Therapy for grief in Los Angeles
Are you just going through the motions?
Grief is not always all consuming sadness. It can look like numbness where you wake up dreading the day and struggle to get out of bed. It can look like you trying to get it together for your loved ones but you keep hitting brick walls. You’re not all there. You feel like you can’t connect to anyone or anything anymore. You have some waves of anger and sadness but you mostly feel nothing. Even food doesn’t taste the same anymore. But you just keep going because you have to.
When you wake up, dread washes over you, and you don’t have the motivation to get out of bed. You drag yourself out of bed and now you’re on auto-pilot.
Meetings pass without you really absorbing what's being said, and yet, you feel a little irritated.
Chatting with colleagues, you once cared for, now seems like a chore and you feel disconnected from them. You used to be able to connect and support one another but now you feel that it’s too exhausting to even listen.
When one thing goes wrong at work, you’re filled with dread and anger.
You still try to push through and complete your tasks but feel immense emptiness as you complete each task.
You think maybe it’s just a hard moment at work but even when you get home or try to connect with friends and family, you don’t feel all there.
You can tell loved ones want to connect with you but it feels too exhausting to spend the emotional energy. Nothing feels the same anymore. You don’t feel the same anymore.
You need relief now
Therapy for grief can help you…
Form Connection- The therapy space is supportive
Receive Validation - This is challenging and you are not in it alone
Create Change- The ways you’ve been taught to manage are not working and you need new tools
Life doesn’t have to feel this way.
What if you could
Feel your feelings without only feeling anger
Connect with your loved ones without feeling exhausted
Enjoy your interests again without overwhelming guilt
Put yourself first
Through therapy you will
Examine ways to grief is affecting different areas of your life
Improve relationships
Prioritize your needs
Create boundaries to know your limit
Frequently asked questions about grief
FAQs
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They certainly look alike and feel alike. In fact, our work together we’ll determine if depressive symptoms are overwhelming the grief process. Often, clients will come in solely focusing on the depressive symptoms first before processing their loss.
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We are often told that we need to move on from our grief but that is seldom realistic. That message simply suppresses our emotions, allowing them to bubble out in other ways, such as anger. The truth is we we move with grief. We will work together to determine what that can look like for you.
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Ambiguous Loss is often an unspoken experience most will go through in their lifetime. Ambiguous loss can look different for everyone. It could be that you have a family member going through an illness and though they are physically with you, their personality has changed. This is a complicated grieving experience and processing this unexpected life change can bring relief and peace.