How I Can Help You Heal Through Grief, Loss, and Life’s Transitions

At The Outpatient Chaplain, I offer personalized and group spiritual and emotional support to help you navigate the challenges that come with grief, change, and inner struggle. Whether you are processing the loss of a loved one, wrestling with uncertainty, or feeling disconnected from yourself or your purpose, this space is for you.

This is not therapy or grief counseling in the clinical sense—it’s something different. While traditional approaches often center on diagnosis and treatment, chaplain support focuses on presence, deep listening, and helping you reconnect with your own wisdom, strength, and sense of meaning.

Many people who have explored counseling or searched for a therapist near me are drawn to chaplain care as a nonclinical but transformative alternative or complement to those paths.

A Holistic, Psycho-Spiritual Approach

As a professional chaplain, I meet you where you are—emotionally, spiritually, and psychologically. I use a holistic psycho-spiritual framework that blends spiritual companionship with evidence-based approaches like:

  • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

  • Motivational Interviewing (MI)

  • Problem-Solving Therapy (PST)

My work is also grounded in the Enneagram and Internal Family Systems (IFS), both of which support deep self-awareness and the healing of internal and relational wounds.

We may also integrate meditation, grounding techniques, or shamanic practices into our time together—tools that help restore a sense of presence and inner connection.

This is a space to reflect, release, rediscover, and transform—not by bypassing pain, but by allowing it to become a guide. When fully understood and integrated, pain becomes a teacher on our life path.

Common Areas of Focus 

People seek this kind of support for many reasons, including:

  • Grief and bereavement (including complicated grief, traumatic grief, or loss due to sudden death)

  • Life transitions, such as retirement, illness, divorce, relocation, or identity shifts

  • Exploring spiritual practices or reconnecting to a spiritual path

  • Moral injury, especially for those in healthcare, caregiving, or service roles

  • Struggles with meaning, purpose, or direction

  • Self-awareness and identity work

  • Substance use struggles, especially when approached through a spiritual or values-based lens

  • Complicated family dynamics, using insights from Family Systems Theory

  • Present-moment awareness, cultivating a grounded relationship with the now

  • The “Dark Night of the Soul”, turning inner turmoil into awakening

  • Values identification, embodiment, and realignment with purpose

Many people who might consider grief counseling, a kids therapist, or mental health counseling find that chaplain support offers a space that feels both sacred and grounded. It’s especially helpful for those who want spiritual or values-based support that is still evidence-based.

What Clients Say

“Through grief group I have learned that death, grieving, and dying are not the end of the world. Sometimes with death comes transformation and renewal. Grief group offers a safe place to be vulnerable.”

Getting Started

  • Healing Through Presence

    One of the most powerful things we can do in times of loss or pain is simply to be present—to stop running, numbing, or fixing, and instead listen to what our grief, fear, or confusion might be teaching us.

    In this space, there is no need to hide, perform, or have answers. You are welcome exactly as you are.

  • Inclusive, Open, and Affirming

    The Outpatient Chaplain is a safe and affirming space for all. I work with people of all spiritual backgrounds, including those who are nonreligious, questioning, or secular. I am proudly LGBTQIA+ affirming and committed to creating a supportive space for every identity and lived experience.

  • Let’s Begin Together

    Whether you’ve tried grief therapy or are just beginning to seek support, this kind of work invites you to slow down, reflect deeply, and reconnect with your true self.

    You don’t have to face grief or transition alone. If you’ve been searching for “support for grief” or even found yourself looking into grief counseling near me, know that you have another path available—one rooted in presence, purpose, and possibility.