
Grief can disrupt far more than emotion. It can alter relationships, roles, identity, assumptions about the future, and the way a person understands the life they are now living.
Grief coaching offers a space to explore those changes without assuming that grief itself is something to resolve.
Still Point coaching is collaborative and individualized. We may explore what has changed, what remains, what feels uncertain, where expectations or obligations have appeared, and what possibilities—if any—you want to consider.
There is no predetermined destination.
Who am I now that this relationship or role has changed?
How do I live with something that isn't going to be resolved?
Why does everyone seem to expect me to want something different than I do?
What happens when the person I love is still here, but our relationship has profoundly changed?
How do I make decisions when the future I expected no longer exists?
Can I explore what comes next without deciding that what came before matters less?
You do not need to arrive with a clearly defined goal. Sometimes the work begins with identifying what the question actually is.

When grief leaves questions that may not have answers
A death by suicide can leave grief intertwined with uncertainty, anger, guilt, relief, stigma, unanswered conversations, and questions about what happened and why.
Coaching offers room to explore the loss without requiring those questions to be answered or complicated relationships to become simple.
You may examine what you know, what you don't know, the stories that have formed around the death, and what it is like to live with both.
Virtual/In Person
When someone you love is still here—and something is changing
Caring for someone with Alzheimer's can involve repeated changes in relationship, roles, communication, responsibility, identity, and expectations for the future.
There may be grief alongside love, exhaustion, resentment, tenderness, humor, uncertainty, or feelings that seem contradictory.
Coaching offers space to explore those experiences without requiring you to define them as grief—or to decide how you are supposed to feel about someone who is both present and changing.
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When presence and absence exist at the same time
Some losses do not provide a clear separation or ending. A person may remain physically present while profoundly changed, or be physically absent while remaining psychologically and relationally present.
Ambiguity can also surround the loss of a future, role, relationship, identity, or way of life.
Coaching offers room to explore what is gone, what remains, and what cannot be neatly placed into either category—without requiring uncertainty to become certainty.
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When the life that continues isn't the life you expected
Loss can alter much more than how someone feels. It may change roles, routines, relationships, identity, belonging, plans, and assumptions about the future.
Coaching can provide space to explore the life that exists now without requiring you to abandon, resolve, or diminish what came before.
You may want change. You may not. Sometimes the question is simply what remains possible while acknowledging what is no longer possible.
Virtual/In Person
For questions that don't necessarily have solutions
Death and loss can disturb assumptions that once seemed settled: Who am I? What matters? What makes a life meaningful? What do I believe about death? What can I actually know? How do I live alongside uncertainty?
You do not need to arrive with a crisis—or with a desire to solve one.
Coaching offers a place to examine questions of mortality, meaning, identity, freedom, responsibility, uncertainty, and existence without requiring them to resolve into a particular philosophy or answer.
Virtual/In Person
Death, dying, and grief are sometimes accompanied by experiences that feel unusual, profound, spiritual, anomalous, or simply difficult to categorize.
These may include near-death experiences, shared-death experiences, vivid or visitation-type dreams, sensed presence of someone who has died, meaningful coincidences or signs, unusual experiences around the time of a death, or other events that challenge a person's existing understanding of what is possible.
Still Point offers a place to explore the experience without requiring a predetermined explanation for it.
You do not have to decide whether something was psychological, neurological, spiritual, symbolic, coincidental, paranormal—or something you simply cannot explain.
The question can remain open while we explore what happened, what you make of it, and what it means—or does not mean—in your life.
Virtual/In Person

Coaching and psychotherapy can sometimes involve similar conversations, but they are different services. Terri's clinical and thanatology background informs her understanding of grief, but coaching participants are not entering a psychotherapy relationship.
Psychotherapy is a clinical service involving the assessment and treatment of mental health concerns within a licensed therapeutic relationship.
Coaching is a non-clinical, collaborative process focused on exploration, perspective, decision-making, questions, and how a person wants to engage with their life and circumstances.
Coaching does not include diagnosis or mental-health treatment. When clinical care seems more appropriate, we can discuss that distinction openly.
Still Point coaching does not begin with the assumption that you need to find closure, accept what happened, make meaning from it, become a different person, or “move forward.”
You may ultimately want change. You may want clarity. You may want to make a decision or consider something differently.
Or you may first need somewhere to examine what is happening without being told what should happen next. Possibility can be explored without becoming an obligation.
Coaching conversations may involve:
Exploring a question that doesn't have an obvious answer.
Examining assumptions about what you should feel, want, do, remember, keep, release, or become.
Noticing contradictions without requiring them to resolve.
Considering different perspectives without requiring you to adopt one.
Exploring identity and relationships when something fundamental has changed.
Making decisions while acknowledging uncertainty rather than pretending it can always be eliminated.
Sometimes a small change in perspective makes something previously difficult to see available for consideration.
What you do with it remains yours.
Still Point Coaching, Counseling, Consulting
Counseling is a clinical mental health service. Coaching, death midwifery, education, consultation, and other non-clinical services are not psychotherapy. Counseling is provided only where legally authorized.
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