yourself that question, you are in the right place. When most people hear the word “grief,” they picture one scene: a funeral, a casket, a loss everyone can see. But grief is much bigger than that. Many of the people I work with spend months — sometimes …
What is Anticipatory Grief? It is a kind of grief that begins long before a funeral. It starts in a doctor’s office, or during a phone call, or in the quiet moment when you realize the person you love is slipping away — slowly, and right in front of you. And if you are living …
When you or someone you love receives a devastating chronic illness diagnosis, the immediate focus goes where it should — to the medical team, the treatment plan, the next appointment. You’re in logistics mode. You’re managing information, making decisions, showing up. What often doesn’t make the list is your emotional health. Not because it doesn’t …
Pet loss grief is one of the most real — and most dismissed — kinds of grief there is. If you’ve lost a pet, or if you’re watching one decline and already feel the weight of what’s coming — you’re not alone in this. This is Batman. He was a brindle boxer mix — big …
Maybe you were sitting in a doctor’s office when it happened. Maybe it was a phone call you almost missed, a voicemail you had to replay twice because the words didn’t fully land. However it happened, what you experienced in that moment could be chronic illness grief. However it happened, you remember it. There is …
Last week, I called an insurance company. This call triggered why I switched to Private Pay Therapy. I was on hold for just over an hour. When someone finally answered, I was transferred — twice — to different departments, each time explaining from the beginning why I was calling. After the second transfer, I was …
This past weekend, I took a ferry ride across the Delaware Bay. It turned into an Ocean of Grief. It was overcast. The kind of gray sky that doesn’t feel threatening — just heavy. The water was surprisingly calm. Maybe the most calm I ever remember that ride being. I stood on the deck watching …