Grief and Loss Counseling in Yanceyville, NC.

While grieving is a healthy and normal life experience, it can also be hard, lonely, and confusing. Loved ones don't always know how best to support us. The unpredictable nature, intensity, and sheer variety of emotions we experience may make us feel like strangers to ourselves. In my work, I help clients to cope with the impact grief has on their moods, behaviors, thoughts, beliefs, physical well-being, relationships, work, and sense of self. I act as a compassionate guide, teacher, and deep listener as clients find their way through the pain of loss to a sense of healing. We may use written exercises, creative arts, or create rituals, according to a client's needs and wishes.

Most often, I find that individuals may seek out counseling for a variety of reasons only to gradually discover that what is at the core of the problem is a failure to have grieved primary as well as secondary losses that have been experienced. I use a variety of therapeutic activities, such as games, handouts and worksheets to help a client work through his/her losses to once again find healing, peace and joy in and from life.

Losing someone, finding yourself in a new family situation, having to move to a new home, losing something valued, can be traumatic and deeply troubling. The base of a person's reaction to loss is often times grief. How do we deal with the emotions which are created by that loss, how do we continue on in the new situation, how do we cope with all of this, especially when we feel so lost? Working to discover and release those negative emotions associated with grief and loss has been found to be a very successful way. Utilizing the most successful approaches, I help individuals, couples, and families learn how to use the internal resources they already have to overcome grief and loss.

Grief counseling helps people cope with grief and mourning following the loss of a loved one or due to major life changes that trigger feelings of grief (i.e. job loss or divorce). It provides a space for individuals to work through and process the complex emotions surrounding loss. Healthy grieving results in remembering the loss with a newfound sense of peace, rather than searing pain.

All of us are going to experience loss at some point in our lives and have to go through the grieving process. It doesn't have to be just the loss of a loved one as it can for example, be the loss of a relationship(s) or the loss of a job/career that is upsetting. I also know that there is no time limit to how long a person is allowed to grieve. I help people go through the 5 stages of grief using cognitive behavioral therapy to challenge thinking that will help a person move forward.

Healing from deep losses/grief - traumatic experiences - and relationships is a journey that I will go with you on. I understand that these memories and vivid experiences can come flooding back into your life and keep you from experience joy or happiness. Together we can explore and face issues openly. I believe in your resilience - courage - and ability to heal. Call today to book your first appointment and explore our counseling options.

Grieving can be experienced in the death of someone you loved, or in a number of other areas including job transitions, moving, separation or break ups, having children, children leaving the home, or other ways as well. Major changes or transitions can be very difficult to cope with. I help people adjust to the different grieving stages, better understand them, and learn ways to heal from loss. Using the Kubler-Ross model as well as utilizing a person's supports and strengths, I will guide you through this journey to a place of acceptance and peace.

If you have had a loss in your life, it may seem like no one understands what you are going through. Those that care about you may not know what to say or what you need in your time of grief. I can help you with the grief process in a gentle and loving way to help you honor and remember your loved one. I offer a safe, warm environment where you can be relaxed in talking out your loss.