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Individual Therapy

Older Adult Therapy

Support for grief, change, emotional health, and later life transitions

Therapy can offer meaningful support for older adults navigating loss, health changes, shifting roles, and the emotional complexity of later life.

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When This Can Help
  • You are carrying grief, loneliness, or emotional heaviness
  • A health change or family shift has affected your sense of stability
  • You want support processing life transitions or the past
  • You are looking for a calm, respectful therapeutic space
Support May Include
  • Support for grief, emotional health, and changing life roles
  • Processing transitions, loss, and family dynamics
  • Building steadiness and connection in later life
Good Match For

Older adults

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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.

Later stages of life can bring grief, caregiving stress, loneliness, health concerns, family shifts, and reflection on the past. Therapy can provide a steady place to process these experiences with dignity, warmth, and care.

Our Approach

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

We offer supportive, person-centered therapy that honors each client’s story and pace. Sessions may focus on emotional well-being, grief, coping, adjustment, and reconnecting to purpose or stability.

Therapists Connected to This Work

These clinicians have specialties or treatment approaches related to older adult therapy.

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        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Marina Canella, AMFT

Associate Therapist

Photo of Claudia Kraake, Associate Marriage Family Therapist. Claudia is a therapist
        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

Paola Gutierrez, AMFT

Associate Therapist

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        in San Luis Obispo providing therapy services with DeRose Therapy Group

Victoria Fisher, LCSW

Licensed Therapist