Grief Counseling in Austin, TX
Find Solace in Support
Grief can follow the loss of a loved one, a job, a marriage, even a sense of who you were — any significant loss can leave you feeling hollow. Sometimes it arrives all at once; sometimes it lingers quietly for years. However yours moves, you don’t have to carry it alone.
4.9★
Average rating in our most recent client survey
15 years
Serving Austin since 2011
4,000+
Clients served
30 therapists
With varied licensure and levels of experience
Acknowledge the Depth of Loss
Loss doesn’t always look like crying. It shows up in bodies, calendars, and relationships — often in ways the people around you can’t see. What grief can look like:
- Waves that arrive without warning — in the car, at the store
- Numbness when you expected tears, or tears when you expected relief
- Anger, guilt, or relief that feels wrong to admit
- Exhaustion that sleep doesn’t touch
- Feeling fine for weeks, then flattened by an anniversary
- Losing interest in things the person you lost would have loved
However yours looks, it’s allowed. Reach out — a short, gentle conversation with our team, no commitment.
Honor Your Emotions
Grief brings feelings that don’t fit the sympathy-card script — anger at the person who died, guilt about what you did or didn’t say, even relief. Therapy is a safe outlet for all of it, without judgment and without anyone needing you to be \”doing better\” yet.
How long is too long to grieve?
There’s no deadline, and anyone who gives you one is wrong. Grief isn’t a project with a completion date — it changes shape rather than ending, and waves years later are normal, not a setback.
What’s worth attention isn’t how long you’ve grieved but how stuck it feels: if months in, daily life is still impossible, or the loss is the only thing you can think about, targeted support helps — that’s not failing at grief, it’s grief that deserves company.
Wondering about your own timeline? Ask for a call — we’ll listen first.
Seek Meaningful Support
Grief isolates — friends stop asking, and you stop telling. We help you rebuild a support network that can actually hold you: knowing what to ask for, whom to ask, and how to let people in when everything in you wants to close the door.
In session, you get a place where the loss can take up all the space it needs — guided reflection at your pace, never pushed.
Preserve Cherished Memories
Healing doesn’t mean forgetting. We help you create rituals and ways of remembering that keep what you loved present — a continuing bond that honors them without keeping you stuck in the moment of loss.
Do I have to talk about the loss right away?
No. You set the pace, always. Some people need to tell the whole story in the first session; others circle it for weeks, talking about sleep and logistics first. Both are grief work.
Your therapist will never force the wound open. What they will do is make sure that when you’re ready to go there, you’re not going alone.
Have questions about how sessions work? Ask for a call.
Embrace Healing and Growth
In time, many people find grief transforms — pain softening into a deeper appreciation for what they had, and for life’s fragility. That’s not moving on from the person you lost; it’s carrying them differently. We walk beside you the whole way.
We work with several insurance plans and offer clear self-pay rates — see Rates & Insurance, or get in touch and we’ll check your coverage before you begin.
The Grief Counseling Journey
Not a march to \”over it\” — a path toward carrying your loss with more ease. Here’s the arc.
1Reach out
A short, gentle conversation about what happened and what you need. A few minutes, no commitment, no pressure to have words yet.
2Get matched
Matcha, our custom matching platform, pairs you with a therapist suited to your loss — someone you won’t have to perform being okay for.
3Let it take up space
Early sessions move at your pace — the whole story, or the edges first. All of your feelings are allowed in the room.
4Carry it differently
Rituals, memory work, and support that fits your life — the weight doesn’t vanish, but it stops crushing.
5Meaning returns
Not \”over it\” — through it, changed. Appreciation, connection, and a bond with what you lost that travels with you.
How We Support Grief
Every loss is its own country. Your therapist draws from several evidence-based approaches and follows your pace.
Mindfulness-based therapy
Being with waves of grief without drowning in them or numbing out — presence as a practice. Every AMC therapist is also a trained mindfulness teacher.
Grief-informed talk therapy
Guided reflection with someone who knows the terrain — including the feelings that don’t fit the sympathy-card script.
Ritual & memory work
Creating ways to honor and remember — continuing bonds that keep love present without keeping you stuck.
Self-compassion practices
Releasing the guilt and \”should haves\” that grief loves to collect — treating yourself like someone worth comforting.
Support for complicated loss
Sudden loss, estranged relationships, losses others don’t recognize — grief with extra layers gets extra care.
EMDR for traumatic loss
When the loss itself was traumatic, EMDR helps the hardest images lose their grip — paced carefully, always with consent.
Find the right therapist for your grief
Choose whichever way feels easier. Scroll down to meet the AMC therapists who work with grief and request someone by name.
Or answer a few questions in Matcha, our custom AI-assisted matching tool, and we’ll suggest therapists whose experience and availability may fit your needs.
Rachel Lhamon, LCSW
- Works with
- Age 22+
- Focus
- ADHD, Abandonment, Adoption / Foster Care, Anger
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Insurance
- Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Carelon, Cigna, EHN
Ash Hogle, LPC
- Works with
- Age 12+
- Focus
- ADHD, Abandonment, Anger, Anxiety
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT)
- Insurance
- Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Carelon, Cigna, Curative
Marla Sanderson, LMFT-S
- Works with
- Age 12+
- Focus
- ADHD, Abandonment, Adoption / Foster Care, Anxiety
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), EMDR
- Insurance
- Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Carelon, Cigna, Curative
Sara Tracy, LPC-A
- Works with
- Age 13+
- Focus
- ADHD, Abandonment, Anxiety, Attachment Issues
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), EMDR
- Insurance
- Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Curative, Private Pay / Self Pay, Sana
Amber Arellano, LMFT
- Works with
- Age 13+
- Focus
- Anxiety, Attachment Issues, Bipolar Disorder, Body Image
- Approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), EMDR
- Insurance
- Private Pay / Self Pay
- Languages
- English, Spanish
Wynden Rogers, LPC-A
- Works with
- Age 19+
- Focus
- ADHD, Anxiety, Asperger / Autism Spectrum, Attachment Issues
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Integrative Approach, Mindfulness-Based
- Insurance
- Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Curative, Private Pay / Self Pay, Sana
- Languages
- English
Craig Lesley, LPC-A
- Works with
- Age 13+
- Focus
- Anxiety, Caregivers, Codependency, Depression
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Insurance
- Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Curative, Private Pay / Self Pay, Sana
- Languages
- English
Margot Goralczyk, LCSW
- Works with
- Age 12+
- Focus
- ADHD, Abandonment, Adoption / Foster Care, Anger
- Approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Insurance
- Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Carelon, Cigna, Curative
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What our clients are saying about us
The breathing technique, being gentle to myself, and learning to recognize when I am not living in the present moment, among other coping skills my therapist has been teaching me have helped me tremendously with anxiety. She is easy to talk to, gentle, and listens without judgement. I am so thankful I found her and recommend her to everyone.