Grief Counseling in Los Angeles, CA
You feel a heaviness that doesn’t go away. The loss you’ve experienced follows you into quiet moments, sleepless nights, and routines that no longer feel the same—and you’re not sure how to move forward. Grief support in Los Angeles, CA, can help you find a life beyond loss.
Most of us will experience grief at some point in our lives. While we often think of grief as the loss of a loved one, grief can follow many different kinds of losses. A job loss, a breakup, family strain, illness, or any major life transition can all bring up grief.
After experiencing a loss, you might feel broken—but you don’t need to be “fixed.” While nothing can fill the place of who or what you lost, we’re here to remind you that you have an innate ability to feel whole—nothing can ever take that from you, not even grief or loss.
Most importantly, you don’t have to go through it alone. A grief and bereavement counselor can help you make sense of your feelings, no matter what type of loss you’re experiencing.
Common Challenges Grief Support Can Help With
An experienced grief and bereavement counselor can help with a wide range of challenges that may arise after a loss, including:
Persistent denial
Despair, loneliness, and intense sadness
Fatigue
Anger and resentment
Regret, guilt, or shame
Changes in sleep or appetite
Intense anxiety
Feelings of emptiness or numbness
Start Grief Counseling in Los Angeles, CA—Begin Your Healing Journey Today
It is possible to feel at peace and whole again after the loss you’ve experienced—don’t delay the healing process! Taking the first step can feel scary, but we’ll be by your side through the entire journey.
How Grief Support Can Help You
Through grief support in Los Angeles, CA, we offer a compassionate and nonjudgmental space where we treat you holistically. We’ll work with you to explore the challenges of your grief and help you build on what works, while letting go of what’s keeping you stuck.
Your grief and bereavement counselor will encourage you to be open, vulnerable, and honest. Lasting healing happens when we bring both conscious and unconscious beliefs, thoughts, and emotions to light.
We understand that grief isn’t a linear process—it’s not meant to follow a prescribed path or specific stages. That’s why we’re here to affirm and explore whatever arises in your unique grieving process. We’ll meet you with compassion and provide a safe space to process and reflect, honoring the entirety of your experience to make room for what serves you.
Together, we’ll work toward a deeper understanding of your challenges so you can move forward in the therapeutic process—and ultimately, heal with strength and authenticity.
Holistic Grief Counseling in Los Angeles, CA
We take a holistic approach to treatment, honoring you as a whole person—mind, body, and spirit. Our therapists draw from multiple therapeutic modalities to guide their work, tailoring each session to your individual needs, goals, and emotional experiences.
We are informed and thoughtful about the following approaches and incorporate aspects of them to enrich and support your therapeutic experience:
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
By using guided, repetitive side-to-side eye movements, EMDR helps mainly with traumatic grief, as its healing process can be difficult, involving traumatic memories and intense reactions. EMDR supports you in processing the trauma and the associated grief.
Psychodynamic Therapy
Psychodynamic therapy explores how unconscious processes and past experiences shape our thoughts, behaviors, and feelings related to loss. Over time, it helps create a healthier narrative around grief, allowing you to process it and feel less weighed down.
Mindfulness
This approach fosters present-moment awareness through relaxation and mindfulness. Through breathing and grounding exercises, you’ll learn to access relaxation when needed, helping you cope with feelings of grief.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Attachment theory helps explain our reactions to loss, which can feel like a threat to emotional connections. It supports loss acceptance and helps adjust to a new reality while maintaining a meaningful connection with who or what you lost.
Somatic Therapy
By recognizing the body’s role in healing through practices like breathing exercises, body scanning, and expressive arts, somatic therapy sees experiences (i.e., memories, emotions, and trauma) as stored in physical sensations and tension, which can interfere with grief.
Get Started With Grief Therapy in Los Angeles, CA
If you’re ready to start healing, we’re here to help! We truly care about you, and our goal is to support you in becoming whole and happy again.
