Navigating Loss
Grief Therapy in the Los Feliz & Atwater Village areas of Los Angeles
Does This Sound Like You?
You feel overwhelmed, numb, disconnected, or unlike yourself
You keep thinking about the person or the way of life you lost
You find yourself suddenly crying, withdrawing, feeling irritable, or reacting more strongly than usual
Things that once felt meaningful now feel distant, heavy, or hard to access
You feel pressure to “move on,” even though part of you still feels deeply affected
You feel lonely in your grief or struggle to explain what you’re experiencing to others
Grief can impact far more than sadness alone. It can affect your identity, relationships, nervous system, sense of meaning, and ability to imagine the future clearly. Therapy can help create space for the full complexity of what you may be carrying.
What’s Going On Underneath.
Loss takes many forms. The death of someone close to you. The end of a relationship. A shift in identity. A major life transition. The realization that something important in your life has changed and may never fully return to what it once was.
The thing about grief is it rarely follows neat stages or clean timelines. It can show up as sadness, anger, numbness, anxiety, guilt, exhaustion, loneliness, irritability, relief, confusion, or moments where you don’t recognize yourself emotionally.
Many people are surprised to discover that grief doesn't only involve losing a person. It can also change our identity, our routines, our sense of safety, and our understanding of the future. We may find ourselves grieving not only who we lost, but also the version of ourselves we were before the loss.
How We Work With It.
In our work together, therapy becomes a space to slow things down and make room for the full range of what you may be experiencing without judgment or pressure to “get over it.”
Sometimes that means helping you put words to emotions that feel difficult to name. Other times it means exploring how grief has reshaped your relationships and understanding of yourself. At times it may involve sitting with sadness, anger, regret, guilt, relief, confusion, or even humor — because grief often contains all of those things at once.
I bring both professional training and personal experience to this work, having experienced the loss of both parents and navigated grief at different stages of my own life. While every person’s experience of grief is unique, those experiences have deepened my appreciation for how personal, nonlinear, and disorienting loss can be.
Over time, many people find that while grief never fully disappears, it can begin to feel less consuming. Not because the loss mattered less, but because they slowly begin building a different relationship with it and with themselves.
A Place to Start.
If you’re grieving, overwhelmed by change, or struggling to make sense of a major loss, therapy can offer a space where you don’t have to carry it alone.
I work with clients navigating grief, relationship loss, identity shifts, and major life transitions in the Los Feliz and Atwater Village areas of Los Angeles, and also offer online therapy for clients anywhere in California. Sessions are typically 50 minutes.
If you’re unsure whether therapy is the right next step, that’s completely okay — that’s often part of what we sort out together.
“Neil is the kind of clinician whose very presence is supportive and healing. His skill helps one get to the heart of the matter expeditiously and compassionately.”
“Grief is often far messier and more unpredictable than we expect it to be. Part of what makes it so painful isn’t just the loss itself, but the pressure to grieve ‘correctly’ or move through it faster than we actually can.”
