What Grief and Trauma Can Look Like

Grief and trauma show up differently for everyone. Sometimes they arrive as waves of emotion that catch you off guard. Sometimes they settle into the body as exhaustion, tension, or a numbness you can’t quite shake. Sometimes they live in your relationships - in the distance that has grown, the irritability you can’t explain, or the difficulty letting people in.

You may be navigating the death of someone you loved. A sudden loss that still doesn’t feel real. A traumatic experience — an accident, an assault, a medical event — that your mind keeps returning to. Or perhaps a more complex grief: the loss of a relationship, an identity, a version of your life you had imagined. These losses are real too, even when the world around you doesn’t always acknowledge them.

What Therapy for Grief and Trauma Looks Like

In our work together, there is no pressure to move faster than feels right. You will not be asked to recount every detail of what happened or to push through what does not feel ready to be touched.

What we do instead is create space. Space to feel what you have been holding. Space to make sense of how this experience has shaped you — your thoughts, your body, your relationships, and the meaning you make of your life. Space to grieve fully, rather than around the edges of it.

I came to this work through my own experience with traumatic loss. I know firsthand that post-traumatic growth is real — not as a silver lining, but as something that is quietly, painstakingly built on the other side of surviving something hard. That understanding shapes every session I offer.

Types of Grief and Trauma I Work With:

•  Traumatic and sudden loss - death of a loved one, accident, or medical crisis

•  Complex and prolonged grief

•  Childhood trauma and adverse early experiences

•  Single-incident trauma - assault, accident, or sudden loss

•  Complex or developmental trauma - repeated or relational harm over time

•  Grief related to divorce, separation, or the end of a relationship

•  Loss of identity, role, or life chapter

•  Trauma held in the body - physical symptoms, hypervigilance, shutdown