I am a licensed clinical social worker in North Carolina with 18 years of experience supporting individuals facing grief, loss and significant life transitions. I was drawn to grief work after the death of my mother from cancer when I was seventeen, and the desire to more deeply understand and make meaning out of my experiences. My professional career has included work as a nursing home social worker, a hospice social worker, and a hospice bereavement counselor.
I approach grief not as a problem to be solved, but rather as a natural, human response to loss. My approach is largely humanistic, emphasizing our unique strengths, inherent wisdom and capacity for self discovery. Our work together may incorporate mindfulness and self compassion practices, expressive arts, as well as the use of writing and symbolic ritual as a means of expression, release and healing.
I offer a safe, accepting and nurturing setting for exploring the complexity of emotions, changes and challenges that may accompany times of transition, loss and uncertainty in our lives. I believe it is vital to make space for acknowledging and exploring the painful aspects of loss and change, while also inviting room for possibilities of healing, regrounding and reconnection to life that, although forever changed by loss, can still have meaning.
