Each teen grieves in a unique way. This group will support teens through the difficulties of coping with different types of losses. With the use of empathy combined with evidenced based and holistic healing strategies, we can begin to honor the connection of our losses. We will also identify and process our cycles of grief and cultivate the strength to cope with our grief. This group will help us identify new and healthy ways to cope as well as address complicated grief reactions that accompany prolonged grief.

Our psyche requires periodic times of letting what’s in us be held by others. Grieving is meant to be communal, acknowledged together and when it isn’t held in a communal way, it tends to mutate. What we crave is some space that welcomes all of who we are. There is so much fear and anxiety around grief which makes it more uncomfortable to hold. But grief is not a place of deadness at all. It may be fierce, but it is radically alive. 

The goal isn’t to fix grief because it isn’t a problem to be solved.  It is a presence waiting to be witnessed. Grief isn’t a clinical problem; it becomes clinical when what it needs is denied. Grief isn’t meant to be held continuously. It’s meant to move and cycle. When we do our grief work, we become more present to hold what is before us and what is coming.