Include you in your own compassion
Radically compassionate women’s grief care south of Richmond, Virginia.
Expert individual therapy and specialized grief support groups for grieving women seeking to honor the love in their loss and include themselves in their own compassion.
Loss is hard for many, many reasons... emotional, relational, physical, social.
This makes sense. In a social context which glorifies appearance, performance, and perfection, many grievers struggle with emotions, thoughts, and relationships after a life-altering loss when our grief feelings are complex, huge, and uncomfortable for others.
Voyager Counseling was built for deeply caring, hard working, nurturing women who feel broken & lost in grief & loss.
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Caring women struggling with self-criticism and self-blame
Thoughtful women feeling lost in confusion, doubt, and inner swirl
Tenacious women who feel flattened by grief pain
Open-minded women struggling with social interactions & events in grief
Supportive women who value self-care but can’t seem to figure it out how to apply it to themselves after loss
Authentic women feeling disconnected from themselves, unsafe in the world, & lost in loss
Professional women working as therapists, clinicians, & providers struggling to hold their own grief pain
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Death of a beloved or important person
Death of an estranged or ‘it’s complicated’ person
Death of a baby or child of any age
Diagnosis of a life-altering illness such as cancer (all staging), neurodegenerative illness/dementia, cardiovascular disease in self or another
Anticipatory grief during illness progression including losses of health, ability, & identity, on or off hospice
Death of a beloved creature or fur baby
Perinatal loss of any kind including chemical pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy, pregnancy loss related to cancer, termination for medical reasons (TFMR), pregnancy loss related to iatrogenic harm
Sudden loss including heart attack, accident, stroke
Violent or traumatic loss including suicide loss, homicide loss, overdose loss
Losses where the death happened, but the grief is more about the chaos-after-the-loss
Complex, nuanced losses that struggle to be named
You are not alone. But it’s not enough to “know” that, as an intellectual idea, for many grievers to feel comforted. With radically compassionate grief care, you can bring the knowledge from head to heart that you, a broken-hearted human, are sincerely understandable, acceptable, and lovable in your grief and in your humanity.
Join for connection, heartfelt support, & intentional community.
Join to honor the love in your loss with purpose.
Join to build the inner skills to live this complex, beloved, mortal life heart-forward.
Join to include you in your own compassion.
You are not alone.
At Voyager Counseling, we understand the struggle of trying to manage life while stuck neck-deep in grief, watching everyone else seem to just go on. We know the pain of opening social media and feeling frustrated, alone, jealous, and sad—then criticizing ourselves for feeling this way. We know what it’s like to get things done with to-do lists to make life feel orderly, then sob in quiet moments in the car.
Really, you are not alone.
We offer radically compassionate grief care to women who hold it together on the outside while feeling torn apart on the inside. We help women bring the knowledge from head to heart that grief is the flip side of love, that you do not have to grieve alone, and that—with heartfelt connection & skillful support—you can feel your grief feelings and connect with what matters most to you each day of this imperfect, complex, human life.
Voyager Counseling is a love letter to the humanity, yearning, & desperate love within grief pain. We hope you will find a home for your heart here as you find your footing, connect into caring woman-to-woman community, and learn to include yourself in your own compassion.
We are sending you so much care and hope for soft moments on hard days. We hope to connect with you soon.
Include you in your own compassion
Hi, I’m Olga. I’m a radically compassionate women’s grief therapist & owner of Voyager Counseling.
I believe that life’s voyage which includes connection and love also includes grief and loss; to love deeply, humans must open to grieving deeply too. Women create life and cradle children, families, and society. When mortality is suddenly, devastatingly real: everything changes. I help grieving women include themselves in their own care in a life changed by loss. These women then care for their families, communities, and world at large—without losing themselves, with sincere intentionality, with self-compassion.
I specialize in strongly evidenced Acceptance & Commitment Therapy. I provide ACT therapeutically to individuals & in experiential training to professional groups. I help grievers walk through grief pain with intentionality to gain inner and outer skills to live with purpose and heart in a mortal life.
While your grief is yours alone, you do not have to be alone in your grief. I built this community for you, and for me—built for grieving women, by grieving women. Please join! I am wishing you soft moments on hard days and moments of grace. I am sending you so much care.