Grief and Loss Counseling in Afton, NY.

Had a significant loss in your life? Struggling with the cycle of grieving? Loss can be life altering and long lasting for those that go through it. My practice takes a trauma informed based approach to this work with the people we serve. Let's form a safe, trusting, environment to take a look at coping with losses, big or small. This is an individualized journey for each person going through it.

Often clients reach out to a psychotherapist when there is a death or separation in a relationship. Chris provides Grief and Loss counseling and Psychotherapy where empathy and caring help clients get emotional closure to help them move forward. A sudden death and loss can causes a person to have increased anxiety and depression and limit functioning. Chris has worked with numerous clients to heal and move forward through effective counseling and psychotherapy in New York. Clients benefit from talking out their feelings where I help them get closure and provide the skills to move on and enjoy life again.

Grief can be quite a lonely experience that one can feel at the very core, and there are no pills that one can take to manage its persistent, aggravating pain. You wish to take that pain away, but nothing seems to help. I have helped many people work through their grief experiences, including 16 years providing grief therapy to hospice patients and their families.

All change is grief and loss. This includes the death of a loved one, ending a relationship, leaving a job, and more. Grief and loss counseling with me is about honoring your loss in a non-judgmental space. People think there is only one way to grieve, with a set timeline and steps. The reality is grief can be messy and scattered, and progress is not linear. We will take the time to explore the pain, the triggers, the effects, and the impact of the loss. An unspoken part of grief and loss is how it changes your world and in turn your self-concept. No shocker here that I like to spend time exploring this side of grief and loss as well.

Having support when you need it is a gift throughout the grieving process. A supportive and collaborative relationship with a therapist can make riding the waves of grief more tolerable and meaningful. Everyone experiences loss in life and it’s important to have a safe space to grieve, in whatever way seems best. Although grief is a universal experience, it’s a unique process for every individual, thus therapy allows those to grieve at their own pace and with their own expectations.

When we lose someone we love, it feels like we have lost a part of ourselves. Something within us has been torn out, leaving a hole that we easily imagine will never heal. The pain can be profound, the feelings of helplessness, or regret, or guilt overwhelming. Having a partnership where you can talk through these feelings can make a huge difference not only in how quickly and how well you are able to move through the process of grieving, but also how you ultimately are able to frame the experience and your memories of the person lost into the narrative of your own self and life as you move forward. What you carry with you afterward is just as important as surviving the hurt of the loss.

Everyone grieves differently which means that coping with loss looks differently and varies from person to person. At Transformation Counseling Services our therapists are specially trained to help you move through the stages of grief and work through your loss. If you are experiencing grief related symptoms we are here to help. Please contact us for a free consultation.

Grief and loss is a process that we all encounter. This could be the loss of a loved one, a job, a relationship, or anything a person holds a special bond with. Grief looks different for everyone so there is no time limit on grieving. There are days where it doesn't affect you and other days it does. Coping and working to live with the loss is something that can be worked on.

It can be a hard process to come to terms with any losses that may occur in one’s lifetime. Symptoms related to grief can appear mentally/emotionally and physically. Some mental/emotional symptoms one may experience when dealing with grief include but are not limited to, anxiety, distress, and anger. Some physical symptoms may include things such as loss of sleep and appetite. I believe that an important aspect of grief counseling is for the client to be validated in their feelings and to let them know that what they are experiencing and feeling is okay and all a part of the process. Grief counseling is for helping clients navigate the grief they are experiencing and to find coping skills.

Grey Matters International and the work of Kevin J. Fleming, Ph.D approaches issues of grief & loss through the lens of innovation----instead of growing the same neural networks responsible for the pain in weekly therapy sessions, we reset the brain to move forward quicker and efficiently by working on the stuck limbic system so as to empower the person with more success and traction. For no one wants to stay in a grief mode for too long; but when you don’t include the brain in your work with someone, you risk describing the water to them while they drown and calling it success. Contact Grey Matters International, Inc now at kevin@kevinflemingphd.com or 877-606-6161.

I believe that grief is a necessary process to journey through. The grieving process is beneficial to gain insight and healing to the situation. Grief may occur in a variety of circumstances such as a loss of a job, the death of a loved one, moving to a new town, or through an illness. The importance of working through grief is critical to understand oneself and to come to terms with the loss. Complicated grief is when one may feel stuck or blocked at a certain stage of grief. The inability to move through the stages of grief hinders one from gaining closure and healing.