Include you in your own compassion
Radically compassionate women’s grief care south of Richmond, Virginia.
Expert individual therapy and specialized grief support 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 after a life-altering loss when our grief feelings seem too messy, too intense, and too uncomfortable for others.
Voyager Counseling was built for deeply caring, hard working, nurturing women who feel lost in grief & loss.
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Inner struggle with self-criticism and self-blame after perinatal loss
Feelings of confusion, doubt, and inner swirl when people leave and the family changes after a loss
A sense of feeling flattened by grief pain—numb, want to lay down, want to stare nowhere
Struggle with social interactions & events resulting in intense anxiety or outright avoidance of being around others who don’t understand grief
Struggling with self-care, feeling like it’s a calculus problem to be kind to oneself after a life-altering loss
Feelings of disconnection from self, distant from one’s own emotions or even one’s own body
Feelings of loss of safety in the world, in medical environments, or just a general sense that the universe is a safe place to be
Feelings of anger, betrayal, or confusion at God or the cosmos
Struggle to hold one’s own grief experience with care and nurture while working as a professional caring for others or as a caregiver nurturing others
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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.
You can find your way to connection and heart-forward living.
First, you have to find yourself in the here-now.
At Voyager Counseling, you will find:
Woman-to-woman connection, heartfelt support, & purposeful community
Space to be whole: from love to loss, despair to hope, big thoughts to mundane details
Expert therapy to build your inner capacity in this complex, finite kaleidoscope life
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 a 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. Many women have also learned a subtle message of omnipotence: “you can do anything, be anything! Just put your mind to it.” Then, when mortality or cancer or infertility are suddenly, devastatingly derailing the to-do list: 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—this time without losing themselves, with grounded and powerful self-compassion, with a skill and wisdom that has been a part of femininity through the ages.
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.