Grief and Loss Counseling in Centennial, CO.

True Happiness and Stability Stems from the Quality of our Significant Relationships! I provide therapy for children, adolescents, individuals, elders, couples, and families. I focus on people's strengths and possibilities while addressing their real life difficulties. I provide a wide variety of evidence-based treatment approaches. Which means that all the therapy that I implement is highly researched and therefore, proven to work, if followed correctly. I believe in a holistic approach to the therapeutic process that incorporates biological, psychological, social, and spiritual dimensions empowering a person or family towards mastering life to its fullest.

The death of a loved one is possibly the single most difficult experience that anyone can face. Seeking out counseling is a good way to handle the grief and loss that come after experiencing loss. Your counselor can help you explore the intense feelings of sadness and loss. Many people are expected to continue their normal daily activities after a loss, such as going to work and taking care of family. Therefore, they are unable to fully experience and explore their grief. Yet research has shown that the more deeply you can feel and understand your pain the better prepared you will be to move beyond your grief and re-enter normal life. Call today: (970) 227-2770.

As an experienced Christian Counselor and ordained pastor, I’ve supported many men through the grief process. If you’re grieving, I will provide a supportive space for you to process your emotions. Because grief is a normal part of being human, I can’t take it away or rush you through it. However, I can help you identify barriers to grief, and help you prevent the grief process from becoming stuck. I know grief professionally. But I also know grief personally. Losing one of my best friends and my beloved grandparents was hard enough, but facing the untimely death of my father was, and is, a uniquely painful experience. If given the chance, I would be honored to help you process your grief.

Grief and loss differ in children and teens as opposed to adults. Children and teens experience numerous losses due to the transitions of every day life circumstance and developmental stages. For example; they have different teachers and classmates every year, they may not be able to play a sport they once loved , their environment may be changing due to separation or divorce and finally the death of a loved one. Children and teens need guidance, support, love and the tools to cope with a loss. I can help your child express his emotions in healthy manner and get through the feeling of hurt and despair. * I use play therapy, art therapy, bibliotherapy and journaling

Grief is incredibly complex and multifaceted. Most people think grief is just sadness, but there is so many more layers and seasons to grief. Sometimes it is sadness, sometimes it is anger, sometimes it is peace, sometimes it is bargaining. And the way that grief manifests can be based on personality, the type of loss, etc. To understand more about your specific, individual grief, come see me!

Grief is not linear. After loss, the sadness comes unexpectedly. It waxes and wanes on its own. The only way to be with it is to let it move through you. If you try to bottle it up, it will come out later. It can also build in your system lead to other emotional difficulties. Grief is a natural process and it's important to let it happen. I'm here to support you in being with the grief in a compassionate, kind way.