Sacred Grief Counseling
Private, spiritually guided support for grief, death, profound endings, and life transitions.
Rooted in grief psychology, ancestral wisdom, and lived practice.
There are losses that change more than what happened. They change your relationship to your body, your family, your future, your faith, your identity, and even your understanding of who you are.
And, while life continues around you, you may still be trying to understand how to live inside what has changed.
You don’t have to navigate it alone.
75 minutes - Virtual
Life keeps moving. Your grief doesn’t always move with it.
The calls become less frequent. People return to their lives. Work continues. Children still need you. Responsibilities remain. And somehow, you are expected to keep participating in a life that may no longer feel like the one you knew.
Maybe you worry you’ve talked about your loss too much. Maybe you’re exhausted from being “the strong one.” Maybe everyone thinks you’re doing fine because you’ve gotten very good at functioning.
Maybe what you’re grieving isn’t something the people around you even recognize as grief.
Or maybe you simply don’t want the people you love to feel responsible for holding everything you’re carrying. So much grief gets carried alone, not because we don’t need or want support, but because ordinary life rarely makes enough room for it.
Sacred Grief Counseling creates that room.
You may recognize yourself here
You may be grieving the death or transition of someone you love.
You may be living with anticipatory grief as someone you love approaches the end of life.
You may be grieving a relationship, family rupture, identity, home, motherhood, belonging, a dream, or a version of your life you thought would exist.
You may be carrying grief complicated by family history, culture, estrangement, things left unsaid, or a relationship that was never simple.
You may feel grief in your body, as exhaustion, tightness, numbness, restlessness, overwhelm, or emotions you cannot quite name.
You may be functioning on the outside while privately wondering how long you can keep carrying everything this way.
Or your loss may have opened spiritual questions about death, ancestors, meaning, purpose, or what comes after that conventional grief spaces have not known how to hold.
You don’t need the right words for what is happening. You only need somewhere you don’t have to pretend it isn’t happening.
Book a Free 15-minute consultation.
A DIFFERENT WAY OF BEING WITH GRIEF
I approach and understand grief as relational, embodied, spiritual, and cyclical.
My work is grounded in my calling and practice as an Ọya Priestess, in relationship with Spirit and the Ancestors, and supported by my work as a PhD scholar-practitioner researching grief, bereavement, ancestral connection, and cyclical worldviews. I also draw from training in grief psychology, trauma studies, somatics, yoga, breathwork, ritual, meditation, and end-of-life care.
There is no predetermined formula for our sessions. We begin with what is present and listen for what your grief is asking for. Our work may move between conversation and deep witnessing, breath and movement, somatic practice, ritual, ancestral guidance, spiritual communication, or remembrance.
Together, we create space for you to understand what your grief is carrying, tend what lives in the body as well as the mind, deepen your relationship with yourself, Spirit, and your ancestors when desired, and discover how to live in relationship with what has changed.
“My understanding has changed to include not just the sadness for the loss as it happened, but the loss of a past and a future. I've also come to understand how grief is embodied within me—what it feels like in my body, not just in my mind.”
The Sacred Grief Private Container
Grief has an ever-evolving landscape. What is present in our first conversation may lead us somewhere entirely different several weeks later. A memory surfaces. An anniversary arrives. Something shifts in your body. A relationship changes. A dream comes. Anger emerges beneath sadness. Or you recognize that what you thought you were grieving contains another loss underneath it.
This is why my primary way of working privately is through a three-month container rather than isolated appointments.
Meeting biweekly gives us time to develop relationship and trust while allowing space between sessions for the work to settle, move, and reveal what comes next.
Three months of private, spiritually guided accompaniment through grief, endings, and transitions.
Six, 75-minute private sessions
Held biweekly over three months
Sessions are held virtually
Between sessions, you may receive a personalized ritual, embodied practice, or reflection to support what is emerging in our work.
$1,250 paid in full
or
3 monthly payments of $450 ($1,350 total)
Limited community access is available privately for those experiencing financial barriers. You are welcome to inquire.
What our sessions can hold
There is no standard Sacred Grief session because there is no standard experience of grief.
Depending on what is present, our work may include:
Deep listening, reflective dialogue, and emotional processing
Somatic and embodied practice, including breath and movement
Ritual, remembrance, and ancestral or spiritual guidance
Exploring identity, meaning, relationship, and transition
Practices for tending what emerges between sessions
Space to be witnessed without needing to perform, explain, or make your grief easier for someone else to hold
You remain an active participant in the work. Nothing spiritual, embodied, or ritual-based is imposed upon you.
We move with discernment, consent, relationship, and what is actually needed.
Sometimes the body reaches what words cannot.
“In one exercise, we had to breathe in a feeling or a memory and then exhale and release it. I felt an intense emotion that is not always accessible to me. I was able to clearly experience what my grief is afraid to let go of.”
Sometimes what you need is one place to begin
Private Sacred Grief Session
A private 75-minute session offers focused space to bring a particular grief, transition, decision, anniversary, spiritual question, or moment of overwhelm into our work together.
