Clarify grief;
soften suffering;
include you in your own care.

Educational groups for the woman who has already looked everything up and needs grounding, not spinning. Reduce fear of grieving; receive the evidence that grief is not mental illness; connect in woman-to-woman community during live, virtual education-only groups with on-the-spot Q&A with a radically compassionate women’s grief therapist.

With clarifying knowledge and deeply understanding connections made, you can identify & feel more certain about your next right step in and through grief, all while honoring the love in your loss.

What is grief education?

Grief education groups at Voyager are peer groups with educational content, not therapeutic content. Education groups are intentionally created for women in their 20’s, 30’s, & 40’s who share an experience of loss.

Education groups are live, accessible from anywhere, specific to experience, & instructed by a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 10+ years of experience specifically in grief care & research.

These groups are not therapy & do not include processing. Instead of therapeutic processing, exploring of emotions, or sharing the story of the death or loss, education groups focus on information about grief, loss, & coping including live Q&A and structured peer contact information exchange. Grief education groups support women who feel not yet ready to share & women with other spaces & supports for processing.

Grief education groups are intentionally, compassionately structured: 15 minutes topic, 30 minutes live Q&A, 15 minutes topic based on Q&A. Time & structure is offered for contact information sharing throughout the course & at the end for ongoing, heartfelt, organic support.

Empowering knowledge.

Clarifying, intentional, live education groups to reduce fear and increase understanding of grief & grieving

Grief can feel overwhelming, especially when you’ve searched endlessly for answers online and either found too many conflicting ideas or none that truly resonate. Grief education groups at Voyager are not therapy—they are short-form group learning that turns down the chaos and empowers women navigating grief and life-altering loss with expert, actionable, intentional information about living with and moving through grief.

Education groups at Voyager Counseling are instructed by a licensed therapist with 10+ years experience working with grievers as a researcher, academic, medical social worker, group facilitator, and therapist. We pair expert guidance with the beyond-words-deep connection of community, offering grief education that is compassionate and empowering to groups of women with similar losses and similar age-and-stage experience. Each education group balances evidence-based learning with Q&A where you will probably hear someone else ask the question you thought you were crazy to have. Bring the socials, bring the stuff people say that makes you fume, and bring yourself and your grief just as you are. At the end of each group meeting, participants are invited to opt-in to share contact information and move forward with a group of supportive, understanding ‘fellow travelers’ through grief.

In the process of learning and asking questions, you’ll gain clarity, dispel harmful myths, and cultivate a compassionate approach to grief within yourself that honors and integrates your loss and your love. All in woman-to-woman community that carries forward with you.

Gain the the tools, knowledge, and confidence to navigate grieving with intention and understanding.

How to join an education group

Step 1: Consider your Interest

Consider if intentional, actionable, empowering education with woman-to-woman support is a good fit for you. Grief education is not therapy; there is no sharing of the loss, discussing the death, or processing trauma. Education groups are a good fit for women who want to learn about grief with or without other sources of support, therapy, groups, et cetera. If you are not interested in receiving information, education might not be the best fit right now—you are welcome to check out our groups or to come back later. Please honor your grieving process. When you are ready for knowledge in the support of community, then…

Step 2: Register for a Grief Education Group

When you are ready to register for an open spot, you can reserve your square in the Zoom room. Each course is specialized to and focused on a particular experience of loss—look through our open courses for registration to find the one for you. Registration involves completing a brief form, reviewing the liability waiver, and establishing payment for the course.

Step 3: Connect

Upon registering, you will receive an email you to confirm your registration, supply your Zoom link, recap some of the basics of grief education (brain fog is real), and answer any odds-and-ends questions you have. You can connect with via email with course-related questions any time.

Step 4: Learn

Education groups meet a set number of weeks with the same group of women each week, so you will be ‘fellow travelers’ through these weeks as you learn together. These education groups are not therapy—they are informative (psychoeducational), specialized and specific to your experience of loss and age-and-stage context of life. You’ll unpack the myths and realities of grief, gaining insights and practical strategies that resonate and apply. You’ll have time to ask questions and learn from the other course participants during Q&A, without the sharing/processing associated with group therapy.

After: Your Next Right Step

By the end of your education group, we hope you will continue to grieve, this time with clarity in your heart and direction in your mind. Some women will move forward into therapy, empowered with the awareness of what they are looking for. Some will move forward into community groups, clear within themselves about their needs. Others will move forward with physical health focus, spiritual health focus—there is no one way to grieve!—and yet, by listening and participating in relevant, intentional, actionable grief education, you can be clear and better equipped to make your next right step in and through grief and loss, now with a cohort of women just a phone call away who deeply understand.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Education groups at Voyager are for women in their 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s who have experienced a loss. Each one is specific to an experience of loss and we ask women to join only the education group that aligns with their experience. We invite topic requests and hold an open door for communication.

    There is one exception to who can join: we occasionally offer an education group for loved ones & supporters who care about a woman in her 20’s, 30’s, 40’s who is grieving. This course is the only course we offer open to all people, though we continue to serve our client population through reducing the mental and emotional labor they might otherwise have to provide.

  • Education groups are psychoeducational, which means, there is no therapy offered. Education groups are an excellent support for individual therapy, AND, they are an excellent soft entry into grief work for the griever who isn’t yet ready to initiate therapy and needs to gather information before she feels comfortable taking further steps or knowing what her next step is.

    These education groups are live, held online, and interactive. There is no therapeutic processing; instead, there is live Q&A with a radically compassionate grief therapist, and the opportunity to exchange contact information for support between weeks and long after the education group.

    These education groups are not the same as pre-recorded informational coaching groups for many reasons. Coaches can be wonderful, and some coaches have clinical licensure. These educational groups are facilitated by a Licensed Clinical Social Worker using the range of her 10+ years of education and experience in grief care, and as a group participant, you can ask questions and hear questions you might have thought no one else thought about, and receive thoughtful, experienced, intentional responses.

  • It depends on the education group, though there is a cap at 25. The same women meet together through all weeks of the same course. Women are invited to opt-in to share contact information to continue peer-to-peer support after the end of the series.

  • Education groups are $60 per meeting. For a 4 week course, a total of $240 is to be paid upon registration.

  • You’ll gain actionable information about grief & grieving specific to your loss and context in peer community, for you to review through your own life and needs and abilities. This education is intended to provide clarity, understanding, and actionable options to support you in your grieving process. We hope you will become better equipped to know and take each next action that serves your grieving and honors the love within your loss.

  • To honor the time limitations and common complexities of 20’s, 30’s, 40’s life, all courses meet on weekends. Find the specific time for your course of interest on the registration page.

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    And please include yourself in your own compassion—it can be challenging and bittersweet to pursue compassionate grief support in any form. You are not alone, and we at Voyager Counseling as well as your future group peers forward to meeting you, though we are all sorry for the circumstances that cause us to meet.

Hi, I’m Olga. I’m a radically compassionate women’s grief therapist.

I built Voyager Counseling to work with women feeling overwhelmed by grief & loss in the midst of 20’s, 30’s, 40’s life. I specialize in excellent, intentional, actionable therapy & grief education based in contextual behavioral science. I can help you hold your inner grief experience and honor the love within the pain of loss. I hope to walk alongside you from confusion & despair to clarity & strength.

While your grief is yours alone, you do not have to be alone in your grief. Join me for a live grief education course or a therapy group as you grieve, one breath at a time. I hope for you to take very good care of you and find soft glimmers on hard days. I hope to connect with you soon.