Grief Counseling in Little Tokyo and the Arts District, Los Angeles

Online and in-person Grief and Loss Therapy in Los Angeles for navigating loss, death, and life transitions.

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Portrait of Chris Datiles, Los Angeles Grief Counselor at the Los Angeles River

You are not alone in this.

Therapy to hold you in your grief and make sense of what life looks like now.

Grief and Loss Therapy is a type of therapy for death, loss, and life transitions that can help you:

  • Navigate pet loss, family estrangement, death, aging and ill parents, suicide, cancer, infertility, feeling disconnected from your culture, being widowed, and divorce

  • Make sense of guilt, confusion, anger, sorrow, and other emotions that come up when confronted with loss, death, and dying

  • Learn how to live with loss and continue with life without forgetting your loved one

  • Develop somatic and mindfulness grief practices to help you manage the back and forth nature of grief, the oscillation between being deep in your loss and adapting to life as it is now

Portrait of Chris Datiles, Los Angeles Grief Therapist at the Los Angeles River

Meet Chris Datiles —
LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC Affirming Grief Therapist in Los Angeles

It’s possible to feel less isolated and confused as you grieve.

As a Grief Therapist, my own experiences with grief and loss due to suicide and cancer brought me to this work. I help you express and process what becomes hard to name as you navigate grief those moments when you feel like you’re drowning, or when you’re feeling stuck in time as you witness others moving on with their life. With Grief and Loss Therapy, I help you to slow down and rebuild a connection with your memories, the people and practices that feel supportive, and your sense of self so that you can honor your loss and find meaning in life at the same time.

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How Grief Counseling Works

My intention with Grief and Loss Therapy is to help you feel supported while you navigate the pain, sorrow, and memories that come with loss, death, and life transitions so that you can imagine what life can look like as time goes by.

EXPLORE HISTORIES OF LOSS

Together we’ll build a deeper understanding of how you learned to navigate death, dying, loss, and transitions. Whether it be from your culture, family, or communities you grew up in, we’ll gain clarity about what influences how you navigate grief and loss.

MANAGE SURGES OF GRIEF

You might experience temporary upsurges of grief, suddenly feeling pain and longing on a day where things felt completely fine. We’ll explore what triggers these surges and how to manage them.

EXPLORE GRIEF AND THE BODY

Sometimes grief expresses itself in the body. Fatigue, lack of motivation, heartache, the urge to keep moving. We’ll explore how grief shows up for you, and how to tend to it.

ADDRESS INNER-CONFLICT

There may be a part of you that feels relief and a part of you that feels guilt. Or a part of you that feels sad and a part of you that feels angry. Experiencing a variety of emotions, especially conflicting ones, is a common experience with grief. I’ll help you find ways to reduce tension and inner-conflict so that you can lead life with more compassion and clarity.

INTEGRATE MEMORIES

You might find it difficult to remember both happy and painful memories related to your beloved or the life you used to have, scared that remembering will sink you into despair, sorrow, and sadness. I’ll help you integrate memories without having sadness overshadow your life.

PRACTICE GRIEF RITUALS

Across cultures, there are many grief ceremonies and rituals that people practice to process loss and make sense of death. I’ll guide you to explore and practice what helps you process and honor loss. This may be practices rooted in your culture, religion, spiritual practices, or something else.

FAQs about Grief Counseling

  • Grief can occur whenever an attachment in your life is severed. This can be a person, a pet, a community, a language or culture, your rights and sense of safety, or even a dream and the life you envisioned for yourself. In my work I acknowledge the grief that comes with death and dying, as well as the grief that follows other losses and transitions.

  • It’s true, therapy won’t bring back your loved one or the life you used to have.

    However it can offer a space for you to process how grief and loss has influenced your life, your choices, and your relationships. It’s an exploration of how you want to be in relationship with you grief, and how to get there, so that you can continue to live life in a way that honors your loss, helps you manage the pain around it, and give space to how you imagine life continuing on.

  • Grief counseling with me means moving through grief, and the memories that come with it, at your own pace. It might mean we don’t revisit the details of the past at all. However, we may explore the fear, anxiety, and stress that comes with those memories and how they influence your life today.

  • Sometimes when loss occurs all we can think about is surviving. Planning funerals, finding a new job, handling affairs of a loved one, moving to a new city, and overall making sense of how to move through life in the midst of loss.

    Months or years later, you might finally have room to breathe and realize how death, loss, and transition have impacted you. It’s never too late to start grief and loss therapy; to make sense of how grief and loss has transformed your life.

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Offering in-person Grief Counseling in Los Angeles in Little Tokyo / the Arts District near Highland Park, West Adams, Silver Lake, and online in California