You Are Not Lost.
You Are Not Starting Over.
You Are Becoming.
Online and in-person grief therapy and counseling for life transitions, identity shifts, and midlife change for adults in Oregon and Colorado.
A divorce, breakup, or loss changed everything
Your children left home and you feel untethered
Midlife has brought more questions than answers
You’ve spent years caring for others and feel burned out
Your life circumstances have changed and nothing feels familiar
You or someone you love have recently been diagnosed with an illness
You’re approaching menopause
You’re grieving a life you thought you’d have by now
You may be here because…
Life isn’t always what you expected it would be.
You may not even realize that you’ve had expectations about the way life should unfold—until one day you look around and discover that what you imagined or hoped for is very different from the life you’re actually living. When this happens gradually, it’s common to feel disillusioned, anxious, depressed, or stuck.
Or maybe something came along and knocked you sideways. You lost a job, a marriage, a parent, or a sense of identity that once felt stable. Suddenly, you find yourself in unfamiliar territory, feeling disoriented and unsure of what comes next.
In either case, what you may be experiencing is grief.
Grief is not only something we experience after a death. Grief can arise anytime we lose something meaningful—whether that’s a relationship, a role, a future you imagined, or the life that once felt familiar. Major life transitions and unexpected loss can surface painful feelings of uncertainty, helplessness, and loss of control, often impacting something as fundamental as your sense of self.
I believe you already carry an internal wisdom—an inner roadmap that can help guide you through grief and change. In therapy, we work together to slow down, listen carefully, and follow that roadmap wherever it may lead.
Why "The Art of Becoming”?
Because becoming ourselves is the work of a lifetime. And becoming the deepest, truest versions of ourselves is an art.
Gwen Williams, LCSW
As a therapist specializing in grief therapy and counseling for life transitions, I provide compassionate support for adults navigating loss, change, and identity shifts. This includes grief related to death, divorce, caregiving, empty nesting, career changes, midlife transitions, and the anticipation of difficult transitions still to come.
About Me
Grief and joy help frame the stories that we tell about our lives and every story needs an audience. I have over 20 years of experience helping hundreds of people to tell, retell, rethink and revise their own stories in ways that open up new possibilities.
We’re not meant to do this work alone.
Services
Individual In-Person & Online Therapy
Support for adults navigating:
Grief and loss
Major life transitions
Anxiety and overwhelm
Burnout
New medical diagnosis
Relationship changes
Midlife changes
Menopause
Divorce
Empty nest
Caregiving stress
Career transitions and job loss
Retirement
Identity questions
Available for clients in: Oregon and Colorado (Online only)
Grief & Loss
Life Transitions
Midlife & Identity
Anything that’s human is mentionable and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
– Fred Rogers
We can’t always control what happens in our lives, but we can always share our experience with another. That’s part of the art of becoming human and therapy can help you begin the conversation.