Individual grief support online · Private sessions
Private Mindfulness & Grief Coaching
Grief can leave you overwhelmed by painful emotions, exhausted by thoughts that keep circling, or unsure how to live with everything that's changed.
I offer individual grief support online, combining compassionate conversation with practical mindfulness, journaling, and body-based practices. We'll work together to help you cope with the pain of loss, adjust to changes in your life, and find ways to live meaningfully while honoring loving relationships and making sense of complicated ones.
70-minute private online session · $150
Book Your Private SessionMoney-back guarantee on every session. If it doesn't feel worthwhile, tell me at the end and I'll refund your payment.
Heather Stang, MA Thanatology
2025 ADEC Clinical Practice Award recipient
Author of three books on grief
Practical, Personalized Grief Support
What Can We Work On Together?
Grief affects much more than how you feel. It can change your relationships, daily routines, sense of identity, and plans for the future. In our private sessions, we'll focus on what's happening in your life and explore practical ways to work with it.
Overwhelming Emotions
When sadness, anger, anxiety, or guilt feel overwhelming, we'll use mindfulness and body awareness to help you recognize what you're experiencing and respond with greater care.
Thoughts That Keep Circling
If you find yourself replaying what happened, questioning your decisions, or imagining different outcomes, we'll explore those thought patterns and practices that can help you relate to them differently.
Sleep and Daily Life
Grief can disrupt sleep, concentration, motivation, and ordinary routines. We'll work with conscious relaxation, simple mindfulness practices, and realistic ways to care for yourself.
Difficult Relationships
Loss can bring up anger, regret, betrayal, or complicated feelings about someone who hurt you. We'll make room for the full relationship, including what remains unresolved, without requiring forgiveness.
Love and Continuing Bonds
A meaningful connection doesn't simply disappear after someone dies. We can explore remembrance, rituals, and other ways to carry that love into your life as it continues to change.
Finding Your Way Forward
Grief may change how you see yourself, your relationships, and your future. We'll explore what's important to you now and how to build a meaningful life that makes room for your loss.
What to Expect
What Happens in a Private Grief Support Session?
Our time together begins with you. We'll talk about what's happening in your life, what feels especially difficult, and what you'd like help with.
Then we'll work with it. Rather than spending the entire session talking about grief, I'll guide you through practices that help you respond to painful emotions, understand recurring thoughts, and adjust to the changes you're facing.
You'll leave with something you can use: a mindfulness practice, a journaling exercise, a new perspective, or a practical next step that fits your life.
We Start With What's Happening
You'll have time to share your story, ask questions, and explore what's weighing on you. I'll listen and help you identify what would be most useful to focus on during our time together.
We Practice Something Useful
Depending on your needs, we might work with conscious relaxation, body awareness, mindfulness, self-compassion, or journaling. I'll guide you through the practice and help you explore how it relates to your everyday experience of grief.
You Have Something to Take With You
Before we finish, we'll identify what you want to carry into daily life. That might be a guided meditation, a way to work with a recurring feeling, or a small change that makes an ordinary day more manageable.
70 minutes · $150 · Online · Book one session at a time
Somatic, Trauma-Informed Grief Support
The 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System
I developed the 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System to give people practical ways to work with their grief. It brings together contemporary grief theory, mindfulness, self-compassion, journaling, and somatic practices that help you recognize and respond to what's happening in your body.
Grief is more than an emotional experience. You may feel it as a tight chest, a knot in your stomach, an inability to settle, or exhaustion that sleep doesn't seem to fix. Somatic mindfulness helps you notice these experiences and learn different ways to respond.
My approach is trauma-informed, which means we pay attention to choice, pacing, and your responses to each practice. We can work with difficult feelings without pushing you to revisit painful memories or stay with sensations that become overwhelming.
Work with grief in the body. Use somatic awareness and conscious relaxation to explore tension, restlessness, and emotional responses.
Explore what's unresolved. Work with guilt, anger, regret, and thoughts that keep returning through mindfulness and reflection.
Live meaningfully after loss. Honor important relationships while adjusting to changes in your life.
Common Questions
Questions About Private Grief Support
Here are a few things people often want to know before scheduling an individual grief support session with me.
What happens during an online grief support session?
We'll begin by talking about what's happening in your life and what you'd most like help with. Then we'll work with it through mindfulness, journaling, self-compassion, body awareness, or another practice that fits your needs.
Before we finish, we'll identify something useful you can take into daily life. The focus is on both understanding your grief and developing practical ways to live with it.
Is this grief counseling or psychotherapy?
I offer non-clinical grief education and coaching, informed by my MA in Thanatology and more than 20 years of experience in grief support. Sessions focus on understanding grief and learning practical mindfulness-based tools for coping with loss.
