THE PRIVATE PRACTICE
The body already knows how to grieve. You just need to know what it knows.
Once you recognize what you're experiencing as grief, something shifts. The loss doesn’t disappears — and yet — somehow, the shoulders do drop down. The brow relaxes. Surrender feels less like brawl, and more like a natural, biological process that was always waiting for you in the wings. This practice exists for that moment of recognition, and for what comes after it.
How we move through this together
Step 1:
Acknowledge the Loss
We name the loss precisely as yours. Then we introduce the neuroscience: what is happening consciously, subcortically, why the body is responding the way it is, and why pushing through has not worked.
Step 2:
Map the Impact
We examine the full weight of the loss using attachment science and, where relevant, additional frameworks like family systems theory. Not to excavate what you are not ready for — but to give you an honest accounting of what you are carrying.
Step 3:
Chart your Path Forward
We build infrastructure, identifying what needs to be in place for this grief to move. The people, the resources, the behaviors. You leave with a concrete support structure and a set of milestones to move toward.
WHAT SETS US APART
Corporate grief navigation
Short-term · 2-3 sessions
Workplace transitions — reorganizations, role loss, layoffs, sudden leadership changes — activate the same neurobiological processes as any other significant loss. The brain does not distinguish between them. What gets labeled as low performance, disengagement, or resistance is often a nervous system in the middle of recalibrating.
This is a focused, strategy-oriented engagement. We get into what you're experiencing at work, bring the neuroscience into view, and identify what your body and brain are actually doing and why. Then we build a concrete plan: what you need, who belongs on your support bench, and how to move through this without losing yourself to it.
Grief counseling
Ongoing - As Needed
Traditional bereavement and loss counseling for people navigating death, anticipatory grief, or the grief that arrives after a significant life change. Sessions are not scripted or time-limited. We go at the pace your nervous system actually needs.
Breonna Rodriguez is a certified grief counselor (CGC) and thanatologist. This work is grounded in current grief science and delivered with a commitment to naming what is actually happening — not softening it into something easier to dismiss.
—Bereavement after death of a loved one
—Anticipatory grief and end-of-life preparation
—Grief following major life transitions, identity loss, or rupture
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