Anne Marsland

I offer a safe, accepting and nurturing setting for exploring the feelings, changes and challenges that accompany grief, loss and life transitions. I was drawn to grief work after the death of my mother from cancer when I was seventeen, and a desire to more deeply understand and make meaning out of my experiences. Prior to beginning a private practice, my professional career has included work as a nursing home social worker, a hospice social worker, and a hospice grief counselor. I approach grief not as a problem to be solved, but rather as a natural, human response to loss, and, as writer Jane Brody describes, "a process to be tended and lived through in whatever form and however long it may take." My counseling style is person-centered, deepening conversation to discover and honor one's inherent wisdom. Our work together may incorporate mindfulness and self-compassion practices, expressive arts, as well as the use of symbolic ritual as a means of expression, release and healing. I believe it is vital to make space for acknowledging and exploring the painful aspects of loss and change, while also inviting room for possibilities of healing, regrounding, and reconnection to life that, although forever changed by loss, can still have meaning.