Join in community with caring, capable women like you who are grieving a life-altering loss and feeling like their own worst critic in the midst of it all.


In this therapy group, you will learn and practice practical, relevant, non-corny, evidence-based self-compassion practices that can help you to hold your own grief and love with the care you feel it deserves in your heart. This is a therapy group where you can learn to have a different relationship with yourself and your grief. By changing the way you relate to yourself and participate in self-care, you can intentionally move towards what you value meaningfully without cattle-prodding yourself forward with self-criticism or burning out. Self-compassion doesn’t mean falling on the couch and rotting there, or saying “yes” to literally every inner urge; self-compassion is a powerful relational stance which includes tender connection as well as fierce action, all in the name of, this is human. I am human. I am grieving.

Together we discuss, process, & build inner skill around:

  • How to compassionately understand self-criticism, and not engage in self-criticism-for-self-compassion (“Ugh! I’m so harsh to myself, I should be better!”)

  • How to purposefully and self-compassionately cope with grief due to the loss and the non-death losses related to what was, what was expected, and what could or should be here and now

  • How to self-compassionately hold mortality anxiety & a wholly changed life after loss

  • How to remain purposeful, intentional, and move towards what matters without spiritual bypass, emotional avoidance, or burnout


Time: Saturdays, 9:30am - 11:00am

Location: In-person at our spacious, mountain grandma-chic office in North Chesterfield

Address: 9327 Midlothian Turnpike, #2G, North Chesterfield VA 23235

Cost: $60 per session

Meets Weekly Starting: October 11th

Ends On: November 1st

When you submit your request for a 30 minute intake call, you will receive a direct email from me (Olga Montgomery, LCSW) to coordinate a time to connect. When you’re ready, include you in your own compassion and request your intake call. I promise, even if it feels so difficult and uncomfortable, you can find out that you are not alone. I am sending you much care and hope for soft moments on hard days. Connect soon. <3