Grief doesn’t follow a schedule, and it doesn’t care about logistics. It arrives when it arrives. In the middle of an ordinary day, at 2 a.m., on the drive home from something entirely unrelated. And sometimes the thought of leaving the house to talk about it is simply too much to ask.
Online grief counseling lets you access support from wherever you are. Green Mountain Counseling offers telehealth grief therapy for individuals across Florida.
What Grief Is (and What It Isn't)
Grief is the natural human response to loss. Most people connect it with the death of someone close, and the loss of a person you love is one of the most significant things a human being can go through. But grief is the appropriate response to any meaningful loss: the end of a marriage, a miscarriage or infertility, a health diagnosis that changes your sense of the future, the loss of a career or identity, the death of a pet. Grief is not a disorder, and it doesn’t need to be fixed.
What grief counseling addresses is the process of moving through grief rather than becoming stuck in it. For some people, grief becomes complicated — prolonged, intensified, or entangled with guilt, trauma, or depression. This is sometimes called prolonged grief disorder or complicated grief, and it responds well to targeted treatment.
Signs that grief may benefit from professional support:
- Inability to accept the reality of the loss weeks or months after it happened
- Intense longing or yearning that doesn’t ease over time
- Bitterness, anger, or guilt that feels consuming and doesn’t shift
- A sense that life is meaningless without the person or thing lost
- Significant withdrawal from relationships and activities
- Difficulty functioning at work or at home for extended periods
- Using substances or other avoidance to manage grief
How Grief Counseling Works via Online Therapy
Our approach to grief is not prescriptive. Grief is individual. What helps one person doesn’t help another, and timelines vary enormously. Your therapist will meet you exactly where you are.
Meaning-Making Approaches — grief disrupts the assumptions we hold about the world and our place in it. Rebuilding meaning — not replacing what was lost, but finding a way to integrate it — is central to moving forward.
Cognitive Behavioral Approaches for Complicated Grief — when grief has become stuck, CBT-based techniques can gently address the avoidance and rumination patterns that keep prolonged suffering in place.
Trauma-Informed Grief Therapy — when a loss was sudden, violent, or traumatic, grief and trauma responses often intertwine. Treatment that addresses only one is less effective than one that holds both.
Support Without Pressure — not every session needs to be processing. Sometimes you need someone to sit with your grief without trying to resolve it. That is valid, and it is part of the work.
Grief Has No Timeline
One of the most unhelpful things our culture does is attach timelines to grief. You’ll hear things like ‘it’s been a year’ or ‘at some point you have to move on.’ Grief does not respect these expectations, and the goal of counseling is not to stop missing someone. It’s to build a life in which the loss no longer prevents you from living.
Where to Get Grief Counseling in Florida
We provide online grief counseling to clients throughout Florida, including Jacksonville, Orlando, Miami, St. Petersburg, Gainesville, and surrounding areas. All therapists are Florida-licensed. Most major insurance plans accepted.
You don’t have to grieve alone. Book a free 15-minute consultation or call us today.
Frequently Asked Questions
Grief counseling is therapy specifically oriented around supporting someone through loss. It uses the same evidence-based approaches as other therapy, with the additional framework of understanding how grief works and what actually supports healthy mourning.
While this depends on your situation, we can share some rough guidelines. For acute, uncomplicated grief, 8–12 sessions may be sufficient. For prolonged grief disorder or grief entangled with trauma or depression, treatment typically takes longer. Your therapist will give you an honest picture early on.
No. Grief counseling is appropriate for any meaningful loss — the end of a marriage, infertility or pregnancy loss, a diagnosis that changes your sense of the future, estrangement from family, or any experience of loss that is significantly affecting your day-to-day functioning.
Absolutely! The connection and presence that make grief counseling effective translate well to video. Many people find that being in their own home, close to photographs, familiar objects, their own space, actually supports the work.
That feeling is the grief culture talking, not reality. There is no ‘should’ in grief. If you’re still struggling, that’s not a failure. It’s just a sign that you need support, and this is the right place to find it.