We tend to think of grief as an emotional experience — sadness, crying, missing someone. But grief lives in the body too. The heaviness, the physical ache, the exhaustion that no sleep fixes, the way time moves differently.
Somatic grief therapy works with the body's experience of loss directly — not just the narrative of what happened, but the felt sense of absence and change. As an online grief therapist and Registered Dance/Movement Therapist based in Austin, TX, Destany brings a body-centered lens that traditional talk therapy doesn't always offer — available in person in Austin or via telehealth across Texas and Washington State.
Loss of any kind is welcome here: death, divorce, miscarriage, estrangement, health, identity, a life you imagined. When loss carries traumatic elements — sudden death, complicated circumstances — EMDR can help process what gets frozen. And when grief intersects with major life change, the work often runs deeper than grief alone.
There's no timeline you're failing to meet. Grief that lasts longer than other people expect isn't a sign you're stuck — it's a sign of how much the loss mattered.