Grief support.

Grief is not a problem to solve and it is not a stage you finish. It is what happens when love, attachment, identity, and the future you counted on collide with the irreversible fact of death or loss. It is raw. It is often shitty. It can make you unrecognizable to yourself. And most of the time the culture around you would prefer you keep it contained.

I'm Therapist Jill, and I know this from the inside. My husband died in January 2018. My dad died in September of the same year. Most recently, my younger brother died by suicide in September 2026. Death has bitten me right square in the ass more than once. That is part of why I am the way I am about this work, and part of why people are drawn to it. I don't approach grief as an expert who has only studied it. I approach it as someone who has been forced to live it, and who got tired of watching it get hushed.

Soft approaches can feel caring, but they often signal that the full weight of what you're carrying is too much to bring into the room. People learn to perform a version of grieving that protects everyone else, then do the real work alone. I don't do that. In this work we talk about the actual depth of death and loss. We look at the relationship that ended, the unfinished pieces, the identity that cracked, the anger, the guilt, the strange relief, the moments you forget and the moments you can't breathe. There is no timeline, no bypassing, and no pressure to make it look manageable. The goal is not to get over it. The goal is to stop hiding from it so you can carry it without it running your life.

This is for people who are ready to stop treating the hardest thing they've ever faced like something that has to stay quiet. If you've felt the draw to someone who has been there and still refuses to soften the conversation, this is that room.