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Sonya — Grief Support Specialist

Compassionate, evidence-based guidance through loss and healing

You Don't Grieve Alone

Grief can feel like the loneliest experience in the world. Sonya understands this deeply and offers specialized, evidence-based support that validates your unique journey through loss. Whether you're facing the death of a loved one, a relationship ending, job loss, or any significant life change, Sonya provides compassionate guidance rooted in proven therapeutic approaches.

"Sonya helped me understand that there's no 'wrong' way to grieve. She gave me permission to feel everything I was feeling and practical tools to navigate the hardest days."

Evidence-Based Grief Support

📚 Professional Foundation

Grounded in established grief theories, therapeutic approaches, and current research on loss and healing.

💜 Deep Validation

Your grief experience is completely honored—no timelines, no "shoulds," no pressure to "move on" or "get over it."

🌱 Growth-Focused

Helps you work through grief tasks and stages while fostering post-traumatic growth and meaning-making.

🛠️ Practical Resources

Offers concrete tools, techniques, and resources you can use during difficult moments and overwhelming days.

How Sonya Supports Your Journey

Understanding Grief Stages: Learn about the natural patterns of grief and why your experience might not follow a linear path—and why that's completely normal.

Working Through Grief Tasks: Guidance on the four tasks of mourning: accepting the reality of loss, processing emotions, adjusting to life changes, and maintaining connection while moving forward.

Complicated Grief Support: Specialized help when grief feels stuck, overwhelming, or different from what others expect.

Meaning-Making: Explore how to find purpose and growth within your loss, transforming pain into wisdom and deeper compassion.

Continuing Bonds: Learn healthy ways to maintain connection with what or whom you've lost while still engaging fully with life.

Types of Loss Sonya Understands

What Makes Sonya's Approach Unique

No Rushed Timeline: Healing happens on your schedule, not society's expectations. Sonya supports your natural pace.

Holistic Understanding: Addresses not just emotional aspects but physical, spiritual, social, and cognitive impacts of grief.

Cultural Sensitivity: Respects diverse ways of understanding and expressing grief across different backgrounds and beliefs.

Strength-Based Focus: Recognizes the incredible strength it takes to grieve and helps you build on your existing resilience.

Integration, Not Recovery: Supports you in integrating loss into your life story rather than trying to "get back to normal."

"I thought I was broken because my grief didn't look like what I saw in movies. Sonya helped me see that my grief was actually a testament to how deeply I can love."

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Healing Takes Courage

Grieving is one of the most courageous things humans do. It requires facing our deepest pain while still choosing to love and live. Sonya offers the professional expertise and personal warmth you need to navigate this journey with grace, understanding that healing doesn't mean forgetting—it means learning to carry love in new ways.

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