Grief and Loss Counseling in Cambria, NY.

Whether the loss of a family member, friend, or beloved pet. Clients often feel that no one wants to listen to them. Frederick has heard too many times how family and friends have told his clients to "just get over it". "get another dog". "You will find someone else". Frederick works with his clients in a compassionate manor to provide emotional support in a caring environment. Frederick also provides education and coping strategies to assist the client in their grieving process. Past unresolved grief and loss may also be the focus of therapy as unresolved grief and loss can complicate the present situation.

The loss of a family member, friend, pet, job, or other types of loss can feel devastating. At Serenity Life we have cou selors who have been trained to help folks navigate acute and chronic circumstances of loss. It's our hope to return you to a place of full functioning in life while validating your experience, equipping you with skills to managed what's coming up for ya, as well as providing an option of creatively expressing the experience through art therapy.

I help you both feel, explore, and understand the loss and the grief you experienced as well as strategies and ways to explore and ehance your sense of safety and your ability to feel better, and function better in all alrwas of your personal, family, and work life. Begin with safety and comfort and move to depth, insight, strength and growth. A healing, growing expanding process.

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.

Any loss can cause grief, including loss of a relationship, loss of a job, or loss of one’s health. Through weekly bereavement sessions, you can learn how to cope with your feelings and better process your emotions. There is no right or wrong way to process your grief. There is also not a time limit to get past grieving. If you are considering addressing your grief in therapy, then you are headed in the right direction.

Grief and loss is, unfortunately, a normal part of living. There is no single "correct" way to grieve: different cultures and even individuals from the same culture grieve differently. The only consistent feature is that grief takes time. The most effective thing anyone can do for someone grieving is to be there—to listen, to empathize, to walk along with the grief. There is no "fixing" grief. But counseling can help prevent normal grief from developing into major depression or other mental health conditions.

Grief is a deeply painful and often lonely and scary process to experience. Depending on the severity of your loss, it can impact every aspect of your life, like a giant ball in the box that is your life. Every time the ball hits the wall of the box it hurts. Over time, the ball gets smaller and doesn't impact every aspect of your life. However, when it does bounce against the wall it hurts just like it did in the beginning. With the right understanding of how grief it ebbs and flows over time and the space to allow it to be expressed, one can begin to heal.

Most of us have experienced grief or loss at some point in our lives. Grief and loss are not just about losing a loved one or a family member. Those feelings can accompany a job loss or a change in circumstances, the ending of a relationship or a divorce, experiencing an illness or an accident, and a whole lot more. Whatever the event, it can be devastating. There is hope. I provide a comforting place to talk about your feelings and memories, and I will be a solid support for you through this difficult time. When you are ready, I help you move forward and redefine your life in a way that makes sense for you.

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.

When a person loses a loved one, whether it be a close family member, a pet or a friend, the feelings that are associated with the loss can be crippling. Just completing every day tasks can feel like a mountain that is impossible to climb. With guidance and support, it is possible to move forward in a healthy manner and gain the pleasure back into your life.

I provide services that support people in loss of previous life style, loss of their own ability due to a disability, and loss of someone they were close to or a colleague. Grief is different for everyone, but one of the most popular models arranges the 5 stages of grief as Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. People take different amounts of time to get through these stages of try to skip over them but they are natural. Since everyone’s grieving is specific to them, my method is adjusted to accommodate my clients. My hope is to support you through this process to build coping skills, listen and be an extra resource.