Loss or Grief therapists in Chicago, IL
Browse Loss or Grief therapists in Chicago, Illinois. Compare credentials, specialties and therapeutic approach. Contact a therapist to learn more.
Grief
Dr. Kimberly E. Johnson
Psychologist, PsyD, HSPP, APIT
Unfortunately, we live in an age of excess uncertainty due to violence, natural disaster, disease, war and various health issues. Loss of loved ones or others close to us can lead to uncomplicated or complicated grief. I help clients accept and process the emotions and life changes caused by unexpected or anticipated loss.
19 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL (Online Only)
Grief
Jasmine Turner
Licensed Professional Counselor, M.Ed, MS, LCPC
Normalizing the complexities of grief is of the utmost importance. Everyone processes grief differently. In counseling sessions, providers hold space for the grieving client, while providing empathy, and helping clients regain strength as they heal.
4 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL (Online Only)
Grief
Allyson Stephens
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, MSW, LCSW
Loss and grief can be really hard for a lot of people. I think it is important to understand this can be a trauma. I like to provide support and implement healing for my clients. I use EMDR, Somatic Therapy, CBT, and DBT for this issue.
8 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL (Online Only)
Grief
Nick Sotor
Psychologist, PsyD
To know love is to know loss. Grief is a inevitable and natural part of life that must be met with compassion, tenderness, and courage. I do not believe grief, it its many forms is a disorder that needs to be removed, or even that we must "move through" grief as a way to get rid of it. I see grief work as a pathway to develop a more authentic and loving relationship with ourselves and our world
12 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60647
Online in Chicago, IL
Grief
Pavan Prasad
Psychiatrist, M.D.
Dr. Prasad specializes in treating mood disorders and Adult ADHD . He use a holistic approach, treating the full person rather than just symptoms. Dr. Prasad helps to treat treat mood, self-esteem, and concentration problems, as well as working with more diffuse issues around identity, interpersonal
11 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60611
Grief
Anne Zakaras
Counselor/Therapist, LCPC, ATR-BC, PMH-C
Grief is a profoundly heavy, non-linear journey that can reshape your entire world. Whether you are mourning the death of a loved one, navigating the invisible ache of pregnancy loss, or processing the ambiguous grief of a chronic illness diagnosis, Anne provides a warm, open, and deeply honoring space for you to carry your pain. As a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor and Certified Grief Informed Professional, she partners with individuals to safely explore their loss without pressure to "just get over it" or move on before they are ready.
Anne’s integrative approach is uniquely gentle and effective for bereavement care. Because intense grief often defies words, she blends traditional psychotherapy with creative art therapy techniques and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). These somatic and creative tools offer a safe outlet to externalize complex emotions—like anger, guilt, and profound sadness—while helping to calm a traumatized nervous system. Anne is dedicated to helping you honor your loss, build sustainable coping strategies for the triggers of daily life, and gently find a way forward at your own pace.
8 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60640
Online in Chicago, IL
Grief
Sarah Fandel
Counselor/Therapist, LPC, LMHC, LCPC
I am experienced in working with loss and grief.
11 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL (Online Only)
Grief
Jason Herr
Psychologist, Psy.D.
I specialize in supporting individuals experiencing loss and grief across the lifespan. With professional experience in hospice and a dissertation focused on grief and loss, I bring both clinical expertise and deep compassion to this work. I take a companioning approach to grief, recognizing that healing often involves retelling your story many times as you move through it. Loss changes us permanently, and grief is the process of discovering who we are becoming. Together, we create space to honor your experience, process complex emotions, and find meaning and resilience moving forward.
16 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL (Online Only)
Grief
Juliette Grantham
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
I'm Juliette Grantham, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist specializing in grief and loss.
Grief rarely follows a schedule. It can surface months after a death, arrive in waves that flatten you without warning, or refuse to look the way you expected. Alongside sadness there may be anger at the person who died, relief you feel guilty about, or a numbness that worries you more than tears would. Complicated grief, prolonged grief, and loss without closure, such as an estrangement or a death you never got to say goodbye to, can leave mourning with nowhere to settle.
I work psychoanalytically, which means none of these reactions is treated as wrong. Each one carries its own unconscious logic worth understanding: what this person meant to you, and what the loss has disturbed. When grief gets stuck, it often means something in it has not yet been allowed to be felt or spoken. In sessions we make room for that, at your own pace, rather than asking you to move on in the sense of leaving the person behind. Over time, grief that is given real attention tends to soften, and what remains becomes something you can carry rather than something that sits on top of your life.
If a loss has been harder to carry than the people around you seem to understand, I would be glad to talk.
2 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60603
Online in Chicago, IL
Grief
Dr. James R. McClymonds
Psychologist, Psy.D., HSPP
Are you stressed out? And is it getting harder to "just not think about it?" I specialize in helping people work through stressful transitions and high-conflict situations. Through individual or couple's therapy, we can work together to achieve the goals you've wanted, but have felt out of reach.
19 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60603
Grief
Centered Therapy Chicago
Psychologist, PsyD
We work with clients who experience grief and loss.
13 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60640
Online in Chicago, IL
Grief
Cultivate Your Essence
Registered Psychotherapist, LPC, LCPC, MFT
Grief affects everyone differently and extends beyond the loss of a loved one. At Cultivate Your Essence, we support individuals experiencing grief related to death, relationships, life transitions, identity changes, and other significant losses. We provide compassionate care to help clients process emotions, honor their experiences, and find a path forward.
8 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL (Online Only)
Grief
Mackson Psychology
Psychologist, Samantha Mackson, Psy.D.
