Grief Counseling In NC
Grief counseling can support you in learning ways to ease the heartache of loss and grief, allow the feelings of sadness without feeling so overwhelmed, and learn how to experience inner peace and glimmers of joy again.
Grief counseling with Jen provides a safe space for you to feel, experience, and express your feelings related to loss. Jen is a compassionate and nonjudgmental companion and guide on your journey of bereavement as you process the pain, adjust to the loss, and embark on a journey toward wholeness.
Jen will help you to learn how to hold the pain of loss more skillfully without feeling so overwhelmed. She will teach you how to process the pain of loss and also begin to experience glimmers of inner peace and hope.
Telehealth grief counseling services are available to clients in North Carolina — Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Wilmington, Charlotte, Greensboro.
Schedule a free 15-minute grief counseling consultation
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation with Jen Johnson to learn more about her services and to see if you would work well together.
Mindfulness and Grief Counseling
Mindfulness is a compassionate healing partner for grief. Practicing mindfulness can help you to decrease the suffering associated with grieving. Whether you are dealing with loss of a loved one or your own concerns related to illness or death and dying, learning how to practice mindfulness can help you to navigate your healing journey with greater ease.
Pain is inevitable in this life, but practicing mindfulness can help to ease the suffering that often accompanies loss.
Mindfulness is awareness of the present moment with kindness. Grieving people are surrounded by others urging us to let go, move on, or just get over it. Mindfulness offers us a path of relating with the loss with kindness and compassion, accepting ourselves as we are, wherever we are on our grief journey. We don’t get over a significant loss, but we can learn to integrate the loss and make meaning form it.
What is Grief?
Grief is a sense of deep sorrow or suffering following a loss. When you’re grieving, you may feel a number of different emotions and physical sensations, including:
- Sadness, anxiety, fear, loneliness anger, despair, overwhelm, relief
- Lost, overwhelmed, foggy brained, and exhausted
- Like you’re not yourself
- Shock when you forget the loss and then remember again
- Nervousness, insomnia, sleeping too much, digestive upset
It takes time to heal from loss. There’s no predictable timeframe for healing or for how deeply you may feel affected by a loss. Some of it depends on your relationship to who or what you’ve lost, the complexity of the circumstances surrounding the relationship and the loss, and what other stressors or difficult circumstances you already had on your plate at the time of the loss.
Grief counseling can support you in the healing process and teach you how to find a greater sense of ease and calm while you grieve.
Types of Loss
- loss of health
- loss of joy or hope
- loss of a loved one
- loss of a pet
- loss of a relationship or friendship
- loss of home
- loss of job or career
- loss of a sense of safety and security
- loss of a sense that the world was predictable
- loss of assumptions about the world that helped you feel secure
- near death experience
- fear of death
- loss of a sense of peace and ease
- loss of physical ability with age
Jen Johnson offers grief counseling and coaching to teach you skills for coping with the sadness, anger, regret, relief, disbelief, and other emotions that may accompany loss and grief. Jen’s work is about teaching you how to be present with the difficult emotions while simultaneously learning to reconnect with life’s little joys again.
Contact Jen Johnson for grief counseling
Jen Johnson is a grief counselor offering online grief counseling and online therapy for people throughout North Carolina — Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Wilmington, Asheville, Charlotte, Greensboro, and in between.
Grief dares us to love once more.
—Terry Tempest Williams
Grief counseling offers support on your journey toward wholeness
Grief counseling is a supportive process that can help to guide you through the soul work of grieving. Part of healing from grief is being able to acknowledge the reality of the loss. If you have lost a loved one, you can learn how to continue to have a relationship with that person beyond their physical form. In fact, if you’ve already experienced a sense of the deceased person’s spirit, or what feel like signs from them, that is not uncommon.
Grief counseling can help you to process the loss, heal from the stress of the loss, slowly begin to reconnect with life again, and find meaning in the loss. And even though it may feel impossible right now, grief counseling can help you to rediscover glimmers of joy and aliveness again.
Grief Poems
Mama never forgets her birds,
Though in another tree –
She looks down just as often
And just as tenderly
As when her little mortal nest
With cunning care she wove –
If either of her sparrows fall,
She notices, above.
– Emily Dickinson
When Death Comes
…When it’s over, I want to say all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
–Mary Oliver
…In lieu of flowers,
I would wish for you to flower.
I would wish for you to blossom, to open, to be beautiful…
–Shawna Lemay