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Discover how starting grief & loss counseling can support your own journey toward a happier, more fulfilling life.
As one who has experience with personal trauma and loss, I help my clients find hope and meaning while navigating life’s challenge...
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As one who has experience with personal trauma and loss, I help my clients find hope and meaning while navigating life’s challenges with compassion, respect, curiosity, and practical tools for lasting well-being.
I am a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) with 3 years of experience supporting individuals, couples, and families through anxiety, relationship challenges, life transitions, depression, and parenting concerns. I help clients explore their emotions, strengthen their connections, and develop healthier patterns in their daily lives. My goal is to create a warm, collaborative, and grounded space where you can gain insight, build new skills, and feel more empowered in your healing journey.
I earned my master’s in marriage and family therapy from Capella University. I draw from cognitive behavioral therapy, somatic therapy, and emotion-focused techniques to support deeper awareness and lasting change. Together, we will identify patterns that no longer serve you and create balance in your life.
Reaching out for support is a brave step, and you do not have to face life’s challenges alone. Healing and growth are possible. Therapy can be a meaningful step toward the change you’re seeking, and it is an honor to walk alongside you. Together, we can create the space you need to heal, grow, and thrive.
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I am looking to help others be the best version of themselves and ensure a more fulfilling future through education and a multimod...
I am looking to help others be the best version of themselves and ensure a more fulfilling future through education and a multimodal approach.
Jenifer E Finnerty is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 5 years of experience working with clients experiencing depression, anxiety, grief, substance abuse, bereavement, PTSD and trauma, ADHD, and mood disorders. She has a history of helping those struggling with addictions as well. Jenifer meets her clients where they are and takes a targeted approach to meet individual needs. She works with adults ages 18 to 99.
Jenifer received her Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Kutztown University. She uses modalities including cognitive behavioral therapy, emotion-focused therapy, mindfulness, and trauma-informed care.
Jenifer relies on empathy, understanding, and encouragement to help her clients regain a sense of self and empowerment to undertake challenges and improve their quality of life. She has made it her mission to help others grow, find purpose, and fulfill their dreams. Reach out to her today!
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In grief and loss counseling, I focus on helping people process their experiences, adjust to their new reality, accept the loss, and ultimately identify what they can learn about themselves through and from the experience in order to build resilience.
In grief and loss counseling I teach the following:
I know that clients are making meaningful progress in a few ways. First, I can usually tell by the way in which clients are talking about their experiences. I can hear when the tools we discuss are being applied in a way that expands their perspective and helps them to manage their symptoms more effectively. Second, clients typically tell me that they are feeling better. Third, I see progress in the behavioral actions and changes that clients make in their lives over time. These signs of progress make this job so incredibly rewarding!
I would recommend that clients consider attending a grief group in addition to individual therapy. They can do this either online or in person.
No preparation needed at all. Come as you are.
Grief and loss counseling helps people grieve difficult losses including the death of a loved one, the loss of a job, or the end of a relationship. It helps people navigate their grief process and eventually accept, understand, and move forward from their loss. Thriveworks grief therapists in Bethlehem, PA have specific experience, training, and skills that enable them to best support grieving individuals.
Grief and loss counseling isn’t one-size-fits-all, but it involves sharing about your loss and then working with your counselor to acknowledge and accept your new reality in its wake. Your provider at Thriveworks in Bethlehem, PA will design your treatment plan around your unique needs and goals for therapy, applying the counseling techniques that best support them.
If you have recently experienced an event like the death of a loved one, a breakup or divorce, the loss of a job, or another major life change, then you may want to seek grief and loss counseling. Grief can be caused by many experiences and events, so if you feel that you are having trouble moving on from a certain event or find that it is still impacting your life and functioning, grief and loss counseling can help you process it more effectively so that you can move on and once again find fulfillment and satisfaction in your life.
There are many counseling theories for treating grief, one of the most frequently used being the dual process model of grief which helps people acknowledge who or what they’ve lost through rumination while also adjusting to the new roles and identities that this loss has now placed on them. There are also many commonly used therapy approaches used in grief and loss counseling, including Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and traumatic grief therapy.
Grief & loss counseling at Thriveworks is conducted both in person and online by video. We encourage you to choose the option that works best for you.
For many, grief and loss counseling lasts for about 6 months. For others, it may last shorter or longer, depending on the severity of their loss and their grief.
Includes individual, couples, child/ teen, & family therapy
Includes reducing symptoms with medication & management
Thriveworks Counseling & Psychiatry Bethlehem is located near Linden St and Elmhurst Ave, off PA-191. It is just down the road from Moravian University and close to Spring Garden Elementary School.
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