Grief and loss can affect every part of your life, and there is no single way to experience or move through it. I provide a supportive space to process difficult emotions, adjust to life after a loss, and find ways to move forward while honoring what you’ve lost.
6 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL (Online Only)
Grief
Gracie Orellano
Marriage and Family Therapist, ALMFT
Throughout life there will be numerous experiences with grief. Whether it is familial loss, pet loss, financial loss, etc. it can feel impossible to get through. With therapy, you can process what it means to you. It can be difficult to face these emotions on your own and can feel overwhelming to begin processing them. Through therapy we can utilize different tools to enhance your emotional awareness, understand what narratives arise from your grief, and engage in creative ways to hold the grief while you continue to live your life.
2 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL (Online Only)
Grief
TriWellness
Counselor/Therapist, LCPC, LCSW, LPC, BCN, CIT, CYYT, QEEG-C, AAT-I
We support individuals and families navigating loss and grief with compassion and care. Our integrative approach includes Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), trauma-informed and attachment-based therapy, family systems work, and mind–body interventions such as neurofeedback, biofeedback, yoga, and animal-assisted therapy. We help clients process loss at their own pace while building coping skills, resilience, and meaningful ways to move forward while honoring their grief.
8 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60646
Online in Chicago, IL
Grief
Maggie Reynolds
Licensed Professional Counselor, LCPC, EMDR Certified, NCC
Grief and loss, in all their forms, are among the hardest experiences we face as humans. They can bring up complex emotions and shake parts of your identity, relationships, and life that once felt secure. I provide a safe, supportive space to process everything you’re feeling, including the uncomfortable and darker emotions that can be hard to share. Together, we’ll honor what has been lost, make room for what’s true, and find ways to create meaning as you move forward and learn how to carry this with you.
16 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60611
Online in Chicago, IL
Grief
Empowered Wellbeing, Decolonizing Intersectional and Integrative Complex Trauma & Dissociation Recovery Support
Life Coach, view my credentials online at: www.recoveringfromwithin.com/credentialslongform
Our background in understanding trauma is steeped in the care for transitions, grief and loss. We honor the spiritual, religious and or secular beliefs and experiences of the individual. We are trained as a Certified Grief Educator through David Kessler's grief.com program. We have extensive training and background supporting folks through complex and acute grief recovery. We also address grief that is part of trauma work. Please feel free to ask if you have questions.
15 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL (Online Only)
Grief
Bergen Counseling Collective
Counselor/Therapist, LCPC
Grief doesn't follow a timeline, no matter what people expect from you. It comes in waves. Some days you're functioning and some days it hits you in the grocery store and you can't explain why. The world keeps moving and you're supposed to move with it, but part of you is still back there, with them, with what you lost. We don't try to rush grief or fix it. We sit with you in it. We help you find ways to carry the loss without being crushed by it, to honor what mattered while slowly rebuilding a life that has room for joy again. Telehealth throughout Illinois. BCBS PPO and Aetna accepted.
20 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60640
Online in Chicago, IL
Grief
Gemstone Wellness, Inc.
Psychologist, PsyD, LCPC, LCSW, LPC
Grief rarely follows a neat timeline, and it can touch every part of your emotional and physical life. At Gemstone Wellness, we provide space for all forms of loss—including the death of a loved one, non-death losses, chronic illness, pregnancy/infant loss, or major life shifts. We don't ask you to "get over it" or rush your process; instead, we help you carry the weight of loss, integrate your grief, and care for your nervous system as you navigate what comes next. In-person care in the Chicago Loop and telehealth across Illinois are available, in-network with BCBS PPO, Aetna PPO, and Curative Health.
10 Years Experience
In-Person in Chicago, IL 60604
Online in Chicago, IL
Grief
Sue De Santo
Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW
I walk alongside individuals facing the heartbreak of loss—whether it’s a death, the end of a relationship, a life transition, or a future you thought you’d have. In a gentle, steady space, we tend to the parts of you that feel shattered, numb, guilty, or overwhelmed, and we allow grief to move at its own pace, you can slowly integrate your loss, stay connected to what (or who) you love, and begin to feel moments of meaning and aliveness again. You can slowly integrate your loss, stay connected to what (or who) you love, and begin to feel moments of meaning and aliveness again.
35 Years Experience
Online in Chicago, IL (Online Only)
Loss or Grief therapists in Chicago, IL Statistics
Loss or Grief therapists in Chicago, IL average 17 years of experience and charge around $200 per session. 99% offer online sessions. The top treatment approaches are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) (71%), Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) (41%), and Psychodynamic Therapy (40%).
Average years in practice
17 Years Experience
Average cost per session
$200
Accept insurance
53%
Offer sliding scale
36%
Gender ID
| 67% |
Female |
|
| 30% |
Male |
|
| 2% |
Non-Binary |
|
| 1% |
Gender Fluid |
|
Session Type
| 56% |
In Person and Online |
|
| 43% |
Online Only |
|
| 1% |
In Person Only |
|
Top Treatment Approaches
| 71% | Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) |
| 41% | Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian) |
| 40% | Psychodynamic Therapy |
| 38% | Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) |
| 32% | Existential / Humanistic Therapy |
| 31% | Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) |
| 30% | Family Systems Therapy |
Ages Served
| 99% | Adult |
| 71% | Young Adult |
| 62% | Senior |
| 42% | Teen |
| 20% | Children |
Client Focus
| 60% | Women |
| 47% | LGBTQ+ |
| 43% | Men |
| 30% | Hispanic / Latino |
| 30% | Christian |