"We are all just walking each other home." Ram Dass
Sometimes the path you've been walking collapses around you. The world you thought you knew no longer makes any sense. Maps are useless and GPS can't find you. Your life cannot go back to the before times no matter how much you wish it. And you desperately wish it.
I am a licensed mental health counselor in Texas and Louisiana who specializes in grief and loss, anticipatory grief, chronic and life-threatening illness, and caregiver support. I offer online counseling for adults who seek a compassionate and nonjudgmental person who can walk alongside you in the really hard times.
I won't offer you platitudes, tell you to be strong, or that things will be ok. Sometimes, things won't be ok. Sometimes, life changes forever in ways that you don't want and that you didn't ask for. I will walk beside you in the dark while together we explore what can be now.
Like everyone, I work out of my experience. My partner was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer in 2019. He survived for two and half years. During that time we spent many of our days in hospital or in clinic. I call his death the catastrophic collapse of our lives.
Navigating grief during his illness and following his death has meant creating space for despair, anger, and fear, and also, yearning and love.
