It is my honor to sit with you in your grief. My goal as a grief coach is to find ways to live a full life that honors, keeps, and recognizes your loss. We are not going to “eliminate” or “escape” your grief, rather we will approach it with tools, compassion, and affirmation. Together, we can build practices, rituals, frames, and more to build a life where no feeling is unmanageable or unmentionable (as Mister Rogers said).
I integrate body-based awareness practices (breathwork, grounding, movement) and narrative tools (guided imagery, metaphor, letter-writing) to facilitate grief processing beyond talk-only formats.
Please reach out any time with questions, or schedule an intake session.
Learn more below:
What We Can Do
- Develop a personal grief inventory – slowly and tenderly taking stock of what’s in the room with your current grief and why it matters.
- Bring all our senses into our space togther, including our sense of memory. Because most of my sessions are via video, we can create a space together that is open to all you would want to bring to our time.
- Develop a comfortable, flexible rhythm that works for you. Our time together may include:
- Opening and grounding methods to breathe, land, and address grief’s complexities.
- Goal setting, toolbox building, storytelling, ritual making, breathing, letter-writing, playlist creation, important date recognition, and whatever we decide is needed in the moment.
- Closing and reflecting – takeaways, check-ins, and homework.
Schedule an Intake
We will begin with a 75–90-minute intake session to get to know each other, clarify our scope of work, and establish goals.
© Ariel Kates
