Grief Counseling in Snoqualmie, WA & Online

Carrying what you’ve lost

Grief doesn't follow a schedule. Some days you function, answer emails, make dinner, hold a conversation. Other days the loss arrives all over again without warning, and you're back at the beginning. People may expect you to be further along than you are, and that expectation can make you feel like you're grieving wrong.

There is no wrong way. Grief can look like sadness, but it can also look like anger, exhaustion, numbness, guilt, or relief you feel ashamed of. It can show up after a death, but also after a divorce, a diagnosis, an estrangement, a miscarriage, or the loss of a life you thought you were going to have.

You may find that the people around you have moved on while you're still in it. That loneliness is often the hardest part.

Grief counseling gives you a place to put it down for an hour.

In our work together, you won't be asked to find meaning in your loss before you're ready, or to move through stages on anyone's timeline. We'll make room for what you're actually feeling, including the parts that feel unacceptable to say out loud.

Together, in grief counseling, we'll work toward:

• Making space for your grief without rushing or minimizing it

• Understanding the physical and emotional toll loss takes on you

• Finding ways to carry your connection to what you've lost

• Rebuilding a sense of daily life that has room for both grief and living

Grief counseling isn't about getting over it or moving on. It's about learning to carry the loss in a way that lets you live alongside it.

My name is Amanda, and I offer grief counseling in person in Snoqualmie, WA, and online therapy throughout Washington, Texas, and Colorado. Whether your loss is recent or years old, you don't have to hold it by yourself.

Grief is not something to fix. It's something to be accompanied through, and I'd be honored to walk with you.