Grief Therapy | Loss & Bereavement Support

If grief has brought you here, I want to honor that first.

Loss can change the shape of ordinary life in ways other people may never see. You may be answering emails, making dinner, showing up for work, caring for the people you love, while something inside has been fundamentally rearranged. Grief has a way of changing not only what we feel, but how we experience time, memory, identity, and the future itself.

I'm Danielle Wiggins, and I founded Space Takes Practice because I believe grief deserves more than psychoeducation or a timeline. It asks for space. For witness. For relationship.

Through somatic psychotherapy, contemplative practice, and embodied care, I offer a place where you don't have to rush yourself toward meaning or closure. Together, we listen to how grief is moving through your body, your relationships, your memories, and your everyday life. We come to know this grief on a level beneath cognition, learning how it's asking to be lived with, honored, and woven into the life that continues.

I believe grief is one of life's profound thresholds. My role isn't to lead you out of it, but to accompany you as you discover how this loss is reshaping your life, your relationships, and your way of being in the world.

On this page, you'll learn more about grief therapy, how I approach this work, and whether this way of working feels like the right fit for you.

Grief therapy is a space to be with loss in a way that does not rush you toward closure, acceptance, or meaning before you're ready. Grief can emerge after the death of someone you love, but also through illness, relationship endings, identity shifts, life transitions, or the loss of a future you imagined.

Grief doesn't only affect how you feel. It demands a witness.

It can reshape your relationship with time, memory, your body, your sense of identity, and the future itself. You may find yourself moving through daily life while something inside feels profoundly changed.

I don't see grief as something to solve or move beyond. I see it as one of life's deepest thresholds—a profound reorganization of your inner world. Together, we listen to how grief is living in your body, your relationships, your memories, and your everyday life, creating enough space for what has changed while remaining connected to yourself, to others, and to what continues to matter.

• Moving through the day while something inside feels profoundly changed.
• Feeling as though time has stopped for you while life continues around you.
• Finding that a song, a place, a smell, or an ordinary moment suddenly brings the loss close again.
• Wondering who you are now that this relationship, role, future, or chapter has changed.
• Feeling pressure to be "better" while your grief is still asking for your attention.
• Not knowing how to carry both love and loss at the same time.

and no checklist that tells you whether your pain is "enough." Still, you may recognize yourself in some of these experiences:

• Do I feel like I am functioning, but not fully present?  You may be moving through responsibilities while feeling emotionally far away, heavy, foggy, or changed on the inside.
• Do waves of grief arrive without warning? A song, date, smell, place, object, or quiet moment may bring the loss close again, even when you thought you were doing okay.
• Do I feel pressure to be further along than I am?  Grief often moves more slowly and less neatly than people expect, especially when others stop asking before the loss feels integrated.
• Has the loss changed how I relate to myself, others, or the future? You may notice shifts in identity, trust, desire, belonging, or what feels meaningful now.
• Do I need a place where I do not have to make the loss smaller? Grief therapy can offer space for what is still tender, unresolved, loving, angry, confusing, or hard to name.

Many of the people who find their way here aren't looking for someone to explain grief to them. They're looking for a place where they don't have to rush, hide, justify, or make their loss smaller.

This is a slower, relational approach that honors grief as something that moves through the body, memory, relationships, identity, and the rhythms of everyday life. Together, we create space for what has changed and listen for what this loss is asking of you now.

Many of the people I work with are functioning well on the outside while quietly carrying heaviness, longing, anger, numbness, or disorientation inside. They often feel pressure—from themselves or others—to be further along than they are.

This work isn't the right fit for everyone. If you're looking for someone to push you toward closure, positivity, or a fixed timeline for healing, there may be approaches that better match what you're looking for.

We begin with what feels most present. You may want to talk about the loss directly, or you may only be able to name the heaviness, fog, anger, numbness, or disorientation around it. There is no need to tell the story in a complete or organized way. Grief often arrives in fragments, and we can begin with the fragment that is here now.

Our sessions are grounded in conversation, body awareness, memory, ritual, creative exploration, and quiet reflection. We may talk about anniversaries, dreams, family dynamics, continuing bonds, anger, regret, loneliness, or the strange moments when life looks ordinary from the outside but feels completely altered within. Sometimes the work is about speaking what has never had a place. Sometimes it is about sitting quietly with what words cannot hold yet.

Many people begin with weekly sessions while grief feels active, raw, or disorienting, and we adjust the rhythm of our work as your needs change. Progress rarely looks like being "over it." It often looks like having more room to feel, more support around difficult dates, a deeper relationship with memory, and less pressure to make your grief acceptable to others. The loss remains significant. What changes is your capacity to live alongside it with greater support, connection, and care.