I am not a licensed mental health counselor, and these sessions are not psychotherapy, diagnosis, or treatment for a mental health condition. If clinical care would be more appropriate, I can encourage you to seek support from a licensed professional.
Can you help with grief after divorce or estrangement?
Yes. I work with both death-related and non-death losses, including divorce, estrangement, breakups, and significant life changes. These experiences can involve grief over relationships, identity, expectations, and a future you thought you would have.
We'll focus on your particular experience and develop practices that help you respond to the feelings and changes you're facing.
What if my relationship with the person was complicated?
Complicated relationships can leave behind anger, guilt, regret, relief, longing, and unanswered questions. Sometimes you miss someone while also feeling hurt by things that happened in the relationship.
We can explore those experiences without requiring forgiveness, reconciliation, or a positive interpretation of the relationship. The work is about understanding what's weighing on you and finding ways to live with greater peace.
Do I need to commit to several sessions?
No. You can book one 70-minute session at a time. Some people come with a specific question or experience they want help with, while others return periodically as different needs arise.
We'll focus on making each session useful. You can decide whether and when you'd like to schedule another appointment.
How much does private online grief coaching cost?
A private 70-minute online session is $150. Sessions are booked individually, with no package required.
Every session includes a money-back guarantee. If the session doesn't feel worthwhile, tell me at the end and I'll refund your payment.
Will we work on practical tools or just talk about grief?
Both. Sharing your story and talking about what you're experiencing are important parts of our work, but we'll also practice skills together.
Depending on your needs, that might involve mindfulness for overwhelming emotions, conscious relaxation for stress and sleep difficulties, journaling for unresolved feelings, or exploring ways to adjust to life after loss. You'll have practices you can use outside our sessions.
Can mindfulness help if I have trouble meditating?
Yes. Mindfulness can be practiced in several ways, including noticing sounds, physical sensations, movement, or the experience of ordinary activities. It doesn't require sitting perfectly still or having an empty mind.
I'll help you explore approaches that fit your needs and comfort level, including practices that can be done with your eyes open or while moving.
Can I book a session if my loss happened years ago?
Yes. Grief can change over time and become especially noticeable around anniversaries, major life transitions, or unexpected reminders. You might also be ready to explore feelings or questions that haven't received much attention before.
We'll begin with what you're experiencing now, regardless of when the loss occurred.
How do I book a private grief support session?
You can choose an available appointment using the online booking calendar immediately below this section. Each session is 70 minutes and takes place online.
If the calendar doesn't display correctly, you can open my scheduling page directly .
If individual grief support sounds like a good fit, you can choose an appointment below and we'll begin with what's most important to you.
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Heather Stang, MA Thanatology Author · Thanatologist · Mindfulness Teacher
A Little About Me
Hi, I'm Heather.
Grief became part of my life long before it became my work. My uncle died by suicide when I was seven, and I've experienced other significant losses since, including the sudden death of my stepfather and the end of my marriage. I know firsthand how loss can change your relationships, your sense of who you are, and the future you imagined.
What drew me to mindfulness was having something practical to do when life felt difficult. I began bringing those practices into grief support while studying thanatology and teaching Yoga for Grief groups. Over the years, that work became the 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System, which I now teach to grieving people and helping professionals.
What I enjoy about working one-on-one is getting into the specifics of your life. We can talk about what keeps you awake, the conversations you wish had gone differently, the people you miss, or the parts of yourself you're trying to reconnect with. Then we can work with what comes up, together, right there in the session.
Book Your Private SessionInformed by Grief Research
The Research Behind the Practices
My 8-Step Mindfulness & Grief System draws on established grief theories and brings them together with mindfulness, somatic awareness, and self-compassion. Two important influences are the work of J. William Worden and Robert Neimeyer.
Worden's Tasks of Mourning help us understand grief as an active process: facing the reality of loss, working with the pain, adjusting to a changed world, and finding ways to maintain a meaningful connection while continuing to live.
Neimeyer's work on meaning reconstruction helps us understand what happens when loss changes the story we tell about our lives. Grief can leave us questioning who we are, what we believe, and where we're going. Mindfulness and journaling give us ways to explore those questions as life unfolds.
I've also contributed to professional publications, including The Handbook of Grief Therapies and Techniques of Grief Therapy. My chapter on mindfulness-based grief therapy, along with my writing on relaxation, yoga, and compassion practices, reflects the same approach I bring to our private sessions.
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Private Mindfulness & Grief Coaching
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Choose a time below for your private session. We'll focus on what you're going through and work with practical ways to cope with grief and life's changes.
70 minutes · $150 · Online · No package required
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24-Hour Cancellation Policy
Cancel or reschedule at least 24 hours ahead at no charge. Late cancellations and missed appointments are charged $150.
Money-back guarantee: If your session doesn't feel worthwhile, tell me before we finish and you won't be charged.
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