Grief Therapists in Westlake, TX
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A Strand of Hope Counseling LLC
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate
Verified Verified
Westlake, TX 76262 (Online Only)
Are you wanting to be understood, validated, and work through hard times together? You or a loved one might be experiencing the cycle of addiction, trauma, grief, chronic pain, or feeling in a rut. You and your partner(s) may be dealing with intimacy issues, infertility, infidelity, or seeking premarital counseling. My therapy seeks to resolve conflicts, improve intimacy, communication, authenticity, and trust. Part of you might be feeling ready to reach out and part of you feeling nervous. Feeling nervous is normal and I offer free 15 minute consultations.
Are you wanting to be understood, validated, and work through hard times together? You or a loved one might be experiencing the cycle of addiction, trauma, grief, chronic pain, or feeling in a rut. You and your partner(s) may be dealing with intimacy issues, infertility, infidelity, or seeking premarital counseling. My therapy seeks to resolve conflicts, improve intimacy, communication, authenticity, and trust. Part of you might be feeling ready to reach out and part of you feeling nervous. Feeling nervous is normal and I offer free 15 minute consultations.
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Lindsay Colley
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Westlake, TX 76262
I have experience working with adults struggling with depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, and more. I am expanding my counseling services and now helping women who have experienced miscarriage/baby loss; pregnancy after loss. I will assist you in developing skills so you can begin to challenge negative thoughts, and identify and process your emotions/losses/past pain or hurts. YOU too can heal. My counseling approach is supportive, compassionate, and focused on YOU. I create a safe and healing environment for you to discuss whatever is consuming your thoughts.
I have experience working with adults struggling with depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, and more. I am expanding my counseling services and now helping women who have experienced miscarriage/baby loss; pregnancy after loss. I will assist you in developing skills so you can begin to challenge negative thoughts, and identify and process your emotions/losses/past pain or hurts. YOU too can heal. My counseling approach is supportive, compassionate, and focused on YOU. I create a safe and healing environment for you to discuss whatever is consuming your thoughts.
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Jeff Lutes
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC, QTAP
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Westlake, TX 76262
Austinites seek me out to discuss a number of life issues such as depression and anxiety, relationships, intimacy & commitment, sexual orientation & gender identity, family challenges & conflict resolution, coping with grief and loss, trauma, compulsive & addictive behaviors, stress & anger management, and parenting.
For over 34 years I've created collaborative conversations with clients that generate new possibilities for change. I use a postmodern approach and strive to understand how clients make meaning of themselves, others, and the world around them. I tend to be active in those conversations - not passive - and I am respectful and goal-oriented. I also enjoy writing, providing consultation to other professionals, and speaking to audiences about love, dating, and relationships.
Austinites seek me out to discuss a number of life issues such as depression and anxiety, relationships, intimacy & commitment, sexual orientation & gender identity, family challenges & conflict resolution, coping with grief and loss, trauma, compulsive & addictive behaviors, stress & anger management, and parenting.
For over 34 years I've created collaborative conversations with clients that generate new possibilities for change. I use a postmodern approach and strive to understand how clients make meaning of themselves, others, and the world around them. I tend to be active in those conversations - not passive - and I am respectful and goal-oriented. I also enjoy writing, providing consultation to other professionals, and speaking to audiences about love, dating, and relationships.
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J J Friedman
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMHC, MFT
Verified Verified
Westlake, TX 76262 (Online Only)
Treatment specialization includes: Reducing Trauma and PTSD symptoms, Work and Career issues, Stress Management, Depression, Anxiety, Conflict Resolution in relationships, and Grief and Loss Issues.
As a practical, interactive, solution-focused therapist, my treatment approach is to provide support and practical feedback. My objective is for clients to resolve current issues and long-standing, potentially negative behavioral patterns via video therapy. I also assist clients find solutions to a wide range of life challenges and psychological issues. By utilizing a number of conventional and individually tailored approaches, I look to focus on which methodologies are most helpful for you as an individual.
Treatment specialization includes: Reducing Trauma and PTSD symptoms, Work and Career issues, Stress Management, Depression, Anxiety, Conflict Resolution in relationships, and Grief and Loss Issues.
As a practical, interactive, solution-focused therapist, my treatment approach is to provide support and practical feedback. My objective is for clients to resolve current issues and long-standing, potentially negative behavioral patterns via video therapy. I also assist clients find solutions to a wide range of life challenges and psychological issues. By utilizing a number of conventional and individually tailored approaches, I look to focus on which methodologies are most helpful for you as an individual.
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Catherine Castillo
Licensed Professional Counselor Associate, MEd, LPC-A
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Westlake, TX 76262 (Online Only)
I have extensive experience working with clients facing a range of difficulties, including complex trauma, grief, and recovery from narcissistic abuse.
