Engaging with a family therapist offers a supportive space for families grappling with loss, providing guidance in navigating grief’s complexities while preserving and strengthening familial bonds during the healing journey.
In individual therapy the clinician will create a safe space for you to process your emotions and experience of loss. Individual therapy is appropriate for individuals of all ages, children, adolescents, adults and seniors.
It is important for couples to be emotionally available to one another. Couple’s therapy helps couples stay connected during this time, by creating coping strategies, building communication and finding ways to connect/reconnect intimately. It is important to grieve but also to take time together to be present and attend to life changes.
Families experiencing loss can benefit from working with a family therapist to help them understand the impact of their loss and how to work toward maintaining their relationships as they are healing.
Care Counseling is currently running a grief skills and support group for young adults ages 18 – 29 who have experienced the loss of a loved one or friend.
Additional groups may be added in the future such as:
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Grief follows a linear pattern
In fact grief often ebbs and flows and is unique to each person.
The goal of grieving is to move on
In fact moving through grief and building a grief narrative that includes meaning making is the goal
Grief is the same as depression
In fact while many symptoms exist in both grief and depression, grievers remain hopeful
It takes about a year to fully grieve and heal
In fact grief is not timed but it does change over time
Once you get through the firsts (birthdays, holidays, anniversary) it will get easier
In fact grief is painful and there is no time limit
If you are not crying you are not grieving
In fact there is no right or wrong way to grieve
Women grieve more than men
In fact both men and women tend to go through similar phases however, they may express their emotions differently
You only grieve a death
In fact any significant loss can be difficult, painful, and disruptive
Crying
Sleep pattern changes (e.g. difficulty sleeping, too little/too much sleep)
Feeling apathetic about the day’s necessary tasks or life in general
Changes in appetite
Withdrawing from normal/usual social interactions and relationships
Difficulty concentrating
Questioning Spiritual or Religious beliefs
Feelings of anger, guilt, loneliness, depression, emptiness, sadness
Intense focus on reminders of the deceased, or excessive avoidance
Intense feelings of sadness, pain, detachment, sorrow, hopelessness, emptiness, low self-esteem, bitterness, longing for the deceased’s presence
Difficulty accepting the reality of the death
Self- destructive behavior (e.g. drug or alcohol abuse)
Suicidal thoughts or actions
Recurrent distressing dreams or nightmares involving the deceased
Additionally, Out of Network & Out of Pocket options are available.
