Grief doesn’t follow a schedule, and it doesn’t care about your commute. It arrives when it arrives — at 2am, in the middle of the grocery store, on the drive home from work. And sometimes the idea of leaving the house to talk about it feels like too much to ask.
Online grief counseling lets you access support from wherever you are. Green Mountain Counseling offers telehealth grief therapy for individuals across Texas.
What Grief Is (and What It Isn't)
Grief is the natural response to loss. Most people associate it with the death of someone close, but grief is the appropriate response to any significant loss such as the end of a relationship, a miscarriage or infertility, the loss of a job, a health diagnosis, a major life transition, or the death of a pet. Grief is not a disorder, and it doesn’t need to be fixed.
What grief counseling addresses is the process of moving through grief rather than getting stuck in it. For some people, grief becomes complicated — prolonged, intensified, or entangled with other experiences like guilt, trauma, or depression. This is sometimes called prolonged grief disorder or complicated grief, and it responds well to therapy.
Signs that grief may benefit from professional support:
- Inability to accept the reality of the loss weeks or months later
- Intense longing or yearning that doesn’t ease over time
- Bitterness, anger, or guilt that feels consuming
- Feeling that life is meaningless without the person or thing lost
- Withdrawing significantly from relationships and daily activities
- Difficulty functioning at work or home for extended periods
- Using substances to manage grief
How Grief Counseling Works via Online Therapy
Our approach to grief is not prescriptive. Grief is individual — what helps one person doesn’t help another, and timelines vary enormously. Your therapist will meet you where you are.
We draw on several approaches depending on your needs:
Meaning-Making Approaches — grief disrupts the assumptions we hold about the world and our place in it. Rebuilding meaning — not replacing the loss, but integrating it — is central to moving forward.
Cognitive Behavioral Approaches for Complicated Grief — when grief has become stuck, CBT-based techniques can help identify and gently challenge the avoidance and rumination patterns that maintain prolonged suffering.
Trauma-Informed Grief Therapy — when a loss was sudden, violent, or traumatic, grief and trauma responses often intertwine. Treatment needs to address both.
Support Without Pressure — not every session needs to be about processing. Sometimes you need someone to witness your grief without trying to resolve it. That’s valid, and it’s part of the work.
Grief Has No Timeline
One of the unhelpful things our culture does is attach timelines to grief. You’ll hear things like “it’s been a year” or “at some point you have to move on.” Grief does not care about these expectations. The goal of grief counseling is not to stop missing someone. It’s to build a life in which that loss no longer prevents you from living.
Where to Get Grief Counseling in Texas
We provide online grief counseling to clients throughout Texas, including Houston, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, El Paso, and surrounding areas. All therapists are Texas-licensed. Most major insurance plans accepted.
You don’t have to grieve alone. Book a free 15-minute consultation or call us at 210-982-0872.
Frequently Asked Questions
Grief counseling is therapy that specifically focuses on supporting someone through loss. Most grief counseling uses the same evidence-based approaches as other therapy, with the additional framework of understanding how grief works and what supports healthy mourning.
It varies. For acute, uncomplicated grief, 8–12 sessions may be sufficient. For prolonged grief disorder or grief entangled with trauma or depression, treatment typically takes longer.
No. Grief counseling is appropriate for any significant loss, including the end of a marriage, infertility or pregnancy loss, a diagnosis that changes your sense of the future, estrangement from family, or any experience of loss that’s significantly affecting your functioning.
Yes. The connection and presence that make grief counseling effective translate well to video. Many people find that being in their own home, surrounded by familiar things, maybe close to photographs or mementos, actually helps the work.
That feeling is the grief culture talking, not reality. There is no “should” in grief. If you’re still struggling, that’s not a moral failure. It’s just a signal that you need support.