Unresolved Grief and Loss can cause many people to self-medicate with Drugs and Alcohol; this means of escape helps them to ignore the fact that they have experienced great loss in their lives.
The loss of a loved one or a child is one of the most painful experiences you may experience. I have personal as well as professional experience in grief and loss. I will help you manage and cope through this loss journey
using several therapeutic approaches with compassion.
You can experience loss or grief due to relationships changing, diseases, physical limitations, financial challenges, isolation or loneliness and even weather (like hurricanes) that can disassemble something you've built and worked on for years and it's taken away from you seemingly overnight. The loss or grief from something unexpected can create huge waves of anxiety, stress and even depression. Learn how you can overcome and find peace within the distress and worry.
Loss and Grief can come from many things; death of a loved one; divorce; children growing up and leaving home; losing a job and/or life’s transitions. Even relationship issues can cause a loss of the hopes and dreams you once held dear. If you are struggling with grief or loss, please reach out for support. I can offer a helping hand and help you process your loss.
No one teaches us how to grieve or process loss. Yet it is a requirement of life. We have struggled with loss for a long time as humans and we will likely continue to feel the pain of loss. Learning how to best help you thought it is frequently the goal of therapy for loss or grief.
Counselor/Therapist, Master's Degree Psychology, Ordained All Faiths Minister
As a counselor, minister, author, and master life coach now for over 40 years, David Essel has worked with people who have lost a loved one. After David's mother recently died, he entered his own grief program, the same one he has been teaching others for 30 years. it works.
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, M.S., M.A., LMHC, QSFL, CHP
There are many forms of grief and everyone has experienced grief in life in some form. Grief can come to us like waves of emotions, thoughts, memories. Sometimes these waves can feel truly overwhelming and other difficult emotions can accompany the grief experience. But, there is help. I was a full-time hospice grief counselor for over a decade and also bring this expertise into each counseling experience. Grief counseling requires certain abilities and knowledge, and not everyone is qualified to be a grief counselor.
I specialize in trauma, and loss and grief often go hand-in-hand with this. I work with clients to help form healthy beliefs about the self following loss and respect the feelings of grief while allowing for healing and growth moving forward when a client is ready.