Grief Therapy & Counseling in Wheat Ridge, Colorado
Compassionate Support for Your Grief Journey
When grief feels overwhelming and isolating, you don't have to navigate the pain alone. At Mind, Body, Soulmates PLLC, our experienced team of licensed professionals provides specialized grief counseling to help individuals, couples, and families heal from loss. Whether you're dealing with the death of a loved one, medical trauma, or complicated grief, we're here to support your unique grief journey toward healing and hope.
We understand that grief isn't just about death—it encompasses any significant loss that disrupts your sense of normalcy. Our collaborative approach to bereavement support helps you process pain, develop healthy coping strategies, and rebuild meaningful connections while honoring your loss.
Grief counseling is a specialized form of therapy that helps individuals process and navigate their emotional responses to loss. The grieving process affects everyone differently, and symptoms can include intense sadness, anger, guilt, disbelief, anxiety, and depression. Some people experience what's known as complicated grief or prolonged grief disorder, where intense symptoms persist for many months or years after a loss.
Our licensed professionals recognize that grief lives in the body and impacts every aspect of life. That's why we use evidence-based therapeutic approaches to address not just the emotional aspects of bereavement, but also the physical and relational impacts of loss. Research suggests that specialized grief therapy can significantly improve outcomes for those struggling with complicated grief and traumatic grief.
Whether you're experiencing acute grief from a recent loss or processing multiple losses over time, our team provides the support and tools needed to navigate this difficult journey. We help clients understand that healing doesn't mean forgetting, but rather learning to carry loss in a way that allows for meaningful living.
Understanding Grief Counseling
Who We Serve: Our Ideal Clients
Women with Attachment Trauma
We specialize in working with high-functioning women who are discovering that their relationship patterns stem from childhood attachment wounds. These clients often present with perfectionism, burnout, or relationship difficulties, but underneath lies unprocessed grief and trauma that needs attention. Many are in demanding careers—healthcare, law, business—and struggle with feeling "never enough."
Couples Facing Loss Together
Our couples therapy supports partners dealing with betrayal trauma, communication breakdowns, and shared losses. We work with couples where one or both partners have trauma histories, helping them understand how individual grief responses impact their relationship while developing new patterns of connection.
Families Navigating Medical Trauma
We provide specialized support for families dealing with serious illness, whether it's parents coping with a child's diagnosis or siblings processing the loss of a brother or sister. Our approach addresses both the immediate trauma and the ongoing grief that accompanies chronic illness.
Men Processing Hidden Trauma
Many of our male clients are going through life transitions—career changes, parenthood, caring for aging parents—while struggling with unrecognized trauma and grief. We help men develop emotional awareness and healthy coping strategies for depression, anxiety, and feelings of disconnection.
Aging Adults and End-of-Life Concerns
We offer unique support for aging adults facing their own mortality and the grief of losing friends and family members to death. Our approach helps clients process past experiences while preparing for the future with dignity and purpose.
Neurodivergent Individuals and Families
We understand how neurodivergence impacts the grieving process and family dynamics. Many of our neurodivergent clients are processing grief about missed opportunities or years of masking their true selves.
Our Therapeutic Approach
EMDR for Traumatic Grief
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is one of our most powerful tools for processing traumatic grief and complicated bereavement. This approach helps clients process disturbing memories and intense emotions associated with loss, allowing natural healing mechanisms to function more effectively. We also offer EMDR for couples dealing with shared trauma.
Brainspotting for Deep Healing
Brainspotting accesses and processes trauma held in the body, particularly helpful for clients who feel stuck in their grief journey or have difficulty accessing emotions through traditional talk therapy. This approach provides a pathway for releasing trapped energy and allowing natural healing to occur.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy
IFS recognizes that different "parts" of ourselves respond to loss in various ways. Through this work, we help clients develop a compassionate relationship with all aspects of their grief experience, creating internal harmony that supports healing. This is especially powerful for those dealing with complicated grief or multiple losses.
Somatic Therapy
Since grief lives in the body, somatic therapy helps clients tune into physical sensations and develop awareness of how bereavement shows up somatically. Many clients discover that chronic pain, sleep disturbances, or digestive issues are manifestations of unprocessed grief.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
EFT is our primary approach for couples and families dealing with grief and bereavement. This modality helps family members understand underlying emotions and needs, creating deeper empathy and connection when communication has broken down due to loss.
Additional Modalities
We also integrate Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), mindfulness-based approaches, and art therapy to provide comprehensive support tailored to each client's needs and circumstances.
What Makes Us Different
Collaborative Team Approach
When you work with one of our therapists, you benefit from our entire team's collective wisdom. We regularly consult with one another, ensuring the most effective treatment while maintaining confidentiality. This collaborative approach is especially valuable for families, allowing us to work with different family members while maintaining unified therapeutic direction.
Experienced Licensed Professionals
Our team brings decades of combined experience in grief counseling and trauma therapy. We understand the courage required to face difficult emotions and the resilience needed to heal from loss and trauma.
Whole-Family Care
We provide a "one-stop shop" for therapy that can serve entire families. Whether you need individual therapy, couples counseling, or family therapy, our like-minded therapists ensure everyone moves in the same direction therapeutically.
Flexible Service Options
We offer both in-person sessions at our Wheat Ridge location and online therapy throughout the Denver area. This flexibility ensures you can access care in whatever format works best for your grief journey.
Specialized Services
Case Management for Aging Adults
We provide comprehensive support for elderly clients and their families, including difficult conversations about aging, end-of-life planning, and maintaining dignity during life's final chapter. We often work in clients' homes to provide comfort and familiarity during challenging discussions.
Sibling Loss Support
Our specialized training in sibling loss addresses this often-overlooked form of bereavement. Whether supporting siblings through a brother or sister's illness or processing the death of a sibling, we understand the unique complexity of these relationships.
Support for Prolonged Grief Disorder
For individuals struggling with complicated grief that persists beyond typical timeframes, we provide targeted interventions designed specifically for prolonged grief disorder. Our approach helps clients who feel stuck in their bereavement find pathways toward healing.
Getting Started with Grief Counseling
Free Consultation
We begin with a complimentary 15+ minute consultation call where we discuss your specific circumstances and how our approach might help. This conversation allows us to determine which of our licensed professionals would be the best fit for your needs.
Personalized Treatment Planning
During your first session, we conduct a comprehensive intake to understand your history, current challenges, and goals for therapy. We may use assessment tools to better understand your symptoms and preferences, then develop a personalized treatment plan.
Ongoing Support
We recognize that healing doesn't follow a rigid schedule. We work with you to determine session frequency that makes sense for your life, whether weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. We also offer intensive sessions for clients wanting to dive deeper into their healing process.
Take the First Step Toward Healing
Grief and loss are inevitable parts of the human experience, but you don't have to face them alone. Our compassionate team understands that reaching out for help requires courage, especially when you're used to being strong and independent.
Whether you're dealing with recent loss, prolonged grief disorder, or processing bereavement from years past, we have the expertise to support your healing. We believe everyone deserves to feel secure in themselves and their relationships, even after experiencing significant loss.
Your grief is valid, your pain matters, and healing is possible. We're here to help you discover that a meaningful life is achievable, even in the face of loss and suffering.
Ready to begin your grief journey toward healing? Contact Mind, Body, Soulmates PLLC today to schedule your free consultation. We'll listen to your story, answer your questions about grief counseling, and help you determine if our approach is right for your needs.
Serving individuals, couples, and families in Wheat Ridge, Denver, and throughout Colorado with both in-person and online grief therapy services.