Mighty Minds Therapy provides grief counseling in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, serving children, teens, adults, and families in Denver, Arvada, Lakewood, Westminster, and the greater Denver metro area. Telehealth therapy is also available throughout Colorado, Nevada, and Indiana, depending on clinician licensure and clinical appropriateness.

Therapy for grief and loss offers support as you process a loss, navigate changes in everyday life, and find ways to move forward while maintaining meaningful connections and memories.

Grief can bring sadness, anger, guilt, longing, numbness, relief, or feelings that are difficult to explain. You may feel overwhelmed one day and more like yourself the next. Familiar routines, holidays, anniversaries, and everyday reminders can feel different after someone important is no longer there.

Sometimes grief is also connected to frightening or distressing experiences. Following a sudden death, an accident, violence, suicide, or a difficult medical experience, you may find yourself focused on how the person died. Unwanted memories, unanswered questions, or fear of another loss can make it difficult to remember the person without also feeling overwhelmed by the circumstances of their death.

Children and teens may express grief through play, behavior changes, irritability, separation worries, or difficulty concentrating. They may move between sadness and ordinary activities or revisit questions as their understanding develops. Grief therapy provides a supportive space to understand these responses, express emotions, and navigate loss in ways that fit each person’s needs and stage of life.

Grief Support

Grief Counseling Can Help With…

Death of a Loved One
Sudden or Unexpected Loss
Traumatic Grief and Loss
Childhood and Adolescent Grief
Loss of a Parent, Partner, Sibling, or Friend
Anticipatory Grief During Serious Illness
Guilt, Anger, and Unanswered Questions
Holidays, Anniversaries, and Reminders
Changes in Family Roles and Daily Life
Supporting a Grieving Child or Teen

“We don’t ‘move on’ from grief. We move forward with it.”

— Nora McInerny

What Happens in Grief Therapy?

Grief therapy begins with understanding your loss, your relationship with the person who died, and how your experiences are affecting daily life. There is room to talk about memories, difficult emotions, changes in relationships, and the parts of grief that may feel hard to share with others.

Sessions may include talking, expressive activities, coping skills, and exploration of meaningful ways to remember and maintain a connection with the person who died. With children, play, drawing, stories, and caregiver involvement can support expression and understanding in developmentally appropriate ways.

Grief counseling often focuses on:

  • Understanding your individual experience of grief
  • Making space for changing or conflicting emotions
  • Coping with reminders, anniversaries, and holidays
  • Exploring guilt, regret, anger, and unanswered questions
  • Adjusting to changes in routines, relationships, and responsibilities
  • Finding meaningful ways to remember the person who died
  • Communicating needs and connecting with support
  • Supporting children’s understanding of death and loss

Therapy follows your needs and goals. You do not have to feel a certain way, follow a set timeline, or leave your connection with the person behind.

Not Sure Whether Grief Counseling Is the Right Fit?

You do not need to know whether your experience is “normal grief,” traumatic grief, or something else before reaching out. If you are struggling after a loss, feeling alone in your experience, or wondering how to support your child, we can help you explore what kind of care may be useful.

Grief support may include individual therapy, child or teen therapy, family therapy, parent coaching, or trauma-focused treatment. Support is also available for anticipatory grief during serious illness and for other meaningful losses and life changes.

How Grief Therapy Can Help

Through Grief Therapy, You May:

  • Feel more supported and less alone
  • Understand and express grief-related emotions
  • Develop ways to navigate difficult reminders
  • Explore guilt and self-blame with greater compassion
  • Reduce distress connected to traumatic memories
  • Reconnect with meaningful memories of the person who died
  • Adjust to changing family roles and daily routines
  • Communicate needs to friends, family, and other supports
  • Make room for connection, enjoyment, and future experiences
  • Support children as their understanding of loss develops

Grief therapy can help you carry the loss with greater support while finding ways to participate in life that feel meaningful to you. Remembering, grieving, and experiencing moments of joy can exist alongside one another.

Two people hugging while grieving

Frequently Asked Questions About Grief Counseling

You can seek grief counseling whenever you want support after a loss. Therapy may be especially helpful if grief feels overwhelming, affects daily functioning, creates strain in relationships, or leaves you feeling isolated. You do not need to wait a certain amount of time or reach a particular level of distress.

Traumatic grief describes an experience in which trauma responses related to a death interfere with grieving and adjusting to the loss. Thoughts about the person may bring frightening memories or images of how they died, making it difficult to access other memories or feel connected to them. A sudden or violent death can contribute to traumatic grief, but the circumstances alone do not determine how someone will respond.

Yes. We support children and teens experiencing grief, including sudden and traumatic loss. Sessions may include play therapy, expressive activities, age-appropriate conversations, and caregiver support. We help families understand how grief may appear differently across developmental stages.

Yes. Children may move between grief and everyday activities. Playing, laughing, or enjoying time with others does not mean they have forgotten the person or are unaffected by the loss. Questions and emotions may return as their understanding changes.

EMDR may be recommended when distressing memories, images, or beliefs connected to a loss continue to affect daily life. It can be part of a treatment plan that addresses trauma responses alongside grief. Your clinician will assess your needs and explain whether this approach may be appropriate.

Yes. Anticipatory grief can arise during serious illness or when facing an expected death. Therapy provides space for uncertainty, changing roles, caregiving stress, and the emotions connected to an approaching loss.

The length and frequency of therapy depend on your needs, goals, and clinical recommendations. Grief has no fixed timetable. Your clinician will work with you to review what support is helpful as your experiences and circumstances change.

Yes. Telehealth grief counseling is available throughout Colorado, Nevada, and Indiana, depending on clinician licensure and clinical appropriateness. In-person appointments are available in Wheat Ridge, and may be recommended for younger children.

Take The Next Step

If you or your child is navigating grief, a sudden death, traumatic loss, or an anticipated loss, you do not have to carry the experience alone. Grief counseling offers space to feel understood, process difficult experiences, and find support for the changes ahead.

Schedule a Free 15-Minute Consultation to learn more about grief and traumatic loss therapy and determine whether our services are a good fit for you or your family.