Grief Therapists in Alvarado, TX
For nearly a decade, I’ve had the privilege of working with children and adolescents from traumatic backgrounds, including those affected by abuse and neglect. That formative experience shaped my approach to counseling, which emphasizes understanding the connection between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. My clinical focus includes the treatment of anxiety-related disorders—such as phobias, OCD, PTSD, social anxiety, panic disorder, and generalized anxiety. I also work with individuals navigating depression and challenges related to ADHD.
For nearly a decade, I’ve had the privilege of working with children and adolescents from traumatic backgrounds, including those affected by abuse and neglect. That formative experience shaped my approach to counseling, which emphasizes understanding the connection between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors. My clinical focus includes the treatment of anxiety-related disorders—such as phobias, OCD, PTSD, social anxiety, panic disorder, and generalized anxiety. I also work with individuals navigating depression and challenges related to ADHD.
Have trauma, grief, or life changes left you feeling stuck?
Are you carrying pain that others can’t see. You may feel alone, stuck in cycles of anxiety, shame, or relationship struggles that keep repeating. Often these patterns begin in environments where emotional needs weren’t fully seen or supported, leaving you in survival mode, overthinking, shutting down, or doubting yourself. Therapy can be a space to understand these patterns with compassion rather than judgment. I help adults explore the roots of these experiences and reconnect with their sense of self so they can move toward greater clarity, balance, and authenticity. I am here to help you through this in a safe space.
Have trauma, grief, or life changes left you feeling stuck?
Are you carrying pain that others can’t see. You may feel alone, stuck in cycles of anxiety, shame, or relationship struggles that keep repeating. Often these patterns begin in environments where emotional needs weren’t fully seen or supported, leaving you in survival mode, overthinking, shutting down, or doubting yourself. Therapy can be a space to understand these patterns with compassion rather than judgment. I help adults explore the roots of these experiences and reconnect with their sense of self so they can move toward greater clarity, balance, and authenticity. I am here to help you through this in a safe space.
Our licensed therapists can help you with issues like: Adoption or Foster Care Experiences · Anxiety or Depression · Infertility, Grief and Loss · Parenting Challenges · Relationship Concerns · Stress · Traumatic Events · and more...
Counselors (also called therapists) are good listeners who know how to help. A therapy session often feels like a good conversation with a trusted friend.
You'll begin by working with your counselor to identify your specific goals for therapy, and then you will work together to achieve them.
Our licensed therapists can help you with issues like: Adoption or Foster Care Experiences · Anxiety or Depression · Infertility, Grief and Loss · Parenting Challenges · Relationship Concerns · Stress · Traumatic Events · and more...
Counselors (also called therapists) are good listeners who know how to help. A therapy session often feels like a good conversation with a trusted friend.
You'll begin by working with your counselor to identify your specific goals for therapy, and then you will work together to achieve them.
Feeling stuck? Struggling with relationships, difficult life transitions, anxiety, depression, or challenges with neurodivergence? Your progress can begin when you feel truly seen, heard, and accepted—just as you are. Together, we’ll explore your story, uncover your strengths, and work toward lasting healing and growth.
Feeling stuck? Struggling with relationships, difficult life transitions, anxiety, depression, or challenges with neurodivergence? Your progress can begin when you feel truly seen, heard, and accepted—just as you are. Together, we’ll explore your story, uncover your strengths, and work toward lasting healing and growth.
Hi, I'm Sondra!
My mission is to help individuals and families improve their lives through effective mental health counseling.
Hi, I'm Sondra!
My mission is to help individuals and families improve their lives through effective mental health counseling.
I offer a supportive, creative space where you can explore what’s holding you back and begin working toward healing and growth. My experience includes counseling children, teens, and adults using a combination of art therapy, talk therapy, play therapy, and somatic techniques. I've worked in nonprofit settings, trauma-focused care, and private practice. I also provide Christian counseling and have experience with animal-assisted therapy and holistic approaches to healing.