You do not need to know exactly what you need before arriving.
We begin with what is present.
75 minutes · $225
If you decide aftard that you would like deeper ongoing support, we can discuss whether the three-month container is the right next step.
You do not have to wait until grief becomes unbearable to ask for support
What it can feel like to finally have somewhere for your grief
FAQs
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I understand grief as relational, embodied, spiritual, and cyclical. It can reshape our relationship with ourselves, our bodies, those who have transitioned, our ancestors, and the lives we are still becoming.
My work is spiritually guided and rooted in my practice as an Ọya Priestess, alongside my scholarship and training in grief psychology, trauma studies, somatics, yoga, breathwork, ritual, and end-of-life care. This allows our sessions to move beyond conversation alone. We may work with the body and breath, movement, ritual, ancestral guidance, reflection, or simply make room for what needs to be spoken and witnessed.
There is no formula for how we work together. Each session responds to where you are, what you are carrying, and what is unfolding over the course of our time together. The intention is to help you understand your grief more fully and develop a deeper relationship with yourself, your loss, and the changes it has brought into your life.
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Not at all. Grief can emerge through death, but also through the many endings and transitions that reshape a life. The end of a relationship, a change in family, a move, motherhood, a shift in identity, estrangement, the loss of a dream or imagined future, or becoming someone you no longer recognize in quite the same way can all bring grief with them.
Sometimes we are grieving what happened. Sometimes we are grieving who we were before it happened, what we hoped would happen, or the life we thought we would have.
If you are navigating a loss, ending, or transition that has changed your relationship with yourself or your life, there is room for it here.
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No. Sacred Grief Counseling is a spiritually guided, holistic form of grief support rooted in ancestral wisdom, embodied practice, and a relational understanding of grief.
Our sessions may include emotional processing and reflective dialogue alongside somatic practices, breath, movement, ritual, and ancestral or spiritual guidance. The work is deeply personal and may bring us into tender or complex territory, but it is not clinical psychotherapy, mental health treatment, or a substitute for care from a licensed mental health professional when that level of support is needed.
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No. You do not need to practice Ifá, follow an African diasporic spiritual tradition, or share my personal spiritual beliefs to work with me.
My work is spiritually grounded because that is the foundation from which I hold this space. At the same time, I honor your own relationship—or lack of relationship—with spirituality, religion, ancestors, and the sacred. We begin with where you are.
Spiritual or ancestral guidance may arise in our work together, but it is never imposed upon you. Your beliefs, boundaries, cultural context, and discernment remain an important part of how we work together.
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Each session begins with where you are that day. We may talk about what has been happening since we last met, what has surfaced in your grief, what you are noticing in your body, or something that feels particularly present.
From there, the session unfolds in response to what emerges. We may spend much of our time in conversation and reflection, or incorporate breathwork, somatic practice, movement, gentle yoga, ritual, meditation, or ancestral and spiritual guidance. Some sessions may be quiet and contemplative; others may hold anger, laughter, tears, memory, questions, or unexpected connections.
There is no expectation that every session will look the same. The work develops through relationship and over time, allowing us to meet different parts of your grief as they arise.
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You don't need to arrive knowing exactly what you need from our time together. Sometimes grief is clear and specific; other times, you simply know that something has changed and you need space to understand what you are experiencing.
We begin with what is present. Through conversation, reflection, and attention to what is happening in your body and inner world, we allow the work to take shape from there. Part of our time together may be discovering what needs your attention in the first place.
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Grief unfolds over time. What we encounter in one session may continue moving in the days and weeks that follow, revealing memories, emotions, patterns, questions, or other layers of the loss that were not immediately visible.
Working together for three months gives us time to build trust, deepen the work, and remain in relationship with what develops between sessions. Meeting biweekly also creates space for integration—you have time to live with what we explore, notice what shifts, and bring what emerges back into our next session.
The six sessions are not meant to mark the beginning and end of your grief. They create a period of consistent accompaniment while you move through a particular season, loss, ending, or transition.
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Yes. Private 75-minute sessions are available for $225 and can be booked as one-time sessions.
A single session can be especially supportive when you are navigating something specific—an anniversary, recent loss, difficult decision, transition, family situation, spiritual question, or simply a moment when you need dedicated space for your grief.
If our work together opens something you would like to explore more deeply, we can talk about whether the three-month private container feels like the right next step.
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Yes. All private sessions are currently held virtually, allowing us to work together regardless of where you live.
I encourage you to join from a private space where you feel comfortable speaking freely and, when possible, have enough room to breathe, move, lie down, or engage in an embodied practice if that becomes part of our session.
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I maintain a limited number of community-access spaces for people who would otherwise be unable to work with me at the listed rate. These spaces are intentionally limited so that I can offer greater financial accessibility while sustaining the depth and quality of my private work.
If the standard investment is genuinely outside your financial capacity, you are welcome to reach out and ask whether community access is currently available.
I also offer workshops, grief circles, and self-guided practices at different price points for those seeking other ways to enter the work.
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