In-person therapy in Houston, online in Texas • In-network with BCBS, Aetna, Cigna, UHC, Oscar, Tricare, Curative • Therapy in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Farsi • Immediate Openings
Grief & Loss
PhD-Level Grief Therapy in Houston, TX
Grief is not just sadness. It can be a disorientation of time, a hollowing out of daily routines, a sense that the world has tilted and will not tilt back. Some people cry without stopping. Others cannot cry at all. Some become busy; others stop moving. We listen to how absence has reshaped your life, and how you are asked, by yourself or by others, to carry it.
Our clinical team of doctoral level, in-network psychologists in Houston provides grief therapy in person and online across Texas.
Our psychologists come from diverse cultural backgrounds, speak multiple languages, and have lived and worked in multiple countries and settings. We are attentive to how culture, migration, race, gender, identity, and social position shape a person's life.
Our clinical approach is depth-oriented. We are interested in what sustains the symptoms, not only what they look like on the surface. This task takes time and requires a different quality of attention, a willingness to stay with what is uncomfortable, and a clinician who can hold complexity over the long term.
Grief does not follow a timeline and is not always recognizable as grief. It can arrive as depression, as numbness, as anger, as an inability to concentrate or care. Loss that was ambivalent, complicated, or tied to relationships that were themselves difficult tends to be harder to grieve. We work with both acute grief and grief that has been carried for years without finding its way through.
Our clinical team of doctoral-level psychologists provides in-person therapy in Houston and telehealth across Texas. A number of them are also PsyPact-authorized to see patients in other states.
We are in-network with Aetna, BCBS, Cigna, United Healthcare/Optum, Oscar, Tricare, and Curative, and we verify your benefits before your first appointment. Our clinical director reviews each inquiry personally and recommends a clinician whose background and approach fit what you are bringing in.
What Changes Over Time
Learning to live beside the loss rather than inside of it.
Moments of memory that wound less sharply.
Laughter that returns without guilt.
A sense that life can expand again.
PhD-Level Training in Grief
Doctoral-level training matters most when loss is complicated by trauma, ambivalence, or circumstances that make mourning difficult, when grief co-occurs with depression, anxiety, or significant disruption to functioning, when the loss involves a relationship that was itself complicated.
We provide grief therapy (which is sometimes called grief counseling) to people grieving the loss of a person, a relationship, a role, a health, a country, a version of themselves, or a future they expected. Each of these involves mourning what will not return, and each unfolds differently.
Joan Didion. After Life.
The New York Times Magazine, 2005. Read here.
C.S. Lewis. A Grief Observed.
HarperOne, 1961.
Susan Sontag. Regarding the Pain of Others.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
From Our Journal
Surfing the Wave of Grief During the Holidays.