Grief & Loss Support

Loss hurts.

Pain is a natural result of losing someone or something you care about.

But when grief turns into ongoing destabilization — when your identity shrinks, your functioning drops, and your world organizes around the absence — something more than sadness is happening.

Grief becomes suffering when the loss fuses with identity.

When forward movement feels disloyal.
When meaning collapses alongside what was lost.

We work to separate love from destabilization.

To preserve what was meaningful — without preserving the suffering that doesn’t need to stay.

The goal isn’t detachment.

It’s remembering without losing yourself.

When Grief Support May Help

Grief support may be helpful if you:

Feel emotionally overwhelmed or numb
Struggle to function in daily life
Feel persistent sadness or heaviness
Experience anger or guilt connected to loss
Feel stuck in one emotional state
Avoid reminders of the loss
Struggle with identity changes
Feel isolated in your grief

Grief can sometimes blend with depressive patterns. If low mood persists beyond the context of loss, see our depression support program.

What Grief Support Focuses On

1. Emotional Stabilization

Tools to regulate intense waves of emotion.

2. Separating Pain From Suffering

Identifying beliefs causing unnecessary suffering.

3. Emotional Processing

Using tools to work through feelings of grief and loss.

4. Meaning Integration

Gradual processing of what the loss represents.

5. Identity Adjustment

Rebuilding routines and identity after change.

Grief often activates earlier emotional wounds. If loss has triggered deeper attachment pain, explore our childhood wounds support program.

Guided Grief & Loss Program

The Psychological Foundations program is an 8-week course that provides you with expert guidance as you navigate healing your grief, ensuring that you learn what you need to excel.

Here's how the guided program can help you:

Expert guidance to ensure that you understand foundational psychological principles
Confidence that you are using the methods to heal yourself correctly
Less time spent searching for answers or living in confusion
Individualized guidance and application
A second opinion, we are blind to ourselves and what we don't know

Let us help you reduce your feelings of grief as effectively as possible.

Enroll In The Psychological Foundations Program

Grief & Loss Sessions

For clients who want guided help applying the tools in individual sessions, sessions focus on:

Separating Pain From Suffering
Reducing or Eliminating Suffering
Meaning Making

Sessions focus on helping you process your grief and make sense of it.

What To Expect In Sessions

Other Connections To Grief & Loss

Sometimes grief is layered with guilt, regret, or self-blame.

Our shame recovery program focuses on reducing harsh self-judgment when grief becomes entangled with perceived failure or responsibility.

Loss can affect communication, conflict, and emotional availability.

Our relationship healing support program helps partners navigate grief together without escalating disconnection.

Important Reframe
Grief Is Not Linear

Grief does not move in stages in a straight line.

It often cycles — moments of calm followed by emotional waves.

Support focuses on increasing emotional stability and resilience, not eliminating sadness.

Grief & Loss Support In Salt Lake City & Online

The grief and loss support program and structured sessions are available for clients in Salt Lake City and surrounding areas, as well as through the guided app-based course accessible anywhere.