ONLINE GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP
You don’t have to grieve alone. Experience connection, care, and compassion.
Online grief support group in California and Maryland led by an licensed professional counselor and addiction specialist.
Losing someone you love is an overwhelming experience.
You find yourself replaying everything and wondering if there is anything you could have done differently.
Watching someone you care about lose themselves to addiction is deeply painful.
You saw them sacrifice everything for a substance that has now claimed their life.
Others around you might not understand the intensity and powerlessness you experienced in this loss.
The Impact of Grief and Loss
Losing someone has the initial shock, but then there is everything after that continues to effect your daily life.
You notice it in:
Waves of grief, sadness, anger, numbness, or anxiety that continue to surface.
Changes to routines, motivation, energy, sleep, and ability to function normally.
You find difficulty connecting, trusting, communicating, or showing up emotionally for others.
You feel like you’re no longer the same person you were before the loss.
You have to reimagine your plans, hopes, and sense of what life is going to look like.
Loss can feel like it changes everything.
The shock and trauma of loss can be isolating and lonely. Joining a group offers you support with others who understand some of the pain you are feeling.
How This Type of Grief Feels Different
Losing someone to addiction is complex and comes with many layers of grief.
You have the feelings of loss you experienced before they died as you watched them drift into addiction. Then, you have the feeling that there was not a lot you could do to help them at times.
When someone is struggling they need to want to move toward support to be able to heal. With addiction someone might sometimes want support, never have capacity or desire to reach for help, or experience a mix of the two as they cycle in and out of recovery or rehab.
This leaves you in a state of constant worry and fear as you watch them suffer. Now that they have passed from addiction you might feel a mixture of shock and overwhelm from their death along with a sense of relief that the suffering is over.
A Grief Support Group Where Your Loss is Understood
Each session blends practical teaching, reflection, and conversation to help you process your experience.
This grief support group will help you:
Process grief that feels complex and complicated.
Identify your personal feelings and experience.
Receive support from others also navigating complex grief and loss.
Learn how to cope with the ongoing emotional impact of grief.
Find ways to move forward while honoring the person, relationship, and life you lost.
The type of grief you are going through is complicated. You don’t have to navigate this alone.
How This Grief Support Helps
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Make space for the complexity of your grief and begin to understand the emotions, thoughts, and experiences that have surfaced since your loss.
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Connect with others who understand the realities of complicated grief and find support in a space where you don't have to explain everything.
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Explore how grief has affected your daily life, relationships, identity, and sense of the future. Learn how to navigate those changes in a way that feels good to you.
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Learn how to carry your grief while continuing to build a meaningful life, without feeling like you have to forget, minimize, or "get over" your loss.
Details & Logistics
Who
Individuals who have lost someone to addiction in California and Maryland.
Facilitator
Paige Fulton, LPCC, learn more about me here.
When
TBD - Send me a message to stay updated.
Where
Online via secure HIPAA compliant Telehealth platform
Cost
$50/session
Who This Support Group Is For
This group is for you if:
You’ve experienced a significant loss and are struggling with what comes after the initial shock.
Your grief feels complicated, overwhelming, or difficult to explain to others.
Your loss continues to affect your daily life, relationships, identity, or sense of the future.
You feel alone in your grief and want to connect with others who genuinely understand.
You’re looking for a supportive space to process your loss without pressure to “move on” or have your grief figured out.
Wherever you find yourself in your grief journey, you are welcome here.
How to Join
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Click the link below to pick a time that works for you. We’ll meet virtually to see if the group feels like a good fit.
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During our free call you can learn more about this support group, ask questions, and we will decide if this group feels like a good fit for you.
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If we decide it feels like a good fit, you’ll get all the details to join the next session.
You will be greeted by others on a similar journey. Community and connection are such important pieces of processing your grief.
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The type of grief you are holding is heavy and too much to carry on your own.
As you have a place to unpack your loss you will experience more clarity and release. It is important that you have space to honor your loved one and honor your own feelings and process.
Ready to take the first step? Click below to schedule a free consultation call.
What You’ll Gain
A support group can offer:
A place you can feel the weight of your pain and be witnessed by others.
Support from an addiction therapist who understands your grief.
Community where you can be honest.
A deeper understanding of complex grief and how to process it.
Connection with others who share your grief.
It is powerful to be in a group where you feel and know you are not alone in the painful loss you are holding.
What to Expect
Each 75-minute online session includes:
A short teaching on topics like complex grief, addiction, and loss.
Reflection and tools to use between groups.
Optional time to share and process your experience.
You can participate at whatever level feels best for you.
This is a space where complex grief is honored. You can show up just as you are and feel supported.
Induced After Death Communication
Along with a grief support group, I also offer individual therapy that includes Induced After Death Communication to help clients process and move through their loss.
What is Induced After Death Communication?
Connection: IADC is a process that may help you experience a sense of connection with someone who has died.
Grief: It gives you an opportunity to explore your grief and what your loss means to you.
Personalized: Everyone's experience is different, and there is no right or wrong way to experience it.
Healing & Relief: Some people find comfort, peace, or a sense of resolution through the experience.
Learn more on my Induced After Death Communication page.
FAQs
Have questions about joining the grief support group? Check out these frequently asked questions. If you don’t see your question here, click here to get in touch.
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No, I do not take insurance for group work.
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You are billed per session.
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The relationships you make in our group are foundational to your growth. You must commit to 8-weeks to join the group.
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Yes, everything you share is private. This commitment is included in the group therapy contract each member signs.
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8-10 people are in the group at a time.
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Yes, you are able to join this support group and also participate in individual therapy with me.
