Grief & Loss Counseling in Fort Lauderdale

Finding Meaning in Suffering

Losing someone you love, whether it is your spouse, child, relative, or friend, can leave what feels like a giant mess of negative emotions swirling around you.

How can life go on? Who are you without that person you lost? Does anyone else understand how you feel? Will you ever stop feeling so hopeless? Does grief ever go away?

Each Day Is Overwhelming

When grief strikes, it is not just the person you love who is lost, but pieces of yourself are lost as well. Every morning feels like a struggle. Loss of energy, sleepless nights, crying spells that hit you out of nowhere. Amidst all of this, you continue replaying specific days, memories, moments – over and over again in your head. Wishing, if only it could be true, that doing so could somehow bring back the person you’ve lost.

Along with the everyday monotony comes severe emotional baggage. Guilt is unrelenting. Sorrow is a constant. And the loneliness feels like too much to bear.

In all of this, there is hope. In therapy, we can work with your guilt, sorrow, and loneliness in a way that alters your relationship to them. No, the difficulty does not disappear overnight. But slowly you will realize that there is, in fact, life after loss.

Let’s Walk Through Your Grief Journey Together

In individual sessions, I provide support to those grieving in a safe, comforting environment. Going at your own pace, we will walk the grief journey together, identifying the barriers grief has put in your way and discussing strategies to walk through them.

One chapter of your story has closed, but a new one is waiting to be written. Detecting the hope in your story while honoring the memories you will always have, together, we can define what will be your new normal as you move forward and choose to live, rather than merely exist.

Grief Can Take Many Forms

Different people grieve in different ways, which means that there’s no “right” or “wrong” way to undergo this life transition. In addition to sadness, you might feel anger, shock, guilt, confusion, or even an apparent inability to feel emotion. All of these reactions are normal and legitimate.

Grief can linger for varying periods of time as well. You might experience fading grief punctuated by occasional acute pangs, or you might find yourself stuck in the mourning phase. Lingering, overwhelming grief can affect your physical health and limit your ability to take care of everyday tasks.

I can work with you to help you process the experience, release unresolved conflicts, and develop new strategies for moving past grief. Your bereavement may trigger old, tangled-up feelings and complexities related to your relationship with that person. We can explore these underlying pain points and help you come to a new understanding of your grief and other associated emotions.

Many of us feel as if we’ve literally lost a part of ourselves when we lose a loved one, leaving us to wonder who we are and how we’re supposed to go forward from here. If that’s what you’re going through, you may need to get reacquainted with yourself as an individual. I can help you reconnect with your identity, goals, and wishes for the future — because there is a future, and it’s as bright as you care to make it.