Grief and Loss Counseling in Austin, TX.

Clients will find solace in a compassionate space where their life experiences are validated, honored, and understood. As someone who has also experienced profound loss and grief, my clients can trust that I am not only knowledgeable through my professional training but also know what it feels like to be in a similar place that they may be in. My therapeutic techniques empower clients to embrace their emotions, foster resilience, and facilitate the integration of loss into their lives, ultimately leading to profound personal growth and renewed hope for the future. I help clients navigate the complexities of loss, unraveling tangled emotions, and finding meaning amidst sorrow.

In Grief & Loss Therapy, I'll give you a safe and accepting place to work with the complex emotions that come with loss. Together, we'll work on creating coping mechanisms for handling your loss, avoiding problems, and recognizing the legitimacy of your feelings. Our sessions will also emphasize on your communication abilities so that you may better explain your needs and feelings to others who are supporting you. Also, I want to help you regain meaning and purpose in your life after experiencing loss by providing you with new views and insights. I believe that by going through this, we can find a way to assist you to get past your grief and accept the possibility of a fulfilling future.

Grief counseling helps people cope with grief and mourning following the loss of a loved one or due to major life changes that trigger feelings of grief (i.e. job loss or divorce). It provides a space for individuals to work through and process the complex emotions surrounding loss. Healthy grieving results in remembering the loss with a newfound sense of peace, rather than searing pain.

Have you lost someone in your life or have you experienced a loss of job, relationship, or some other important aspect of your life? If so, counseling for grief and loss can help you. Together, we will process the loss you incurred, how it is impacting you and help you find ways to accept and heal from the loss to move forward in your life. Therapy will provide you with a safe place to process your complex emotions, thoughts, and memories in an honest and authentic way. In this process, you will be supported in a nonjudgmental and empathetic manner.

Having been through grief and loss in life, I feel somewhat equipped to help others make sense of their own transition. I have worked with clients who have lost children and other loved ones. Just Mind, our company, works with the Flatwater Foundation which provides no cost to the client counseling for those affected by cancer. To qualify, one must contact Flatwater directly, Wonders and Worries, or Texas Oncology. Working in this area is personally rewarding to me since my father had cancer (he's better now) but it made me understand some of the different journey's people can take with cancer. Our therapists have over 20 years of experience in this area.

Grief and Loss can be debilitating and seemingly impossible. It takes time to heal, and there is an appropriate way to heal. Involving an experienced counselor can make a difference in your future success in mental health At Connected Life Counseling, we are here for you. We are here to listen and to provide you with mental health goals and tools to ensure long-term mental health success.

The pain of grief and loss can be so heavy and isolating. It often feels like others do not understand the depth of our despair or they move on and expect us to be able to move on within a certain time frame as well. Grief and loss shake our foundation and it can seem unfair that the world keeps moving on. Grief is a process and there is no specific time line. Some of us even have ongoing grief, which can feel unbearable at times. However, even with continuous grief, we can find ways to cope and find joy and freedom again. Though our grief can seem big, we can find hope that is even bigger.

Grey Matters International and the work of Kevin J. Fleming, Ph.D approaches issues of grief & loss through the lens of innovation----instead of growing the same neural networks responsible for the pain in weekly therapy sessions, we reset the brain to move forward quicker and efficiently by working on the stuck limbic system so as to empower the person with more success and traction. For no one wants to stay in a grief mode for too long; but when you don’t include the brain in your work with someone, you risk describing the water to them while they drown and calling it success. Contact Grey Matters International, Inc now at kevin@kevinflemingphd.com or 877-606-6161.

I am trained as a Prolonged Grief Disorder Therapy (PGDT) provider by the Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia University. The structured protocol addresses "stuck grief" that is marked by an attachment fissure that causes rumination, excessive guilt, loss of former interests and hopelessness 6 months and longer (sometimes many years) after a significant loss. PGDT is evidence-based and has a over a 70 percent efficacy rate for movement into adaptive grief.

How do you cope with the loss of a loved one? How do you move forward when it feels like a big part of yourself is missing? Grieving is one of the most gut-wrenching experiences, and it needs to be seen and understood in order to heal. You need a space to cry, to vent, to let out the emotions tangled up inside you without worrying about being a downer. A space where you can be complicated, and go slowly, and figure out your "new normal." There's no better place to start than therapy. In our sessions you'll not only get a chance to heal, but to grow, and make sense of the past while finding hope for the future.

Grief and loss are some of the most difficult things we face in life. We can heal from it as we process the loss, find meaning, and move toward the new life without the person or thing we have lost. EMDR is an effective therapy to work through the trauma that grief and loss often bring about. It allows you to process the worst parts of the loss, decreasing the sadness, depression, negative beliefs, and helps to move you toward healing.

As an experienced Christian Counselor and ordained pastor, I’ve supported many men through the grief process. If you’re grieving, I will provide a supportive space for you to process your emotions. Because grief is a normal part of being human, I can’t take it away or rush you through it. However, I can help you identify barriers to grief, and help you prevent the grief process from becoming stuck. I know grief professionally. But I also know grief personally. Losing one of my best friends and my beloved grandparents was hard enough, but facing the untimely death of my father was, and is, a uniquely painful experience. If given the chance, I would be honored to help you process your grief.

Grief is hard. Grief is natural. Animals grieve. Grief is something we feel deep in our bodies and can be disorienting and destabilizing. Grief brings up questions about who we are, the world, the existence or goodness of God, and purpose and futility of life. Dealing with grief, especially when the loss is traumatic and unexpected, requires a slow and tender space to allow the grief to move through our body and to settle in our hearts with warmth and memory. I am here to help you grieve the loss of your loved one, experience, health , future or even your beloved pet. .

Loss often leaves us drowning in an unknown ocean and can be stormy seas to navigate on your own. A new way of living is required in the absence of familiar surroundings and patterns. Whether losing a job or a spouse, either through death, divorce or some unexpected circumstance, missing what once was, even if it is by our choice, is a natural response. Yet, the process of letting go is hard. Life Practice offers calm harbor in transitional times of tempest. Help with changing to the new can be what keeps us afloat from the undertow of despair . We'd be honored to provide guidance, anchorage and safe haven as you find your sails for a new life.

Loss is an unfortunate part of life and for many, recovering from the grief can be a difficult struggle. In addition, loss almost inevitably causes people to question their own existence and the meaning they have made out of life. In counseling, your struggle will be validated and supported and you'll learn to create meaning out of the loss so that it may transform you.