Grief Counseling
At Moving Forward Staying Present, we offer grief counseling in Portland, Oregon for people carrying loss in many forms.
Grief changes the shape of daily life. It can affect your body, memory, relationships, identity, energy, and sense of time. Grief may come after the death of someone you love, the end of a relationship, a major transition, a diagnosis, a family rupture, a loss of community, or the realization that life looks different than you imagined
Grief can feel like:
Waves of sadness, anger, guilt, or numbness
Difficulty concentrating
Changes in sleep, appetite, or energy
Feeling disconnected from others
Longing for what was
Questioning identity, meaning, or direction
Feeling changed by something others may not fully understand
Suicidal thoughts
Inability to maintain occupational functioning (job, school, etc)
Loss of identity
How Therapy Helps
Grief counseling gives you a place to speak honestly about what has been lost and what remains. Therapy can help you make room for the complexity of grief: love, anger, confusion, relief, longing, memory, and the slow work of carrying life forward.
This work can help you feel less alone with loss, understand your grief responses, process relationship changes, and reconnect with support, meaning, and daily life.
Our Approach
Our therapists may draw from narrative therapy, meaning-making, mindfulness, relational therapy, somatic awareness, and existential therapy. Grief work may include conversation, ritual, reflection, emotional processing, and attention to how loss lives in the body and in your relationships.
We support clients grieving deaths, breakups, family estrangement, illness, aging, identity transitions, caregiving changes, and ambiguous losses that may feel difficult to name.
Our therapy office is located in the Sellwood neighborhood of SE Portland. We also offer telehealth across Oregon.
Ready to start your healing journey?Request a consult call.
If you’re carrying grief and want support, schedule a consult and we’ll help connect you with a therapist who can meet you with care.
GETTING HERE
Location:
Our office is located in the Sellwood neighborhood of Southeast Portland at 8083 SE 13th Ave, Suites 2 & 4. Your therapist will specify which suite they are in. Come on upstairs to the second floor, but please keep in mind we are not ADA accessible.
Parking:
There is plenty of free street parking in front of the building as well as in the lot in the back of the building, just behind OnPoint Credit Union (13th and Tacoma St). Park in a spot NOT labeled OnPoint Credit Union and walk up the stairs at the back of the building. Find your Suite: 2 or 4.
Public Transport:
From downtown
Take the southbound #40 bus towards Tacoma, get off at SE Tacoma & 13th, or
Take the southbound MAX orange line towards Milwaukie, get off at SE Bybee Blvd and transfer to the northbound #40 bus towards Swan Island. Get off at SE Tacoma & 13th.
From Concordia, Grant Park, Buckman, Hosford-Abernathy, etc.
Take the southbound #70 bus towards Milwaukie, get off at SE 17th & Tacoma. Walk four blocks west to SE 13th & Tacoma.
From anywhere else:
Google Maps can provide useful routes that include bus schedules.
By Bike:
From anywhere along the Willamette
Take the Willamette Greenway Trail along the river to the Sellwood Bridge, cross the bridge and take Tacoma St to SE Tacoma & 13th.
Take the Springwater on the Willamette, turn off and take Spokane St to Spokane & 13th.
From anywhere else
There are many neighborhood greenways and bike paths that link up in Sellwood. Google Maps can give specific directions. Here are instructions for how to enable the biking paths layer.