ABOUT

As a bereaved mother, I have learned the tools needed to get through grief, not only to just function and survive but to live fully and beautifully without forgetting my precious child. This experience launched my need to understand and transform what was a crippling tragedy into a personal calling.

Complicated Grief Treatment (CGT) is a well-specified evidence-based approach that can help. A CGT therapist can help. This treatment guides people through a process by which they can restore their capacity for joy and satisfaction in life while accepting the finality and consequences of their loss and maintaining a sense of connection to the person who died.

People sometimes imagine bereavement as the beginning of a journey, but grief is not a voyage from which people return. We do not experience a period of grief, come back, and return to life as usual. Instead, grief is a new homeland. It is a permanent place in which bereaved people must reside and redefine their lives. Life is permanently changed by an important loss. Still, it is possible to restore the sense that life can be rich and satisfying even though grief is not over. To restore enthusiasm for life is a natural goal of bereaved people. Yet the ways we transform our lives after the death of a loved one are as individual and personal as the love that was lost. Bereaved people differ in the kinds of problems they face and in the adjustments they must make after a loss. 

In addition to personal experience, I endeavored to learn everything that I could about human psychology and in particular the attainable challenge of living alongside grief.

Let me help….