I offer a supportive, creative space where you can explore what’s holding you back and begin working toward healing and growth. My experience includes counseling children, teens, and adults using a combination of art therapy, talk therapy, play therapy, and somatic techniques. I've worked in nonprofit settings, trauma-focused care, and private practice. I also provide Christian counseling and have experience with animal-assisted therapy and holistic approaches to healing.
I've seen firsthand how challenges like anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma can impact every part of life.
I specialize in helping individuals navigate complex emotional struggles and relational challenges, including divorce recovery and co-parenting dynamics. I use a flexible, client-centered approach, blending techniques from CBT, narrative therapy, and attachment-based therapy to meet your unique needs.
I've seen firsthand how challenges like anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma can impact every part of life.
I specialize in helping individuals navigate complex emotional struggles and relational challenges, including divorce recovery and co-parenting dynamics. I use a flexible, client-centered approach, blending techniques from CBT, narrative therapy, and attachment-based therapy to meet your unique needs.
Heather Parks
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, NCC
4 Endorsed
Serves Area
Not accepting new clients
You go to bed at night and wake up the next morning still feeling ashamed, stuck, and afraid of not being able to reach your utmost potential. You’re harder on yourself than with others who have similiar struggles. By changing your thought process and self talk, you are then able to take action. As your therapist, we will collaborate on becoming your own best friend by creating a path in finding balance between holding yourself accountable for your own actions and beating yourself up to the point of being immobilized and isolated. My passion is walking beside you and learning ways to embrace yourself in feeling positive change.
You go to bed at night and wake up the next morning still feeling ashamed, stuck, and afraid of not being able to reach your utmost potential. You’re harder on yourself than with others who have similiar struggles. By changing your thought process and self talk, you are then able to take action. As your therapist, we will collaborate on becoming your own best friend by creating a path in finding balance between holding yourself accountable for your own actions and beating yourself up to the point of being immobilized and isolated. My passion is walking beside you and learning ways to embrace yourself in feeling positive change.
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Do you struggle with depression, anxiety, trauma, or grief?
I provide a warm, caring, affirming environment that inspires self-growth. My therapeutic approaches meets clients where they are, working collaboratively to develop a path that fits their unique needs and desired goals.
Do you struggle with depression, anxiety, trauma, or grief?
I provide a warm, caring, affirming environment that inspires self-growth. My therapeutic approaches meets clients where they are, working collaboratively to develop a path that fits their unique needs and desired goals.
Women who've carried trauma, navigated loss, and racked up achievements all while sacrificing their own well-being.
My approach is holistic, integrating evidence-based therapy with spirituality and ancestral wisdom. Healing happens when we treat the whole person mind, body, and spirit. I also work with fellow healers who understand the unique challenges of holding space for others while needing space for themselves.
Women who've carried trauma, navigated loss, and racked up achievements all while sacrificing their own well-being.
My approach is holistic, integrating evidence-based therapy with spirituality and ancestral wisdom. Healing happens when we treat the whole person mind, body, and spirit. I also work with fellow healers who understand the unique challenges of holding space for others while needing space for themselves.
Everyone feels emotional stress in life but when the stress results in so much suffering that it interfere with functioning, seek help. Friends are good for love and support but therapists are trained to help you gain emotional stability. We are able to support you as we explore your story. We assess problems and present alternative understanding with new skills and techniques that can help. You will be encouraged and empowered to make positive changes. We do not rescue you. We help you rescue yourself.
Everyone feels emotional stress in life but when the stress results in so much suffering that it interfere with functioning, seek help. Friends are good for love and support but therapists are trained to help you gain emotional stability. We are able to support you as we explore your story. We assess problems and present alternative understanding with new skills and techniques that can help. You will be encouraged and empowered to make positive changes. We do not rescue you. We help you rescue yourself.