Have you found yourself in a difficult situation, relationship, or divorce with a narcissist? Are you have difficulties with moving forward in your life or feel depressed or anxious? Have you experienced loss or an event that you cannot seem to move past? Do you need someone who will listen to you and understand your emotions?
I have extensive experience working with clients facing a range of difficulties, including complex trauma, grief, and recovery from narcissistic abuse.
Have you found yourself in a difficult situation, relationship, or divorce with a narcissist? Are you have difficulties with moving forward in your life or feel depressed or anxious? Have you experienced loss or an event that you cannot seem to move past? Do you need someone who will listen to you and understand your emotions?
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Lauren Fazio
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Westlake, TX 76262 (Online Only)
I am trained in EMDR, CPT, and Seleni Institute Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders, Perinatal Loss and Grief, and Maternal Mental Health Intensive for Young Parents.
I hope to partner with you! I will offer clinical expertise in perinatal issues, trauma, and attachment. I lean into my own lived perinatal experiences within the client-therapist dynamic. What I’ve found matters most is finding someone to walk alongside you. We are wired for connection, and despite what the movies portray the fertility, pregnancy and/or postpartum experience to look like, it can be a time where you feel cut off from others and yourself in unexpected ways. Previous pregnancy loss and miscarriage can also impact an experience we’ve longed for.
I am trained in EMDR, CPT, and Seleni Institute Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders, Perinatal Loss and Grief, and Maternal Mental Health Intensive for Young Parents.
I hope to partner with you! I will offer clinical expertise in perinatal issues, trauma, and attachment. I lean into my own lived perinatal experiences within the client-therapist dynamic. What I’ve found matters most is finding someone to walk alongside you. We are wired for connection, and despite what the movies portray the fertility, pregnancy and/or postpartum experience to look like, it can be a time where you feel cut off from others and yourself in unexpected ways. Previous pregnancy loss and miscarriage can also impact an experience we’ve longed for.
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Damien Robinson
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC-S
Verified Verified
7 Endorsed
Westlake, TX 76262
I create a space of safety for my clients to journey through and overcome emotional pain, grief, disappointment, and disconnection.
I am a US veteran/ therapist/ LPC Supervisor and my focus is to assist my clients with healing and regaining hope. Navigating through depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or family issues can be tough but with my help, we can develop tools that will allow you the opportunity to breathe again.
I create a space of safety for my clients to journey through and overcome emotional pain, grief, disappointment, and disconnection.
I am a US veteran/ therapist/ LPC Supervisor and my focus is to assist my clients with healing and regaining hope. Navigating through depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or family issues can be tough but with my help, we can develop tools that will allow you the opportunity to breathe again.
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Yavierlis Cartagena
Licensed Professional Counselor, MPsy
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Westlake, TX 76262 (Online Only)
My extensive experience spans trauma treatment, grief and loss, relationship challenges, family conflicts, life transitions, chronic illness, maternal mental health, reproductive issues, and generational trauma.
Welcome to your healing journey! As the expert of your OWN story, I want to hold space for your emotions and offer an empathic, non-judgmental environment that you can feel safe and comfortable being vulnerable along this process. Together, we will work on understanding your needs and developing skills to foster the fulfilling life and meaningful relationships you deserve.
My extensive experience spans trauma treatment, grief and loss, relationship challenges, family conflicts, life transitions, chronic illness, maternal mental health, reproductive issues, and generational trauma.
Welcome to your healing journey! As the expert of your OWN story, I want to hold space for your emotions and offer an empathic, non-judgmental environment that you can feel safe and comfortable being vulnerable along this process. Together, we will work on understanding your needs and developing skills to foster the fulfilling life and meaningful relationships you deserve.
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Maryellen Dabal
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
14 Endorsed
Westlake, TX 76262 (Online Only)
Providing assistance to individuals, couples and families through a positive and solution-focused approach. I help my clients to find their strengths and use those strengths to make life satisfying.
My respect of your current situation and my life-long passion of helping others, together with your desire for change, will help us to uncover the strengths you need to be your best.
Providing Pre-Marital counseling to help you build a strong base for a lasting relationship. Providing Marital counseling and divorce support as well.
Providing assistance to individuals, couples and families through a positive and solution-focused approach. I help my clients to find their strengths and use those strengths to make life satisfying.
My respect of your current situation and my life-long passion of helping others, together with your desire for change, will help us to uncover the strengths you need to be your best.
Providing Pre-Marital counseling to help you build a strong base for a lasting relationship. Providing Marital counseling and divorce support as well.
