Grief Counseling in Lehi
Are You Grieving Someone Or Something?
Has a recent change or loss left you feeling overwhelmingly sad, isolated, and confused?
Is the loss taking its toll on every aspect of your life, including your physical health and daily routine?
Does it seem like there is no hope for what’s next or no end in sight to the grief you feel?
If you’ve lost something or someone important to you, it may feel like your life has been turned completely upside down. In the days and weeks following a big change or loss, it can be difficult to feel motivated to get up in the morning—let alone go about the day as normal.
Loneliness and a disconnection are common following a significant transition or change in circumstance. Relating to others might seem impossible to you, especially if they don’t share in the loss. You may even feel angry or resentful, unsure of if it’s even worth trying to connect with others, keep up with your work, or go on without the person, dream, or identity you lost.
Our therapists don’t want you to be alone in your grief, and we want to help you understand that a new normal is possible. By working together in counseling, you can learn to process all of the aspects of your loss so that your grief feels more manageable. Through the healing journey, you will find that you can still mourn and honor what was lost without your emotions being so debilitating.
Do You Have Questions About Grief Counseling?
Loss Is A Universal Experience
Grief takes many forms and is not always death-specific. As humans moving through the world, we face many kinds of loss, including the loss of a relationship, identity, dream, or goal. Some of the common losses that bring our clients to counseling are:
The death of a family member, friend, or pet
A breakup or divorce
Job loss or relocation
Miscarriage and fertility issues
Leaving a church or religion
Life-altering diagnoses or changes in physical health
Not achieving certain milestones
That said, many of our clients experience ambiguous loss that is not always directly connected to one specific event, but rather the general feeling that life hasn’t gone according to plan. Ambiguous grief is about what could have been.
Life Is Unpredictable; A Therapist Offers Steady Support
No matter how hard we might try to do all the right things, check all the boxes, and prepare ourselves for life’s challenges, the truth is that we can’t avoid loss. All of us face significant loss sooner or later, and there is no way of controlling the outcome. It’s a painful fact of life that often disrupts, dysregulates, and overwhelms.
Grieving—whether it’s finding the space to fully feel our emotions, honor what was lost, and imagine new beginnings—is tricky without the proper support. While friends and family may be available and have good intentions, they don’t always say the right thing. Especially if they share in the loss, they may be responding in ways that are compatible with how we feel.
Grief counseling is an opportunity to make space in your life for your healing needs. Our therapists can help you make sense of your experience in a way that aligns with your values and goals, allowing you to work through your grief and toward a brighter future.
Willow Shore Counseling Specializes In Grief Support For Adults And Teens
Our therapists offer grief support to adults and teens who may be feeling sad, hopeless, and dysregulated following a big change or loss. With the goal of fostering a healthy connection to what was lost while also making space for new possibilities, counseling aims to meet you wherever you are in the bereavement process.
What To Expect
We want to provide you with a space where you can feel and process your emotions—including more difficult emotions like anger, guilt, and shame—so that you can feel less overwhelmed by your grief. Our hope is that you eventually find that while loss is never “over,” grief is like a wave that comes and goes, getting gentler with time, and that you’re able to develop a healthy coping toolkit through this process.
Therapy is highly individualized to each client’s unique loss and experience of grief, but some of the common approaches we use are behavioral therapies (including DBT, CBT, and ACT), trauma-specific interventions like EMDR, and holistic, body-based skills work for reducing acute symptoms.
We’re not here to rush your process and feed you platitudes like “everything happens for a reason” or “they’re in a better place now.” Working with your beliefs and values, we want to make space for your pain and support you through the process of navigating your grief.
Loss can be disorienting, and the pain of grief is something that may be with you for a long time—but you don’t have to suffer alone. It is possible to make space for the sadness while also planting the seeds for a happy, joyful life where you can find peace with loss.
Common Concerns About Grief Counseling
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It’s normal to experience depression, anxiety, difficulty focusing, sleep issues, and other symptoms in the days, weeks, and months following a loss. But if you feel like you’re stuck in those feelings or that they’re significantly affecting your quality of life, grief counseling may be a good way to help you move out of the bereavement cycle.
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We understand that each person’s unique experience of loss is incredibly personal to them; not everyone is going to find meaning in their loss, and we don’t expect them to.
Our grief counselors want to walk alongside you in the healing process and offer support that doesn’t feel flippant, harmful, or invalidating. Whether or not it’s important to you to find meaning or purpose in your loss, we will incorporate healing perspectives that honor your specific belief system(s).
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While no one will experience your loss the exact same way you do, we want to assure you that our therapists can relate to some of what you’re going through. We’ve experienced loss ourselves, and we are specially trained to individualize counseling to each person’s unique grief process.
Our focus in session is developing the skills that will help you on your specific healing journey.
Make Space For Your Loss—And What Comes After
If you’re feeling disconnected and overwhelmed following a major loss or change in your life, therapy through Willow Shore Counseling can help you process your grief and begin healing. For more information, contact us or book a free consultation.
Grief Counseling Lehi, UT
1220 N 500 W Suite 201,
Lehi, UT 84043
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