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.

    • 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

    • 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.

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.