For grief that needs more than time.
Grief therapy for women in Scottsdale, AZ and virtually across Arizona. Women 18 and up.
Grief is bigger than we are taught.
Most of us are taught that grief belongs to death. That it arrives, runs its course, and eventually lifts. That time is the thing that heals it.
But grief is wider than that. It lives in divorce and in the end of a version of yourself you thought you'd always be. It lives in the menopause journey and in the last child leaving home. In a friendship that quietly dissolved, a career that didn't go the way you planned, a diagnosis that changed everything. In the slow loss of a parent to illness, long before they are gone.
Grief is present wherever something that mattered has changed or been taken away. And when it goes unacknowledged, it doesn't disappear. It waits.
If you have been carrying something you haven't had words for, it may be grief.
Who this is for
You may have lost someone you loved, suddenly and without warning. You may be a suicide loss survivor, carrying a kind of grief that can feel isolating in ways that are hard to explain to people who haven't lived it.
You may be in the middle of a life transition that is harder than you expected, mourning a version of your life or yourself that no longer exists. You may have been told, directly or indirectly, that you should just “move on.”
I want you to know that you are not behind. You are not too much. And you do not have to keep carrying this quietly.
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What grief therapy looks like here
Grief work at Alora is depth-based and unhurried. I believe grief is sacred, and I approach it that way.
In our sessions, I hold space for the full weight of what you are carrying. We go at your pace. Some of what we do will be conversation. Some may draw on the body and on experiential approaches that give your grief somewhere to go beyond words. All of it is offered as an invitation, and I always follow your lead.
About Me
What I bring to this work is both clinical training and lived experience. I know grief from the inside. That knowing shapes how I sit with you: without rushing and without looking away from the hard parts.
Many women say that when they arrive at my office, they feel like they can finally cry. That the weight of keeping it together lifts a little. That is what I hope to offer you.
Grief and the body
Grief is not only an emotional experience. It settles into the nervous system, into the chest and the throat and the belly. It disrupts sleep and appetite and the sense of being at home in your own body.
Talking about grief is part of the work. And there are other ways in too.
Here are some of the approaches we may draw on:
Movement
Sometimes grief needs to physically move before you can move through it. Drawing on a deep background in therapeutic movement, we may use intentional movement to help the body process what words haven't been able to reach.
Externalization
Grief often carries many other emotions–regret, disappointment, anger. These emotions need somewhere to go. Externalization offers a safe, physical outlet for the emotions that have been building without release.
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Somatic Therapy
Grief lives in the body long after the mind has tried to move on. Somatic approaches help us gently tune into what the body is holding and create conditions for release and relief.
Psychodrama
Grief lives in the body long after the mind has tried to move on. Somatic approaches help us gently tune into what the body is holding and create conditions for release and relief.
A few questions I often hear…
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Not at all. Grief shows up in many forms: divorce, major life transitions, identity shifts, estrangement, illness, and loss of a life you had imagined for yourself. If something that mattered to you has changed or been taken away, grief therapy can help.
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Grief has no expiration date. Many women come to this work carrying losses from years or even decades ago that were never fully processed. It is never too late to tend to something that has been waiting.
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Rather than focusing primarily on managing symptoms or developing coping strategies, the work here goes deeper into witnessing, processing, and integrating grief so it can become part of your story rather than something that stops you from living life fully.Grief therapy is specifically oriented around loss and what it leaves behind.
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That makes sense to me. Many women arrive at my practice knowing only that something feels heavy, or stuck, or unfinished. We can start there.
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Yes, absolutely. Suicide loss carries its own particular weight, and it deserves care that understands that. This is an area I have worked in deeply and trained in specifically. You are welcome here exactly as you are.
Practical Details
Sessions are available in person in Scottsdale, AZ or virtually for all Arizona residents.
50-minute session: $200
80-minute session: $300
Intensives: pricing upon request
I do not contract with insurance, but I am happy to provide a superbill for clients who wish to seek out-of-network reimbursement from their provider. Payment is by card, including HSA cards.
You do not have to keep carrying this feeling alone.
If something here feels right, reach out whenever you are ready for a free consultation to see if we might be a good fit.