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Claudia Legarreta
Licensed Professional Counselor, PhD, LPC-S
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Westlake, TX 76262
At Relational Pathways we strive to offer a safe and non-judgmental environment where families are able to strengthen their connections and achieve their therapeutic goals. Whether you are looking for parental mentoring, child therapy or neurofeedback therapy , we offer an array of services that can assist you and your family reach your gaols.
At Relational Pathways we strive to offer a safe and non-judgmental environment where families are able to strengthen their connections and achieve their therapeutic goals. Whether you are looking for parental mentoring, child therapy or neurofeedback therapy , we offer an array of services that can assist you and your family reach your gaols.
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Genniffer Williams
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, LMFT
Verified Verified
Westlake, TX 76262 (Online Only)
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Erin L Smith
Licensed Professional Counselor, MEd, LPC
Verified Verified
Westlake, TX 76262 (Online Only)
If you are looking for a counselor or life coach with an interactive style that enjoys working with clients to gain insight and acquire skills to improve wellness and make goals attainable, please call me. I look forward to telling you more about the online counseling and coaching services I offer. Please note: I provide online counseling for Texas residents only, and I provide Life-Coaching for both residents and non-residents of Texas.
If you are looking for a counselor or life coach with an interactive style that enjoys working with clients to gain insight and acquire skills to improve wellness and make goals attainable, please call me. I look forward to telling you more about the online counseling and coaching services I offer. Please note: I provide online counseling for Texas residents only, and I provide Life-Coaching for both residents and non-residents of Texas.
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Bev Lucas, LCSW
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Westlake, TX 76262
Are you having difficulty managing barriers that are keeping you from living life as completely as you would like? Working on agreed upon goals, I help clients with skills that offer movement towards change. Are you experiencing high anxiety, panic, thoughts of suicide, or relationship problems that seem impossible to change?
Are you having difficulty managing barriers that are keeping you from living life as completely as you would like? Working on agreed upon goals, I help clients with skills that offer movement towards change. Are you experiencing high anxiety, panic, thoughts of suicide, or relationship problems that seem impossible to change?
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Mendy Landreth
Licensed Professional Counselor, MEd, LPC-S, NCC, RPT, CCPRT
Verified Verified
5 Endorsed
Westlake, TX 76262
Affectionately called "a mender of people," Mendy Landreth uses her compassion and empathy to bring healing to individuals and families with various needs. Her extensive training as a Registered Play Therapist has been the backbone of her powerful work with children and has made her more attuned to adolescent and adult clients as well. Mendy utilizes sandtray therapy and other expressive art activities with interested clients of all ages. As a Certified Child-Parent Relationship Therapist, Mendy has successfully trained parents, grandparents, and other counselors with practical tools that reduce conflict and increase family unity.
Affectionately called "a mender of people," Mendy Landreth uses her compassion and empathy to bring healing to individuals and families with various needs. Her extensive training as a Registered Play Therapist has been the backbone of her powerful work with children and has made her more attuned to adolescent and adult clients as well. Mendy utilizes sandtray therapy and other expressive art activities with interested clients of all ages. As a Certified Child-Parent Relationship Therapist, Mendy has successfully trained parents, grandparents, and other counselors with practical tools that reduce conflict and increase family unity.
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Nicole Vargas
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT, BAS
Verified Verified
7 Endorsed
Westlake, TX 76262 (Online Only)
Life is complicated! Let's untangle it. With over 18 years in the mental health field, I have worked with individuals, couples, and families with all backgrounds and experiences. I believe that people have the tools they need to make changes in their own lives, and I work with my clients to discover those tools. I like to look beyond routine interactions and patterns that make clients "stuck" and helps clients discover strengths and new ways of relating to others. Clients have described me as compassionate, progressive, non-judgmental, and as a "gentle challenger."
Life is complicated! Let's untangle it. With over 18 years in the mental health field, I have worked with individuals, couples, and families with all backgrounds and experiences. I believe that people have the tools they need to make changes in their own lives, and I work with my clients to discover those tools. I like to look beyond routine interactions and patterns that make clients "stuck" and helps clients discover strengths and new ways of relating to others. Clients have described me as compassionate, progressive, non-judgmental, and as a "gentle challenger."
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Amy Hurlburt
Licensed Professional Counselor Associate, LPC-A
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Westlake, TX 76262
Is the path you are currently navigating not what you pictured? I will meet you where you are and help process a new pathway in this modern life that seems to be filled with stress and anxiety. We will develop a collaborative, trusting relationship and tailor the counseling process to your individual needs and values.
Is the path you are currently navigating not what you pictured? I will meet you where you are and help process a new pathway in this modern life that seems to be filled with stress and anxiety. We will develop a collaborative, trusting relationship and tailor the counseling process to your individual needs and values.
