Therapy for Individuals & Families — Deborah Weisberg LMFT, LPCC

Deborah Weisberg LMFT, LPCC

Online Therapy & Grief Counseling Groups in Los Angeles & Beverly Hills Change is difficult but necessary in life. I have a deep respect for anyone who has the will and courage to begin the process of change. I can help create the conditions where you feel supported enough to begin the journey.

As human beings we tend to fantasize about reinventing ourselves or the situations we created. We wish there was a magic wand that could transform us. I work with this desire for change and help people process the hard places they don’t want to go to alone. I believe doing this work will provide a richer and more meaningful life.

You might be here because someone close to you has died or because a spouse or partner has decided to leave your relationship or because the career you thought you wanted hasn’t worked out the way you might have hoped it would. Traumatic events like these can leave us with unpredictable and intense feelings that we don’t know how to understand or control.

What Am I Feeling?

All the feelings you experience after a death or major loss constitute grief. Grief comprises a variety of experiences after someone close to them has died or something has changed or ended. You are here because that has happened to you. The intensity of your grieving process and the form it takes often catches you by surprise. You are not alone as most people don’t spend a lot of time thinking about either of these life changing events.

Each grieving process is unique in its form and duration. There is no ready-made fix for grief but having a safe space and someone with whom you can express the full range of emotions and actions that make up your grieving process will certainly help. With time and working together, we can find a way to balance the memory of your loss with living a full and meaningful life.

Type of Grief Most people associate grief with death. The grief following the death of someone close is bereavement. Bereavement can leave us with deep existential and spiritual questions about the fairness of the universe. It also creates practical difficulties as we assume new responsibilities that once belonged to the deceased person in the midst of grieving. I help clients find ways to stay connected to their loved ones while adjusting to life without them.

We can also grieve breakups, estrangement and career transitions or changes. Major losses like these can bring up the same kind of existential, spiritual and practical problems that come with death and grieving them is just as legitimate.