Grief Counseling in Uptown Dallas and Addison / Oline Across TX
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When you’re grieving the living and redefining yourself after loss
My grief therapy services in central Dalals Provide a safe space to process what it means to live after loss
Family/Parental Alienation
It’s in your DNA to want to be close to be on good terms with the people who raised and shaped you, even when your rational self knows the challenges involved in that. You hear culture describe blood being thicker than water and it only makes you feel more guilty for the reasons you have for distancing yourself from your parents or loved ones. Whether because of a decision you made to preserve your sanity and mental health or a choice they made to go no-contact, you are isolated from the people you called family and it’s left a huge hole.
Divorce/Breakup
When your relationship ended with your partner, you didn’t realize you would be losing so much at once - a best friend, life companion, and, if you’re honest, a huge piece of yourself. Your life had started to revolve around the routines you made together, the moments you shared, and the parts of yourself that you got to know through being with the person who drew them out of you. Now, you’re grieving someone who is alive but not accessible to you. So while life moves on like “normal,” you feel anything but that.
Religious Deconstruction
You grew up with a very particular set of expectations about how were supposed to live, standards for your behavior, and rules about what being a “good person” meant. As an adult now, you’re confused and sometimes overwhelmed by a relentlessly nagging feeling that your experiences are at odds with what you were taught about the world. You want to hold on to the values that matter to you but in clarifying those you risk losing a community of faith that has felt like family. There’s a loneliness there that’s hard to describe..
When we lose a significant relationship, It can feel like losing a part of ourselves
You placed trust and put vulnerability into your intimate relationship, your family connections, or your church community. You believed those connections were safe for you and would be a home to come back to throughout the ups and downs of your life. There was no question in your mind that you belonged in these spaces.
And then, your world turned upside down
Mourning isolation from people and communities that are alive but lost to you is a real grief.
Grief is a representation that you have love with nowhere to go.
In recovery from relational loss, we focus on how to sit with the information that your grief is giving you and process where you want to channel all the love that you still hold inside. Moving forward is a process that takes place on your terms and is defined by an exploration of your values, belief system, emotional expression and aided by somatic grounding and nervous system regulation tools. 
Relational grief deserves time to honor, adjust to, and build a life around.
As you adjust to your loss, you may experience uncomfortable symptoms like restlessness, insomnia, increased anger and reactivity, and hypervigilance to threat and danger. We will work through your awareness of these sensations and emotions with curiosity about how they are protecting you while at the same time experimenting with tools to help you tolerate distress and practice a mindful awareness and acceptance of how your internal system is trying to heal (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Internal Family Systems Therapy).
As you regain safety in your body and emotions, you can build an awareness of thought patterns and how to respond to them in a way that allows you to move beyond rumination and fatalistic belief systems to a place of inner stability and acceptance. This process can involve tracking your thought cycles in and out of session and the emotions they raise within you and learning useful ways to challenge unhelpful thoughts (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy).
To address religious trauma around your deconstruction journey or relational distress around separation from family through no-contact or alienation, we can utilize EMDR to help you process upsetting memories and the negative belief systems attached to them.
Ready to reclaim your identity after loss?
Grief Therapy in Uptown Dallas and Addison and Online Throughout Texas