I am a Texas-based Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) working with older teens and adults (women and men) who are experiencing grief, anxiety, depression, anger, boundary issues, and women’s concerns.
I specialize in perinatal loss and work with individuals who feel stuck in pain, self-doubt, or emotional overwhelm. My approach is compassionate, practical, and focused on helping you rebuild a sense of wholeness. Broken does not mean beyond repair—and healing is possible.
I am a Texas-based Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) working with older teens and adults (women and men) who are experiencing grief, anxiety, depression, anger, boundary issues, and women’s concerns.
I specialize in perinatal loss and work with individuals who feel stuck in pain, self-doubt, or emotional overwhelm. My approach is compassionate, practical, and focused on helping you rebuild a sense of wholeness. Broken does not mean beyond repair—and healing is possible.
Emily M. Lewis Counseling (ASD, Grief, Anxiety)
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, LCPC, ASCDS
4 Endorsed
Online Only
I also help clients navigating anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship and family concerns, and adjustment-related stress.
I offer a safe, supportive therapy space to help you understand thought patterns, build practical coping skills, and create healthier emotional and behavioral responses. From the first session, we’ll focus on tools you can use right away to support meaningful growth in the areas that matter most to you. I’m here to help you initiate the process.
I also help clients navigating anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship and family concerns, and adjustment-related stress.
I offer a safe, supportive therapy space to help you understand thought patterns, build practical coping skills, and create healthier emotional and behavioral responses. From the first session, we’ll focus on tools you can use right away to support meaningful growth in the areas that matter most to you. I’m here to help you initiate the process.
I specialize in individuals struggling with trauma, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
It takes a lot of effort to grow and heal. It is exponentially harder if you're doing it alone. My hope is that together, we can create a space that feels safe and inviting to dig into who are you and who you want to be. I believe humans contain multitudes and our path to healing lies in the acceptance of all of the parts of ourselves. My hope is to help you get to know and accept those parts of yourself by providing empathy, acceptance and some humor along the way. I am trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and ETT (Emotional Transformation Therapy using light and color) to aid in that journey.
I specialize in individuals struggling with trauma, grief and loss, anxiety, depression, and life transitions.
It takes a lot of effort to grow and heal. It is exponentially harder if you're doing it alone. My hope is that together, we can create a space that feels safe and inviting to dig into who are you and who you want to be. I believe humans contain multitudes and our path to healing lies in the acceptance of all of the parts of ourselves. My hope is to help you get to know and accept those parts of yourself by providing empathy, acceptance and some humor along the way. I am trained in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) and ETT (Emotional Transformation Therapy using light and color) to aid in that journey.
I help clients navigate abuse, anxiety, burnout, career indecisiveness, depression, divorce, eating disorders, grief, relationship struggles, stress, low self-esteem, trauma, and women’s issues.
Life takes us down many roads, often not giving us a road map. Some territory is unchartered, and the weather turbulent. My goals are to support you on the journey and to provide a safe place in order for you to work towards developing, growing, and healing.
I help clients navigate abuse, anxiety, burnout, career indecisiveness, depression, divorce, eating disorders, grief, relationship struggles, stress, low self-esteem, trauma, and women’s issues.
Life takes us down many roads, often not giving us a road map. Some territory is unchartered, and the weather turbulent. My goals are to support you on the journey and to provide a safe place in order for you to work towards developing, growing, and healing.
Are you or your children ready to heal from past trauma and reclaim your life? Trauma and trauma-related issues are my specialty, and where others may hesitate, I lean in with empathy and support. I am here to help you face those challenges head-on. Whether you’ve experienced intimate partner violence, sexual assault, medical traumas, or other difficult events, I'm here to support you and your children or teens.
Together, we’ll work through your experiences and help you build a future where you feel empowered and capable of living your best life. Healing is possible, and you don’t have to do it alone.
