Grief and Loss
Support Group
Grief can change how you experience yourself, your relationships, your body, and the world around you.
Whether your loss was recent or years ago, grief does not move in a straight line. You may feel isolated, misunderstood, emotionally exhausted, or unsure of who you are becoming after loss.
This group is for adults grieving the death of a loved one who are looking for a space that goes deeper than surface-level conversations about grief.
This is not a group about “moving on.”
It is a space to make sense of your grief, your identity, and your life alongside loss.
Together, we will create room for honesty, reflection, connection, and support from others who understand what it means to carry grief into everyday life.
Group Details
Tentative Day and Time: TBD
Session Length: 90 minutes
Format: Virtual
Frequency: Bi-weekly
Length: 8 sessions
Group Type: Closed group for the first round
This group is designed to offer consistency, safety, and connection. A closed group means the same members move through the full group experience together once the group begins.
The Kind of Grief Experiences We Make Space For
☑️ Acute grief, shock, numbness, brain fog, or survival mode
☑️ Feeling pressure to “be okay” before you are ready
☑️ Grief that still feels heavy months or years later
☑️ Identity changes after the death of a loved one
☑️ Feeling disconnected from who you used to be
☑️ Guilt, anger, regret, resentment, relief, or unfinished emotions
☑️ Complicated family dynamics after loss
☑️ Feeling alone when others do not understand
☑️ Birthdays, holidays, anniversaries, and everyday triggers
☑️ Wanting to keep your connection to your loved one while continuing to live
Our Approach to Grief Support
This group offers a compassionate, nonjudgmental space to talk about grief without having to explain it perfectly or make it look more acceptable for other people.
Each session creates room for:
Understanding: Naming what grief can look like emotionally, relationally, physically, and spiritually.
Reflection: Exploring how loss has shaped your identity, relationships, memories, and sense of safety.
Support: Practicing grounding, connection, and self-compassion as you learn how to carry grief in real life.
This is not about rushing your healing, finding a silver lining, or leaving your loved one behind.
It is about being witnessed in your grief while slowly learning how to live with more steadiness, honesty, and care.
1
Surviving Acute Grief
We begin by naming what grief can feel like when your whole system is trying to survive. This session explores shock, emotional numbness, brain fog, exhaustion, anger, panic, and the way grief can affect the body and nervous system.
Instead of asking you to “heal” right away, we make space for what it means to simply get through the day.
What We’ll Explore Together
2
The Many Faces of Grief
Grief does not follow a clean timeline. This session challenges the myths people often carry about grief, including the pressure to be okay, the comparison of grief timelines, and the difference between visible grief and functional grief.
We will explore what you may have felt pressured to hide.
3
Childhood, Attachment, and Grief
Loss can awaken older wounds. This session explores how childhood experiences, attachment patterns, family roles, abandonment fears, and emotional conditioning can shape the way grief shows up now.
We will gently look at what this loss may have stirred beyond the loss itself.
4
Identity and Relationship
Shifts After Loss
Grief can change who you are, how you relate to others, and how you understand your place in the world. This session explores identity disruption, relationship changes, loneliness, withdrawal, and the strange feeling of not recognizing parts of yourself.
We will make space for the question: “Who am I now?”
5
Complicated Relationships and Unfinished Emotions
Not every loss is simple. This session creates room for guilt, anger, regret, resentment, relief, ambivalence, family conflict, and the things that were never said.
You do not have to make the relationship or the grief look clean in order for it to be honored.
6
The Body, Trauma, and Grief
Grief is not only something we think about. It can live in the body through sleep changes, appetite shifts, panic, numbness, tension, fatigue, and trauma responses.
This session explores how grief shows up physically and introduces grounding and regulation tools for moments when the body feels overwhelmed.
8
The Long Arc of Grief and
Life After Loss
The final session focuses on carrying grief over time. We will explore anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, triggers, the fear of moving forward, and what it can mean to keep living without minimizing the pain of the loss.
This session centers integration, meaning-making, and compassion for the long road of grief.
7
Support, Community, and Continuing Bonds
Grief can feel especially lonely when the people around you do not understand what you are carrying. This session explores grief loneliness, storytelling, being witnessed, and the continuing bond you may still feel with your loved one.
We will make space for connection without forcing closure.
Support Rooted in Real Grief Work
This group is facilitated by Lindsay Fernandez, LMHC-D, founder of Evolving Through Grief Counseling Services.
Lindsay’s work is grounded in both clinical experience and lived understanding of how deeply grief can shape a person’s relationships, identity, body, and life.
Her approach is collaborative, compassionate, and deeply human. She believes healing begins when people feel safe enough to be honest about the parts of themselves they often hide, including grief, anger, guilt, resentment, numbness, exhaustion, and uncertainty.
This group is a place to be supported without having to perform strength, rush your process, or explain why grief still matters.
Ready to learn more?