Grief and Loss Therapy in Fort Collins, Colorado

You didn't expect grief to feel like this.

And you didn't expect it to stay so long — or to feel so alone inside it — or for it to hurt so much.

Your experience

Loss has a way of reshaping everything — not just the obvious things, but the quiet, ordinary moments too. The morning routine that suddenly feels meaningless. The phone call you want to make, but you remember they won’t answer. The firsts of that first year without them. Sometimes loss isn’t about a person, but a life you had envisioned or an untangling of what you thought to be true.

Grief isn't a problem to be solved or a phase to rush through. But when it goes unacknowledged — when life asks you to keep moving before you've had space to feel — it can get stuck in your body, shaping your mood, your relationships, and your sense of who you are.

You may have lost a person. Or a relationship. A role, an identity, a future you believed in. Grief doesn't require a funeral. What it requires is a witness — someone to help you move through it, acknowledge and name the losses, not skirt around it.

"Grief is not something you get over. It's something you learn to carry — where in the processing of it, it is first honored, and slowly allowed to hold less intensity while remaining a little present with more tools and gentleness. You don't have to figure out how to do that alone."

This might be you if…

• You've experienced a significant loss — a death, a divorce, an ended friendship, a health diagnosis — and it's affecting you more deeply than you expected, or for longer than people around you seem comfortable with

• You feel pressure to "be okay" or "move on," but something inside you knows you haven't really processed what happened

• You're going through the motions of daily life while carrying a quiet heaviness that's hard to put into words

• You find yourself avoiding people, places, or memories — not because you want to, but because facing them feels like too much

• Your grief comes in waves — you think you're fine, and then something small completely undoes you

• You feel guilty for grieving — telling yourself you should be grateful, that others have it worse, or that it's been long enough

• You're noticing physical signs: trouble sleeping, low energy, changes in appetite, or a general sense of being disconnected from your own life

• You're not sure who you are now that this loss has changed things — your identity feels tangled up in what (or who) you've lost

• People in your life mean well, but their advice — "stay busy," "focus on the good," "they'd want you to be happy" — leaves you feeling more alone, not less

• You want to honor your grief, not rush it — but you also don't want it to swallow you whole

How I can help

My work with grieving individuals is grounded in the belief that grief, when met with compassion and intention, doesn't have to get stuck. Together, we create the conditions for your grief to move in a safe and contained way — to be felt, expressed, and integrated — so that it becomes part of your story rather than a weight that stops you from living it.

• Grief counseling: A dedicated space to process loss of any kind — death, divorce, identity, or life transitions — at your own pace.

• Navigating complicated grief: Support when grief feels stuck, prolonged, or complicated by trauma, ambivalence, or unfinished relationship dynamics.

• Identity & meaning-making: Guidance for rediscovering who you are and what matters after loss has changed the shape of your world.

• Ongoing support & guidance: A steady, consistent presence through the long arc of grief — especially when the world expects you to be "over it."