Grief Therapy
in newport beach, ca. Honor your loss with compassion and embrace healing with courage.
Therapy for Grief & Loss
Whether your loss happened yesterday or fifty years ago, we help people of all ages move through grief with courage and compassion, creating a path toward healing and hope.
You’re likely looking for more than just “feeling better.” You want to make sense of your loss, to understand why it hurts so deeply, and to find a way to carry the pain without it overwhelming you. You might long to feel connected again — to yourself, to others, and to who or what you’ve lost. You may be wondering if your grief makes sense, if you’re doing it “right” or if something is wrong with you for still feeling this way.
What you truly need is permission to feel what you feel, space to honor the depth of your relationship, and support in finding a new way forward that makes room for both your sorrow and your capacity for meaning, love, and life after loss.
You want to feel like yourself again while holding grief gently and making space for the life still ahead.
We want that for you too.
Our specialties
Common Signs of Complicated Grief:
Impairment in daily functioning (work/school performance, performing daily tasks)
Intense guilt, shame, or self-blame for the loss
Intense longing or yearning to be with who you’ve lost (suicidal thoughts)
Feeling like life has no meaning or purpose without the person
Fatigue, headaches, stomach aches, and chronic pain
Separation anxiety and fear of losing someone else
Loss of interest in things you used to enjoy
Avoiding reminders of the person you lost (places, photos, people, etc.)
Feeling guilty for continuing to live your life
Not knowing how to talk about grief
Difficulty trusting others or forming new relationships after the loss
Changes in worldview or spiritual beliefs causing distress or confusion
An important note
Grief is a natural response to any loss. It’s not exclusive to death.
We acknowledge disenfranchised grief—grief that is not typically recognized, understood, or supported by society. We are here to support your grief and healing journey no matter who or what it is that you are grieving.
How therapy for GRIEF & LOSS works
WE’LL HELP YOU PROCESS YOUR GRIEF WITH EMPATHY AND EXPERTISE.
Grief therapy is a compassionate space where you’re supported in navigating the natural ups and downs of loss. At its core, grief isn’t a straightforward path. It’s a process that pulls you between two different experiences. Sometimes you find yourself deeply feeling the pain, sadness, or longing while other times you’re focused on adjusting to life without your loved one, managing daily tasks, and reconnecting with the world around you. You will learn to navigate the balance of facing your grief and stepping away from it when needed while being gently guided to honor both sides without judgment or pressure.
Through this process, grief therapy helps you make space for your feelings rather than pushing them away, allowing emotions to be present while choosing to live in alignment with your values. We also explore the attachment bonds that continue to shape your experience of loss, acknowledging how those connections influence your emotions and sense of self. Therapy offers a deeper understanding of the patterns and meanings tied to your grief, helping you discover new ways to integrate your loss into your life story.
Ultimately, grief therapy is about finding your own rhythm between moments of mourning and moments of living as you reconnect with yourself, honor your relationship with who or what you’ve lost, and build a meaningful life that holds both pain and hope. It’s not about getting over your grief but rather about learning to carry it in a way that feels authentic and true to you.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO WAIT TO ASK FOR HELP.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Grief therapy is a form of therapy that helps people navigate the complex emotional experience of loss by creating space for it, understanding it, and learning how to live meaningfully alongside it.
In this work, we explore your grief not as a problem to solve or something to get over but rather as a reflection of the deep attachment and meaning you had in your relationship with the person or thing you lost. We acknowledge that grief is a natural response to loss.
While all therapy offers support and emotional insight, grief therapy provides a deeper, more integrative space to honor your loss, understand its impact, and build a life that can hold both grief and growth.
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Grief therapy is a space where your loss can be seen, felt, and understood without being rushed or minimized. We might explore memories, make sense of complex emotions, or simply sit with what’s hard. We will also focus on how you’re coping day-to-day, what’s changing, and where life is asking something new of you. This natural movement between loss and adjustment is something we gently lean into together.
At the same time, we hold onto the bigger picture that you are more than what you’ve lost. You are a whole person with a past, a present, and a future, even if that future feels unclear right now. Therapy is a place where we hold space for the pain while also reconnecting you with your strengths, your relationships, and the parts of you still unfolding.
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While grief will never go away, therapy can help you learn to live alongside it, greatly easing your suffering when grief becomes overwhelming, prolonged, or complicated. Therapy provides:
A safe space to express difficult feelings
Tools to cope with emotional pain
Help making sense of the loss and adjusting to life after it
Support when others may not understand or know what to say
You don’t have to just live with it alone. Therapy offers support without judgment or pressure to move on.
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No, grief therapy can help with any type of significant loss, not just death. People often seek grief support after:
Divorce or breakup
Miscarriage or infertility
Loss of a pet
Serious illness or disability
Loss of identity (e.g., job loss, retirement, estrangement, major life transitions)
Cumulative or anticipatory grief (e.g., caring for someone with dementia or a terminal illness)
Grief isn't limited to bereavement. If you're grieving something important to you, therapy can help regardless of the form that loss takes.
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You are worthy of healing. You deserve space to be held, heard, and supported as you learn how to live with your loss. Here, the goal is never to put your loss behind you but instead to learn how to carry it gently, find meaning in it, and stay connected to what (and who) matters most in your life.
You’ll get the most out of therapy if you’re working with someone you truly connect with. Click the button below to schedule a free consultation with us. We’ll discuss what’s going on, answer any questions you have, and then connect you to the therapist who is best equipped to help you reach your goals.