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Grief Counseling Boston: Honoring Loss, Reconnecting With Life
You’ve spent much of your life showing up for others, holding things together, and keeping everything in motion. But grief changes everything. It slows you down, pulls you inward, and brings questions you never imagined you’d be asking.
Maybe you’ve lost someone who anchored your world. Maybe you’ve spent years caregiving and now find yourself unsure who you are without that role. Whether sudden or gradual this loss has left you with a flood of emotions, sensations and questions. People around you want you to “move on,” but you know you’re not ready. Something deep inside says, “I still need space. I still need to understand what this means.”
You want to feel seen, not rushed or told to stay strong, but allowed to be human. You want a space where your pain isn’t minimized, where you can finally exhale and be honest about what this really feels like.
What Grief Therapy Offers
I’m Josephine, a grief counselor in Boston, MA, and I help people navigate the tenderness of loss with compassion, curiosity, and care. My approach to grief counseling is not about fixing what happened. It’s about learning to listen, to your body, your emotions, and your own wisdom, and discovering that healing begins with attention, not solutions.
Grief work involves noticing your own nervous system, when you tense up, when you collapse, when you reach for distraction, and when you need rest. We explore small, manageable “micro-adjustments,” ways to self-soothe, ground, and respond to yourself kindly. Over time, you begin to recognize your needs and honor them. You learn to set boundaries, to slow down, and to trust your ability to recalibrate when life feels overwhelming.
Who I Work With
The people I work with are often sensitive, deep thinkers who value authenticity and want to live with meaning. Many are caregivers or helpers who’ve spent years focusing on everyone else. When loss arrives, it brings an identity shift that can feel disorienting. Together, we explore what it means to prioritize your own healing and to reconnect to the parts of yourself that are still alive and curious.
You don’t have to hide your pain here. You can bring your anger, numbness, questions, and tears. You can talk about the person you miss, the regrets you carry, the guilt or confusion that shows up uninvited. Therapy becomes a space where all of it is welcome.
My Approach to Healing After Loss
I’ve spent over a decade in hospice and bereavement work, supporting people through some of life’s most sacred transitions. I view grief as a doorway to deeper self-understanding, a space where clinical and spiritual dimensions meet. I integrate somatic awareness, mindfulness, creativity, and ritual to help you connect with your body’s wisdom and your inner voice.
Clients often tell me they feel calm in therapy, like they can finally stop pretending. They begin to see that their story matters and that they are allowed to feel what they feel. Over time, there’s less fear of the unknown and more trust that life can still hold moments of happiness, pleasure, and meaning.
My personal story includes navigating multiple complicated and untimely losses, as well as being well-versed in non-death losses and significant life transitions. These experiences inform how I meet clients with empathy, humility, and realness. I want therapy to feel like sitting with another human being, not a performance or a test. Healing doesn’t mean perfection; it means being willing to show up as you are.
The Possibility of Change
Grief changes us, but it also clarifies what matters most. Through grief counseling, you can begin to move through loss with more steadiness and compassion. The pain doesn’t vanish, but it becomes something you can hold with care rather than fear. You start to rediscover energy for the things that nourish you, creativity, rest, connection, and joy.
There is life after loss. Not the same life, but a new one, shaped by what you’ve lived and who you’ve loved. Healing begins by being witnessed. You deserve that space. Together, we’ll make room for your pain, your love, and your possibility.
Meet Josephine, Founder of Awakened Grief Care, Grief Counseling in Boston, Massachussetts.
My path to grief counseling began long before I became a therapist. When a close family friend entered hospice, I witnessed how deeply loss can shape our lives. I remember the tenderness, the helplessness, and the ache of watching someone I loved face the end of her life. Her death taught me how unpredictable love and loss can be, and how alone we can feel inside that uncertainty.
Those early experiences, and my own later losses, inspired my dedication to helping others navigate grief with compassion. Over the years, I’ve supported people through both death and non-death losses; relationships, identity shifts, and life transitions. I know how grief can live in the body, from exhaustion to anxiety, and how hard it can be to find steadiness when the waves keep coming.
Grief counseling offers a space to turn toward your pain with gentleness and curiosity. Together, we can explore your grief, strengthen inner trust, and discover practices that help you soothe and ground yourself. We’ll honor your continuing bond with the person who died and make room for meaning and connection in this next chapter of your life.
I hold a Master’s in Social Work and a Master of Divinity, with more than ten years of experience in hospice and bereavement care. I offer grief counseling in Boston and online throughout Massachusetts. You don’t have to carry this alone. During a free 15-minute consultation, we can talk about what’s been happening and see whether working together feels like the right fit.
Begin Grief Counseling in Boston
Grief Counseling at Awakened Grief Care offers room for reflection, conversation, and integration. You can learn to trust your own rhythm of healing and begin to feel more grounded in the life that continues.
If you’re ready to approach grief with curiosity and self-kindness, I’d be honored to support you. Together, we’ll create a space where you can bring all that you carry, without judgment or pressure to be anywhere else.