Option 1:
Book a free consultation
Start with a 15-minute call with our Care Coordinator, where you can share your questions and help us understand what you’re looking for.
Option 2:
Fill out our form
Complete our online intake form, and we’ll help you find the therapist who’s the best fit to support you and your partner’s needs and goals.
Meet Our Grief Counselors
Get to know our holistic team and how a grief and bereavement counselor can help you with strength and compassion.
Natalie Beltran
Natalie works to explore each story with warmth, curiosity, deep respect for lived experience — and a little humor when it helps.
Isabel Kindberg
Isabel uses principles of trauma-informed care and harm reduction to work towards healing with authenticity, humor, and directness.
Sarah Callender
Sarah uses creativity, honesty, curiosity, and humor to create a safe environment in which to share, explore, and find healing.
Jenny Chandler
Jenny takes a warm, collaborative approach rooted in somatic psychotherapy, attachment theory, and a strengths-based lens.
Tatiana Kovalsky
Tatiana supports healing on all levels — mind, body, heart, and spirit — helping each person step into a more empowered, embodied self.
Jenny Walters
Jenny takes a warm and collaborative approach to get to the heart of symptoms and create lasting and meaningful change.
Will DeSmit
Will creates a compassionate, non-judgmental space where parts and experiences that have been hidden can be safely explored.
Wade Mollison
Wade has a compassionate, collaborative, and emotionally attuned style—with a touch of irreverence—that honors each person's full self.
Grief Support FAQs
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There are several types of grief, but the most common include:
Normal grief: typical reactions to a loss.
Complicated grief: intense, prolonged grief with symptoms that don’t fade—or may even worsen—over time.
Disenfranchised grief: a loss that is not acknowledged (e.g., a secret miscarriage or a lost dream).
Anticipatory grief: grieving in advance of a loss that has not yet occurred.
Whatever the type of grief you’re experiencing, a grief and bereavement counselor from our team is here to help.
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The five stages of grief, conceptualized by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, can help us understand the grieving process. These stages are:
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
However, these stages are not a strict path everyone follows. Many people skip stages, experience them differently, or move back and forth between them. This model serves as a framework for understanding loss, but it does not dictate how your grieving process should unfold.
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There is no universal solution for grief—each person’s journey is unique. That said, some strategies can help you cope with a loss, including:
Acknowledging your emotions without judgment
Practicing self-compassion
Taking care of yourself (e.g., exercise, diet, sleep)
Relying on close friends or family for support
Engaging in healthy outlets like journaling or creative expression
Being patient with yourself
If you find it too challenging to cope on your own, there is no shame in seeking professional help. Our team of grief and bereavement counselors is here to support you.
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Complicated grief—which persists over time and may intensify symptoms—can include:
Depression and suicidal thoughts
Significant changes in sleep
Difficulties in daily activities, relationships, or work
Substance abuse
While some challenges may be present in general grief, these symptoms are often more intense or prolonged in complicated grief.
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It’s true that talking about your loss won’t bring the person or thing back, and you may feel like it’s pointless.
However, grief counseling is more than just talking. It’s about shining light into the dark places so you don’t have to suffer alone, having someone to help carry those heavy emotions, and, most importantly, integrating your grief experience so you can move forward.
Work With Our Grief Counselors in Los Angeles, CA
We take your well-being to heart. We want nothing more than to see you become whole and happy again. Contact us if you’re ready to take this step together!
Other Services We Offer at Highland Park Holistic Psychotherapy
Our team of caring therapists offers a variety of mental health services to support you and your family. We provide both online therapy and in-person sessions in Los Angeles, CA, and across the state. We also offer affirming care for LGBTQ+ individuals and LGBTQ+ couples.
Start your therapy journey alongside a grief and bereavement counselor. Or, learn more about our other services, including anxiety treatment, depression treatment, EMDR therapy, trauma therapy, eating disorders, teen therapy, and more.
If you have any further questions, visit our FAQs page or contact us directly.