Do you feel like you are “going crazy” with the pain of your grief?

Is your loss hurting so much that it is affecting your body and your health?

Are you all alone with your loss?

Does it feel like everyone else is waiting for you to “move on” when you are not ready yet?

Understand what is universal and what is unique about your grief:

Grief and loss are unique and vast territories in the human psyche, often treated in mainstream culture as uncharted or unknown, despite the simple fact that we all have, or will have, experienced meaningful losses. Grief is a normal human response to significant loss, encompassing a myriad of emotional, cognitive, physical and spiritual responses.

Having worked for several years with women living with HIV and their families, I have had the honor to witness and accompany individuals and families through dying and grieving. I am available to support you and your family through the many changes, decisions and challenges that this time presents, from the most practical decisions; such as financial, health care and custody arrangements, to the psychological complexities and challenges of facing your own mortality and losing the people closest to you.

My work with the dying and the bereaved has taught me tremendous and profound lessons not only about dying, but mostly about living.

When the pain is too much to bear alone:

Psychotherapy is particularly helpful when the grieving person is alone and cannot share their grief with others for personal, social or cultural reasons. It is also helpful when the grief is complicated, prolonged or somaticized, meaning experienced in the body in powerful and painful ways. More than anything, you will know in your heart when it is time to seek professional assistance with your grief.

I will follow your lead:

Most importantly, I know the burden of facing such an enormous experience with the discomfort that others may feel regarding your grief. You deserve a space where you can be all of who you are in your grief, even when you imagine that your feelings are shameful, unacceptable or unusual. I invite you into a creative space where you can be open or defended, in sorrow or highly active, feeling “too much” or “too little”, feeling very close to or very detached from those who died. Together, with curiosity and openness, we will find our way back to your life after this loss, no assumptions made.

I also specialize in working with young children who have experienced grief and loss. Click here for more information about my work with children. I am Israeli-American and my services are available in English and in Hebrew.