Include you in your own compassion
Radically compassionate grief care for women, couples, and families navigating life-altering loss.
Expert therapy and specialized grief support for those seeking to honor the love in their loss and find values-forward resilience through intentional, compassionate skill-building.
Loss is hard for many, many reasons. In our families, relationships, and in our own minds and hearts, many of us don’t know how to cope with the intensity of grief feelings and thoughts after life-altering loss or life-limiting diagnosis.
This makes sense. In a broader context in which the correct answer to “how are you?” is “good”, many grievers struggle after a life-altering loss when our grief feelings seem too messy, too intense, and too uncomfortable for ourselves or others.
Voyager Counseling was built for deeply caring, hard working, heart-and-family-forward grievers seeking an intentional path in and through grief.
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Death of a beloved or important person
Death of an estranged or ‘it’s complicated’ person
Death of a baby or child of any age
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, termination for medical reasons (TFMR), 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
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Inner struggle with self-criticism and self-blame after loss
Disconnection from self and others, reactivity and inner struggle which comes out in relationships
Feelings of confusion, doubt, and inner swirl when people leave and the family changes after a loss
A sense of feeling flattened by grief pain—numb, want to lay down, want to stare nowhere
Struggle with social interactions & events resulting in intense anxiety or outright avoidance of being around others who don’t understand grief
Struggling with self-care, feeling like it’s a calculus problem to be kind to oneself after a life-altering loss
Feelings of disconnection from self, distant from one’s own emotions or even one’s own body
Feelings of loss of safety in the world, in medical environments, or just a general sense that the universe is a safe place to be
Feelings of anger, betrayal, or confusion at God or the cosmos
Struggle to hold one’s own grief experience with care and nurture while working as a professional caring for others or as a caregiver nurturing others
You are not alone. But it’s not enough to “know” that, as an intellectual idea, for meaningful and consistent reprieve. With radically compassionate grief care, you can bring the knowledge from head to heart that you, a broken-hearted human, are sincerely understandable, acceptable, and lovable in your grief and in your humanity. We grow not in spite of our grief and basic human mortality, but because of it.
You can find your true north of intentional, heart-forward life.
You can build your path in and through your grief, together.
At Voyager Counseling, you will find:
Expert individual, couples, and family Acceptance & Commitment Therapy offered online and in-person
Free women’s support groups in-person and online for woman-to-woman connection, heartfelt support, & purposeful community
Twice monthly email support: The Voyager Monthly includes resources and information, The Mortal Mom is a reflection on living a whole, mortal, human life with intention and awareness
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. We know what it’s like to feel so separate, unbearably disconnected.
Really, you are not alone.
We offer radically compassionate grief care to women, couples, and families who hold it together on the outside while feeling torn apart on the inside. We help grievers bring the knowledge from head to heart that grief is the flip side of love, that you do not have to grieve through chaos or shutdown, 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 humanity, yearning, and desperate love within grief pain. We hope you will find a home for your heart here as you find your footing, connect into caring community, and learn to include yourself in your own compassion as you grieve and as you live.
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 grief therapist & the owner of Voyager Counseling.
In a mortal life’s voyage, when we live with deep love, we open to deep loss. Love and loss are flip sides of the same coin.
I help grieving women, couples, and families include themselves in their own effort and compassion in a life changed by loss. Grievers work with me to build the internal capacity and skillset to feel feelings, intentionally choose meaningful forward action, and connect with clarity and compassion with themselves and others. The grievers I work with are beloved humans—they create life, they care, they are hard working—and their grief work in therapy leads to deepened and sustained care for themselves, their children, families, communities, and the world at large.
I specialize in evidenced, compassionate Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. I provide ACT therapeutically to individuals, couples, and families; I supervise post-graduate social workers seeking independent licensure; I facilitate expert trainings for professionals and groups.
I help grievers walk through grief pain with intentionality to build the inner and outer skills to live with purpose and heart in this mortal life. While your grief is yours alone, you do not have to stay isolated and lost in your grief. I built this community for you, for me, and for all of us. It’s not brokenness to be mortal—it’s human. We make it through together.
To the grieving person reading, I am wishing you soft moments on hard days and moments of grace. One breath at a time. Reach out soon.