Include you in your own compassion
Voyager Counseling: radically compassionate women’s grief care in Richmond, Virginia
Voyager Counseling is a therapy practice & community dedicated to helping women build the inner skill to hold grief, love, hope, & loss in this imperfect, complex, finite voyage of human life. We provide heartfelt peer support groups, relevant & functional group therapy, and expert individual therapy grounded in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. We specialize in radically compassionate grief care for empathetic women struggling with grief pain who yearn for connection, self-compassion, & inner direction.
We honor that there is “no one right way to grieve” in our spectrum of services of radically compassionate grief care. We walk with you from inner chaos & confusion to living, grieving, & leaning into love intentionally. You are welcome here, just as you are: you, your love, and your grief.
Loss is hard for many, many reasons—personal, practical, social, societal.
Many women struggle with their emotions, thoughts, & relationships during & after life-altering loss. We specialize in helping women hold love, grief, hope, and loss through intentional & self-compassionate inner growth & person-to-person connection.
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Caring women struggling with self-criticism and self-blame
Thoughtful women feeling lost in confusion, doubt, and inner swirl
Tenacious women who feel flattened by grief pain
Open-minded women struggling with social interactions & events in grief
Supportive women who value self-care but can’t seem to figure it out how to apply it to themselves after loss
Authentic women feeling disconnected from themselves, unsafe in the world, & lost in loss
Professional women working as therapists, clinicians, & providers struggling to hold their own grief pain
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Death of a beloved or important person
Diagnosis of a life-altering illness such as cancer (all staging), neurodegenerative illness/dementia, cardiovascular disease in self or another
Anticipatory grief during illness progression including losses of health, ability, & identity, on or off hospice
Death of a beloved creature or fur baby
Perinatal loss of any kind including chemical pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, pregnancy loss related to cancer, pregnancy loss related to iatrogenic harm
Sudden loss including heart attack, accident, stroke
Violent or traumatic loss including suicide loss, homicide loss, overdose loss
Losses where the death happened, but the grief is more about the chaos-after-the-loss
Complex, nuanced losses that struggle to be named
You are not alone. Please connect. It’s not enough to “know you aren’t alone”—bring the knowledge from head to heart that you are not the only griever struggling through, not a broken woman needing a fix or a strong face.
You are a griever seeking connection, support, & intentional choice in a suddenly, shockingly, urgently mortal life.
Welcome to Voyager Counseling.
Free Women’s Grief Support Groups
Weekly in-person and online options, no cost, registration required (for confirmation communication & limited space).
Grief support for caring women who want to include themselves in their own compassion and honor the love in their grief pain. Whenever your loss was, however your grief looks, you are welcome just as you are. You, your love, and your grief.
Free peer support group for women grieving life-altering loss, including loss of a beloved person, pet, perinatal loss, infertility, diagnosis or progression of life-altering illness. Meets in-person Saturdays at 11:00am. Connect with other grievers who understand, who want to honor the love in the grief pain, and include yourself in your own compassion with time for you and your grief.
Free peer support group for women grieving life-altering loss, including loss of a beloved person, pet, perinatal loss, infertility, diagnosis or progression of life-altering illness. Meets online Thursdays at 8:00am. Connect with other grievers who want to honor the love in the grief pain, include yourself in your own compassion, receive care and valuable information in virtual connection.
You are not alone.
At Voyager Counseling, we understand the struggle of trying to manage life while stuck neck-deep in grief, watching everyone else seem to just go on. We know the pain of opening social media and feeling frustrated, alone, jealous, and sad—then criticizing ourselves for feeling this way. We know what it’s like to get things done with to-do lists to make life feel orderly, then sob in quiet moments in the car.
Really, you are not alone.
We offer radically compassionate grief care to women who hold it together on the outside while feeling torn apart on the inside. We help women bring the knowledge from head to heart that grief is the flip side of love, that you do not have to grieve alone, and that—with heartfelt connection & skillful support—you can feel your grief feelings and connect with what matters most to you each day of this imperfect, complex, human life.
Voyager Counseling is a love letter to the fundamentally human connection, yearning, & love within grief pain. We hope you will find a home for your heart here as you find your footing, connect into caring woman-to-woman community, and learn to include yourself in your own compassion.
We are sending you so much care and hope for soft moments on hard days. We hope to connect with you soon.
Include you in your own compassion
Hi, I’m Olga. I’m a radically compassionate women’s grief therapist & owner of Voyager Counseling.
I built Voyager Counseling to work with women feeling lost in grief who want to connect into love. I specialize in evidenced, intentional, actionable therapy & grief care based in contextual behavioral science. I hope to help you navigate your inner grief experience and gain the inner and outer skills to both hold the pain of your loss and cultivate meaningful days. I provide individual therapy and facilitate several of our groups to support women from confusion & despair to clarity & connection.
While your grief is yours alone, you do not have to be alone in your grief. Join this community for support & compassionate care as you grieve, one breath at a time. I am hoping for you to have soft moments on hard days, and include you in your own compassion. I hope to connect with you soon.