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Do you ever feel like you're living for other people? Are your relationships wearing you down? Do you find yourself in sabotage cycles that keep you stuck, in shame, and feeling as if you can't access a life that feels authentic to you? Do you feel like something is off in your life, but can't figure out what? If so, I am eager to meet you! I pride myself in working with people who, through experiencing deep pain and dissatisfaction in their life, feel ready to dig deep, gain clear insight on what's blocking them from their true desires in life, and start re-creating a life of authenticity, freedom, self-compassion, and confidence.
Do you ever feel like you're living for other people? Are your relationships wearing you down? Do you find yourself in sabotage cycles that keep you stuck, in shame, and feeling as if you can't access a life that feels authentic to you? Do you feel like something is off in your life, but can't figure out what? If so, I am eager to meet you! I pride myself in working with people who, through experiencing deep pain and dissatisfaction in their life, feel ready to dig deep, gain clear insight on what's blocking them from their true desires in life, and start re-creating a life of authenticity, freedom, self-compassion, and confidence.
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Tanya Harter Pierce
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Westlake, TX 76262 (Online Only)
Hello! My specialties are: Couples Counseling, Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Sexual Abuse, Substance Abuse, Domestic Abuse, Spiritual Confusion, and Non-drug approaches for ADHD. Currently, I also offer a number of Teletherapy times, which offer more flexibility in session availability. This can be particularly helpful for clients with busy or restricted schedules, especially couples and parents with young children.
Hello! My specialties are: Couples Counseling, Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Sexual Abuse, Substance Abuse, Domestic Abuse, Spiritual Confusion, and Non-drug approaches for ADHD. Currently, I also offer a number of Teletherapy times, which offer more flexibility in session availability. This can be particularly helpful for clients with busy or restricted schedules, especially couples and parents with young children.
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I meet my clients where they are, in the framework that serves their presenting concern the most effectively. Adjustment to a transition, relationship challenges, onset of a mental illness, or peaks and valleys of mental illness management can disrupt or interrupt functioning in a variety of areas. A therapeutic relationship can deepen understanding and skills to move through a moment. A therapeutic relationship can build acceptance and integration of something that will always be part of our makeup.
I meet my clients where they are, in the framework that serves their presenting concern the most effectively. Adjustment to a transition, relationship challenges, onset of a mental illness, or peaks and valleys of mental illness management can disrupt or interrupt functioning in a variety of areas. A therapeutic relationship can deepen understanding and skills to move through a moment. A therapeutic relationship can build acceptance and integration of something that will always be part of our makeup.
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Lauren David
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Westlake, TX 76262
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I strive to create a warm and trusting relationship with my clients as a base from which to explore their emotions, thought processes, and relationships that are contributing to their current distress. I then act as a guide in helping clients move toward the change they want to see in their lives. My approach to therapy is relational, integrative, and collaborative. I weave mindfulness and self-compassion into explorations of past and current relationships and the building of new coping skills to help clients better manage their current difficulties and change underlying patterns.
I strive to create a warm and trusting relationship with my clients as a base from which to explore their emotions, thought processes, and relationships that are contributing to their current distress. I then act as a guide in helping clients move toward the change they want to see in their lives. My approach to therapy is relational, integrative, and collaborative. I weave mindfulness and self-compassion into explorations of past and current relationships and the building of new coping skills to help clients better manage their current difficulties and change underlying patterns.
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How long does therapy take for grief?
There is no exact timeline for grief counseling. Some people may start to feel better after just a few sessions, while others may take months or longer to feel relief. Some specific approaches, including some types of CBT, may involve a set number of sessions, or therapy may be open-ended until the patient determines they are ready to wrap up. Just as there is no right or wrong way to grieve, there is no right or wrong way to seek therapy for grief.
When should you seek therapy for grief?
Many people mistakenly believe that their grief needs to be debilitating or all-encompassing to warrant therapy. This is not the case. While people who experience severe, prolonged grief—particularly those who are considering self-harm or engaging in unhealthy substance use—are especially likely to benefit from therapy, so too are people whose grief is less intense but still interfering with well-being or daily functioning. In practice, almost anyone struggling to process a loss could benefit from grief counseling.
Can grief be managed without therapy?
Oftentimes, yes. Grief is a near-universal part of being human, and many find that their grief, while profound, does not stop them from participating in day-to-day life and steadily eases over time without outside help. For others, however, the harsh pain of early grief persists for months or years or leaves them unable to function. This group is especially likely to benefit from seeing a therapist, who can guide them through their grief and help them reconnect with the world.
What happens if grief is left untreated?
Because grief does not in itself necessitate therapy, untreated grief will often resolve on its own. However, for some people—particularly those who would qualify for a diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder—untreated grief can be a source of seemingly endless pain or lead them to withdraw from the world. In such cases, treatment can be indispensable, as it can help an individual adapt to the loss and start living again.