Grief Counseling
Are You In Mourning?
Have you lost something or someone that was essential to your life or identity?
Are you feeling overwhelmed by feelings of sadness, yearning, or shock?
Is it difficult for you to focus or stay present because of the intensity of your emotions?
Loss can take many forms. Aside from the death of a loved one, we as humans can experience relationship loss, job loss, or the loss of our dreams and identities. If we are taking care of someone who is sick or dying, we can experience anticipatory grief as we attempt to prepare for life without them. Whatever the case may be, grief can develop out of experiences that are either sorrowful or welcomed as we close one chapter and begin the next.
What Does Grief Look Like?
Grief is likely to impact us all sooner or later, but each of us will respond differently. Alongside feelings of extreme sadness, grief might manifest as anxiety, panic, low motivation, overwhelm, and fatigue. Some people experience a deep longing, while others feel numb or avoidant about facing their loss head-on. Guilt, shame, and regret are common, often resulting in the belief that we are somehow to blame or didn’t do enough to sidestep the loss.
There are also relational consequences of grief. When we share a loss with others, stress gets put on the relationship as we try to navigate heavy logistics and emotions, sometimes in ways that are not entirely compatible. And when the loss isn’t shared with others, there can be a deep sense of loneliness in facing the future with a big, dark hole in it.
Loss has a way of irrevocably changing life circumstances and introducing big, often difficult existential questions. Though it can be an isolating experience, you never have to be alone in your sadness. Grief counseling provides you with the support of a trained, experienced therapist who will walk alongside you in your journey as you learn to honor and move forward from your loss.
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It's Important To Understand And Process Grief
Death and other losses are a part of life. Though painful, these experiences invite opportunities for reflection, growth, and rebirth. Unfortunately, our culture is not always effective when it comes to supporting those struggling through loss. Especially when it comes to losses that don’t involve the death of a loved one, we can develop the belief that our feelings aren’t valid and that our loss is not worthy of grief.
The truth is that all losses have the potential to be stressful and emotionally challenging. Suffering is intensified when we deprive ourselves of the time and space to meaningfully explore and understand our feelings. Therapy offers meaningful, actionable tools for learning how to cope with the grief, stress, and transition involved in losses of all kinds.
Working together with the clinicians at Mindful Lotus Therapy, you can process the pain of grief and learn how to cultivate a sense of hope again.
Mindful Lotus Therapy Offers Grief Counseling To Clients Suffering Through Loss
Therapy is always a meaningful resource in the process of navigating difficult transitions. Whether your loss involves a job change, end of a relationship, loss of an identity, lost dreams of the future, or death of a loved one, grief counseling can offer you helpful tools and perspectives that will aid in your healing.
Alongside addressing your immediate concerns, our therapists will guide you in exploring underlying issues related to your loss and how it impacts your daily life. We are solution-oriented in our approach, individualizing the counseling process to each client’s unique loss and experience of grief.
What To Expect
Our therapists are trained in effective, evidence-based therapeutic approaches that are designed to relieve surface-level concerns while also initiating deep and profound healing. We draw from holistic, behavioral, and body-based therapies to help you manage and integrate intense feelings.
As clinicians trained in the highly structured model of Grief and Loss Therapy, we may include workbooks and other skills-based practices to help you understand the cycle of grief and how to navigate it when triggered. We will also include elements of mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to encourage deeper emotional awareness and flexibility, allowing you to slowly increase your window of tolerance.
Another modality that can be used in grief counseling is Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR). EMDR uses bilateral stimulation of the brain to reprocess trauma through the nervous system, helping those who are mourning to reduce feelings of anxiety, shame, and grief. We invite you to read our EMDR page to learn more about how this approach works.
Having support on your journey can make all the difference in how you cope with loss and grief. While we understand that the pain of your loss might always be there, we know that there are meaningful ways to connect and maintain a healthy, healing relationship with what was lost. Working together, we can fill that voidwith a sense of hope, healing, and possibility as you reconfigure life after loss.
Common Concerns About Grief Counseling…
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Though you may be afraid that discussing your loss will only open up the floodgates to difficult, uncomfortable emotions, the opposite is also true. Hiding or stifling your emotions will only make the suffering more intense as life continues.
Therapy gives you an opportunity to explore your grief and loss at your own pace with an experienced clinician. The more you expose and open up about your emotions, the less intense and debilitating they become.
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Our therapists believe that the counseling process should not last years and years; we are invested in getting you to a place where your emotions are manageable, and you are able to cope on your own. The goal of grief counseling is to decrease your suffering over a finite period of time so you can be independent and maintain an improved quality of life.
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The choice to incorporate medication into a treatment plan is individual to each client and not always necessary. Therapy offers tailored coping skills and perspectives that can meaningfully reduce distress and discomfort in lasting ways. If you and/or your clinician feel medication is an option, outside referrals can be provided for a consultation.
Ultimately, we will leave the choice about integrating medication up to you, as this is a very personal decision.
You Are Not Alone In Your Sadness
Counseling through Mindful Lotus Therapy honors loss of all kinds, giving clients an opportunity to understand, navigate, and heal from their grief. For more information or to schedule an appointment, contact us. In-person counseling services are available to clients in the Davie, FL area, while telehealth is available to clients throughout Florida and New Jersey.
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