Grief isn't a phase to get through on schedule. It's what love looks like when someone is gone. Our Beverly Hills therapists offer grief counseling for adults, children, teens, and families, in person and online across California, whether your loss is imminent, happened last month or fifteen years ago.
Grief and bereavement therapy in Beverly Hills
People come to us when
- Someone they love has died and they don’t know how to keep going
- The first weeks of support have faded and everyone expects them to be fine
- They’re grieving someone who is still alive, during a long illness or dementia
- A death was sudden, violent, or complicated by a difficult relationship
- Grief is showing up as anger, numbness, anxiety, or physical exhaustion
- Their child has lost a parent, sibling, or grandparent
- An old loss has resurfaced at a new milestone
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A steady place to feel the loss, say the things you can't say elsewhere, and slowly find your footing in a life that looks different.
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Kids grieve in bursts and often through play and behavior rather than words. We work with children and teens directly, and coach parents on how to talk about death honestly.
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Grieving someone who is still here, during a terminal diagnosis, a long illness, or cognitive decline. This kind of grief is real and often unspoken.
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Sudden death, suicide loss, overdose, or the death of someone you had a painful relationship with, where grief and trauma are tangled together.
How we can help
How therapy helps with grief
There's no fixing grief, and we won't try. What therapy offers is company in it, and room for the parts that feel unspeakable: relief, anger, guilt, or the fear that moving forward means forgetting. Our clinicians work existentially and relationally, drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), attachment-based and psychodynamic therapy, EMDR where trauma is involved, and mindfulness.
Over time, most people find that grief doesn't shrink so much as their life grows around it. That's the work.
Clinicians who focus on this
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Dr. Gozde Gokozan, PsyD, LMFT, LPCC
Individual grief therapy.
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Mo Mokgobu, MA, APCC
Grief and loss within families and across generations.
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Liz Doyle, MA, AMFT
Grief, anticipatory grief, and the existential questions that loss raises.
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Maria (Mimi) Newman, AMFT
Grief and bereavement for adults, children, and families, including loss after illness.
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There's no set timeline, and anyone who gives you one is guessing. Grief changes shape over time rather than ending. Therapy helps whether your loss was recent or years ago, and it's never too late to start.
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Yes. Relief is common after a long illness or a difficult relationship, and it usually sits right alongside sadness. It doesn't mean you loved them less.
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If your child's grief is affecting school, sleep, or friendships, or if they're keeping it all inside, therapy can help. We also work with parents alone when that's the better starting point.
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Yes, for both children and adults. Many people find the combination of group and individual therapy more helpful than either alone.
Common questions
What to expect
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A free 15-minute call.
You tell us what’s going on in your own words. We answer questions about how we work, insurance, and scheduling, and suggest the clinician who fits best.
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Your first session.
During the intake, get the fuller picture: what brought you here, what you’ve already tried, and what you want to be different.
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Ongoing therapy.
Most clients meet weekly at first. We check in regularly on what’s helping and adjust together.