Grief Counseling in San Diego

Finding Purpose After Loss

When grief leaves you asking, “What’s the point?”

Woman curled on her side experiencing grief and wondering if grief counseling can help?

Some mornings you can pull yourself together, make a healthy breakfast, even push through a workout. Other mornings? You find yourself curled up in bed until the last possible minute, wondering why life feels so empty. Grief has a way of making everything feel meaningless — like the future you pictured is gone, leaving only an unshakable sadness behind.

If you’ve found yourself whispering, “What’s the point?” more often than not, you’re not alone. Grief counseling in San Diego offers a space to explore that question, not with forced positivity, but with compassion and clarity.

Naming the grief you carry

Grief doesn’t only show up when someone dies. It also comes with infertility, divorce, estrangement, the loss of health, or the slow disappearance of a dream you’ve carried for years. When those losses settle in, life can feel heavy and hollow.

Naming this grief is the first step. And in grief counseling, you won’t be told to “move on” or “look on the bright side.”

Instead, we’ll honor where you are right now.

You may feel:

Sadness that lingers, even when life looks “fine” on the outside.
Anger that life didn’t unfold the way you hoped.
Numbness or emptiness, wondering why you can’t “just get over it.”
A haunting sense of purposelessness.

How grief counseling in San Diego can help

Giving grief space to breathe

We’ll create a safe place for sadness, anger, confusion, and numbness to coexist.

I help adults heal from grief and loss so they can find meaning and purpose again in their lives.

Untangling the “what’s the point?” loop

We’ll explore ways to live in the tension between loss and possibility.

Rebuilding a sense of purpose

We’ll discover small steps that reconnect you with meaning, values, and hope in life after loss.

Developing tools for the hard days

Learn coping skills so that even when it feels heavy, you have a way forward.

Healing doesn’t erase what happened. But it can help you feel whole again, with new ways of looking forward.

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San Diego Grief Therapist

Christy Garcia, Grief Therapist in San Diego

What to expect in sessions

Each session is warm, collaborative, and paced at the speed of your nervous system. We’ll talk about what grief looks like in your daily life — the mornings you feel stuck in bed, the emptiness that sneaks in when you’re “functioning.” We’ll also explore new, daily rituals and routines, grounding practices, and ways of connecting to what matters most.

This isn’t about erasing grief. It’s about learning how to carry it without being swallowed whole.

You don’t have to carry this alone

Grief can trick you into believing you should be stronger, tougher, or able to “pull yourself up by your bootstraps.” But healing doesn’t come from forcing yourself to move on. It comes from being witnessed, supported, and given tools that fit you.

Grief counseling in San Diego offers that kind of support — not a quick fix, but a path back to meaning.

What life can look like after counseling

Clients who engage in grief counseling often notice:

More energy to show up for daily routines.

The ability to experience joy alongside grief.

Less shame about their grief journey.

A clearer sense of meaning, even if life looks different than expected.

Find purpose again — compassionate grief counseling in San Diego

If you’re ready to move from just surviving to finding meaning again, I invite you to schedule a free 15-minute phone consultation. You don’t need polished words or a clear plan — only the courage to reach out. Together, we’ll see if grief counseling in San Diego is the right fit for you.

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