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Making room for what you have lost

Therapy for adults in New York carrying grief that has nowhere to go.

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Who This Is For

Grief comes after a death, and it also comes after a divorce, a diagnosis, the end of a business, or a move away from a place you loved. I work with adults who feel they should be over it by now and aren't.

Often the people I see have kept going for everyone else. The grief got set aside, and it shows up later as tiredness, irritability, or a numb stretch they can't explain.

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What We Work On

Recent loss
The first months, when ordinary tasks feel enormous.
Old grief
A loss from years ago that still pulls at you on certain days.
Mixed feelings
Anger, relief, or guilt alongside sadness, and not knowing what to do with them.
Losses without a funeral
Endings that other people may not see as grief at all.

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How I Work With Grief

I don't hurry grief or try to tidy it. We give it time and attention in the room. Somatic work helps here, because grief is felt in the body: in the throat, the chest, the heaviness in the arms.

When there is space to feel it, grief can move. Psychodynamic work helps when a current loss stirs up older ones, which happens more often than people expect.

More about my approach

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What Sessions Look Like

A gentle start
We begin with a free 20 minute phone consultation.
Your pace
55 minute sessions, weekly or every two weeks. Some weeks we talk about what you lost, some weeks about ordinary life.
Where you are comfortable
In person in Rhinebeck or Hudson, or by telehealth from home anywhere in New York.

What Can Shift

The aim isn't to stop missing what you lost. It is to carry it in a way that leaves room for the rest of your life, and to feel like yourself again inside that.