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

Courses 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 grief courses with on-the-spot info and Q&A.

With empowering knowledge and deeply understanding support, you can identify & clarify your next right step in and through grief while honoring the love in your loss.

Courses beginning weekend of June 7th, 2025
for women grieving:

  • Saturdays, 9:00am - 10:00am EST

    Meets weekly from June 7th, 2025 until June 28th, 2025

    Join in community with women of similar loss, age-and-stage of life, and desire to survive through and hold the love mirrored in the devastation of this grief. Losses represented in this group include SUID, SIDS, accidental death, & sudden medical crisis.

    In this course, you will receive information & connection to support you. There is no retelling of death or trauma processing in any course—this supports both the woman who isn’t ready and the woman who has other places to process. Come as you are, bring your grief as it is, and learn how to take this loss one breath at a time.

  • Saturdays, 10:30am - 11:30am EST

    Meets weekly from June 7th, 2025 until June 28th, 2025

    Join in community with women of similar loss, age-and-stage of life, and desire to learn how to honor the love that hurts to lose, and how to even begin to imagine making it through sudden spousal loss.

    In grief education courses, we do not talk about the event of death or process trauma. This supports both the woman who isn’t ready yet and the woman with other sources of processing support. Join us for information that supports you to take good care of you and connect with women grieving & supporting one another.

  • Saturdays, 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST

    Meets weekly from June 7th, 2025 until June 28th, 2025

    Join in community with women of similar loss, age-and-stage of life, and desire to learn how to grieve while loving someone diagnosed with a progressive illness and coping with many non-death losses. Diagnoses include ALS, FTD, young onset Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s Disease, PPA, PSP, MSA, and others—please connect if you need to check a diagnosis or ask questions.

    This course will support you to comprehend what’s going on within you and connect with others who understand. This is a space to turn your attention to your own experience, at least temporarily, in context that you may be inundated with medical information and what-ifs related to your loved one. Join us to include yourself in your own compassion and your own care.

  • Saturdays, 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST

    Meets weekly from June 7th, 2025 until June 28th, 2025

    Join in community with women of similar loss, age-and-stage of life, and desire to learn how to hold love in the here-now in the midst of anticipatory grief and caregiving stress.

    This course is intentionally gentle to support you with supportive information, community, and to provide both in a way that honors that your whole system might need a reprieve.

  • Sundays, 9:00am - 10:00am EST

    Meets weekly from June 8th, 2025 until June 29th, 2025

    Join in community with women of similar loss, age-and-stage of life, and desire to learn how to hold the nuanced, complex losses of medical menopause due to cancer treatment while taking good care of yourself. This course focuses on the sometimes crazy-making grief related to loss of choice, loss of (perceived) future certainty, and loss of normalcy.

  • Sundays, 10:30am - 11:30am EST

    Meets weekly from June 8th, 2025 until June 29th, 2025

    Join in community with women of similar loss, age-and-stage of life, and desire to learn how to hold the love within past pregnancy loss or losses while grieving and managing stress and fertility focus to try to conceive.

    This course is intentionally grounded in the Dual Process Model of Grief, with the context and understanding that women join this course with a specific, actionable forward focus in TTC.

  • Sundays, 12:00pm - 1:00pm EST

    Meets weekly from June 8th, 2025 until June 29th, 2025

    Join in community with women of similar loss, age-and-stage of life, and career path. Learn about holding the love in the loss while including yourself in your own practice of compassion, personally and professionally—but personally, first.

    Open to mental health clinicians of any work context and background who are women in their 20’s, 30’s, & 40’s.

  • Sundays, 1:30pm - 2:30pm EST

    Meets weekly from June 8th, 2025 until June 29th, 2025

    This is the only course at Voyager open to any age, gender, and life experience. This course is for people who have a loved one, a family member, a friend, who is in her 20’s, 30’s, or 40’s and is struggling with a life-altering loss. You might not know what to say… you might not know how to help… you might really want to know how to be present for a tragedy or how to keep a relationship going through hard times. Please come and learn about radically compassionate grief care. There are no scripts offered here, and there is no discussion of the loss or trauma processing. As a supporter, this course will help you clarify for yourself your next right steps and make your care effectively actionable.

    Are you a woman griever in her 20’s, 30’s, & 40’s who doesn’t want to explain to others how to hold space for you? I would be honored to do a bit of that emotional and mental labor for you. I am sending you a lot of care as you grieve, and I am sending a lot of care to the people who love you and care about you, too.

Empowering knowledge.

Clarifying, intentional, live courses 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 Courses 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.

Courses at Voyager Counseling is 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 course 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 course, 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 a course

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. Courses 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 Course

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 with our Grief Education Coordinator

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

Step 4: Learn

Courses meet a set number of weeks with the same group of women each week, so you will be ‘fellow travelers’ through these courses as you learn together. These courses are not therapy—they are education, 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 therapy.

After: Your Next Right Step

By the end of your course, we hope you will continue to grieve, this time with clarity in your heart and direction in your mind. Some of our course participants 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 community of women who understand.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Grief Education Groups at Voyager Counseling are for women in their 20’s, 30’s, and 40’s who have experienced a loss. Each course is specific to an experience of grief, including death of a beloved person, beloved creature, life-altering diagnosis or illness, and other kinds of loss.

  • Each love is different, each loss is different, each grieving experience is different in context. Our grief education empowers women in their 20’s, 30’s, & 40’s to navigate grief in their personally best way in this particular context of life. We provide education and information that you can use thoughtfully and intentionally. We offer up-to-date research understanding, evidence-based expert insight, and personalized Q&A that gives you the tools to understand and hold your grief.

  • 15 women can participate in each course. 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 course.

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

  • You’ll gain education about grief & grieving specific to your loss and context in peer community. 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 (button below!).

  • Click the button below. And be kind to you—it can be bittersweet and hard to pursue grief care. You are not alone, and we at Voyager Counseling as well as your coursemates look forward to meeting and supporting you.

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.