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Get matchedGrief doesn't follow a script, and therapy offers a steady place to reflect on what you're carrying without pressure to be okay.
Last reviewed by Shannon Tarolli, LPCMH, NCC, CCATP — May 2026
Grief shows up in ways that often catch people off guard. You might expect the sadness and find yourself dealing instead with irritability, brain fog, physical exhaustion, or a strange numbness that makes you question whether you're grieving at all. The body carries loss in its own way, disrupting sleep and appetite, clouding concentration in patterns that can persist long after the initial shock has faded.
What makes grief particularly isolating is the gap between how you're experiencing it and how the world expects you to experience it. The people around you may have moved on. The timeline they assume doesn't match the one your body is running on. The losses that don't involve death — the end of a relationship, the slow decline of someone you love, the loss of a future you had planned — often go unacknowledged in ways that add loneliness to the grief itself.
Therapy doesn't accelerate grief or push you toward closure on a schedule. It offers a place where your experience is met with the attention it deserves and where the full complexity of loss — including the ambivalence, the guilt, the anger, and the relief — can be examined without pressure to reach any particular conclusion.
Clarity Counseling of Delaware provides grief therapy via telehealth to residents across all Delaware counties. Sessions are available at flexible times, including evenings, to fit around your schedule.
An initial conversation about the loss you're carrying and how it's showing up in your daily life
Attention to both the emotional and physical dimensions of your grief, because loss shows up in the body as much as the mind
Work at your pace, with no pressure to follow a timeline or reach milestones defined by anyone other than you
Therapeutic approaches tailored to your specific experience, whether that involves processing difficult memories or finding new ways to carry what you've lost while rebuilding daily structure
Support through the moments that intensify grief, including anniversaries, milestones, and seasonal reminders
Exploration of meaning and identity as you find ways to carry the loss forward rather than leaving it behind
You may benefit from grief therapy if you’re experiencing any of the following. Our clinicians are here to help you find relief and build a path forward.
Our approach to grief therapy draws on the dual process model developed by researchers Margaret Stroebe and Henk Schut. This framework describes what healthy grieving looks like in practice, and it maps closely to what clinicians observe in sessions. People who are moving through grief naturally oscillate between two modes of coping. Loss-oriented coping involves sitting with the pain of what happened and confronting the emotional reality of the absence. Restoration-oriented coping involves attending to the practical demands that the loss has created: changed routines, new responsibilities, and the gradual rebuilding of a daily life.
Healthy grief involves movement between both. Staying entirely in loss-oriented coping can produce overwhelm and shutdown. Staying entirely in restoration-oriented coping can defer processing that will eventually need to happen. Therapy helps people find the balance that their particular grief requires and build the capacity to move between both modes with less resistance. (Stroebe & Schut, Death Studies, 2010)
EMDR is integrated when grief has become complicated by traumatic elements — sudden or violent loss, difficult final days, prolonged anticipatory grief that's left its own imprint. The same processing system that helps with trauma can help with grief that has gotten stuck at a specific memory or image.
Accepting Clients With over 11 years of experience, Shannon specializes in grief, OCD, trauma, and anxiety. She takes a client-centered approach, creating a safe and supportive space built on trust and compassion. Her goal is to help clients build resiliency, practice psychological flexibility, and develop a new, profound acceptance of their emotions.
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Waitlist Jen's expertise covers a range of concerns, including obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, family conflict, and grief. She is committed to a client-centered approach, working alongside each client to identify their unique needs and build a personalized path to healing.
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Waitlist Emily brings steadiness and genuine care to her work with clients, building a therapeutic relationship grounded in trust, honesty, and practical support. She works with individuals navigating anxiety, depression, burnout, and the lasting effects of trauma or difficult life transitions.
Book a ConsultationGrief doesn't have an expiration date. People often seek therapy years after a loss because something has shifted, maybe a life transition or an anniversary, that brought the grief forward again. Therapy can help regardless of when the loss occurred.
Absolutely. People grieve relationship endings, health changes, job losses, moves, estrangement from family, infertility, the death of a pet, and the loss of futures they expected to have. These experiences carry real emotional weight, and they often go unrecognized by the people around you. Losing a pet, for instance, can produce grief that catches people off guard with its intensity, and the dismissiveness they encounter from others only compounds it. Therapy gives these losses the attention they deserve.
Yes, and it's more common than most people realize. Watching someone you love decline or living with a diagnosis that reshapes the future you expected can produce genuine grief while the person is still here and the situation is still unfolding. The loss is already underway even if the final chapter hasn't arrived. Anticipatory grief often comes with guilt on top of sadness because part of you feels like you're giving up on someone or something that's still present. Therapy helps you sort through that complexity without rushing you toward any particular conclusion.
No. Our clinicians understand that grief moves at its own pace and that the pressure to reach some version of closure often makes things harder. Your experience gets respected as it is, with support for whatever direction feels right for you.
Conversations with friends and family matter. What a grief therapist adds is a trained perspective on your current grief experiences and the physical symptoms that accompany loss. A therapist helps identify the cognitive and behavioral shifts that allow people to carry grief in ways that let life continue expanding. And unlike conversations with the people in your life, you don't have to worry about being a burden.
That's a common starting point. Grief often goes unrecognized because it shows up as irritability, numbness, exhaustion, or physical symptoms rather than the sadness you expected. An initial session can help clarify what you're experiencing and whether grief-focused work would be helpful.
We’re currently accepting new clients across Delaware. All sessions are virtual — compassionate, evidence-based grief therapy from the comfort of your home.
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