You Lost Your Child to Suicide. This Support Was Made for You.
This Page Is for You If…
You are a parent who has lost a child to suicide.
You may be days into this loss, or years in. You may be functioning on the outside while barely surviving on the inside. You may have other children who need you, a partner who grieves differently than you do, and a world that keeps moving even though yours has stopped.
Grief after child suicide loss is unlike most other grief. It carries weight that is hard to describe to people who have not lived it — the unanswerable questions, the guilt, the replaying of moments, the isolation of a loss that others do not always know how to hold with you.
You do not need to explain all of that here. I already understand it.
What Is Grief Coaching — and How Is It Different From Therapy?
Therapy and grief coaching are different kinds of support, and many parents benefit from both.
Therapy, particularly with a licensed grief therapist, focuses on psychological healing, trauma processing, and diagnosing and treating mental health conditions. It is an important resource and I always support clients in pursuing it.
Grief coaching focuses on how you move through daily life while carrying your loss. It is present and forward-focused — helping you navigate the practical, emotional, and relational realities of grief as you continue living. It is not about fixing you. It is about supporting you.
In our work together, we focus on:
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Learning to live with loss without being consumed by it
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Rebuilding routines and daily function after traumatic grief
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Managing guilt, unanswered questions, and emotional overwhelm
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Navigating relationships — with a partner, surviving children, extended family
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Finding ways to carry your child's memory meaningfully forward
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Surviving anniversaries, birthdays, and the holidays
Grief coaching is not a substitute for crisis support or mental health treatment. If you are in crisis, please reach out to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988.
I Know This Loss Personally
In 2010, my youngest son died by suicide at age 18.
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I was not just a grieving mother. I was also a mother with other children who still needed me, a business I still had to run, and a life that did not stop moving because my world had shattered.
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I searched for support from someone who truly understood what it meant to lose a child to suicide while still having to keep living. I could not find it.
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So I created it — for myself first, and eventually for other parents.
Through lived experience, years of personal healing, and formal certification as a life coach, I built the tools and the approach I wish had existed when I needed them most.
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I do not coach from a textbook. I coach from the path I have already walked.
Your child’s life matters more
than the way they died.
Three Ways to Work Together
1:1 Parent
Grief Coaching
Private, one-on-one sessions focused entirely on your grief, your family, and your path. We work at your pace, on what matters most to you right now. Available in person in Santa Cruz County and virtually throughout California.
Parent
Support Circle
A small, intimate group for parents who have lost a child to suicide. A place to be understood without having to explain yourself — with others who are walking the same path. Group size is kept small intentionally.
Virtual
Support
Confidential grief coaching sessions available via video throughout California. Geography should not be a barrier to support.
What a First Conversation Looks Like
The first step is a free, confidential introductory call. There is no obligation and nothing you need to prepare.
We will talk about where you are right now, what has been hardest, and what kind of support might help you most. You will have the chance to ask questions and get a sense of whether working together feels right.
There is no pressure. There is no script. It is simply a conversation between two people — one of whom has walked this road before you.
Grief After Child Suicide Loss Is Different. So Is This Support.
Most grief support was not designed with you in mind.
General bereavement groups, well-meaning friends, and even some therapists may not fully understand the specific weight of losing a child to suicide — the stigma some families face, the particular shape of the guilt, the questions that have no answers, the way this loss lives in the body differently.
This work was built from the inside of that experience.
You deserve support that does not require you to translate your grief into something more comfortable for the room.
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You do not have to carry this alone — and you do not have to explain it to me first.
Sessions are confidential. Virtual sessions available throughout California.
In-person sessions available in Santa Cruz County.