Rae Anderson (she/they)

I’m offering grief-centered counseling in the Asheville area. We will meet outside in nature when available, and use mindfulness and meditation practices to ground us in a container where anything related to your grief may come up. Together we will learn how to hold your particular grief. We will learn to carry the grief that makes us human, and in that process address any protectors that may be blocking its free expression. This grief might be an acute loss of a loved one, the recent loss of an identity or relationship, global/environmental grief, the long held but stagnant grief of a childhood lost to trauma, or the current collective grief of hurricane Helene. Whatever grief you’re holding will be held here.

We may utilize meditation and mindfulness practices to promote compassion and depth of understanding. We may build altars or art, or engage in small ritual practices. We may reflect on the complicated, complex emotions that arise with the grief. We may listen to and guide different parts into understanding and integration. We may reflect on dharmic ideas that can be a balm to the suffering that arises from the impermanence of our reality. These practices are meant to give you a designated space to honor your loses, learn how to hold and titrate emotions throughout the day, and find ways to feel deeply connected and alive– not in spite of the grief but because of it. I have been a mindfulness-based therapist for 4 years. I’m a certified meditation facilitator, parts work practitioner, and a student of ritual. I may utilize parts work, meditation and contemplative practices, art and writing, attachment theory, ritual, somatic awareness practices, and talk therapy in our work together.