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Trauma & Recovery

Grief Therapy

Compassionate support for loss, mourning, and life after change

Grief therapy offers space to process loss in all of its forms, including death, separation, identity shifts, and life that no longer looks the way it once did.

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When This Can Help
  • A loss has left you overwhelmed, numb, or emotionally stuck
  • Grief is affecting your day-to-day life or relationships
  • You feel pressure to move on before you are ready
  • You want a space where your grief can be met with compassion
Support May Include
  • Processing emotional pain, meaning, and identity after loss
  • Making room for grief without being consumed by it
  • Finding steadier footing in the midst of change
Good Match For

Adults and older teens

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What This Support Can Address

A clearer look at what people may be carrying when they reach out for this kind of care.

Grief is not only emotional pain. It can affect your body, relationships, concentration, motivation, and sense of meaning. It can arrive after death, but also after breakups, betrayal, transitions, or losing a future you expected.

Our Approach

How we try to make care feel both skillful and genuinely human.

We approach grief gently and without pressure. Rather than trying to rush you through it, therapy can help you make space for what hurts, understand what is changing, and begin integrating loss into your life with care.

Therapists Connected to This Work

These clinicians have specialties or treatment approaches related to grief therapy.

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        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Marina Canella, AMFT

Associate Therapist

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        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Claudia Kraake, AMFT

Associate Therapist

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        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Becca Panarra, LMFT

Licensed Therapist

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        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Renee Chaffin, ASW

Associate Therapist