Relationship Loss Counseling in Central Dallas
For those grieving the living and redefining yourself after loss
Grief Therapy for Relational Loss in Uptown Dallas and Addison, TX.
When you lose a significant relationship, it can feel like losing a part of yourself. Your routine, your priorities, your value system, the parts of yourself that only came out in that particular connection — all of it feels ripped apart after divorce, religious deconstruction, or family alienation. You truly believed that those relationships would be a safe home to come back to throughout the ups and downs of your life, so when you lost them, your world turned upside down.
It may not get talked about, but mourning people and communities that are alive but lost to you is a real grief.
What it Can Feel Like to Grieve the Living - Parents, Partners, Pastors:
-Intense emotional reactivity and irritability
-Heavy sadness or guilt
-A sense of failure about the ending of the relationship/loss itself
-Confusion about your own core values and/or belief system
-Uncertainty about what healthy boundaries look like and how to set them
-Loneliness and difficulty knowing how to relate to or build a community
-Lack of trust in yourself and your ability to navigate your life after loss
-Anxiety around self-care and how to identify and meet your own needs while grieving
You Left for a Reason. Grief Therapy Helps you Rebuild with Intention.
Loss isn’t something you “get over” — it’s an experience that you can integrate and learn to build a meaningful life around. Grief therapy with me in-person in Dallas or online in TX is designed to put you in the drivers seat of your healing. That might include learning how to recognize your needs, set healthy boundaries, process hard emotions, define your values, or build acceptance of how your life has changed (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy). If negative thoughts are locking you in a spiral of guilt and anxiety, we can explore useful ways of challenging those (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), and if you have upsetting memories from the relationships you are healing from, we can utilize EMDR to help you move through that distress. At all times, your experience of loss gets to be honored as we work together towards discovering what a meaningful life looks like for you.
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Grief counseling at Attachment Lab looks like a safe, curious space to explore initial steps in self-care as you process your loss. It’s a chance to clarify your values, rebuild your identity, and identify what a meaningful future looks like while at the same time process what you learned from the relationship you left. As with any other type of therapy, you as the client are in control of the pace and process and your goals are continuously center stage throughout the journey.
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The stages of grief aren’t linear and neither is therapy. The goals that you bring in for the process will help determine the length of treatment and that is subjective to every person. Because your story is unique, it’s hard to predict at how long you’ll benefit from counseling but my process includes checking in with my clients frequently about their progress and pacing of the sessions.
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I get this question from people a lot and it’s a real one. Because grief is so painful, it can be helpful sometimes to picture it as eventually going away. But because it’s an expression of all the love that you felt towards the person or community that you lost, it doesn’t take up less space in your story: your story just grows and expands around it as new chapters are added and that love starts having a place to go again. It may not become smaller but it can become integrated into the rest of your life and less overwhelming with time and processing. A lot clients find that, as new experiences and relationships develop around the pain, grief can become A terrible thing that happened but not the ONLY thing and NOT the end of their capacity to feel joy.
Relationship Loss Counseling FAQ
Grief Counseling in Dallas and TX Online
Grief Therapy Services in Uptown Dallas
A Safe Space for Grieving Individuals in Central Dallas
Process loss with integrative approaches like DBT, CBT, EMDR, EFT, and Somatic Therapy
Office a stones throw from Katy Trail Ice House, Turtle Creek Park, and the vibrant restaurant scene on McKinney Ave
Scheduling options designed to accommodate the lives of busy professionals
Relational Loss Therapy in Addison, TX
Clarity for Survivors of Relationship Loss in North Dallas
Processing what a meaningful life after loss looks like with evidence-backed grief therapy
Flexible scheduling that aligns with your needs
Office location directly next to the Dallas North Tollway
Take the Next Step
You are welcome to reach out to me with questions, a request for consultation or resources, or to see if I’m a good fit for your or someone in your community’s needs. If you’d like to book directly on my calendar, you can click the “book now” button to immediately access my schedule.