Transform Your Health with Professional Coaching Services

Guidance to Help Navigate Loss
and Challenging Life Change

Find a sense of meaning and purpose in the midst of loss and beyond.

Grief Coaching & Support Services

Intuitive support to help develop coping strategies and understand your emotions.

Coping Strategies

Clients develop effective coping strategies to manage the challenges associated with grief. This may include techniques for self-care, stress reduction, and building resilience.

Processing Emotions

As your Grief Coach, I will assist you in understanding and processing your emotions. This may involve exploring the range of feelings associated with grief, from sadness and anger to guilt and confusion.

Emotional Support

As a Professional Grief Coach, I provide a safe and empathetic space for clients to express their feelings, fears, and struggles. I offer emotional support without judgment and help clients navigate the ups and downs of grief.

Goal Setting

With my support, you'll set realistic and meaningful goals for the future. This could include personal goals, such as rebuilding relationships or pursuing new interests, as well as goals related to honoring the memory of the person or thing that was lost.

Education

Grief coaches provide information and education about the grieving process, helping clients understand that grief is a unique and client centered experience. They may also offer insights into the physical and emotional aspects of grief.

How Does Grief Coaching Work?

Establishing a Safe Space

Grief coaching creates a safe and non-judgmental space for clients to express their emotions and share their experiences without fear of criticism or misunderstanding.

Emotional Support

Grief coaches offer emotional support, empathy, and active listening to help clients process their grief. The IOPGC Model uses a non-therapeutic, heart-centered approach to facilitate acknowledging the emotional expressions of loss, accepting the reality of the loss, and taking action to find fulfillment in life beyond the loss.

Assessment and Goal Setting

The first step involves an initial assessment where the grief coach and the client discuss the nature of the loss, the client's emotional state, and their specific needs and goals. Goals may include managing overwhelming emotions, finding ways to memorialize the person or thing lost, or developing coping strategies for daily life.

Grief coaches provide information about the grieving process, common reactions to loss, and strategies for coping. This education helps clients understand that their feelings are normal and that there is no "right" or “wrong” way to grieve.

Education

Coping Strategies and Tools

A grief coach helps a client to find a deeper understanding of their grief and how it impacts their life. Grief coaching involves practical coping strategies and tools to help clients manage their grief on a day-to-day basis. These tools help clients to receive a transformational shift in perspective of the circumstances.

Goal Progression and Adjustment

As clients work through their grief, the coach helps them monitor progress toward their goals. Goals may be adjusted as needed to reflect changes in the client's circumstances or emotional state.

Exploration of Meaning and Purpose

Grief coaching may involve exploring the meaning of the loss and helping clients find a sense of purpose and meaning in their lives despite the pain of the loss.

Building Resilience

Grief coaches support clients in building resilience and adapting to life without the person or thing they've lost. This may involve exploring new interests, establishing routines, and fostering connections with others.

Moving Forward

Grief coaching aims to help clients reach a place of acceptance and find a way to move forward in their lives while honoring the memory of what or who was lost.

What is the Difference Between
Grief Counseling and Grief Coaching?

Focus and Goals

Grief Counseling and Grief Coaching are two distinct approaches that aim to support individuals experiencing grief, but they differ in their focus, methodologies, and goals.

Here are the key differences between them:

The primary focus of grief coaching is on helping individuals move forward, set goals, and create a new life after loss. Grief coaching emphasizes future-focused personal growth, resilience, and transformation following loss.

Grief counseling is more focused on the psychological aspects of grief. Focusing primarily on the past, counselors help clients navigate the various stages of grief, understand and cope with their emotions, and find ways to adapt to life without the person or thing they have lost. The goal is often to facilitate intervention for healing.

Grief Coaching

Grief Counseling

Approach

Grief Coaching

Grief Counseling

Counselors typically use therapeutic techniques to explore and process emotions associated with grief. This may involve talking about memories, expressing feelings, and working through the pain associated with the loss.

A grief counselor might ask,
“How did you feel when you lost your mother?”

Coaches may use a more action-oriented and forward looking approach. They help clients identify their strengths, values, and aspirations, and work towards building a fulfilling life in the face of loss.

A grief coach might ask,
“How would you like to feel after the loss of your mother?”

Time Frame

Grief Counseling

Grief Coaching

Counseling may be more open-ended and can continue for a longer duration, depending on the needs of the client. The emphasis is on the therapeutic process of addressing and resolving grief related issues.

Coaching tends to be more short-term and goal oriented. The focus is on helping individuals make positive changes in their lives relatively quickly.

Professional Background

Grief Counseling

Grief Coaching

Grief counseling requires a degreed education and state-regulated certification, with backgrounds typically in mental health professions such as psychology, social work, or counseling. They are trained to provide therapeutic interventions for individuals dealing with grief and loss.

Grief coaches may come from various backgrounds, and they often have training in coaching methodologies. Many enter the field to help others after experiencing a personal loss. They may not necessarily have a mental health or counseling background.

It's important to note that these distinctions are generalizations, and there can be some overlap between grief coaching and grief counseling. Additionally, individuals may choose the approach that resonates best with their personal preferences and needs. Some people may find a combination of coaching and counseling beneficial at different stages of their grieving process.

What is the Difference Between
Grief Coaching and Grief Counseling?

Focus and Goals

Grief coaching and grief counseling are two distinct approaches that aim to support individuals experiencing grief, but they differ in their focus, methodologies, and goals.
Here are the key differences between grief coaching and grief counseling:

The primary focus of grief coaching is on helping individuals move forward, set goals, and create a new life after loss. Grief coaching emphasizes future-focused personal growth, resilience, and transformation following loss.

Grief counseling is more focused on the psychological aspects of grief. Focusing primarily on the past, counselors help clients navigate the various stages of grief, understand and cope with their emotions, and find ways to adapt to life without the person or thing they have lost. The goal is often to facilitate intervention for healing.

Grief Coaching

Grief Counseling

Approach

Grief Coaching

Grief Counseling

Counselors typically use therapeutic techniques to explore and process emotions associated with grief. This may involve talking about memories, expressing feelings, and working through the pain associated with the loss.

A grief counselor might ask, “How did you feel when you lost your mother?”

Coaches may use a more action-oriented and forward looking approach. They help clients identify their strengths, values, and aspirations, and work towards building a fulfilling life in the face of loss.

A grief coach might ask, “How would you like to feel after the loss of your mother?”