Olivia Cooper

About

Booking that first appointment can feel like a quiet disloyalty to the person you lost, as though talking about them means you are starting to let them go. It is not that, and you do not have to do it alone. I sit with adults in the long middle of grief, the part that comes after the phone stops ringing and everyone else has gone back to their ordinary lives. There is no correct speed here and nothing you are supposed to get over. We simply make room for the size of it and for the life that has to keep moving anyway. Years spent in nonprofit work showed me how quietly people carry this and how rarely anyone thinks to ask. With me the pace is calm and entirely yours. You can cry or not, talk about them or about the grocery store, and none of it will be the wrong thing. When you feel ready, reach out and we will find a time.