BEGIN YOUR WELLNESS JOURNEY.
fertility counseling services
Sometimes the path to becoming a parent is not the simple journey we expected or hoped for. Infertility and pregnancy loss can impact any or every dimension of your life – your physical and mental health, intimate relationships, family relationships, friendships, your work life, and your finances. Those experiencing infertility or pregnancy loss often feel ‘out of sync’ with their age cohort, leaving them feeling left out and lonely. Whether you are struggling with infertility and/or pregnancy losses, or you find yourself in a position of deciding to build your family in a different way, Carol can offer you ways to navigate this journey with guidance, understanding, and support.
Carol offers the following:
Infertility counseling (individuals, couples, LGBTQI individuals & couples)
Consultations for recipients of donor egg, donor sperm, donor embryo, and/or those using a gestational carrier (couples, singles, LGBTQI individuals & couples)
Evaluations for egg donors or gestational carriers
grief, loss & transition
Loss takes many forms, from death or job loss to illness or finding yourself a parent of an empty nest. Grief is a natural, multifaceted response to a loss … any loss … and can impact us physically, emotionally, mentally, behaviorally, socially, and spiritually. Carol, a Certified Creative Grief Support Practitioner, offers a transformative journey through grief, challenging oppressive myths and guiding individuals towards healing and wholeheartedness.
To find out more about The Creative Grief Studio, click here.
compassionate bereavement care
Carol has been trained and certified as a Compassionate Bereavement Care® Provider through the MISS Foundation in conjunction with The Kubler-Ross Family Trust and The Center for Loss and Trauma.
To find out more about Compassionate Bereavement Care, click here.
Certified providers working within this type of care follow guiding principles including:
They believe that traumatic grief presents the most difficult and painful circumstances for individuals, families, communities, and even clinicians.
They support their clients' participation in healthy, grief-related activities according to their comfort level.
They trust their clients/patients know best what their own unique needs are and they do their best to meet them at that place, accommodating them on their terms.
They do not diagnose or label grief as mental illness.
They believe that self-care and compassion and ongoing education are penultimate to their client’s well-being.
They strive to offer uniquely individualized care that creates healing environments for their clients.
Grief Yoga® Certified Teacher
Grief impacts more than our emotions. It affects the whole person: body, emotions, mind, and spirit. Grief can become stuck in these areas, leaving us feeling overwhelmed, uncertain, or unsure how to move forward after a loss.
Grief Yoga® is a powerful yet simple way to begin moving some of the energy behind grief. Through gentle movement, breath, and sound, we explore ways to calm the mind, ground and center ourselves, and move through the physical and emotional experiences of grief.
This practice can help create space for hope, love, courage, connection, grace, and empowerment, while also supporting the movement and transformation of anxiety, trauma, sadness, anger, guilt, doubt, worry, and fear.
Carol offers Grief Yoga® and similar movement workshops and classes in person throughout the Tucson, Arizona, area and online through Zoom nationwide.
mindfulness & and grief coach
Jon Kabat-Zinn describes Mindfulness as “the awareness that arises through paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.” Another way that we can process our grief is through learning about and practicing mindfulness. The 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System process is trauma-sensitive, compassionate, and grounded in the principles of thanatology. It integrates mindfulness, embodied practices, reflective journaling, and practical tools to support navigating through the grief process. The process includes guided practices and simple exercises. Benefits include providing a structure that can feel supportive during uncertain times, helping grievers regulate emotionally, supporting grievers in understanding the natural nature of their grief reactions, and helping them reduce feelings of overwhelm while feeling more stable. Carol, a Mindfulness and Grief Certified Coach, can offer this process through weekly individual sessions via Zoom. She is also available to lead groups in this process both in person in the Tucson, Arizona, area and online through Zoom nationwide.
Certified Grief Coach
You have moved through some of your early grief experiences after a significant loss. You are no longer doubled over with sadness, anger, hurt, despair, guilt, exhaustion, or anxiety. Yet, you continue to experience different (and often unexpected) cues that set off another wave of grief. You wonder, “Can I live with my grief and still want to move forward? Do I have to choose between grief or living, or can I do both? Can I see my living as a way to honor my loss?” As a Certified Grief Coach, Carol can support you in a process that encourages you to connect to and embrace your vision for yourself and your life moving forward, while also recognizing that your grief will always be an integral part of your life. You don’t have to choose between grief and living. You can do both. You can grow around your grief and learn how to live with it. As a compassionate witness, Carol can support you in:
Identifying your vision and giving yourself permission to live again
Understanding the beliefs, behaviors, messages, and coping patterns you have developed around grief
Identifying the guilt, shame, and/or regrets that may be present
Understanding the difference between pain and suffering and where surrendering might be of value
Finding ways to reclaim yourself through setting appropriate boundaries that work for you and recognizing your self-worth
Understanding where forgiveness and compassion might be of support and value
Finding the meaning that lives within you, not within the loss itself, and supporting your continuing bonds
Moving from spaces of contraction to spaces of expansion