Are you or your children ready to heal from past trauma and reclaim your life? Trauma and trauma-related issues are my specialty, and where others may hesitate, I lean in with empathy and support. I am here to help you face those challenges head-on. Whether you’ve experienced intimate partner violence, sexual assault, medical traumas, or other difficult events, I'm here to support you and your children or teens.
Together, we’ll work through your experiences and help you build a future where you feel empowered and capable of living your best life. Healing is possible, and you don’t have to do it alone.
Accepting new clients! If no one has told you today, you are seen, you matter, you have worth and value, you belong here and you can get through whatever it is you are facing. As a therapist, I strive to create a warm/welcoming space for my clients to feel seen and heard. My passion is to help individuals and couples grow and find healing and wholeness, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.
Accepting new clients! If no one has told you today, you are seen, you matter, you have worth and value, you belong here and you can get through whatever it is you are facing. As a therapist, I strive to create a warm/welcoming space for my clients to feel seen and heard. My passion is to help individuals and couples grow and find healing and wholeness, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and physically.
Are you facing the challenges of overwhelming life circumstances, social/emotional issues, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, or loss?
My primary approach to counseling is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focused on listening to you and helping you connect your thoughts and behaviors. I also use Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness, and Solution Focused Therapy.
Are you facing the challenges of overwhelming life circumstances, social/emotional issues, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, grief, or loss?
My primary approach to counseling is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focused on listening to you and helping you connect your thoughts and behaviors. I also use Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness, and Solution Focused Therapy.
I am Toshanika M. Kennington, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of practice. Unwavering commitment, empowerment and compassion is the reason I do what I do!
Drawing from my experience working with military families and other communities I offer compassionate care, guiding clients through their mental health journey with resilience and strength.
My approach is empathetic, nonjudgmental, and client centered. I specialize in working with women of all ages, trauma, attachment issues and survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual abuse.
I am Toshanika M. Kennington, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with twenty years of practice. Unwavering commitment, empowerment and compassion is the reason I do what I do!
Drawing from my experience working with military families and other communities I offer compassionate care, guiding clients through their mental health journey with resilience and strength.
My approach is empathetic, nonjudgmental, and client centered. I specialize in working with women of all ages, trauma, attachment issues and survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual abuse.
Talking doesn’t change things, BUT it changes your relationship to things! Together we’ll focus on your unique needs and where change is possible. You don’t have to do this alone.
Talking doesn’t change things, BUT it changes your relationship to things! Together we’ll focus on your unique needs and where change is possible. You don’t have to do this alone.
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How long does therapy take for grief?
There is no exact timeline for grief counseling. Some people may start to feel better after just a few sessions, while others may take months or longer to feel relief. Some specific approaches, including some types of CBT, may involve a set number of sessions, or therapy may be open-ended until the patient determines they are ready to wrap up. Just as there is no right or wrong way to grieve, there is no right or wrong way to seek therapy for grief.
When should you seek therapy for grief?
Many people mistakenly believe that their grief needs to be debilitating or all-encompassing to warrant therapy. This is not the case. While people who experience severe, prolonged grief—particularly those who are considering self-harm or engaging in unhealthy substance use—are especially likely to benefit from therapy, so too are people whose grief is less intense but still interfering with well-being or daily functioning. In practice, almost anyone struggling to process a loss could benefit from grief counseling.
Can grief be managed without therapy?
Oftentimes, yes. Grief is a near-universal part of being human, and many find that their grief, while profound, does not stop them from participating in day-to-day life and steadily eases over time without outside help. For others, however, the harsh pain of early grief persists for months or years or leaves them unable to function. This group is especially likely to benefit from seeing a therapist, who can guide them through their grief and help them reconnect with the world.
What happens if grief is left untreated?
Because grief does not in itself necessitate therapy, untreated grief will often resolve on its own. However, for some people—particularly those who would qualify for a diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder—untreated grief can be a source of seemingly endless pain or lead them to withdraw from the world. In such cases, treatment can be indispensable, as it can help an individual adapt to the loss and start living again.