LCSW, 14 years of experience
**I currently in transition - moving from Rome, Italy to Lisbon, Portugal. I am available during my day, but odd hours in Virginia & California! The Grow system won't allow me to make odd times available on my scheduling calendar, but message me if you can meet between 2am-8am West Coast, 5am-11am East Coast (these are 10am-4pm my time). About me: Thank you for taking the time to read about me and see how I can best support you. Grief can be incredibly isolating, but please know, you are not alone. I am a licensed clinical social worker, author, speaker and therapist with a "grief lens." I believe that most issues people carry around with them as adults are due to UNRESOLVED grief, which snowballs as we get older and encounter additional losses. A new, current grief event activates all the grief/losses we've experienced in our lifetime. It's so intense. Loss can be intangible or intangible. We can grieve the loss of connection, a relationship, support, a pet, financial loss, loss of health... even the loss of expectations (where we thought we'd be or what we thought life would look like at this point). I have been trained as an advanced Grief Recovery Method Specialist by the Grief Recovery Institute. I can provide grief counseling and the Grief Recovery Method to anyone virtually. I would not provide this method if I did not get to see my clients find healing! It is so rewarding to be alongside my clients as they "close the loop" on unresolved issues. I am a military spouse and we are currently living in Portugal (hence the odd hours that I am available!) This work is rewarding and I am honored to sit with someone as they process loss.
Let me copy/paste a review that might help answer what clients can expect in working with me: "I just finished the GRM Program with Thera today. I had lost my sister in 2021 and I was so down and out for months. Going through this program with Thera has improved my life so much. I can now think more positively about the great times I had with my sister vs regretting all of the things I could have done better or should have said. You can ask my wife, I have done a total 180. I feel Thera really got to know me and my sister. She is a great listener and she always has good feedback when you are struggling. The exercises that you do in this program are unmatched by any other. They really make you think. Thera is very passionate about her work and i really appreciate her!"
The Grief Recovery Method Short-term-solution-focused-counseling
I'll let past client reviews highlight what they think my strengths are by copy/pasting here: "Thera has been so amazing at helping me deal with my grief after losing my mom. She held my hand every step of the way and when some of the assignments got really tough and I found myself avoiding them because they were too emotional and hard, she encouraged me and gave me the nudge i needed. I’m so thankful that I found her. I now feel like i have the tools in my box for working through other difficult situations and grief that come up for me."
Anyone who wants a safe place to grieve and enjoys doing homework and activities.
1 rating with written reviews
May 12, 2025
Thera has been and continues to be a life-line for me in processing the loss of my son. She listens intently and offers insightful nuances to the things I share. Thera has a gift for viewing situations through curiosity allowing her to see things others do not. This has been instrumental in opening pathways for me to explore a new normal. Further, Thera has a contagious sense of humor that has found me laughing - yes laughing - while in grief therapy. I highly recommend Thera!!